MEET DIRECTOR: | Christopher T. Huott 240-417-5569 chrish@erols.com
MEET LOCATION: | Fairland Aquatics Center | 13820 Old Gunpowder Road Laurel, Maryland 301-206-2359
MEET GOAL: | To serve athletes in USA swimming in their progress to the next level in their swimming development. This "No Faster Than" Championship meet rewards swimmers for their hard work in attaining their personal goals of becoming higher quality athletes.
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IMPORTANT NOTATIONS: | This meet is not a qualifying meet for Tom Dolan Invitational but is a Championship meet for athletes slower than the Tom Dolan Invitational time standards. In the event the meet is oversubscribed, entries will be returned to teams that submitted their entries last.
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SCHEDULE: |
12 & Under Sessions Warm-up: 7:00 - 7:50 AM Events: 8:00 AM | 13 & Over Sessions Warm-up: 12:30 - 1:20 PM Events: 1:30 PM Two courses will be used simultaneously if needed: one for Girls, and one for Boys.
ELIGIBILITY: | Open to all USA Swimming registered athletes. Teams outside the LSC should contact the head meet director for a formal invitation to compete in this meet. Upon receiving an invitation all entries from that club will be accepted. Athletes shall compete at the age attained on the first day of the meet. An athlete may only compete in his or her own age division.
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RULES: | Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All events are timed finals. A contestant may enter no more than three events per day or six events during the meet.
SEED TIMES ARE SHORT COURSE YARDS ONLY
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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. The athlete (or the athlete’s coach) is also responsible for notifying the session referee of any disability prior to the competition.
WARM-UP: | The prescribed Potomac Valley Swimming warm-up procedures and safety policies for Open warm-ups will be followed.
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AWARDS: | Individual Awards: Medals will be awarded to first - eighth place finishers.
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SPECIAL AWARDS: | Any swimmer achieving their first "A" time ever will receive a special prize for their first time achieving this milestone. To be eligible for this award coaches must identify those athletes that achieve this distinction by the conclusion of the meet.
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TIMERS: | Participating Clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries. The Deck Meet Director will determine the number of timers per club and lane assignments. The Host Club is required to provide one timer per lane.
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OFFICIALS: | | All certified officials wishing to volunteer to work this meet please contact the MSSC Officials Chairman, Sue Schwartz at 410-313-8668 or email sue_schwartz2003@yahoo.com prior to November 27. Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work. Officials assigned to this meet should 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.
SUPERVISION: | Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and for cleaning up their team areas.
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ADMISSION: | There is no admission charge. Programs for each session will be available for $2.00 each. Working officials and coaches receive a free program.
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FEES: | Fees for individual events are $5.00. Remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team. Do not send cash. Telephone entries will not be accepted.
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ENTRIES: | Club entries will be accepted by email. Submission of entries by email must include the following files: the Hy-Tek Commlink II file, The Team Manager Meet Entry Report files (one by SWIMMER and one by EVENT) and an "Entry Cover Sheet." The name and phone number of the Club representative submitting the email must be included. INDIVIDUAL OR UNATTACHED ENTRIES WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED BY delivery to the addresses shown below and will not be accepted by e-mail, unless those swimmers are training with a club and that club is submitting their entries in the required above Hy-Tek format. Clubs submitting by email may submit entries to chrish@erols.com, in the subject heading type, "CHRISTMAS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2005 - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks. A copy of the Christmas Championships 2005 Meet Entry Cover Sheet in MS Word format format can be downloaded at http://users.erols.com/chrish/forms/christcvr.doc.(Link to be updated)
| Optional: Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager. (download "13mm120305.zip", (NOW POSTED) 3:15p November 18 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" 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. Manual entries must be submitted on the PVS master entry sheet. Also complete a Christmas Championships 2005 Meet Entry Cover Sheet which can be downloaded at http://users.erols.com/chrish/forms/christcvr.doc.(to be updated.) 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.
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.
