2/5/09: Women’s 200 IM NFT SC time corrected to 2:17.80 2/26/09 Bonus events are being added for swimmers ALREADY qualified for the meet. No new entries will be accepted. All Bonus entries are due no later than 5:00 pm Sunday March 1, 2009. Any swimmer with one cut, may add one bonus swim Any swimmer with two or more cuts may add two bonus swims Bonus Cuts for Short Course 3/2/09: Warm up for Prelims 7:30-8:50 am, Events: 9:00 am PVS SHORT COURSE JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS March 5-8, 2009 Sanctioned by USA Swimming Through Potomac Valley Swimming Sanction # PVS-09-42

Hosted for Potomac Valley Swimming By:

Rockville Montgomery Swim Club

Meet Director:

Christa Krukiel
240-777-8070
christa.krukiel@montgomerycountymd.gov

Meet Location:

MLK
1201 Jackson Rd
Silver Spring, MD 20904
301-989-1206

Thursday: Finals

Warm Up: 4:20-5:20 pm   4:30-5:50 pm

Events: 5:30 pm  6:00 pm

Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Prelims

Warm Up: 6:30-7:50 am 7:30-8:50 am

Events: 8:00 am 9:00 am

Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Finals

Warm Up: 4:20-5:20 pm   4:30-5:50 pm

Events: 5:30 pm  6:00 pm

Eligibility:

Open to all Potomac Valley Swimming athletes who are USA Swimming registered.  Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable no slower than (NST) qualifying times listed and be slower than the no faster than (NFT) qualifying times. Qualifying times must have been achieved after February 26, 2007.

Entry times for individual relay events shall have been achieved within the two years prior to the meet entry deadline; however, the times need not be the best competitive times of the swimmers but can be any time they have swum equal to or under the event qualifying time.  Swimmers entered in the 800/1000 and 1500/1650 freestyle do not need to enter their best times, but may enter themselves at their fastest time or at the time standard.

Rules:

Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All events are trials and finals, except for relays and the 1000 and 1650 freestyle, which will be timed finals. Evening event's heats will be swum in the following order: "A", "B” and “C”.

Positive check-in is required for all individual and relay events 400 yards and longer.  These events will be seeded on the deck. Swimmers and relay teams not checked-in will be scratched from that event. Athletes who have checked in, been seeded, and fail to swim the event will be barred from their next scheduled individual event.

Dive-over starts may be used during the preliminary sessions at this meet at the discretion of the Meet Manager and/or Meet Referee. Coaches are requested to review Guidance for Dive-Over Starts for Coaches.  Officials are requested to review Protocol for Dive-Over Starts.  

No on-deck USA-S registrations will be permitted.

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 and PVS Senior Chairman (Riley Eaton at jreaton@verizon.net). The athlete (or the athlete’s coach) is also responsible for notifying the session referee of any disability prior to the competition.

Warnings

Any club that enters an unregistered or improperly registered athlete, falsifies an entry in any way, or permits an unregistered coach to represent them, will be fined the sum of $100.00 per occurrence and no further entries will be accepted from that club until the said fine has been paid.

All entry times and USA Swimming memberships will be verified via the SWIMS database.  Any athlete not achieving a QT may be asked to prove the entry time to the Meet Director prior to the start of the meet.

Entry fees are due with meet entry.  Unpaid fees will be reported to the PVS Administrative Office at the conclusion of the meet.

1000 & 1650 Timed Finals:

Swum fastest to slowest, and will alternate women and men, only one course will be used. The fastest heat of the Women's 1000 and Men's 1650 will be swum as the first event of the evening program on Sunday. Positive check-in is required. Verification of time must be submitted with entry.

Swimmers are also required to provide their own timers (except for the fastest heat on Sunday) and if desired, lap counters.

Relays:

There is no limit of relay entries per club for each relay.  Only two teams may score in the 400 Free, 800 Free and 400 Medley Relays. The 200 Free and 200 Medley Relays will NOT be scored.

Individual Events:

A contestant may compete in a maximum of seven (7) individual events, and compete in no more than three (3) individual events per day.

Breaks:

There will be NO SCHEDULED BREAKS prior to the start of distance events or relays.

Withdrawing from Finals

PVS scratch rules apply for swimmers scratching finals. If a swimmer fails to properly scratch from a final event and does not appear for the final, he/she will be barred from further competition for the remainder of the meet.

Deck Entries:

No deck entries will be accepted.

Entering Senior Champs

Athletes who qualify for Senior Championships for the first time will have until Monday March 9, 2009 at 5:00pm to send entries to the Senior Champ Meet Director, Brian Pawlowicz at brianpawlowicz@cubu.org

Supervision:

Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and families and for cleaning up their team areas.

