RMSC
Mark Eldridge
301 309-3041

Prince Georges Sports and Learning Complex
8001 Sheriff Road
Landover, MD 20785
301-583-2400

Open to all USA Swimming registered athletes, with priority being given to PVS athletes. Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable no slower than (NST) qualifying times listed. Do not enter with a time achieved prior to February 19, 1999

All entry times and USA Swimming memberships are subject to verification. Any athlete not achieving a QT, may be asked to prove the entry time to the Meet Director prior to the end of the meet.

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.

The "No Recall" procedures will be used at this meet.

Swum fastest to slowest, and 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 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.

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..

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

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

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.

No deck entries will be accepted.

Time trials will be conducted at this meet and swum after the finals session each day. Time trial fees are $10.00 /attempt. Time trials are only for those athletes entered in the meet, and are swum in the following order; those events contested that day, followed by those events remaining to be contested, followed by those events already contested. Athletes will be permitted one time trial per time trial session scheduled provided that this does not cause them to exceed the daily event participation limitations. Swimmers are required to provide their own timer for time trials.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 for individual events are $4.25; relay events are $8.25. 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

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. Entries may also be submitted via email to kwmathews@earthlink.net

All relays must be submitted on PVS master entry sheet.
All 1000 and 1650 entries must include verification (date & meet) of time. Distance entries without verification will not be accepted.

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.

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

Athletes achieving a qualifying time for the first time after the meet entry deadline for this meet will be allowed to enter. Email your entries Kit Mathews at kwmathews@earthlink.net by 5pm on Tuesday, February 27, 2001.

Make checks payable to: Potomac Valley Swimming

Kit Mathews
2 North Pendleton Court
Frederick, MD 21703
301-662-9121
kwmathews@earthlink.net

1 $ #

19:58.29Y

1650 YD Freestyle

20:30.09L

1000 YD Freestyle

11:20.99Y

2 $ #

9:39.19L