AMENDED FEBRUARY 4, 2000 TO CHANGE LOCATION OF
THURSDAY'S 500 YARD FREESTYLE EVENTS

AMENDED JANUARY 20, 2000 TO
REVISE MEET LOCATION

AMENDED DECEMBER 23, 1999 TO REVISE
9-10 INDVIDUAL EVENTS TO 10 & U EVENTS AND 11-12 EVENTS TO 12 & U EVENTS

AMENDED DECEMBER 14, 1999 TO CORRECT MEET ENTRY FEES

PVS Short Course
12 &Under Championships
February 24-27, 2000

Sanctioned by USA Swimming
Through Potomac Valley Swimming

Sanction #PVS-00-0225-22

Hosted for Potomac Valley Swimming By:

Occoquan Swimming

Meet Director: Donna Tonnesen
703-492-6565.
Meet location:
 Wakefield Park - Melissa Belote Pool
8100 Braddock Road
Annandale, VA
703-321-7080
Wakefield High School
(THURSDAY ONLY)
4901 South Chesterfield Road
Arlington, Virginia 22206
703-578-3063

**** Pool location is on the South Dinwiddie Street side of the School ****

IMPORTANT: Wakefield Park (Fairfax County) and Wakefield High School (Arlington County) are in totally different locations.
Schedule: Session                                                      Warm-up                   Events
 Thursday Night Wakefield HS                   4:30 - 5:20 pm           5:30 pm
Preliminary Sessions Wakefield Park      6:30 - 7:50 am           8:00 am
Finals Sessions Wakefield Park                 4:30 - 5:50 pm           6:00 pm
Eligibility: Open to all registered Potomac Valley Swimming athletes. A contestant may participate in only his or her own age group. Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable no slower than (NST) times listed. For example, a 9 or 11 year old may enter either the single age (9) (11) event or the multi age (10 & Under, 12 & under respectively) event in any of their events. However, a swimmer may only swim one event for a given distance and stroke. A swimmer may participate on only one relay team for a given relay event, either 10 & Under or 12 & Under
Rules: Current USA swimming rules shall govern the meet.
The "Whistle Starting Protocol" and the "No Recall" procedures will be used at this meet.
Individual Events:

All individual events are trials and finals, except the 500 free, which will be, timed finals. The 9 and 10 & U events will have 1 finals heat, 11 and 12 & U events will have two finals heats swum fastest to slowest.

Positive check-in for 500 free required by 5:00 PM of the Thursday night session. Events 1 & 3 and events 2 & 4 will be combined, but scored separately. These events will be swum fastest to slowest, alternating Girls and Boys.

A contestant may compete in a maximum of six (6) individual events, and compete in no more than three (3) individual events per day.

Relays: All relays are timed finals and will be swum in preliminary sessions. 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".
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.
Credentials: All PVS/USA Swimming registered coaches and deck officials are required to wear their current USA Swimming membership credentials while on deck. The referee, or his designated representative, may request anyone not displaying his/her credentials to leave the deck.
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.
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 with the highest point total in individual events in each age group. For purposes of high point scoring, awards will be based on age brackets listed above. A swimmer will earn points in the age group event entered not the attained age of the swimmer.
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
Supervision: Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and for cleaning up their team areas.
Officials: Officials assigned to this meet 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.
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.
Admission: There is no admission charge. The meet program will be available for $7.00, and will include a coupon for a finals program for each evening session at no additional charge.
Fees: Fees for individual events are $3.75; relay events are $7.25. 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
Entries: Computer disk entries (Hy-Tek) require a meet entry report by swimmer and a meet entry report by event from team manager. Entries may also be submitted on the PVS master entry sheet. Also submit a completed "entry cover sheet". Signature and phone number of a club official must be included with entry for validation of entries. No late entries are permitted for this meet. All relays must be submitted on a PVS master entry sheet.
Deadline: The meet manager must receive all entries for this meet no later than
5:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 15, 2000.
Checks: Make checks payable to:
Potomac Valley Swimming
Send Entries to: Donna Tonnesen
13475 Fowke Lane
Woodbridge, VA 22192
703-492-6565.


Thursday Evening Program - February 24, 2000
WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
Timed Finals
Warm-up: 4:30 - 5:20 pm Events: 5:30 pm
Girl's Event # NST Time Event NST Time Boy's Event #
1 & 7:01.99 11 y/o 500 Yd Freestyle 6:55.99 2&
3 & 6:22.99 12 & U y/o 500 Yd Freestyle 6:19.99 4 &
& Check in for events 1,2,3 &4 will be 5:00 pm


