Description

This is a Top Tier Championship meet. Swimmers must meet or exceed qualifying times in order to participate in this event. 

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SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 2 Timed Finals

• Warm Up: 4:30 - 5:30pm
• Events:  5:40pm

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, March 3-5 Preliminary Session

• Warm Up: 7:00 – 8:50am
• Events: 9:00am

Finals Session

• Warm Up: 4:30 – 5:50pm 
• Events: 6:00pm

Meet Director, with concurrence of the PVS Senior Chair, reserves the right to adjust times/sessions after entries are received. • Finals are swum as part of PVS Short Course Senior Championships.

ELIGIBILITY

• Open to all Potomac Valley Swimming registered athletes age 13 & Over as of the first day of the meet.
• No swimmer will be permitted to compete in the meet unless the swimmer is registered as an athlete member of USA Swimming as provided in USA Swimming Rules and Regulations Article 302.
• A swimmer may not enter an event they are participating in at the PVS 2022 14 & Under Junior Olympic Championships.
• Swimmers must have equaled or bettered the applicable Qualifying Times listed and have not achieved a faster time than the 2022 SC Senior Champ QT or the 2022 PVS JO 13-14 Qualifying Time. Qualifying times must have been achieved on or after February 17, 2020. All qualifying times must have been achieved in a USA Swimming sanctioned, observed or approved meet. 

EVENT RULES

•  All individual events are prelims/finals, except for the 1000yd and 1650yd Freestyle events which are timed finals.
• Top sixteen (16) qualifiers from prelims advance to Finals.
• A swimmer may enter and compete in a maximum of 7 individual events and no more than 3 individual events per day.
• Entry times will be verified through SWIMS. Coaches will be asked to provide proof of times when asked by the Meet Entry Chair for any time not found in SWIMS. Failure to prove such a time before the event will result in the swimmer being scratched from that event.
• Distance Entries: Any swimmer who qualifies for the 1000 yd and/or 1650 yd freestyle events may enter at their fastest time or at the Time Standard, if entered in two or more events on the day of the distance freestyle.
• Swimmers must provide their own counters (if desired) for the 500, 1000, and 1650 freestyle events.
• SCY entry times will be used for this meet. No LCM times will be accepted. NT entries will not be accepted.
• No late entries will be accepted.
• No deck entries will be accepted

POSITIVE CHECK IN

• Positive check in will be required for all individual and relay events 400 yd and longer. These events will be seeded on the deck. Athletes and relay teams must complete the 2022 PVS SC Junior Championships Positive Check-In form to check-in for these events. Swimmers and relay teams not checked-in will not be seeded into that event. Athletes who have checked-in, been seeded, and fail to swim the event will be barred from their next scheduled individual event.
• If the size of PVS Senior Championships warrants, positive check in for individual events 200 yd or shorter may be announced