Meet Directors:
Sandy Cohen and Pam Ambrose
Meet Location:
Olney Swim Center
16601 Georgia Ave.
Olney, MD
(301) 570-1227
Date & Time:
Girls Sessions Warm-up: 7:00 am - 7:45 am Events: 8:00 am
Boys Sessions Warm-up: 12:00 Noon - 12:45 pm Events: 1:00 pm
Eligibility:
Open to all USA Swimming registered athletes. Athletes shall compete at the age attained on the first day of the meet.
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 and no further entries will be accepted from that club until the said fine has been paid.
Entry fees are due with meet entry. Unpaid fees will be reported to the PVS Administrative Office at the conclusion of the meet.
Rules:
Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All events are times finals. A contestant may enter no more that three individual events per day.
The "No Recall Rule" will be used at this meet.
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
Supervision
Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and families. Team areas are to be cleaned after each session.ONLY CERTIFIED COACHES, DECK OFFICIALS, VOLUNTEER TIMERS, AND WORKING VOLUNTEERS ARE PERMITTED ON THE POOL DECK DURING COMPETITION. BLEACHERS ARE PROVIDED FOR SPECTATORS TO VIEW
Admission:
There is no admission charge. Programs for each session will be available for $2.00. There will be NO PVS discount. Working officials and coaches receive a free session program. All PVS/USA Swimming registered coaches and deck officials are required to wear current USA Swimming membership credentials on the deck area. The Referee will ask anyone not displaying proper credentials to leave the deck area.
Fees:
Fees for individual events are $4.50, relays are $9.00. Each Club is requested to remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team. All meet fees are due with the meet entries.
Officials:
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.
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 is required to provide one timer per lane.
Scoring:
Individual 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
Awards:
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS: Medals will be awarded for first through eighth place, ribbons are awarded for ninth through sixteenth place.
RELAY EVENTS: Medals will be awarded for first through eighth place.
ATTENTION COACHES AND SWIMMERS:
Team trophies will be awarded to the top three scoring teams at the conclusion of the meet.
Entries:
- The following is REQUIRED if you are submitting your entries by Computer disk (HY-TEK)::
- Include both individual entries and relay teams.
- **A Meet Entry Report by swimmer and Meet Entry Report by event from the Team Manager Program. **
- A completed "Entry Cover Sheet".
- A signature a phone number and e-mail address (if available) at which a club point of contact will be readily accessible must be included with the entry for validation of entries.
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Optional: Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager. (download "27tmentry.hyv" 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" 
The file is also available zipped "27tm_hyv_zip" or may be requested directly from the Meet Director - All relays teams must submit their pink/blue PVS entry cards submitted with their team entry.
- Entries may alternatively be submitted manually on a PVS Master Entry Sheet. If doing so, include relay entries.
- Any entries sent by Fed Ex or Express Mail, must have the" signature release" form signed
- Entries will be accepted by e-mail but if you do so, you must include a "meet cover sheet", Hy-Tek commlink ll file, the team manager meet entry report file (one by swimmer and one by event) The meet entry cover sheet can be downloaded as a word doc or as a .pdf file
- Teams submitting their entries electronically shall submit their meet fees and their pink/blue PVS entry cards by mail at the same time.
- All e-mail entries received will be sent a confirmation notice( if .you do not receive a confirmation notice, please contact the meet director).
Reminder:
Effective January 1, 1998, any team that enters more than 10 swimmers and does not use Hy-Tek, will incur a surcharge of $1.00 per swimmer.
Deadline:
The Meet Director must receive all entries for this meet no later than 5:00 PM,
Checks:
Checks should be made payable to: MSC OPERATING FUND. Do not send CASH. Please note your club name on the check.
Send entries to:
Sandy Cohen
17513 Applewood Lane
Rockville, Md. 20855
(301) 840-8560
e-mail entries or questions to: sanlco@aol.com, subject: Mini Champs,
or fax questions to 301-921-4206.