Scoring:

Events: 20, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Relays: 40, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 18, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2

Warm-up:

The prescribed Potomac Valley Swimming warm-up procedures and safety policies will be followed. The meet director may determine the structure of the warm-up, including times and lane assignments.

Officials:

Officials for this meet will be assigned by the PVS Officials Committee. All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact the RMSC Officials Chairman, Donna Considine: donnaconsidine@verizon.net no later than Tuesday, February 24. Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work. Those officials who learn of their availability subsequent to February 24 are encouraged to contact Donna Considine as soon as possible.

Assignments will be made by the PVS Officials Committee and posted to the PVS website when made. Certified officials who have not previously volunteered should contact the referee upon arrival to make their services available. A comprehensive officials' briefing will precede each session during warm-up.

Timers:

Participating clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries. The meet director will determine the number of timers per club and lane assignments. The host club(s) are required to provide one timer per lane.

Admission Programs:

There is no admission charge. Program for all sessions will be available for $10.00, and will include a finals program coupon for each evening session at no additional charge

Fees:

Fees for individual events are $5.00; relay events are $10.00. Each club is requested to remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team. Please do not send cash. Meet directors have been instructed not to accept telephone entries. Any team that enters more than 10 swimmers and does not use Hy-Tek, will incur a surcharge of $1.00 per swimmer

Meet Entry Procedures:

General Instructions:

• Entries should be submitted using Hy-Tek Team Manager via e-mail.  Events for this meet can be downloaded at 09-42-events .  Include in the e-mail subject heading "2009 PVS Junior Championships - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks.  Also include training site if your club submits multiple entries and number of timers being committed.
• Two Team Manager meet entry reports (saved in Word) must also be sent:  (1) by swimmer and (2) by event.
• In body of e-mail give total number of splashes (men, women, total entry) and contact information (name, phone, e-mail address)
• 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.

Each club is requested to remit one check via USPS to cover the entry fees for the entire team. Please put the club name on the entry check (if not a club check) and note the number of entries. Please do not send cash. Meet directors have been instructed not to accept telephone or fax entries.

• Entries not submitted on the required forms, not complete, not legible or not in the required electronic format, will not be accepted and will be returned. The Meet Director will not be held responsible if there is no time to properly resubmit the entry.
• Individual or unattached entries will only be accepted by manual entry sent to the address listed below.

All Relay-only swimmers must be listed on the meet entry in order to participate in the meet.

Entry times:

Long course entry times must be designated with a capital letter "L". These non-conforming times will be seeded after short course entry times. Entries not submitted on the required forms, are not complete or are not legible, will not be accepted and will be returned.

Deadline:

The meet director must receive all entries for this meet no later than

5:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 24, 2009.

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.

Checks:

Make checks payable to: Potomac Valley Swimming

Send entries to:

Christa Krukiel

Montgomery Aquatic Center
5900 Executive Blvd
Rockville, MD 20852-2756

240-777-8070

Christa.Krukiel@montgomerycountymd.gov

Check-In Deadlines
Event #	Event	Deadline
1 W	1650 Freestyle	Thurs 5:00 pm
2 M	1000 Freestyle	Thurs 5:00 pm
9, 10	400 Individual Medley	Fri 9:00 am
11, 12	800 Free Relay	Fri 9:00 am
19, 20	500 Freestyle	Sat 9:00 am
23, 24	400 Medley Relay	Sat 6:00 pm
35 W	1000 Freestyle	Sat 6:00 pm
36 M	1650 Freestyle	Sat 6:00 pm
37, 38	400 Free Relay	Sun 6:00 pm

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Warm-up 4:20 – 5:20 pm     Events 5:30 pm

Women Event #	NST QT	NFT QT	Events	NST QT	NFT QT	Men Event #
1 $ #	19:32.99Y	18:40.20Y	1650 YD Freestyle
	20:08.79L	19:19.70L
			1000 YD Freestyle	10:50.09Y	10:19.40Y	2 $ #
				9:48.09L	9:21.20L

Y = short course yards L = long course meters
# Positive check-in time: 5:00 pm
$ Timed Finals. Heats swum fastest to slowest. Verification of time required.

