Speedo Championship Series

Southern Zone Eastern Sectional

Senior Championships

July 10th – 13th, 2008

SANCTION: Held under the sanction of USA Swimming issued by Georgia Swimming, Inc.

Sanction #: GA08- 68    , Time Trials Sanction #: GA08- 69TT    .

HOST: SwimAtlanta – 678-442-7946

www.swimatlanta.com

FACILITY:  Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. 10 lane, 50 meter pool with separate 25 yard warm up pool. Omega timing system and scoreboard.

SCHEDULE:

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday:  Prelim Warm ups 7:00 AM, Starts 9:00 AM

                                                             Finals Warm ups 4:00 PM, Starts 5:30 PM

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to members of the Eastern Section of the Southern Zone, its clubs and swimmers registered with USA Swimming that are in good standing with the Eastern Section, and USA National Team Members. All USA Swimming registered clubs in the following LSC's are eligible to join the Eastern Section: Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southeastern and West Virginia.

 

RULES: The current USA Swimming Rules will govern the conduct of the meet unless noted otherwise herein. Athlete registration will be confirmed using the SWIMS registration database. A swimmer not previously entered wishing to late enter the meet via deck entry must present proof of USA Swimming membership.

 

TIME STANDARDS: All swimmers must have met the 2008 Summer Sectional time standard in either short course or long course in EACH event entered. Swimmers entering with short course qualifying times will be seeded as non-conforming times in the first heat/s. Times for all events must have been achieved by the due date of the entry. Times are only good from January 2nd, 2007 (Eighteen months prior to entry deadline), forward. Any times achieved prior to that cannot count toward qualifying or for proofs. (See 'Proof of Time' below.)

 

PROOF OF TIME: Swimmers or relays who do not equal or better the applicable Southern Zone Eastern Sectional time standards in any event at the championship meet must be able to prove that they have previously achieved the qualifying time. Swimmers unable to provide proof-of-time will be assessed a $25 fine for each event they cannot prove. The deadline to prove times and seek US National Reimbursement funds is November 1st, 2008. After September 1st, fines are doubled to $50 per occurrence regardless of provability. The only acceptable proof-of-time will be official meet results or times form the SWIMS database, from a USA Swimming sanctioned or approved competition. In the event a swimmer does not pay this fine, neither the swimmer nor the swimmer's team will be eligible to enter future Southern Zone Eastern Section Championships until such time as the fine is paid. Come prepared to pay outstanding fines before your team can participate in the meet. Fines will be deposited with no further need of proofs from those previous meets. All fines collected go to the Southern Zone Eastern Section Travel Fund.

 

 

 

 

FORMAT:

 All individual events except the 800 Free and 1500 Free will be conducted on a Prelim and Finals basis.

 

All relays and individual events 400 yards or longer will be deck seeded. Swimmers must check in for these events at the Clerk of Course by 8:15 AM on the day that they will be swum except for the 1500 Free. Check-in for the 1500 Free will be on Saturday, the day before the 1500 is to be swum, by 11:00 AM, and swimmers are to declare an AM or PM option at that time. The seeding for the 1500 will be available during Saturday Finals so that 1500 swimmers will know when they will swim the 1500 on Sunday.

 

 All events 200 yards or shorter will be pre-seeded. It is not necessary to check in for these events, although scratches will be appreciated.

 

Ten swimmers each will qualify for a Championship, Consolation and Bonus heat in each event in the finals (except for relays, 800 and 1500 Free). Note: see “Scratch Rule”.

ALL Sunday evening finals will be conducted on a positive check-in basis. Any swimmer making the Bonus, Consolation or Championship heat on Sunday, July 13th, will have 30 minutes to positive check-in after the preliminary results are announced or the swimmer will be scratched from the Finals. The top fifty swimmers are asked to check in or scratch.

 

The seeding for the preliminary heats of the 400 IM will be swum in the following order: the four fastest women's heats then the four fastest men's heats swum slowest to fastest (the fastest three will be circle seeded), then the remainder of the heats will be swum fastest to slowest, alternating Women-Men.

 

The 400 Free will be deck seeded with all preliminary heats to be swum slowest to fastest, all women’s heats then all men’s heats.

 

The fastest seeded heat of the Women’s and Men’s 800 free will be swum in numerical order (as event number 1 & 2) in the Finals session on Thursday, July 10th, and all other heats will be conducted during Thursday’s prelims beginning ten minutes after event 8, the Men’s 200 Fly (last in Prelims), in the following order: three fastest remaining  heats of Women swum slowest to fastest; three fastest remaining heats of Men swum slowest to fastest; all remaining heats swum fastest to slowest alternating Women-Men. 

