CHRISTMAS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008
DECEMBER 5-7, 2008
SPONSORED BY MARYLAND SUBURBAN SWIM CLUB

Sanctioned by the United States Swimming
through Potomac Valley Swimming
Sanction # PVC-09-20

MEET DIRECTOR Christopher T. Huott
240-417-5569
entries@msscswimming.com
MEET LOCATION Fairland Aquatics Center
13820 Old Gunpowder Road
Laurel, Maryland
301-362-6060
MEET GOAL To serve athletes in USA swimming in their progress to the next level in their swimming development. This "No Faster Than" Championship meet rewards swimmers for their hard work in attaining their personal goals of becoming higher quality athletes.
IMPORTANT NOTATIONS This meet is not a qualifying meet for Tom Dolan Invitational but is a Championship meet for athletes slower than the Tom Dolan Invitational time standards. In the event the meet is oversubscribed, entries will be returned to teams that submitted their entries last.
SCHEDULE

Friday
All Age - Timed Finals:
Warm-up: 4:30 - 5:20 PM Events: 5:30 PM

Saturday & Sunday
11&Over - Prelims Sessions:
Warm-up: 7:00 - 7:50 AM Events: 8:00 AM Dual Course

10&Under - Timed Finals Sessions:
Warm-up: 12:30 - 1:20 PM Events: 1:30 PM

11&Over - Finals Sessions:
4:30 - 5:20 PM Events: 5:30 PM

Two courses will be used simultaneously for the morning 11&Over sessions: one for Girls, and one for Boys.
ELIGIBILITY Open to all USA Swimming registered athletes. Teams outside the LSC should contact the head meet director for a formal invitation to compete in this meet. Upon receiving an invitation all entries from that club will be accepted. Athletes shall compete at the age attained on the first day of the meet. An athlete may only compete in his or her own age division.
RULES Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All 10 &Under events are timed finals. 11-12 year olds will have one finals heat, except in events 200 Butterfly, 200 Backstroke and 200 Breaststroke. 13&Over swimmers will have an A Final and a B Final. The A Final will be swum first. A contestant may enter no more than three events per day and eight events over the course of the meet. SEED TIMES SHOULD BE SUBMITTED AS SHORT COURSE YARDS ONLY.

No On-Deck USA-S Registrations will be permitted.
"SCRATCH" POLICY

If you do not wish to swim in the Final, you may "Scratch" from the event by following the proper procedure:

  • You must fill out and sign a Scratch Slip within 30 minutes of the announcement of qualifiers for "A" finals or "B" finals, if scheduled.
  • You may declare an intent to "scratch." You must fill out and sign a Finals Scratch Slip within 30 minutes of the announcement of qualifiers, marking the appropriate space for "intent." You must confirm this intent on the Finals Scratch Slip within 30 minutes after the conclusion of your last preliminary event of the day or you will be automatically scratched.
  • If an athlete fails to properly scratch from an event and does not appear for the Final event, they "shall be barred from further competition for the remainder of the meet".

INCLUSION POLICY FOR SWIMMERS WITH A DISABILITY

PVS and host clubs along with their Meet Directors are committed to the Inclusion Policy as adopted by the BOD. Athletes with a disability are welcomed and are asked to provide advance notice of desired accommodations to the Meet Director. The athlete (or the athlete’s coach) is also responsible for notifying the session referee of any disability prior to the competition.

WARM-UP The prescribed Potomac Valley Swimming warm-up procedures and safety policies for Open warm-ups will be followed.
AWARDS Individual Awards: Medals will be awarded to first - eighth place finishers.
TIMERS Participating Clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries. The Deck Meet Director will determine the number of timers per club and lane assignments. The Host Club is required to provide one timer per lane.
OFFICIALS

All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact the MSSC Officials Contact, Lynne Gerlach at 240-286-2319 or email gerlach@msscswimming.com prior to November 25. Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work.

Officials assigned to this meet should sign in at the recording table at the start of the Warm-up. Certified officials who have not been contacted, should volunteer their services to the Referee.

