CUBU
Mark Faherty
703-861-9089
fahertyswim@yahoo.com

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 28, 2004

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.

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.

Swimmers are also required to provide their own timers (except for the fastest heat on Sunday) and if desired, counters.

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.

There will be NO SCHELDULED BREAKS prior to start of distance events or relays.

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 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 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 for this meet will be assigned by the PVS Officials Committee. 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 VanErden at 703-239-2963 or email jim.vanerden@cox.net no later than Tuesday, Februay 28. Please include your club affiliation, certifications held, and sessions you wish to work. Those officials who learn of their availability subsequent to February 28 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. Assignments will be posted to the PVS Website no later than Monday, March 6.

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 $5.00; relay events are $10.00. 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

General Instructions:

• Entires may be submitted (1) manually, (2) by sending a disk to the meet director 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.
• 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.
• NEW: All Relay-only swimmers must be listed on the meet entry in order to participate in the meet.
• Optional: Before preparing your entries, events and SCY/LCM QT's 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 "32mm030906.zip"

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 fahertyswim@yahoo.com, in the subject heading type, "2006 PVS Senior Champs - ****" with the club's initials substituted in place of the asterisks. Clubs submitting multiple entries should indicate the training site.
• 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.

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 between February 27 and March 5 will be allowed to enter the meet under special arrangements. Email your entries Mark Faherty at fahertyswim@yahoo.com by 5pm on Monday, March 6, 2006

Make checks payable to:

Attn: Mark Faherty
6001 Burke Commons Road
Burke, Virginia 22015
703-861-9089
fahertyswim@yahoo.com

Warm-up 4:20 – 5:20 pm     Events 5:30 pm

Preliminaries -- Warm-up 6:30 – 7:50 am     Events 8:00 am