2017 DART Winter Invite
Hosted by DART @ DAVIS
Sponsored by SPEEDO
December 15 - 17, 2017
Sanction: Held under USA Swimming/Sierra Nevada Swimming Sanction Number: XXXXXXXXX
“In granting this sanction, it is understood and agreed that USA Swimming shall be free and held harmless from any liabilities or claims for damages arising by reason of injuries to anyone during the conduct of the event.”
Invite: DART, Clovis Swim Club, Sierra Marlins, CCA, SASO, Bakersfield
Location: Sacramento City College Hoos Pool, 3835 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95822, Directions to the pool: Driving on CA-99 south, take exit 297 for 12th Avenue. Keep right at the fork and follow signs for Sutterville Road. Turn right at 12th Avenue and continue onto Sutterville Road. Drive about a mile and turn right at the "Main Entrance" of Sacramento City College, just past Hughes Stadium. Follow road over speed bumps, into the student parking lot. Hoos Pool is within walking distance and close to the Applequist Athletic Field. There is no parking charge this weekend as Sac City College is not in session.
Facility: Measured in accordance with Article 202.4.9C, the water depth of the competition pool at the start end is 6’ 4” at 3’3” and 6’7” at 16’5”, and at the turn end is 11’10” at 3’3” and 11’11” at 16’5”. Two warm up lanes in a separate pool will be available beginning at 4:45pm on Friday and 8:45am Saturday and Sunday. The water depth of the separate warm-up pool at the start end, is 3’5” at 3’3” and 3’6” at 16’5”, and at the turn end, is 3’6” at 3’3” and 3’7” at 16’5”. This pool has not been certified in accordance with 104.2.2C(4).
Set-up: DART has rented the Sac City College gym for families to set up for the meet. The deck space at this meet is extremely limited so the deck will be kept clear for swimmers to get to their races. Meet events will be announced in the gym to let swimmers know when their races are approaching. Gym will be open: Friday (4pm – 8pm), Sat & Sun (7am – 7pm)
Times: Friday - On Friday night, competition will begin at 5:30pm with warm-ups at 4:30pm. On Saturday and Sunday, competition will begin at 8:30a.m.
Saturday & Sunday - Warm-ups will begin no earlier than 7a.m. and will continue until 8:20a.m. Competition will begin at 8:30 a.m. Finals are estimated to start 1.5 hours after the conclusion of prelims but will be voted on by the Coaches with the approval of the Meet Referee.
Check-in: The meet will be pre-seeded except for the relays.
WARM-UP RULES: The following rules apply to the warm up period before each session, and to warm-up/down during the meet:
• Swimmers shall enter the water feet first while maintaining at least one hand on the pool deck until both feet touch the water (3 point entry), except for starts, which are limited to specified lanes.
• If used, lifeguards shall be on the pool deck during the entire warm up period.
• Up to 2 lanes can be used for pace 50’s (Usually lanes 1 & 8) and up to 2 lanes for one-way sprints (Usually lanes 2 & 7).
• Specified center lanes are for circle swimming (2 lengths of the pool beginning at the starting end of the pool)
• Coaches shall stand at the starting end of the pool and verbally start swimmers for sprint or pace work.
• Swimmers are not allowed on the starting blocks when a backstroker is executing a start in the same sprint lane.
• The use of hand-paddles, kickboards, fins and other devices are not allowed during general warm-up. The use of hand-paddles at any time during which touch pads are installed is forbidden.
All USA Swimming athlete members entered in the meet must be under the supervision of a USA Swimming member coach during warm-up, competition, and warm-down. Any swimmer without a coach in attendance must report to the Meet Director or Meet Referee who may assist the swimmer in making arrangements for such supervision. It is the swimmer's responsibility to make such arrangements prior to the start of the meet.
The Meet Referee, Meet Director or a designee may remove a swimmer, coach, and/or team from the deck for violations of these rules.
Rules: Current USA Swimming/Sierra Nevada Swimming rules shall govern the meet. All events are trials/finals. Swimmers are limited to three individual events and one relay event per day. Swimmers may only swim three individual events per day. Swimmers that enter more than three individual events per day will be scratched from their last race.
According to 202.4.9D:
“Any swimmer entered in the meet must be certified by a USA Swimming Member Coach as being proficient in performing a racing start, or start each race from within the water. When unaccompanied by a member-coach, it is the responsibility of the swimmer or the swimmer’s legal guardian to ensure compliance with this requirement.” If an athlete is attending the meet without a USA Swimming member-coach, the Meet Director or Meet Referee may assist the swimmer in making arrangements for such supervision, but it is the responsibility of the swimmer or their legal guardian to make such arrangements prior to the start of the meet.
