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Guidelines for Entering Meets
Revised
2/6/07
Competitive
Meets
Meet cards are due in the “Meet
Entries” file at Arbolitos by Tuesday night (10 or 11 days
before meet start date). We process the entries and mail them in on
Wednesday night. If you have a late entry, contact the meet host,
and be prepared to pay double. A few meet hosts will allow you to
mail your meet card directly to them, but please do this only as a
last resort, and let Di or Toni know you’ve mailed your
entry. We must have an accurate head count before the meet so we
know how many officials to send. (If we are short on officials we
get fined $75 per session).
On
the meet card we need your swimmer’s name, birth date, the
name and date of the meet, your name and phone number (if we have
questions), and the event numbers requested. The event numbers
should be placed into the correct boxes based on the stroke
and the distance. We do not usually need your
swimmer’s times, as those are stored in the computer.
Note: If you are mailing your card directly to the
meet host, you need to fill out the card completely, including
times, which you can look up on www.sports-tek.com/tmonline.
Novice Meets
Novice meets do not require you to sign up
ahead of time. You simply show up at the meet, check in, and pay
$5. Novice meets (and competitive meets) require registration with
USA Swimming. First time applicants must present an original birth
certificate or notarized copy as part of the registration
process.
Maximum Number of
Events
The maximum number of events you can swim at
a meet is 5 per day, unless it says otherwise on the meet sheet. If
nothing is specified, you can assume 5. For prelims/finals types of
meets (like JOs), the maximum is 3 per day. You can ENTER as many
events as you want if you are willing to pay for all of them.
However, you will be required to “scratch down” to the
proper number of events at check-in, and there are no refunds for
events you scratch. Most meets have time standards that might limit
the number of events you swim. For example, at a C meet you cannot
swim any event that you already have an official B time in. At an
A/B meet, you need to have B times to enter those events. There are
certain meets where we relax the rules a bit; our own P.S.-hosted
meets are an example. Your coach will advise you as to which meets
you can enter.
Time Verification
Meets
Most championship meets like Junior
Olympics (JOs) or out-of-town invitationals require time
verification. You might be asked to provide the date, name and/or
location of the swim meet where you earned an official time. Also,
the times need to have been achieved during a certain time period
(this varies) so please don’t use a time that is too old. You
can only enter events you qualify for, unless specified on the meet
sheet. If you DQ at the meet or don’t attain the minimum
qualifying time, and cannot prove your entered time, you might have
to pay a fine or forfeit events. (The fine at our JOs is $100 per
event.)
Away Meets
Swim meets in other areas (not San
Diego-Imperial) usually require you to fill out their meet
entry card which will look different than our cards. Sometimes you
will mail your own card to the swim meet host for these meets, but
more and more we are required to put them on disk. So please read
the newsletter for instructions, and ask if you’re not sure!
For away meets where we send an electronic entry, we must pay with
one team check, so your check to cover meet fees would be payable
to “Pacific Swim.”
Website for Official
Times
We keep track of your
swimmer’s official times for all sanctioned meets using an
online database that you can easily access. To check times, go
to www.sports-tek.com/tmonline
and select your
team (Pacific Swim Team-CA). You can also look up times on the USA
Swimming website: www.usaswimming.org. Novice results will not be on
either of these websites, but we do keep a database for novice
results, and you may request a printout of your swimmer’s
times. |