SUPERVISION Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and for cleaning up their team areas.
ADMISSION There is no admission charge. Programs for each session will be available for $2.00 each. Working officials and coaches receive a free program.
FEES Fees for individual events are $6.00. Remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team. Do not send cash. Telephone entries will not be accepted.
ENTRIES Club entries will be accepted by email. Submission of entries by email must include the following files: the Hy-Tek Commlink II file, The Team Manager Meet Entry Report file (SWIMMER'S NAME REPORT) and a report of the entry information. Vital information for the entry report should include, in the body of email, the number of Male swimmers and their entry total, number of Female swimmers and their entry total, total entries submitted and the amount owed. The name and phone number of the Club representative submitting the email must be included. INDIVIDUAL OR UNATTACHED ENTRIES WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED BY delivery to the address shown below and will not be accepted by e-mail, unless those swimmers are training with a club and that club is submitting their entries in the required above Hy-Tek format. Clubs submitting by email may submit entries to entries@msscswimming.com, in the subject heading type, "CHRISTMAS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008 - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks.

Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager. (download "21m120107.zip" now posted), unzip it and then go to team manager/file/import/meet events). To download as a file, you may need in Netscape to right click on the mouse and select "Save Link as" and with Microsoft Explorer right click on the mouse and select "Save Target As"

Meet Directors are requested to acknowledge receipt by return e-mail within 24 hours. Clubs submitting entries that do NOT receive an acknowledgement should contact the Meet Director by other than e-mail to confirm receipt.

Manual entries must be submitted on the PVS master entry sheet.  Signature and phone number of a club official must be included with entry for validation of entries. There will be a $1.00 surcharge per athlete for manual entries of 10 or more.
WARNING Any Club that enters an unregistered athlete, falsifies an entry in any way, or permits an unregistered coach to represent them, will be fined the sum of $100.00 and no further entries will be accepted from that Club until the said fine has been paid.
DEADLINE The Meet Director must receive all entries for this meet
NO LATER THAN 5:00 P.M., TUESDAY, November 25, 2008.
Important: The above date is the deadline for clubs to submit their entries to the Meet Director. Therefore, clubs usually set an earlier deadline to receive entries from their swimmers. Check with your club for this information.
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO
MARYLAND SUBURBAN SWIM CLUB
SEND ENTRIES TO Maryland Suburban Swim Club
P O Box 160
Laurel, Maryland  20725
Christopher T. Huott         PHONE #: 240-417-5569

Fed-Ex and Other non-US Mail deliveries should contact the Meet Director.


 

TIMED FINALS SESSION
FRIDAY PROGRAM - DECEMBER 5, 2008
WARM-UP: 4:30 - 5:20 PM EVENTS: 5:30 PM

GIRLS
EVENT # 		NO FASTER
THAN (SCY)

TIMED FINALS SESSION
ALL AGE EVENTS

 NO FASTER
THAN (SCY)		 BOYS
EVENT #
1 6:09.30S 11-12 yr old 500 Yd Freestyle 6:09.30S 2
3 5:32.00S 13-14 yr old 500 Yd Freestyle 5:21.00S 4
5 5:18.00S 15&Over 500 Yd Freestyle 4:56.00S 6
7 3:05.00 10&Under 200 Yd IM 3:05.90 8
9 2:36.20 11-12 yr old 200 Yd IM 2:37.60 10
11 5:00.00 13-14 yr old 400 Yd IM 5:00.80 12
13 4:42.00 15&Over 400 Yd IM 4:22.10 14
15 2:52.00 12&Under 200 Yd Butterfly 2:50.30 16
17 19:36.00T
19:11.00T		 13-14 yr old 1650 Yd Freestyle
15&Over 1650 Freestyle		 19:31.00T
17:26.00T		 18

All Events for the Friday Timed Finals Session will require positive check-in.
S - times Slower than 8:00.00 will not be entered in the 500 Freestyle
T - ONLY the Top 20 13&Over swimmers for each gender will swim.
Do not enter athletes with times slower than 21:30.00 for the 1650.

