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***Revised invitation, changes indicated in Red*** Texas Senior Circuit / Speedo Champions Series ***Revised invitation, changes indicated in Red***
Texas Senior Circuit / Speedo Champions Series
USA Swimming Sectional Championship

HOSTED BY the
Aggie Swim Club
Short Course Yards Prelims
Long Course Meters Finals/Timed Finals
February 28-March 2, 2008
SANCTION #GUSC 08-032


LOCATION:
Texas A&M University
Student
Recreation
Center
Natatorium
Olsen
Boulevard
College
Station,
TX
77843


For more information about the TAMU Student Recreation Center Natatorium, visit:
http://recsports.tamu.edu/


LOCAL INFORMATION:



Airports and directions: See attachment and map

Parking: Everyone must park in the parking garage across from the Rec Center on
Thursday and Friday ($1 per hour / maximum $6 per day). After 5:30 p.m. on
Friday, parking is free on the surface lots of the TAMU campus for the remainder of
the weekend, except where indicated.

Sponsoring Hotels: See attachment and map. Reservations at sponsoring hotels
must be made by the cut-off dates. For additional hotel information, contact the
Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitors Bureau at (979) 260-9898.

AGS COACHES:
Shannon Clark, Ryan Goodwyn, Remko Hinloopen, Stephen Weber

POOLS: Prelims:
Two eight lane, 25 yard indoor pools with non-turbulent lane lines will be
used for warm-up and competition. Finals/Timed Finals: One eight lane, 50 meter
indoor pool with non-turbulent lane lines will be used for warm-up and competition.
A separate eight lane 25 meter diving well will be available for warm-up and warm-
down.

MEET FORMAT:
This is a prelim/finals meet with A, B, C and D finals (relays, 800 free & 1500 free
will be swum as timed finals events)




TIME AND DATE: **Teams must contact Meet Director for arrangements for early warm-up. The
meet management may adapt the starting procedures and timelines to
accommodate an unusually large or small meet.**
Thursday,
February
28: Registration:
2:00 p.m.







Timed finals:
3:00 3:45 p.m.
warm-up /
4:00 p.m.
start






1 hr open warm-up in dive well after competition ends





Friday, February 29:
Registration: 6:30 a.m.
Prelims:

6:30

8:45
a.m.
warm-up
/
9:00
a.m.
start
Finals:

5:00

5:45
p.m.
warm-up
/
6:00
p.m.
start




Saturday, March 1:
Prelims: 7:00 8:45 a.m. warm-up / 9:00 a.m. start
Finals:

5:00

5:45
p.m.
warm-up
/
6:00
p.m.
start




Sunday, March 2:
Prelims: 7:00 8:45 a.m. warm-up / 9:00 a.m. start






Womens 800 free & mens 1500 free: ~12:30 p.m. start






Finals: 4:00 4:45 p.m. warm-up / 5:00 p.m. start

MEET REFEREE:
Jack Dowling , email:
jdowling@fedex.com


OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION: Application will be made for this meet to be designated a National Qualifying
Meet for Officials. Applications for evaluation can be obtained from the Southern

Zone website or by contacting Clark Hammond at
hamm5690@bellsouth.net
. The
application for approval will also request the assignment of National Evaluators to
perform final evaluations for N3 Starter and N3 Referee candidates.

MEET DIRECTORS:
Henry Clark, phone: (979) 220-2703, email:
clark@comp.tamu.edu




Matthew Wagner, phone: (936)-661-3733, email:
irondad7@hotmail.com


SAFETY MARSHAL:
Hugh Walker

WARM-UP PROCEDURES AND SAFETY GUIDELINES: See attachment.

GENERAL MEETING: All swimmers must be represented at a general meeting to be held February 28,
2008 at
2:00 p.m.
in Room 281, located behind the spectator seating area. Any
changes to the conduct of the meet will be decided at this meeting. It is each
swimmer and coachs responsibility to be aware of any changes made during this
meeting.

SEEDING:
The meet will be pre-seeded with heats organized according to USA Swimming
Rules 102.5. and 207.12.11. All preliminary,
mens 800 free, womens 1500 free

and relay heats will be swum in the order of fastest to slowest. All finals,
womens
800 free and mens 1500 free
heats will be swum in the order of slowest to fastest.
USA Swimming national scratch procedures (USA Swimming Rule 207.12.10 A, D,
and E), except as modified herein, shall be in effect. Empty lanes will be filled with
on deck entries.


