Meet Director:

Paris Jacobs
571-238-7657
paris@machineaquatics.com

Meet Referee:

Pam Starke-Reed   ps39p@nih.gov

Meet Officials Coordinator:

Scott Robinson   703-421-1115    officials@machineaquatics.com

Meet Location:

Fairland Aquatics Center
13820 Old Gunpowder Rd
Laurel, MD 20702
301-362-6060

Schedule:

Session

Warm-up

Events

Thursday Night

4:30 - 5:20 pm

5:30 pm

13-14 Preliminary Sessions

6:00 - 7:20 am

7:30 am

11-12 Preliminary Sessions

10:30 - 11:30 am

11:40 am

10 & Under Preliminary Sessions

2:00 - 2:45 pm

2:55 pm

Finals Sessions

5:15 - 6:05 pm

6:15 pm

Note: Meet Director will determine if session start times or check-in times for 10/Under sessions will need to be adjusted based on number of entries received for 11/Over preliminary sessions.

Eligibility:

Open to all registered Potomac Valley Swimming athletes. A contestant may participate in only his or her own age group.

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 Age Group Chairman (Bill Marlin at coach_bill@verizon.net). The athlete (or the athlete’s coach) is also responsible for notifying the session referee of any disability prior to the competition.

Qualifying Times

Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable no slower than (NST) SCY or LCM times listed. SCY times will be seeded as conforming times. Qualifying times must have been achieved after March 18, 2008. 

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.  

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.

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.

Rules:

Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet.  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.

No late entries are permitted for this meet.

Dive-over starts may be used for all 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.  A determination whether to do so will be made shortly after entries for this meet have been processed.

Individual Events:

All individual events are trials and finals, except the 11-12 500 Freestyle, 10 & Under 500 Freestyle, and the 1000 & 1650 Freestyle, which will be timed finals. Except as noted above, the 10 & Under events will have 1 final heat. The 11-12, 12 & Under, 13-14, and 14 & Under events will have two final heats which will be swum fastest to slowest. A contestant may compete in a maximum of six (6) individual events, and compete in no more than three (3) individual events per day.

Special Note: It is anticipated preliminaries for athletes age 11 and older will be conducted in separate courses for Men and Women. Athletes should select their events with that in mind.

Timed finals for:
10/U 11-12 500 Freestyle
14/U 1000 & 1650 Freestyle

The 11-12 500 Freestyle, 14 & Under 1000 and 1650 Freestyle events will be swum fastest to slowest. Except for the 10 & Under 500 Freestyle, they will alternate women and men if only one course is used. If two courses are used, the slowest heats may be moved to permit both courses to finish at approximately the same time. The fastest heat of the Women's 1000 and Men's 1650 Freestyle 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.

Relays:

All relays are timed finals and will be swum in preliminary sessions. Exception: The fastest heat of the 13-14 800 Freestyle Relays will be swum as the last event of Friday evening.

There is no limit on the number of entries per club, but only two relay teams per club per relay event may score.

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".

Awards:

Medals will be awarded 1st through 8th place for individual events and 1st through 3rd place for relay events. High point awards will be presented to the male and female athlete who have the highest point totals in the following age groups: 10 & Under, 11-12 & 13-14. This will be based on points actually earned in the events swum. (Relay events will NOT be used to determine high point awards.)

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

Officials:

Each participating club is requested to provide at least one table worker or official (referee, starter or stroke and turn judge) per session if entering 25 or more splashes.

All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact the Machine Aquatics Officials Chairman, Scott Robinson, 703-421-1115, officials@machineaquatics.com prior to Tuesday, March 2 Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work. Officials volunteering should sign in at the recording table prior to the start of Warm-ups. Certified officials who have not previously advised of their availability may volunteer their services to the Referee at this time.

We have applied to have this meet designated as a "National Qualifying Meet" under the national officials' certification program. Any official interested in being evaluated (N2 only - all positions) must apply in advance. Send the "Request for Evaluation" form (PDF or DOC) to the Meet Referee. Details of the certification program can be found on the Certification Page of the USA Swimming website.

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.

Supervision:

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

Credentials:

Parents not working the meet as a deck official, volunteer lane timer, or other meet position are not permitted on deck. Only athletes, USA Swimming certified coaches, and deck officials are permitted on the pool deck. Coaches and deck officials are required to display their current USA Swimming card.

Admission Programs:

There is no admission charge. The meet program will be available for $10.00 and will include a finals program coupon for each finals session. Working Officials will receive a daily program free.