 

The 1500 Free will be conducted as a timed final event on Sunday beginning ten minutes after the completion of the Prelims, except for the top 10 seeded men and women who have declared the PM Option, who will swim in event number order during the finals session Sunday evening. All other 1500 Free heats will be conducted after Prelims and will be swum fastest to slowest, alternating Women-Men.

 

Swimmers entered in the 800 and 1500 Freestyles must provide a person to count laps and may be asked to provide a person to time.

 

The 400 Free Relays on Friday will be swum in prelims except for the fastest two heats of Men and Women, which will be swum in the Finals session.

 

The 800 Free Relay will be swum in the Prelims except for the fastest heat of Men and Women which will be swum in the Finals session.

On Sunday, the 400 Medley Relays may opt to swim during the AM (Prelims) or PM (Finals) session. Teams must declare the AM/PM option with the Clerk of Course by 8:15 AM, Sunday.

 

 

SCRATCH RULE: Any swimmer not planning to swim at night in the finals must scratch with the Admin Referee through the Clerk of Course within 30 minutes after the results are posted for each affected event. The penalty for failure to show in a Final, Consolation or Bonus final is disqualification from the remainder of the meet (USA Swimming Rule 207.12.6D). The penalty for missing a deck-seeded individual event will result in being barred from the swimmer's next individual event. There is no penalty for not swimming in the non deck-seeded preliminary events or relay events.

TIME TRIALS: Time trials to meet national qualifying times may be held upon reasonable request at the discretion of the Meet Referee. Such swims must fall within the 3 events per day limit and will be held, if time allows, after the prelims and finals. Entry fees for the time trial swims will be $10.00 per individual event and $10.00 per relay. Swimmers/relays must sign up for time trials at the Clerk of Course table.

ENTRY LIMIT: Swimmers may swim three (3) individual events per day, excluding relays. A swimmer may enter any number of events, but may only swim three individual events per day. Swimmers participating on relay teams only must be listed on the entry forms. Each team is limited to a maximum of two relays in each relay event.

ENTRY FEES: $5.50 per individual event and $10.00 per relay. Late fees are double - $11.00 individual event and $20.00 per relay. Southern Zone Eastern Section surcharge is $15.00 per swimmer. Georgia Swimming, Inc. surcharge is $2.00 per out-of-state swimmer. Please make checks payable to Amateur Swimming Foundation, Inc.

ENTRY FORMS: Preferred method of submitting entries is through email with attached Hy-tek entry file to jimyoung1@mindspring.com. If you do not have the Team Manager program to make a Hy-Tek entry, but would like to make an electronic entry, you can download a copy of Team Manager II Lite at no charge from the Hy-Tek website: www.hy-tekltd.com. Please send printed copies of entries for verification. Entries must include each swimmer's USA Swimming number, first and last name, age, and seeding time to the 100th of a second and event number for each event entered. The enclosed team summary sheet as well as fees must be included with entry disk. Please see www.swimatlanta.com for the Hy-Tek Team Manager event file. 


ENTRY DEADLINE: All entries must be received by 7:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008. Email entries to:

Meet Administrator – Jim Young – 770-534-6279 office, 770-519-6500 cell

                                                jimyoung1@mindspring.com

                                                

                                                Please mail paperwork and check to:

                                                Sectional Entries

                                                SwimAtlanta

                                                4850 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 702

                                                Lawrenceville, Ga. 30044

                                                678-442-7946

 

All materials (hard copy, fees, and e-mails) must be received by the deadline. Please include summary totals in the body of your email; this helps us check for errors.

 

 

 

SCORING: Individual Events: 24-21-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-11-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Relay Events: 48-42-40-38-36-34-32-30-28-26-22-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2.

Swimmers competing in the finals or consolation finals must achieve the Southern Zone Eastern Sectional time standard to score team or individual points. No team points will be scored for the bonus heat.

 

READY ROOM: The top ten qualifiers for finals should report to the ready room to be marched to the blocks prior to their event.

 

AWARDS: Plaques will be awarded to the top 6 combined teams. Medals will be awarded to the top 8 individual finishers and top 3 relays. Immediately following the race, the top three places will be announced and given out at a designated place.

 

ELIGIBILITY AND TECHNICAL JURY: A meet committee will be formed consisting of two coaches and two swimmers selected at random, plus the Meet Referee, the Meet Director and Southern Zone Eastern Chairman or their designee.

 

MEET OFFICIALS: Meet Referees: Rob Schreer (h2oref@bellsouth.net) and Jeanette Hart (jhart@white.k12.ga.us). SwimAtlanta welcomes and encourages the assistance of certified officials from visiting teams. Officials who have not applied to officiate should contact the meet referees.