Seeding for all events except 800 free, 1500 free and relays shall be in the following
order: Conforming course entries in time order, followed by non-conforming long
course entries in time order, followed by non-conforming short course entries in time
order (YLS). Seeding for the 800 free, 1500 free and relays shall be in the following
order: Long course meters, short course meters, yards (LSY).

SCRATCHING:
Procedures: Scratches prior to the seeding of heats shall be confirmed by
properly filling out a scratch card and depositing in the scratch box. After the heats
have been seeded, any swimmer who fails to compete in a preliminary individual
event heat in which they have been entered and have not been scratched will be
barred from further individual and relay events that day. Additionally, that swimmer
shall not be seeded in any individual events on succeeding days unless that
swimmer declares an intent to swim prior to the close of the scratch box for the
succeeding days events.




Deadlines: Fridays events: Before the completion of Thursday evenings events




Saturdays events: 7:00 p.m. on Friday, February 29




Sundays events: 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 1


Scratch Box: The scratch box shall be located at the Clerk of Course.

Relays: Properly completed relay cards must be turned in to the Clerk of Course by
11:00 a.m.
or the entry will be considered scratched.

FINALS AND SCRATCHING: Any finalist who fails to report to the starting blocks for finals or consolation
finals, for which he has qualified and failed to scratch with the Clerk of Course prior
to the scratch deadline, shall be banned from further competition in the meet in
accordance with the USA Swimming Rules and Regulations, and will be assessed a
fine of $100.00, payable to the Aggie Swim Club.

In a Prelim/Final meet, the finalists and alternates for finals shall be announced and
shall have thirty (30) minutes after the announcement to scratch from finals. Any
qualified swimmer in the event (a swimmer is qualified for finals or consolation finals
if he has successfully completed the event in Prelims) may be moved into finals due
to scratches, therefore all swimmers who will not be present at finals must scratch to
avoid a possible suspension from the meet. Thirty (30) minutes after the
announcement, no further scratches shall be accepted, the existing scratches will
be tabulated and the finalists and two (2) alternates for the event shall be set. Only
the finalists set at this point may be subject to the above fines and banishment from
competition, even though any qualified swimmer may be moved into finals.
ON-DECK ENTRIES:
Late entries will be accepted each day up to 30 minutes before the start of the meet.
Those swimmers missing the 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 19, 2008 deadline may
enter the meet on-deck in the following manner:


1. Swimmers must pay double the entry fee at the time of entry


2. Swimmers must supply completed entry forms entered at the swimmers' best
times. Proof-of-time in hard copy form must be presented to qualify for the
meet. Swimmers entering on-deck will be placed in any available open lanes
first. A zero heat will be added, if necessary.


3. Swimmers must enter all events for the day thirty (30) minutes prior to the start
of the day's first event.


4. Swimmers must be qualified to swim the event entered.
5. Swimmers must not exceed the allotted number of events allowed each day.
6.

At the discretion of the meet management, on-deck entries may be limited to fill
existing heats

ENTRY INFORMATION:
Entry
Times:
Swimmers must enter at their best time. Entry times must be
submitted in the course at which the best time was achieved short course yards
(Y), long course meters (L) or short course meters (S). Do not convert meter times
to yard times. If entries are made by paper (not using Hy-Tek), swimmers should
indicate on their entry the course at which the entry time was made (i.e., Y, L, S). If
swimmers have never competed in a USA Swimming meet before, put NT where a
seed time is requested.


Qualifying
Times:

See attachment for times. Swimmers must be qualified to swim
the events entered. Events may be qualified for by meeting yards or meters
qualifying times. Qualifying times must have been achieved within two (2) years of
the first day of the meet (Feb 28, 2006). Swimmers that have met one Texas
Senior Circuit Automatic Time Standard qualify for all events (except the 800
free and 1500 free) and may compete in the maximum number of events each
day. All other swimmers must have met the Sectional Time Standards for each
event entered (except for bonus entries, see rules below).


Number of Events: Swimmers may compete in a maximum of 3 individual
events and one (1) relay event per day.

Bonus
Events:
1) Swimmers that have met 1, 2, or 3 Sectional Time S