• Two courses will be used during the 13 & over preliminary sessions. Two courses may be used during the 12 & under sessions. Athletes should consider this when selecting events.
• All finals will be conducted at George Mason University.
• The exception being 10 & Under events which are timed finals and will be swum at Oak Marr as part of 11-12 preliminaries.
• Both competition sites will have continuous warm-up/ warm-down throughout the meet.

• A contestant may participate in only his or her own age group events or in open events which are open to all ages. Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable qualifying times listed.
• A contestant may enter a maximum of seven (7) individual events and no more than three (3) individual events per day. Swimmers shall compete at the age attained on the first day of the meet.
• It may be necessary to limit entries in certain events due to time constraints.

• All 11 & over events are trials and finals except for relays; the 1000 freestyle (13-14 & Open), 1650 freestyle (13-14 & Open), and the 11-12 500 freestyle which will be timed finals.
• All 11-12 individual events will have one heat in the finals sessions.
• All 13-14 and Open individual events will have a "B" final and an "A" final heat. The "A" final will be swum first.
• All 10 & under events are timed finals.
• 1000, 1650, and 500 freestyle and 400 IM require positive check-in.
• 13-14 and Open distance events will be swum combined, age groups will be scored separately. 1000, 1650, and 12 Under 500 freestyle will be swum fastest to slowest.
• The fastest heat of the combined women's 1000 and men's 1650 freestyle will swim as the first event in finals on the final day of the meet. All other women's 1000s and men's 1650s will be swum at the conclusion of the preliminary session.
• All distance events must be verified with the meet & date of the meet where the qualifying time was achieved. This verification of entry times is to be provided with the entry. Entries failing to provide verification will not be accepted. Acceptable verification includes the Hy-Tek entry report.
• All entry times requiring verification must be verified before 5:00 PM on Thursday, December 16 or they will be dropped from the meet.

• All relays 400 and longer require positive check-in.
• All 200 relays will be pre-seeded and swum fastest to slowest.
• There is no limit on the number of relay entries per club but only two relay teams per club per relay event may score.
• Verification of entry time must be provided for all relay entries with the entry, composite time is acceptable.
• Relay entries with "no time (NT)" will not be accepted.
• All relay entry times requiring verification must be verified before 5:00 PM on Thursday, December 16 or they will be dropped from the meet.

Time Trials

Time trials will be conducted on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the meet at the George Mason University facility. The time trial session will last no more than one (1) hour and will be swum 10 minutes following the conclusion of that day's preliminaries (both courses). Time trials will be open to all swimmers entered in an individual event in the meet. Swimmers will be limited to one (1) time trial swim per day. The fee will be $10.00. Swimmers may sign-up for time trials at the George Mason U. scratch table and must do so by 10:15 AM on Friday and Saturday and 11:00 AM on Sunday.

PVS Positive Check-in Policy

For those events requiring positive check-in, athletes (or coaches for relay events) shall designate their intention to swim the event on the forms provided at the scratch table. Athletes who have not checked-in prior to the specified time will be scratched from the event. Athletes who have checked-in, have been seeded, and fail to swim the event will be barred from their next scheduled individual event, unless excused by the Referee.

PVS "Scratch" Policy

If you do not wish to swim in the Final, you may "Scratch" from the event by following the proper procedure: · You must fill out and sign a PVS Finals Scratch Slip within 30 minutes of the announcement of qualifiers for "A" finals or "B" finals, if scheduled.
· You may declare an intent to "scratch." You must fill out and sign a PVS Finals Scratch Slip within 30 minutes of the announcement of qualifiers, marking the appropriate space for "intent." You must confirm this intent on the PVS Finals Scratch Slip within 30 minutes after the conclusion of your last preliminary event of the day or you will be automatically scratched.
If an athlete fails to properly scratch from an event and does not appear for the Final event, they "shall be barred from further competition for the remainder of the meet".

Computer disk entries (Hy-tek) are encouraged. Disk entries require a meet entry report by SWIMMER and one by EVENT from Team Manager. Disk entries are "as is." The meet director will not make any changes to disk entries. Do not include a list of corrections. Send two (2) 3.5 inch disks. Include a stamped, addressed mailer for disk return following the meet.

Entries may also be submitted on a PVS Master Entry Sheet. Teams entering more than ten (10) athletes in this format will pay a $1.00 surcharge per swimmer. The signature and phone number of a Club official must be included with the entry for validation of entries.

• Coaches will be provided with National Relay Slips. Do not submit pink/blue cards for relays or distance events
• No late/deck entries are permitted for this meet.
• The meet director will not accept phone or fax entries.
• If using a mail service (Fed Ex, UPS, etc.) sign the waiver allowing the service to leave your entries without requiring a signature.
• Illegible entries; entries not submitted on the required forms; entries not complete, failing to list a phone number of a club official responsible for the entry, or lacking a signature will not be accepted.

Fees for individual events are $4.50, relays $9.00.
There is a $2.00 per swimmer fee for non-Potomac Valley Swimmers.

Each participating Club is requested to remit one check to cover the entry fee for the entire team. Do not send cash. Make checks payable to CURL-BURKE SWIM CLUB. Entry fees are due with entries.

• Note: All athletes who intend on swimming events 1 to 6 must check-in by 5:00 PM at the scratch table.

• 400 IM check-in by 9:00 AM
• All 800 freestyle relays must check-in by 9:30 AM. The fastest heat in each event will swim at the end of the PM finals, all others swim at the end of preliminaries. Event is swum fastest to slowest.

• Note: All 400 freestyle relays must check-in by 9:30 AM. The event is swum fastest to slowest as the final event of preliminaries.

Note:
• 500 freestyle check-in by 9:00 AM
• 400 medley relays check-in by 11:00 AM. Events swum fastest to slowest as the final event of finals.

• 400 freestyle relay check-in by 11:00 AM. Events swum fastest to slowest as the final event of finals.
• Women's 1000 freestyle and Men's 1650 freestyle check-in by 6:30 PM Saturday (check-in to begin Saturday AM). Events swum fastest to slowest and combined by age group. The events will be scored separately. The fastest heat will swim as the first event of finals.

• 400 medley relays must check-in by 9:30 AM. The event is swum fastest to slowest as the final event of preliminaries.