SN Rule: Each team shall, by the entry deadline, provide to the Meet Director a list of Officials who have agreed to represent that team during the conduct of the meet. One half-hour before the scheduled start of the meet, the Meet Referee shall conduct an inventory of Officials comparing the number of entries against the number of Officials present to represent each team. Those teams who have not provided sufficient Officials shall have all their swimmers treated as “time only” in all respects for that session.
ELIGIBILITY: No swimmer will be allowed to compete unless the swimmer is a member of USA swimming as provided in Article 302. Entrants without a current Registration number on their entries must present a current Registration Card (or Swim Connection Registration Verification email) prior to competition. Any swimmers entering as “pending” or “applied for”, etc. will be verified with the SNS Registrar prior to the meet and, if validly pending, will be allowed to check-in and compete. Swimmers age 19 and over may enter 13-18 events but will not be scored. No minimum time standard is required to enter an event. Swimmers with no official time for an event may enter that event with an estimated time. Note that Sierra Nevada Swimming does not allow swimmers to register for a USA Swimming Membership at the meet.
RESTRICTIONS:
Smoking, tobacco products, and alcoholic beverages are not allowed in all areas of the meet venue. Glass containers and pets are not allowed in the pool area. No personal heaters will be allowed in the pool facility. In furtherance of the USA Swimming athlete protection program, the use of audio or visual recording devices, including a cell phone, is not permitted in changing areas, rest rooms or locker rooms. In addition, photography of any form (video, digital, cell phone, IPad, SLR camera) is not permitted behind the starting end at any time. The use of flash devices at the start is also prohibited. According to 202.4.9I, Deck changes are prohibited.
Relays: All relays are timed finals that are swum during the prelims sessions. Relay cards will only be needed if a team is trying for a lead off split or record. Relay cards are due by 8am. No limits on relay entries. Relays will be cancelled if the meet timeline exceeds an acceptable amount, teams will be notified and entry fees refunded if cancellation is required.
Entries: ONLINE ENTRIES: Enter at https://ome.swimconnection.com to receive an immediate entry confirmation. Online entries close midnight, Thursday, December 1st. This method requires payment by credit card. Swim Connection LLC charges a procession fee for this service, equal to $1 per swimmer plus 5% of the total entry fees.
Entry Fee: $8.00 per individual event. Pool Surcharge Fee is $14.00. Relays are $10. Make checks payable to DART and teams should bring the entry fee payment to the swim meet.
SET UP: Hoos pool has an extremely limited amount of deck space to host a swim meet. The DART team has rented the South Gym to house the swimmers and families in a warm indoor environment during the meet. Swimmers and families will not be allowed to set up in the pool area!
Prelims: Fast to slow seeding with the first three heats of each event being circle seeded with the exception of the events previously identified as timed finals. All events on Friday are timed finals. A swimmer qualifying for finals (final-A – 9 swimmers) based upon the results of the preliminaries, has thirty (30) minutes after the announcement of qualifiers for that race to notify the Scratch Desk that he/she may not intend to compete and further declares their final intentions to be noted within thirty (30) minutes following their last individual preliminary event. Any swimmer who fails to compete in an individual event in which preliminary heats are seeded will be barred from all further individual and relay events for that day. All subsequent days of the meet, if this swimmer wants to swim, they will have to check in with the Administrative Referee before the next preliminary session is seeded. USA Swimming Scratch Rule #207.11.6 will be used at this meet. A swimmer must swim finals in order to receive points or an award.
Finals: Finals will be held for 13/14, 11/12, 9/10, & 8/U divisions. Finals will start no earlier than 90 minutes after the completion of prelims. A Coach’s meeting at the beginning of the meet will decide the actual start time for finals each day. Swimmers will be seeded in the finals unless they have scratched. Any swimmer qualifying for a final that fails to compete shall be barred from further competition for the remainder of the meet except as noted in USA Swimming rules. For finals, there will be one heat of nine swimmers provided the minimum numbers of swimmers have entered an event. USA Swimming Scratch Rule #207.11.6 will be used at this meet. For more details on scratching for finals, see Prelims section of this Meet Announcement. Alternates will not be penalized.
8/U Events: All 25’s are done from the far side of the pool. Swimmers will dive off the bulkhead and will not have access to a block on the 25’s.
