Open to all Potomac Valley Swimming registered athletes.
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.
Swimmers may only participate in their own age group, based upon their age on the first day of the meet.
Swimmers must have equaled or bettered the applicable qualifying time listed.
Event Rules
A swimmer may enter and compete in a maximum of six (6) individual events and no more than three (3) individual events per day.
A club may enter up to three (3) relay teams per relay events, but only two (2) relay teams per club per event may score.
LCM seed times are conforming for this meet and will be seeded before SCY seed times.
Times achieved prior to July 3, 2022 will not be permitted. Qualifying times must have been achieved in USA Swimming sanctioned, observed, or approved meets.
Entry times will be verified through SWIMS. Coaches will be asked to provide proof of times when asked by the Meet Director 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 800M and/or 1500M 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.
All events 200M and less will be prelims and finals. 10&Under individual events will have two heats in Finals, “B” and “A”, swum in that order. 11-12 individual events will have three heats in Finals, “C”, “B”, and “A”, swum in that order. The 11-12 “A” & “B” finals will be made up of the top twenty (20) 11-12 swimmers; the 11-12 “C” final will be made up of the next ten (10) fastest 11 year old swimmers.
All events 400M and longer are timed finals.
The 400M Freestyle for all age groups will be swum slowest to fastest, women’s events followed by the men’s events.
The 400M Individual Medley will be swum slowest to fastest, women’s events followed by the men’s events.
Swimmers of the 400M Freestyle and 400M Individual Medley events are responsible for providing their own timer.
The 800M and 1500M Freestyle events will be swum fastest to slowest, alternating women and men.
Swimmers of the 800M and 1500M events are responsible for providing their own timer and counter, if needed.
All 200M and 400M relays are timed finals and will be swum in the preliminary sessions.
The 200M relays will be swum slowest to fastest and the 400M relays will be swum fastest to slowest.