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Preliminaries -- Warm-up 6:30 – 7:50 am     Events 8:00 am

Finals -- Warm-up 4:30 – 5:50 pm     Events 6:00 pm

Women Event #	NST QT	NFT QT	Events	NST QT	NFT QT	Men Event #
3	2:03.29Y	2:00.50Y	200 Yd Freestyle	1:52.49Y	1:49.20Y	4
	2:20.09L	2:17.00L		2:08.09L	2:04.50L
5	1:16.49Y	1:13.70Y	100 Yd Breaststroke	1:10.49Y	1:06.90Y	6
	1:26.89L	1:23.90L		1:20.19L	1:16.20L
7	1:05.69Y	1:03.60Y	100 Yd Butterfly	59.79Y	57.00Y	8
	1:14.29L	1:11.90L		1:07.69L	1:04.60L
9 #	4:59.29Y	4:51.90Y	400 Yd Individual Medley	4:40.89Y	4:30.10Y	10 #
	5:38.59L	5:30.40L		5:18.09L	5:06.10L
11 & #	8:13.09Y	8:02.10Y	800 Yd Freestyle Relay	7:29.79Y	7:17.80Y	12 & #

Y = short course yards L = long course meters
# Positive check-in required for all individual and relay events 400 yards and over.

Positive check in time for the 400 IM and 800 Freestyle relay: 9:00 am
& Timed Finals: Heats swum from second fastest to slowest in the preliminary session.

Fastest heat will be swum as the last event in the finals session. Times subject to verification.

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Preliminaries -- Warm-up 6:30 – 7:50 am     Events 8:00 am

Finals -- Warm-up 4:30 – 5:50 pm     Events 6:00 pm

Women Event #	NST QT	NFT QT	Events	NST QT	NFT QT	Men Event #
13	2:44.49Y	2:38.50Y	200 Yd Breaststroke	2:34.39Y	2:26.50Y	14
	3:06.59L	2:59.90L		2:55.39L	2:46.70L
15	26.99Y	26.20Y	50 Yd Freestyle	24.19Y	23.40Y	16
	30.69L	29.90L		27.69L	26.80L
17	1:06.59Y	1:04.50Y	100 Yd Backstroke	1:01.09Y	58.70Y	18
	1:15.09L	1:12.80L		1:08.99L	1:06.30L
19 #	5:25.79Y	5:19.20Y	500 Yd Freestyle	5:05.19Y	4:54.40Y	20 #
	4:54.69L	4:46.50L		4:36.59L	4:24.80L
21 @			200 Yd Freestyle Relay			22 @
23 % #	4:26.29Y	4:18.10Y	400 Yd Medley Relay	4:03.29Y	3:53.20	24 % #

# Positive check-in required for all individual and relay events 400 yards and over.

Positive check in time for the 500 Freestyle: 9:00 am

Positive check in time for the 400 Medley Relay: 6:00 pm
@ Un-scored Event. Timed finals and will be swum slowest to fastest in the preliminary session only.
% Timed finals and will be fastest to slowest in the finals session.

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Preliminaries -- Warm-up 6:30 – 7:50 am     Events 8:00 am

Finals -- Warm-up 4:30 – 5:50 pm     Events 6:00 pm

Women Event #	NST QT	NFT QT	Events	NST QT	NFT QT	Men Event #
25	2:22.89Y	2:18.90Y	200 Yd Backstroke	2:13.59Y	2:07.80Y	26
	2:40.99L	2:36.50L		2:30.79L	2:24.20L
27	57.67Y	56.30Y	100 Yd Freestyle	51.99Y	50.70Y	28
	1:05.59L	1:04.10L		59.29L	57.80L
29	2:30.49Y	2:22.70Y	200 Yd Butterfly	2:19.69Y	2:10.80Y	30
	2:49.79L	2:41.20		2:37.89	2:27.90L
31	2:21.69Y	2:17.80Y	200 Yd Individual Medley	2:09.99Y	2:06.50Y	32
	2:40.49L	2:36.20L		2:27.39L	2:23.60L
33 @			200 Yd Medley Relay			34 @
35 $ #	11:28.59Y	11:02.60Y	1000 Yd Freestyle
	10:21.69L	9:59.00L
			1650 Yd Freestyle	18:35.89Y	17:32.60Y	36 $ #
				19:11.39L	18:07.70L
37 % #	3:50.29Y	3:54.30Y	400 Yd Freestyle Relay	3:27.89Y	3:22.60Y	38 % #

# Positive check-in required for all individual and relay events 400 yards and over.

Positive check in time for the W 1000 and M 1650 is Saturday at 6:00 pm

Positive check in for the 400 Freestyle relay is at 6:00 pm
@ Un-scored Event. Timed finals and will be swum slowest to fastest in the preliminary session only.
% Timed finals and will be fastest to slowest in the finals session.
$ Timed finals. Heats swum from second fastest to slowest in prelims. Fastest heat will be swum as the first event in the finals session. Verification of time required.