Scoring: The top nine finishers in each individual and relay event will be scored. Teams will only be able to score two relay teams per event. Individual points will also be scored towards individual high point scores:
Individual points: (A)11-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Relay points: (A) 22-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
Awards: The top nine finishers in each individual event along with the top three relays will receive awards. High point individual awards will be given for the top three finishers in the 8/U, 9/10, 11/12 & 13/14 age group categories. 8/U swimmers points will only count from 8/U events, not 10/U. No team awards will be given.
Officials: Head Referee: Ted Curley Admin. Referee: Mark Brown
Head Starter: Bill Fisher
Meet Director: Billy Doughty:
Coaches: Coaches must check in upon arrival to the meet. Coaches will be given a wrist band that must be worn at all times on deck. Programs will be given out upon check-in and to coaches with visible wrist bands.
Officials’ Dress:
Official Dress for Preliminaries will be white polo shirts and navy blue pants/shorts/skirt and white tennis shoes. Final dress for all Officials will be white polo shirts and navy blue skirts or long blue pants with white tennis shoes. All working Officials must display membership cards at the meet.
Officials: Each team shall provide a minimum of three Officials per session (SASO, BAC-CC, and Clovis should provide one). Those teams who have not provided sufficient Officials shall have all their swimmers treated as “time only” swimmers in all respects for that session and will not receive team points or awards.
Warm-up: Each team will be assigned a warm-up lane(s). This will allow each team to schedule their own best warm-up timing for the team.
Lane 1 / L2 / L3 / L4 / L5 / L6 / L7 / L8 / L9DART / DART / CCA / CCA / SMST / SMST / Clovis / BAC / SASO
TIMING:
Lane 1 / L2 / L3 / L4 / L5 / L6 / L7 / L8 / L9DART / DART / CCA / CCA / SMST / SMST / Clovis / BAC / SASO
Hospitality: There will be a snack bar. Snacks, lunch, and refreshments will be served to all working Officials and Coaches.
4 Hour Rule: All four-hour rule penalties and guidelines for this meet will not be enforced, as this is a trials and finals championship meet.
Event Schedule
Friday, December 15, 2017GIRLS # / EVENT / BOYS #
1 / 8-UN 100 IM / 2
3 / 10-UN 200 IM / 4
5 / 11-12 200 IM / 6
7 / 13-14 100 IM / 8
9 / 14/U 200 Free / 10
· Friday night is timed finals. Event 9 will be scored 13/14, 11/12, 9/10.
SATURDAY, Dec 16, 2017 / SUNDAY, Dec 17, 2017GIRLS
# / EVENT / BOYS
# / GIRLS
# / EVENT / BOYS
#
11 / 13-14 200 Medley Relay / 12 / 51 / 11-12 200 Free Relay / 52
13 / 11-12 200 Medley Relay / 14 / 53 / 13-14 200 Free Relay / 54
15 / 8-UN 25 Free / 16 / 55 / 8-UN 25 Back / 56
17 / 9-10 50 Free / 18 / 57 / 9-10 50 Back / 58
19 / 11-12 50 Free / 20 / 59 / 11-12 50 Back / 60
21 / 13-14 50 Free / 22 / 61 / 13-14 100 Back / 62
23 / 8-UN 50 Fly / 24 / 63 / 8-UN 50 Free / 64
25 / 9-10 100 Fly / 26 / 65 / 9-10 100 Free / 66
27 / 11-12 100 Fly / 28 / 67 / 11-12 100 Free / 68
29 / 14/U 200 Fly / 30 / 69 / 13-14 100 Free / 70
31 / 8-UN 25 Breast / 32 / 71 / 8-UN 25 Fly / 72
33 / 9-10 50 Breast / 34 / 73 / 9-10 50 Fly / 74
35 / 11-12 50 Breast / 36 / 75 / 11-12 50 Fly / 76
37 / 13-14 100 Breast / 38 / 77 / 13-14 100 Fly / 78
39 / 8-UN 50 Back / 40 / 79 / 8-UN 50 Breast / 80
41 / 9-10 100 Back / 42 / 81 / 9-10 100 Breast / 82
43 / 11-12 100 Back / 44 / 83 / 11-12 100 Breast / 84
45 / 14/U 200 Back / 46 / 85 / 14/U 200 Breast / 86
47 / 10/U 200 Medley Relay / 48 / 87 / 10/U 200 Free Relay / 88
49 / 8/U 100 Medley Relay / 50 / 89 / 8/U 100 Free Relay / 90
Notes: