| MEET DIRECTOR: | Christopher T. Huott
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MEET LOCATION: | Fairland Aquatics Center | 13820 Old Gunpowder Road Laurel, Maryland 301-206-2359
SCHEDULE: |
12&Under Sessions Warm-up: 8:00 - 8:50 AM Events: 9:00 AM | Senior Sessions Warm-up: 1:30 - 2:20 PM Events: 2:30 PM The meet will be conducted in a single 8 to 10 short course yard standard configuration
ELIGIBILITY: | Open to all USA Swimming registered athletes. 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. Entries will be limited to the first 3500 entries received.
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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 individual events per day.
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POSITIVE CHECK-IN: |
All events 200 yards and greater may require positive check-in. Please check the check-in table upon arrival.
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INCLUSION POLICY FOR SWIMMERS WITH A DISABILITY: | PVS and the host clubs along with their Meet Directors are committed to the Inclusion Policy as adopted by the BOD. Athletes with a disability are welcome and are asked to provide advanced notice of desire accommodations to the Meet Director and PVS Senior Chairman Don Riedlinger at driedlin@erols.com). The athlete (or the coach) is also responsible for notifying the session referee of any disability prior to the competition.
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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: | There will be no awards for this meet.
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TIMERS: | Participating Clubs are required to provide timers in proportion to their entries. Your club should provide one timer or official for every 25 entries your club submits. The Host Club is required to provide one timer or official 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 sue_schwartz2003@yahoo.com by February 1. 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.
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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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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 $4.00. Remit one check to cover the entry fees for the entire team. Do not send cash. Telephone entries will not be accepted. Deck entries will be handled at the computer table 30 minutes prior to the start of the session. The fee is $10 cash.
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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 Post Office Box address 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 should submit entries to entries@msscswimming.com, in the subject heading type, "2006 FEBRUARY CHALLENGER - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks. In the body of the email include the following: Number of female athletes and their total number of entries, number of male athletes and their total number of entries, then a grand total of all entries and finally the total fee owed. DECK ENTRIES will be accepted provided they do not cause the meet session to exceed 4 hours.
| Before preparing your entries, events for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager (go to team manager/file/import/meet events). The file IS NOW available zipped 26mm020406.zip
DEADLINE: | The Meet Director must receive all entries for this meet | Be careful with your entries. This is a firm deadline. Any entries after this deadline will need to be handled at the meet as deck entries. 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.
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: |
SEND ENTRIES TO: | Christopher T. Huott | Maryland Suburban Swim Club P.O. Box 570 Beltsville, Maryland 20704 240-417-5569 entries@msscswimming.com |
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| GIRLS EVENT # | EVENTS | BOYS EVENT # | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 12 & Under 500 Yd Freestyle | 2
| 3 | 12 & Under 50 Yd Backstroke | 4
| 5 | 12 & Under 100 Yd Butterfly | 6
| 7 | 12 & Under 50 Yd Breaststroke | 8
| 9 | 12 & Under 100 Yd Freestyle | 10
| 11 | 12 & Under 200 Yd IM | 12
| All events 200 yards or more may require positive check-in.
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| GIRLS EVENT # | EVENTS | BOYS EVENT # | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 25 | 12 & Under 200 Yd Freestyle | 26
| 27 | 12 & Under 50 Yd Butterfly | 28
| 29 | 12 & Under 100 Yd Breaststroke | 30
| 31 | 12 & Under 100 Yd Backstroke | 32
| 33 | 12 & Under 50 Yd Freestyle | 34
| 35 | 12 & Under 100 Yd IM | 36
| All events 200 yards or more may require positive check-in.
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| GIRLS EVENT # | EVENTS | BOYS EVENT # | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 13 | 13 & Over 500 Yd Freestyle | 14
| 15 | 13 & Over 100 Yd Backstroke | 16
| 17 | Open 200 Yd Butterfly | 18
| 19 | 13 & Over 100 Yd Breaststroke | 20
| 21 | 13 & Over 100 Yd Freestyle | 22
| 23 | 13 & Over 200 Yd IM | 24
| All events 200 yards or more may require positive check-in.
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| GIRLS EVENT # | EVENTS | BOYS EVENT # | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 37 | 13 & Over 200 Yd Freestyle | 38
| 39 | 13 & Over 100 Yd Butterfly | 40
| 41 | Open 200 Yd Breaststroke | 42
| 43 | Open 200 Yd Backstroke | 44
| 45 | 13 & Over 50 Yd Freestyle | 46
| 47 | Open 400 Yd IM | 48
| All events 200 yards or more may require positive check-in.
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