 

MORNING PRELIMS SESSION
SATURDAY PROGRAM - DECEMBER 6, 2008
WARM-UP: 7:00 - 7:50 AM EVENTS: 8:00 AM

GIRLS
EVENT # 		NO FASTER
THAN (SCY) 		11&OVER EVENTS NO FASTER
THAN (SCY)		 BOYS
EVENT #
19 2:18.30 11-12 - 200 Yd Freestyle 2:18.80 20
21 2:06.50 13-14 - 200 Yd Freestyle 2:02.00 22
23 1:59.00 15&Over - 200 Yd Freestyle 1:49.00 24
25 32.50 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Butterfly 32.60 26
27 1:07.00 13-14 100 Yd Butterfly 1:05.00 28
29 1:02.20 15&O 100 Yd Butterfly 57.00 30
31 1:22.80 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:22.40 32
33 2:44.90 13-14 200 Yd Breaststroke 2:39.30 34
35 2:37.80 15&O 200 Yd Breaststroke 2:24.00 36
37 1:13.50 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Backstroke 1:13.60 38
39 2:25.00 13-14 200 Yd Backstroke 2:22.10 40
41 2:16.00 15&O 200 Yd Backstroke 2:05.60 42
43 28.80 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Freestyle 29.00 44
45 27.20 13-14 50 Yd Freestyle 25.90 46
47 25.80 15&O 50 Yd Freestyle 23.30 48
49 1:12.60 11-12 100 Yd IM 1:12.40 50
Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in.


AFTERNOON TIMED FINALS SESSION
SATURDAY PROGRAM - DECEMBER 6, 2008
WARM-UP: 12:30 - 1:20 PM EVENTS: 1:30 PM

GIRLS
EVENT # 		NO FASTER
THAN (SCY) 		10&UNDER EVENTS NO FASTER
THAN (SCY)		 BOYS
EVENT #
51 2:46.00 10&Under 200 Yd Freestyle 2:43.00 52
53 38.00 10&Under 50 Yd Butterfly 38.60 54
55 1:35.50 10&Under 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:36.40 56
57 1:26.60 10&Under 100 Yd Backstroke 1:27.00 58
59 33.00 10&Under 50 Yd Freestyle 33.00 60
Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in.

 

MORNING PRELIMS SESSION
SUNDAY PROGRAM - DECEMBER 7, 2008
WARM-UP: 7:00 - 7:50 AM EVENTS: 8:00 AM

GIRLS
EVENT # 		NO FASTER
THAN (SCY) 		11&OVER EVENTS NO FASTER
THAN (SCY)		 BOYS
EVENT #
61 2:23.80 13-14 200 Yd IM 2:17.70 62
63 2:15.80 15&O 200 Yd IM 2:05.00 64
65 34.00 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Backstroke 34.00 66
67 1:07.20 13-14 100 Yd Backstroke 1:05.00 68
69 1:03.40 15&O 100 Yd Backstroke 57.80 70
71 *3:02.20 12&Under 200 Yd Breaststroke *3:02.20 72
73 1:15.00 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Butterfly 1:15.00 74
75 2:28.60 13-14 200 Yd Butterfly 2:25.00 76
77 2:22.80 15&O 200 Yd Butterfly 2:09.00 78
79 37.80 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Breaststroke 38.00 80
81 1:16.60 13-14 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:12.50 82
83 1:12.40 15&O 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:06.00 84
85 1:03.60 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Freestyle 1:03.60 86
87 58.60 13-14 100 Yd Freestyle 55.30 88
89 55.45 15&O 100 Yd Freestyle 50.30 90
91 *2:41.00

12&Under 200 Yd Backstroke

*2:45.00 92
* TIMED FINALS EVENTS
Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in.

 

AFTERNOON TIMED FINALS SESSION
SUNDAY PROGRAM - DECEMBER 7, 2008
WARM-UP: 12:30 - 1:20 PM EVENTS: 1:30 PM

GIRLS
EVENT # 		NO FASTER
THAN (SCY) 		10&UNDER EVENTS NO FASTER
THAN (SCY)		 BOYS
EVENT #
93 39.00 10&Under 50 Yd Backstroke 38.80 94
95 1:35.00 10&Under 100 Yd Butterfly 1:36.00 96
97 43.40 10&Under 50 Yd Breaststroke 43.40 98
99 1:14.60 10&Under 100 Yd Freestyle 1:14.00

100
101 1:22.80 10&Under 100 Yd IM 1:24.00 102

Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in.