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.

• Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. A contestant may compete in a maximum of seven (7) individual events, and compete in no more than three (3) individual events per day.
• Contestants may NOT enter an event they are eligible to swim at either the PVS 2005 Senior LC Champs or PVS 2005 14/Under LC Champs.
• Note: A 15/O athlete is not eligible to swim an event at 14/U Champs because of their age.
• An athlete may not swim in an event at this meet if they have entered it as bonus event at PVS 2005 Senior LC Championship
• Any athlete who betters the "Not Faster Than" times for PVS Junior Champs after the submission of entries is precluded from competing in that event at this meet.

All entry times must be actually achieved LCM times that were swum after July 6, 2003. No "NO TIMES" are permitted nor are times converted to LCM. Times achieved prior to July 6, 2003 that would make an athlete ineligible by reason of being "too fast" do not apply, providing the athlete does not have another official time after this date that would make them ineligible.

No late entries are permitted for this meet.

• 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.

• Optional: Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager. (download "59mm071405.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"

  IMPORTANT NEW THIS YEAR: NFT QT's are in the file are for both 15/Over and 13-14 year old swimmers . The NFT QT's for 13-14 year old swimmers are slower.. Please make sure any 13-14 year old swimmers entered into the meet do not have a QT for the PVS 2005 Age Group 14/U Long Course Champsionship Meet.

• 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.
• There will be a $1.00 surcharge per athlete for manual entries of 10 or more.

• 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.

• 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 (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 parsmth@aol.com, in the subject heading type, "2005 PVS LC Junior Champs - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks.
• 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.

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.