Fees:

Fees for individual events are $5.00; relay events are $10.00.

Meet Entry Procedures:

General Instructions:

• Entries should be submitted using Hy-Tek Team Manager via e-mail. 
• Include in the e-mail subject heading "2010 PVS 14&Under Jo Championship - ****" 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.

Deadline:

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

5:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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:

Potomac Valley Swimming

Send Entries to:

By mail to:
Paris Jacobs
2314 Toddsbury Place
Reston, VA 20191
571-238-7657
By e-mail to: Paris Jacobs at paris@machineaquatics.com

Check-In Deadlines

Event #

Event

Deadline

1, 2

11-12 500 Freestyle

Thurs 5:00 pm

3 W

14/U 1650 Freestyle

Thurs 5:30 pm

4 M

14/U 1000 Freestyle

Thurs 5:30 pm

29, 30

14/U 400 Individual Medley

Fri 8:30 am

35, 36

800 Free Relay

Fri 8:30 am

38 M

10/U 500 Freestyle

Fri 1:30 pm

69, 70

13-14 500 Freestyle

Sat 8:30 am

71, 72, 73, 74

400 Medley Relay

Sat 8:30 am

77, 78, 79, 80

400 Free Relay

Sun 7:30 am

103 W

14/U 1000 Freestyle

Sat 6:00 pm

104 M

14/U 1650 Freestyle

Sat 6:00 pm

105 W

10/U 500 Freestyle

Sun 1:30 pm

Women Event #

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Events

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Men Event #

1 $ *

6:07.99

5:28.39

11-12 500 Free

6:08.29

5:28.69

2 $ *

3 $ *

20:29.99

21:26.69

14 & under 1650 Free

14 & under 1000 Free

11:49.99

10:47.09

4 $ *

Women Event #

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Events

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Men Event #

5

2:14.99

2:23.49

11-12 200 Medley Relay

2:14.99

2:25.49

6

7

NT

NT

13-14 200 Medley Relay

NT

NT

8

9

2:36.99

2:59.69

12 & Under 200 Backstroke

2:40.99

3:04.19

10

11

1:16.59

1:26.59

13-14 100 Breaststroke

1:12.99

1:23.49

12

15

38.09

42.99

11-12 50 Breaststroke

38.99

44.09

16

17

2:06.89

2:23.39

13-14 200 Freestyle

2:01.99

2:19.99

18

21

1:03.29

1:11.09

11-12 100 Freestyle

1:03.49

1:11.59

22

23

1:07.99

1:15.69

13-14 100 Butterfly

1:05.29

1:14.19

24

27

32.79

37.29

11-12 50 Butterfly

32.99

37.59

28

29 *

5:06.99

5:49.59

14 & under 400 Individual Medley

5:02.99

5:57.09

30 *

33

2:38.89

2:59.59

11-12 200 Individual Medley

2:41.49

3:02.49

34

35 $ *

9:30.99

10:45.19

13-14 800 Freestyle Relay

9:30.99

10:45.19

36 $ *

Women Event #

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Events

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Men Event #

13

43.89

49.59

10 & under 50 Breaststroke

44.59

50.39

14

19

1:13.69

1:24.09

10 & under 100 Freestyle

1:13.19

1:22.69

20

25

37.79

42.69

10 & under 50 Butterfly

38.89

43.99

26

31

3:01.99

3:30.19

10 & under 200 Individual Medley

3:03.99

3:31.29

32

See Sunday

10 & under 500 Freestyle

7:34.99

6:26.39

38 * +

Women Event #

Events

Men Event #

9

12 & Under 200 Backstroke

10

11

13-14 100 Breaststroke

12

13

10 & under 50 Breaststroke

14

15

11-12 50 Breaststroke

16

17

13-14 200 Freestyle

18

19

10 & under 100 Freestyle

20

21

11-12 100 Freestyle

22

23

13-14 100 Butterfly

24

25

10 & under 50 Butterfly

26

27

11-12 50 Butterfly

28

29

14 & under 400 Individual Medley

30

31

10 & under 200 Individual Medley

32

33

11-12 200 Individual Medley

34

35 #

13-14 800 Freestyle Relay

36 #

Women Event #

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Events

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Men Event #

39

1:59.99

2:15.59