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DEADLINE: | The Meet Director must receive all entries for this meet |
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SEND ENTRIES TO: | Maryland Suburban Swim Club | P O Box 570 Beltsville, MD 20704 Christopher T. Huott PHONE #: 240-417-5569 Fed-Ex and Other non-US Mail deliveries should contact the Meet Director. |
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GIRLS EVENT # | NO FASTER THAN (SCY) | 9 -12 EVENTS | NO FASTER THAN (SCY) |
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1 | 2:46.00 | 9-10 yr old 200 Yd Freestyle | 2:43.00 | 2
| 3 | 2:18.30 | 11-12 yr old 200 Yd Freestyle | 2:18.80 | 4
| 5 | 38.00 | 9-10 yr old 50 Yd Butterfly | 38.60 | 6
| 7 | 32.50 | 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Butterfly | 32.60 | 8
| 9 | 1:35.50 | 9-10 yr old 100 Yd Breaststroke | 1:36.40 | 10
| 11 | 1:22.80 | 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Breaststroke | 1:22.40 | 12
| 13 | 1:26.60 | 9-10 yr old 100 Yd Backstroke | 1:27.00 | 14
| 15 | 1:13.50 | 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Backstroke | 1:13.60 | 16
| 17 | 33.00 | 9-10 yr old 50 Yd Freestyle | 33.00 | 18
| 19 | 28.80 | 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Freestyle | 29.00 | 20
| 21 | 1:22.80 | 9-10 yr old 100 Yd IM | 1:24.00 | 22
| 23 | 1:12.60 | 11-12 yr old 100 Yd IM | 1:12.40 | 24
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Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in. | Events 400 yards or more will require positive check-in. |
GIRLS EVENT # | NO FASTER THAN (SCY) | 9 -12 EVENTS | NO FASTER THAN (SCY) |
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49 | 3:05.00 | 9-10 yr old 200 Yd IM | 3:05.90 | 50
| 51 | 2:36.20 | 11-12 yr old 200 Yd IM | 2:37.60 | 52
| 53 | 39.00 | 9-10 yr old 50 Yd Backstroke | 38.80 | 54
| 55 | 34.00 | 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Backstroke | 34.00 | 56
| 57 | 1:35.00 | 9-10 yr old 100 Yd Butterfly | 1:36.00 | 58
| 59 | 1:15.00 | 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Butterfly | 1:15.00 | 60
| 61 | 43.40 | 9-10 yr old 50 Yd Breaststroke | 43.40 | 62
| 63 | 37.80 | 11-12 yr old 50 Yd Breaststroke | 38.00 | 64
| 65 | 1:14.60 | 9-10 yr old 100 Yd Freestyle | 1:14.00 | 66
| 67 | 1:03.60 | 11-12 yr old 100 Yd Freestyle | 1:03.60 | 68
| 69 | 6:09.30$ | 11-12 yr old 500 Yd Freestyle | 6:06.00$ | 70
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$ Do not enter with a seed time slower than 8:00.00 | Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in. Events 400 yards or more will require positive check-in. |
GIRLS EVENT # | NO FASTER THAN (SCY) | 13 & Over EVENTS | NO FASTER THAN (SCY) |
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25 | 2:06.50 | 13-14 200 Yd Freestyle | 2:02.00 | 26
| 27 | 1:59.80 | 15&O 200 Yd Freestyle | 1:49.60 | 28
| 29 | 1:07.00 | 13-14 100 Yd Butterfly | 1:05.00 | 30
| 31 | 1:03.00 | 15&O 100 Yd Butterfly | 57.50 | 32
| 33 | 2:44.90 | 13-14 200 Yd Breaststroke | 2:39.30 | 34
| 35 | 2:37.80 | 15&O 200 Yd Breaststroke | 2:24.00 | 36
| 37 | 2:25.00 | 13-14 200 Yd Backstroke | 2:22.10 | 38
| 39 | 2:16.00 | 15&O 200 Yd Backstroke | 2:05.60 | 40
| 41 | 27.20 | 13-14 50 Yd Freestyle | 25.90 | 42
| 43 | 25.80 | 15&O 50 Yd Freestyle | 23.30 | 44
| 45 | 5:00.00 | 13-14 400 Yd IM | 5:00.80 | 46
| 47 | 4:46.00 | 15&O 400 Yd IM | 4:25.10 | 48
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Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in. | Events 400 yards or more will require positive check-in. |
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71 | 2:23.80 | 13-14 200 Yd IM | 2:17.70 | 72
| 73 | 2:15.80 | 15&O 200 Yd IM | 2:05.00 | 74
| 75 | 1:07.20 | 13-14 100 Yd Backstroke | 1:05.00 | 76
| 77 | 1:03.40 | 15&O 100 Yd Backstroke | 57.80 | 78
| 79 | 2:28.60 | 13-14 200 Yd Butterfly | 2:25.00 | 80
| 81 | 2:22.80 | 15&O 200 Yd Butterfly | 2:11.00 | 82
| 83 | 1:16.60 | 13-14 100 Yd Breaststroke | 1:12.50 | 84
| 85 | 1:12.40 | 15&O 100 Yd Breaststroke | 1:06.00 | 86
| 87 | 58.60 | 13-14 100 Yd Freestyle | 56.30 | 88
| 89 | 55.70 | 15&O 100 Yd Freestyle | 50.80 | 90
| 91 | 5:38.00$ | 13-14 500 Yd Freestyle | 5:27.00$ | 92
| 93 | 5:21.00$ | 15&O 500 Yd Freestyle | 4:58.00$ | 94
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$ Do not enter with a seed time slower than 8:00.00 | Events 200 yards or shorter may require positive check-in. Events 400 yards or more will require positive check-in. |