Preliminary Sessions
Warm-up: 6:30 - 7:50 am
Events: 8:00 am 		Finals Sessions
Warm-up: 4:30 - 5:50 pm
Events: 6:00 pm
Friday Program - February 25, 2000
WAKEFIELD PARK
Girl's Event # NST Time Event NST Time Boy's Event #
5 3:29.89 9 y/o 200 Yd Individual Medley 3:24.89 6
7 2:55.89 10 & U 200 Yd Individual Medley 2:59.89 8
9 2:41.99 11 y/o 200 Yd Individual Medley 2:49.89 10
112:34.99 12 & U y/o 200 Yd Individual Medley 2:36.69 12
13 46.49 9 y/o 50 Yd Breaststroke 48.89 14
15 41.49 10 & U y/o 50 Yd Breaststroke 42.99 16
17 39.89 11 y/o 50 Yd Breaststroke 41.19 18
19 37.49 12 & U y/o 50 Yd Breaststroke 37.09 20
21 1:19.99 9 y/o 100 Yd Freestyle 1:20.89 22
23 1:11.19 10 & U y/o 100 Yd Freestyle 1:12.89 24
25 1:05.99 11 y/o 100 Yd Freestyle 1:08.29 26
27 1:02.99 12 & U y/o 100 Yd Freestyle 1:02.09 28
29 40.99 9 y/o 50 Yd Butterfly 42.09 30
31 36.99 10 & U y/o 50 Yd Butterfly 37.89 32
33 34.09 11 y/o 50 Yd Butterfly 35.89 34
35 32.69 12 & U y/o 50 Yd Butterfly 32.09 36


Preliminary Sessions
Warm-up: 6:30 - 7:50 am
Events: 8:00 am 		Finals Sessions
Warm-up: 4:30 - 5:50 pm
Events: 6:00 pm
Saturday Program - February 26, 2000
WAKEFIELD PARK
Girl's Event # NST Time Event NST Time Boy's Event #
37 @ 2:29.99 10 & Under 200 Yd Medley Relay 2:29.99 38 @
39 @ 2:12.99 12 & Under 200 Yd Medley Relay 2:09.99 40 @
41 2:55.89 9 y/o 200 Yd Freestyle 2:55.99 42
43 2:38.89 10 & U y/o 200 Yd Freestyle 2:36.99 44
45 2:22.99 11 y/o 200 Yd Freestyle 2:28.99 46
47 2:15.99 12 & U y/o 200 Yd Freestyle 2:15.99 48
49 1:40.39 9 y/o 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:41.99 50
51 1:30.89 10 & U y/o 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:31.99 52
53 1:25.99 11 y/o 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:29.99 54
55 1:21.99 12 & U y/o 100 Yd Breaststroke 1:20.99 56
57 41.39 9 y/o 50 Yd Backstroke 41.99 58
59 37.39 10 & U y/o 50 Yd Backstroke 37.99 60
61 34.59 11 y/o 50 Yd Backstroke 35.89 62
63 33.99 12 & U y/o 50 Yd Backstroke 32.99 64
65 1:28.89 9 y/o 100 Yd Individual Medley 1:29.99 66
67 1:19.99 10 & U y/o 100 Yd Individual Medley 1:20.99 68
69 1:14.99 11 y/o 100 Yd Individual Medley 1:17.99 70
71 1:11.99 12 & U y/o 100 Yd Individual Medley 1:11.79 72
73 @ 4:12.99 12 & Under y/o 400 Yd Freestyle Relay 4:10.9974 @
@ Events are timed finals and will be swum during preliminaries.




Preliminary Sessions
Warm-up: 6:30 - 7:50 am
Events: 8:00 am 		Finals Sessions
Warm-up: 4:30 - 5:50 pm
Events: 6:00 pm
Sunday Program - February 27, 2000
WAKEFIELD PARK
Girl's Event # NST Time Event NST Time Boy's Event #
75 @ 2:10.99 10 & Under 200 Yd Freestyle Relay 2:08.99 76 @
77 @ 1:55.99 12 & Under y/o 200 Yd Freestyle Relay 1:53.9978 @
79 1:28.49 9 y/o 100 Yd Backstroke 1:34.99 80
81 1:20.49 10 & U y/o 100 Yd Backstroke 1:23.99 82
83 1:14.99 11 y/o 100 Yd Backstroke 1:17.99 84
85 1:12.99 12 & U y/o 100 Yd Backstroke 1:11.99 86
87 34.59 9 y/o 50 Yd Freestyle 34.99 88
89 31.89 10 & U y/o 50 Yd Freestyle 31.99 90
91 29.99 11 y/o 50 Yd Freestyle 29.99 92
93 28.09 12 & U y/o 50 Yd Freestyle 27.99 94
95 1:38.99 9 y/o 100 Yd Butterfly 1:41.19 96
97 1:26.89 10 & U y/o 100 Yd Butterfly 1:28.19 98
99 1:17.99 11 y/o 100 Yd Butterfly 1:23.99 100
101 1:15.09 12 & U y/o 100 Yd Butterfly 1:14.69 102
103 @4:52.99 12 & Under y/o 400 Yd Medley Relay 4:48.99 104 @
@ Events are timed finals events and will be swum during preliminaries.