11-12 200 Freestyle Relay

1:59.99

2:15.59

40

41

1:54.99

2:09.89

13-14 200 Freestyle Relay

1:49.99

2:04.29

42

43

2:52.99

3:10.19

12 & Under 200 Butterfly

2:49.99

3:12.09

44

45

2:24.49

2:44.99

13-14 200 Individual Medley

2:20.49

2:41.49

46

49

1:13.29

11-12 100 Individual Medley

1:14.09

50

51

2:45.09

3:08.09

13-14 200 Breaststroke

2:38.99

3:00.99

52

55

1:22.99

1:32.39

11-12 100 Breaststroke

1:25.19

1:36.29

56

57

1:06.99

1:15.49

13-14 100 Backstroke

1:04.49

1:14.29

58

61

34.09

38.79

11-12 50 Backstroke

34.09

39.19

62

63

27.09

30.59

13-14 50 Freestyle

25.69

28.99

64

67

2:18.49

2:35.89

11-12 200 Freestyle

2:18.99

2:39.19

68

69 *

5:37.99

5:01.69

13-14 500 Freestyle

5:25.99

4:57.39

70 *

71 *

4:59.99

5:38.99

11-12 400 Medley Relay

5:00.99

5:40.09

72 *

73 *

4:44.99

5:21.99

13-14 400 Medley Relay

4:40.99

5:17.49

74 *

Women Event #

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Events

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Men Event #

47

1:25.19

10 & under 100 Individual Medley

1:24.39

48

53

1:35.99

1:48.49

10 & under 100 Breaststroke

1:37.39

1:50.09

54

59

38.89

43.99

10 & under 50 Backstroke

39.19

44.29

60

65

2:43.99

3:07.09

10 & under 200 Freestyle

2:43.99

3:05.29

66

75

2:39.99

3:00.79

10 & under 200 Medley Relay

2:39.99

3:00.79

76

Women Event #

Events

Men Event #

43

12 & Under 200 Butterfly

44

45

13-14 200 Individual Medley

46

47

10 & under 100 Individual Medley

48

49

11-12 100 Individual Medley

50

51

13-14 200 Breaststroke

52

53

10 & under 100 Breaststroke

54

55

11-12 100 Breaststroke

56

57

13-14 100 Backstroke

58

59

10 & under 50 Backstroke

60

61

11-12 50 Backstroke

62

63

13-14 50 Freestyle

64

65

10 & under 200 Freestyle

66

67

11-12 200 Freestyle

68

69

13-14 500 Freestyle

70

Women Event #

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Events

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Men Event #

77 *

4:15.99

4:49.29

11-12 400 Freestyle Relay

4:15.99

4:49.29

78 *

79 *

4:09.99

4:42.49

13-14 400 Freestyle Relay

3:57.79

4:28.69

80 *

83

2:57.99

3:23.59

12 & Under 200 Breaststroke

2:59.99

3:23.59

84

85

2:24.49

2:43.29

13-14 200 Backstroke

2:18.79

2:42.09

86

89

1:12.99

1:22.49

11-12 100 Backstroke

1:12.79

1:23.29

90

91

58.49

1:04.89

13-14 100 Freestyle

55.59

1:03.69

92

95

28.99

32.79

11-12 50 Freestyle

28.59

32.59

96

97

2:37.09

2:57.49

13-14 200 Butterfly

2:32.59

2:47.59

98

101

1:14.29

1:23.99

11-12 100 Butterfly

1:15.99

1:25.89

102

103 $ *

11:59.99

10:42.59

14 & under 1000 Freestyle

14 & under 1650 Freestyle

19:59.99

21:32.89

104 $ *

Women Event #

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Events

NST SCY QT

NST LCM QT

Men Event #

81

2:17.99

2:35.89

10 & under 200 Freestyle Relay

2:19.99

2:38.19

82

87

1:25.19

1:36.29

10 & under 100 Backstroke

1:25.79

1:37.59

88

93

32.99

37.29

10 & under 50 Freestyle

32.89

37.19

94

99

1:32.19

1:44.19

10 & under 100 Butterfly

1:35.19

1:47.59

100

105 * +

7:24.99

6:37.19

10 & under 500 Freestyle

See Friday

Women Event #

Events

Men Event #

103 #

14 & under 1000 Freestyle

14 & under 1650 Freestyle

104 #

83

12 & Under 200 Breaststroke

84

85

13-14 200 Backstroke

86

87

10 & under 100 Backstroke

88

89

11-12 100 Backstroke

90

91

13-14 100 Freestyle

92

93

10 & under 50 Freestyle

94

95

11-12 50 Freestyle

96

97

13-14 200 Butterfly

98

99

10 & under 100 Butterfly

100

101

11-12 100 Butterfly

102