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Schedule: |
Session Warm-up Events
Thursday Night GMU 4:00 - 4:50 pm 5:00 pm
Preliminary Sessions OAK MARR 7:00 - 8:20 am 8:30 am
Finals Sessions OAK MARR 4:30 - 5:50 pm 6:00 pm
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Admission: |
There is no admission charge. Programs for all sessions will be available for $7.00. Programs will include coupons for finals programs for each evening session at no additional charge.
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Warm-up: | The prescribed Potomac Valley Swimming warm-up procedures and safety policies will be followed. The meet manager may determine the structure of the warm-up, including times and lane assignments. During the meet there will be continuous warm-up/warm-down lanes. Officials will be assigned to monitor these areas. If at any time conditions become unsafe, the area will be closed for the remainder of the session.
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Eligibility: | Open to Potomac Valley Swimming registered athletes and invited USA Swimming athletes. Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable cut-off times listed. 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.
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Bonus event | Any athlete, who is entered into at least one individual event, may also enter one bonus event. If entered in 2 or more individual events they may enter 2 bonus events. Entry times for bonus events must satisfy the qualifying time for the PVS Junior SCY Championship. Athletes entering bonus events may compete in no more than the maximum events per session or meet.
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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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Rules: | Current USA Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All events are trials and finals, except for relays and the 1000 and 1650 freestyle, which are timed finals.
Positive check-in is required for all individual events 400 yards and over, and all Relays. These events will be seeded on the deck. Swimmers who do not check-in will be scratched from that event. Athletes who have checked in, have been seeded, and fail to swim the event will be barred from their next scheduled individual event.
Heats of distance events (1000 and 1650) will be swum fast to slow, alternating women and men. The fastest seeded heat of the women's 1000 and men's 1650 will be the first event of the Sunday finals session.
The "Whistle Start Protocol" and "No Recall" procedures will be used at this meet.
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Individual Events: | A contestant may compete in a maximum of six (6) individual events, and compete in no more than three (3) individual events per day.
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Relay Events: | There is no limit on the number of relay teams a club may enter; however, all entries must meet the listed qualifying time. Only two relay teams from a club can score. The 200-yard relays will not be scored.
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Heats: | There will be three heats swum in finals for all individual events except the 1000 and 1650 events, which are timed finals as stated above. Heats will be swum in the following order: "A", "B", and "C" (previously referred to as finals, consolation and bonus).
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Withdrawing
from Finals | 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".
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Scoring: | Individual Events: 20,17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Relay Events: 40, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 18, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2
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Time trials: | Time trials will be held following the completion of the finals session each evening. An athlete must compete in an individual event in the meet in order to participate in the time trials. Athletes are permitted one time trial per time trial session provided that this participation does not cause them to exceed the three events per day limitation. Time trial fee is $5.00 /attempt.
The order of time trial events will be those events contested that day followed by those events remaining to be contested, followed by those events already contested.
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Officials: | This meet is expected to be designated and approved for USA Swimming national certification of officials. The PVS officials committee will make the initial assignments. Officials assigned to this meet sign in at the recording table at the start of each warm-up session. Certified officials who have not been contacted should volunteer their services to the referee. Those officials working a minimum of three (3) complete sessions will be able to apply for national certification. A comprehensive officials' briefing will precede each session during warm-up.
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Timers: | 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.
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Supervision: | Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers and families and for cleaning up their team areas.
Parents not working the meet as a deck official, volunteer lane timer, or other meet position are not permitted on deck. Only athletes, USA Swimming certified coaches, and deck officials are permitted on the pool deck.
Coaches and deck officials are required to display their current USA Swimming card.
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Fees: | Fees for individual events are $4.25; relay events are $8.25.  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.
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Entries: | Computer disk entries (Hy-Tek) require a meet entry report by swimmer and a meet entry report by event from team manager. Entries may also 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.
All relays must be submitted on PVS master entry sheet.
All 1000 and 1650 entries must include verification of time (date & meet). Entries without verification will not be accepted.
No late entries are permitted for this meet, see special note for entering from another meet.
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Entering from another meet | NEW Senior Championship qualifying times made after the entry deadline of February 29, 2000 may be entered through the Meet Director of Junior Championships March 2 - 5, 2000. However, NO new bonus events may be entered as a result of times achieved after February 29.
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Entry times: | 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 will not be held responsible if there is no time to properly resubmit the entry.
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Deadline: | Meet Director must receive all entries for this meet no later than
5:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 29, 2000.
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Checks: | Checks payable to:
Potomac Valley Swimming
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Send entries to: | Kit Mathews
2 North Pendleton Court
Frederick, MD 21703
301-662-9121
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