Heats of distance events (800 and 1500) will be swum fast to slow, alternating women and men. The fastest seeded heat of the women's 800 and men's 1500 will be the first event of the Sunday finals session.
Swimmers in these events are responsible for providing their own timer, except for those in the fastest heat being swum as part of Sunday finals.
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Bonus Event: | Any athlete, who is entered into at least one individual event, may also enter one bonus event. If entered in 2 or more individual events, they may enter 2 bonus events.
Athletes entering bonus events may compete in no more than the maximum events per session or meet.
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Time Trials: | Time trials will be held following the completion of the finals session each evening. An athlete must compete in an individual event in the meet in order to participate in the time trials. Athletes are permitted one time trial per time trial session provided that this participation does not cause them to exceed the three events per day limitation. Time trial fee is $10.00 /attempt. The order of time trial events will be those events contested that day followed by those events remaining to be contested, followed by those events already contested.
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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. During the meet there will be continuous warm-up/warm-down lanes. Persons will be assigned to monitor these areas. If at any time conditions become unsafe, the area will be closed for the remainder of the session.
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Scoring: | Individual Events: 20,17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Relay Events: 40, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 18, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2
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Officials: |
USA Swimming is expected to designate and approve this meet for national certification of officials. Those officials working a minimum of three (3) complete sessions will be able to apply for national certification. All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact the PVS Officials Vice-Chairman, Jim Van Erden at 703-239-2963 or e-mail jim.vanerden@cox.net no later than Tuesday, July 6. Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work. Those officials who learn of their availability subsequent to July 6 are encouraged to contact Jim Van Erden 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.
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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.
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Supervision: | Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and for cleaning up their team areas.
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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.
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Admission/Programs: | There is no admission charge.
Programs for all sessions will be available for $10.00. Programs will include coupons for finals programs for each evening session at no additional charge.
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Fees: | Fees for individual events are $5.00; relay events are $10.00.
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Meet Entry
Procedures: |
General Instructions:
- Entires may be submitted (1) manually, (2) by sending a disk to the meet direcrtor or (3) via e-mail.
Follow the instructions under the appropriate heding below. The immediately following rules apply regardless of method chosen.
- Each club is requested to remit one check 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.
- All 800 and 1500 entries must include verification of time (date & meet). Including this information with Hy-
Tek file satisfies this requirement. Entries without verification will not be accepted. Entries in the 800 and 1500 Freestyle events may need to be limited by time constraints.
- 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 or by e-mail containing all the particulars required by the master entry sheet.
Manual Entries:
- Manual entries must 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. Short course entry times must be designated with a capital letter "Y".
- There will be a $1.00 surcharge per athlete for manual entries of 10 or more.
Disk Entries:
- Submit the Hy-Tek commlink II file along with an "entry cover sheet." The team manager meet entry report files must also be sent one by swimmer and one by event. The name and phone number of the club representative submitting the email must also be included.
- All relays may be submitted in Hy-Tek (commlink II file) or on PVS master entry sheet.
E-mail Entries:
- Club E-mail entries will be accepted provided the transmission time is prior to entry deadline.
- Attach one report by event, one by name (save as Word for Windows in Team Manager)
- Attach commlink file
- In body of e-mail give total number of splashes including relays (men, women, total entry) and contact information (name, phone, e-mail address)
- Remember to also send entry fee check via USPS
- Clubs submitting by email should submit entries to kmathews@cubu.org, in the subject heading type, "2004 PVS LC Senior Championship - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks.
Optional: Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager. (download "58mm071504.zip") (now available)  unzip it and 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" (To be posted.)
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Deadline: | Meet Director must receive all entries for this meet no later than
5:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 7, 2004.
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.
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Make Checks
Payable to: | Potomac Valley Swimming
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Send entries to: | Kit Mathews
2 North Pendleton Court
Frederick, MD 21703
301-524-4775
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