 

 

MANAGEMENT: Meet Manager: Megan Fifield – 770-992-7946, megan@swimatlanta.com.

 

NATL OFFICIALS CERTIFICATION: This meet has been designated a qualifying meet for national official certification (OQM). Official requesting N2/N3 evaluation at this meet are requested to complete the USAS application for evaluation and forward it to the meet referee, Rob Schreer, h2oref@bellsouth.net, as soon as practical so we can arrange for evaluators. Evaluation applications will be accepted on site, on a case-by-case basis, depending on our capacity to provide appropriate evaluations. Briefing sessions will be held one hour prior to the beginning of prelims and finals each day.    

 

LIABILITY RELEASE:  USA Swimming, Inc., Georgia Swimming, Inc., SwimAtlanta and Georgia Tech, shall be free from any liabilities or claims for damages arising by reason of injury to anyone during the conduct of the meet.

 

SAFETY: The Georgia Swimming, Inc., Meet Safety Guidelines and Warm-up Procedures will be in effect for this meet. Coaches are advised to closely supervise their swimmers at all times. NO running or horseplay is permitted. Glass containers or bottles are not permitted in the Georgia Tech Aquatics Center.

 

HOSPITALITY:  There will be a hospitality room for all coaches, officials and volunteers.

 

CONCESSIONS: Refreshments will be available at the GTAC concession stand. No food or drink, with the exception of water bottles, may be brought into the pool area. No coolers may be brought into the building.

 

ATTACHMENTS: Order of Events, Entry Summary Sheet, Waiver, Acknowledgement and Liability Release, Application for Membership, Hotel Information, Directions to the Georgia Tech Aquatics Center.

 

INFORMATION: For more information, please contact  Megan Fifield 770-992-7946, megan@swimatlanta.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORDER OF EVENTS

 

 

Thursday, July 10th

 

 

 

Prelims Warm-up: 7:00 am

 

Meet Starts: 9:00 am

 

 

Finals Warm-up: 4:00 pm

 

Meet Starts: 5:30 pm

 

 

Women's

Qualifying

Qualifying

EVENT

Qualifying

Qualifying

Men's

 

 

Event

Standard

Standard

 

Standard

Standard

Event

 

 

Number

SCY

LCM

Finals Order* 

SCY

LCM

Number

 

 

1

10:42.79

9:33.49

 800 Freestyle*

10:05.89

8:59.39

2

 

 

3

2:12.09

2:31.29

200 Individual Medley

1:59.29

2:18.39

4

 

 

5

25.19

28.49

50 Freestyle

22.19

25.79

6

 

 

7

2:12.39

2:27.59

200 Butterfly

1:59.59

2:15.09

8

 

 

Friday, July 11th

*800 will be swum

after event 8 in prelims

With fastest heat of women & men swum first in finals 

 

 

Prelims Warm-up: 7:00 am

 

 

Meet Starts: 9:00 am

 

 

Finals Warm-up:4:00 pm

 

 

Meet Starts: 5:30 pm

 

 

Women's

Qualifying

Qualifying

EVENT

Qualifying

Qualifying

Men's

 

 

Event

Standard

Standard

 

Standard

Standard

Event

 

 

Number

SCY

LCM

 

SCY

LCM

Number

 

 

9

1:56.49

2:12.39

200 Freestyle

1:46.79

2:01.69

10

 

 

11

1:00.99

1:10.29

100 Backstroke

54.49

1:03.39

12

 

 

13

4:40.89

5:18.39

400 Individual Medley

4:15.49

4:54.79

14

 

 

15

N/A

N/A

400 Freestyle Relay

N/A

N/A

16

 

 

Saturday, July 12th

 

 

 

 

 

Prelims Warm-up: 7:00 am

 

 

Meet Starts: 9:00 am

 

 

Finals Warm-up: 4:00 pm

 

 

Meet Starts: 5:30 pm

 

 

Women's

Qualifying

Qualifying

EVENT

Qualifying

Qualifying

Men's

 

 

Event

Standard

Standard

 

Standard

Standard

Event

 

 

Number

SCY

LCM

 

SCY

LCM

Number

 

 

17

5:09.59

4:37.69

400 Freestyle 

4:48.59

4:19.89

18

 

 

19

1:00.39

1:07.89

100 Butterfly

53.59

1:00.69

20

 

 

21

1:09.09

1:18.79

100 Breaststroke

1:01.39

1:10.79

22

 

 

23

N/A

N/A

800 Freestyle Relay

N/A