Open to ages 15 & older.
Meet held at Miami University, Oxford, OH. Standards: NAG
"AAA" or better if under age 15. 14 year old swimmers may compete
without a NAG "AAA" time so long as they are Freshman in high
school and they have competed for their varsity high school
team.
Date: March 5 – March 7, 2010
Location: Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center,
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
FORMAT: will be prelims / finals on Friday and Saturday.
Sunday will be timed finals with time trials following this session
for second swim opportunities.Single preliminary sessions
for all swimmers on Friday and Saturday with a finals session in
those evenings consisting of; Bonus, Consolation and Championship
heats for all events except those which are marked as timed final
events. Relays are timed finals and only the top 16 seeded times
will swim at night. Timed final session for all events on Sunday.
Nine (9) lanes will be used for all heats in preliminaries and
morning timed final events. Eight (8) lanes
will be used for finals/consolation/bonus
heats and timed final events swum in the evening.
Entry Limits:All athletes are permitted to swim a maximum
of six (6) individual events in the course of this meet and may swim no more than three (3) individual
events per day (including time trials). Swimmers may enter more
than the maximum number of individual events in which they are
permitted to compete.Swimmers
should scratch down to their limit by the scratch deadline for
preliminaries, whichwill coincide with the positive check
in time for each preliminary session. In such cases, however,
there shall be no refund of entry fees.
Thursday –Warm Up Lanes available 3-7p.m.
Friday & Saturday –
Prelims
Warm Up -7:30 – 8:45 a.m. Start
– 9:00 a.m.
Friday & Saturday Finals
Warm Up – 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Start
– 5:30 p.m.
Sunday – Timed Finals
Warm Up -8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Start -9:45
a.m.
Order of Events
Note
800 Free Relay will
be contested on Saturday
400 Free Relay will
be contested on Sunday
Scoring Note: TOP 4 swimmers in the BONUS final will
score
Positive
Check-in: There will be positive check-ins
for the 500, 1000 and 1650 Freestyles, 400 IM and ALL SUNDAY
EVENTS.Positive check in for 1650 will close at4:15pmon SATURDAY evening.
Directions:Maps available on the Miami
Valley Aquatic Club website. (www.swimmakos.com)
Parking:Parking may be available in university
parking lots near to the Recreational Sports Center
except for the two lots directly adjacent to
the RSC. You will need to pay any meters, and you
must park in a legal parking space. Parking
Services will be offering a multi exit pass for the
parking garage located adjacent to the RSC.
The cost is $8.00 for 10 exits. Check the Mako
website (www.swimmakos.com) for any other
parking information.
Scratch Rule:
Any swimmer or relay team that
fails to compete in a pre-seeded event in which they have been
entered, and have not scratched in accordance with the prescribed
procedures, shall not be penalized.
Any swimmer, who fails to compete
in a bonus, consolation, or championship final race for which they
have qualified, and have not scratched in accordance with the
prescribed procedures, shall be barred from their next individual
event. If the event is the swimmer’s last event of the meet,
a $50 penalty fee shall be charged to their club or to the swimmer
themselves if they are unattached. A declared false start will not
be permitted and will be regarded as a failure to compete.
Any swimmer, who fails to compete
in a deck seeded event (500 freestyle, 1000 freestyle, 400 IM, and
all Sunday events) for which they have checked in, shall be barred
from all remaining individual and relay events in that session. A
declared false start is not permitted and will be regarded as a
failure to compete. In addition, in order to remain eligible for
subsequent sessions, the swimmer must declare their intention to
swim with the Administrative Referee prior to completion of the
current session.
No penalty shall apply if:
• The Referee is notified of
illness or injury and accepts the proof thereof.
• It is determined by the
Referee that failure to scratch was caused by circumstances
beyond
the control of the swimmer.
• A swimmer was not in the
original qualifiers list and was scratched into the qualifiers
list.
Time Trials:
Time Trials will be held after
prelims on Friday and Saturday and after the timed finals session
on Sunday. Trials will be limited to those swimmers who are within
.50 of a second per fifty yards of a Sectional, Zone, Junior
National or Senior National time standard, except for the Sunday
Time Trials, where any time will be accepted. Swimmers may not
exceed the national rule of three (3) eventsper day.
Swimmers who are members of USAS, but not entered in the meet may
swim in the Time Trials provided they are within the same .50 per
second standards listed above and they pay the$7.00fee per individual events or
$10.00 per relay. Time trial registration closes at 10:00 a.m.
Friday and Saturday and at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday.
