Written by: Kanne

Category: Uncategorized

Published: July 23, 2022

Sunday – Deadline for any line up changes for Champs @ 2PMMonday – AM/PM as normal

Tuesday – AM/PM as normal

Wednesday – AM (sign making at pool) / 7-8 PM (Godwin Hall, JMU)

Thursday – AM/PM as normal

Friday – 8:45AM as normal

Saturday – 10 & Under warmups @ 8:00AM; 11 & Over warmups @ 12:00PM

Age Up Date: Age on June 1, 2022 will determine the age for the meet. A swimmer is allowed to swim in any age group older than their age, but they may not compete in a younger age bracket. If a swimmer swims “up” in an event, they may not swim in the same event in their own age group. 

Swimmers may only wear swim caps that are associated with their team or plain. No VAST or college caps allowed. 

Meet Format: The meet will be divided into two sessions, morning and afternoon. With the exception of the graduated relays, swimmers 10 and under will swim in the morning. Swimmers 11 & up will swim in the afternoon. Graduated relays (event #1 and event #2) will start the afternoon session. Therefore, any 10 and under swimmer in a graduated relay will have to stay for this part of the afternoon session. All events, both individual and relay, will be times finals only, and will be pre-seeded.

General Meet Information

Only coaches, officials, workers, and swimmers (when scheduled to swim) are allowed on the pool deck during the meet. Parents, visitors, and swimmers may view the meet from the spectator viewing area on the second floor across from the gym.

• All teams will “camp” in their designated area of the gym assigned by the host team. No food may be brought to the pool deck. Please obey any postings where food and drink will not be permitted that day. Food may only be consumed in the upstairs hallway. No food/drink is allowed inside the gymnasium area. All swimmers and spectators are to stay in or near the pool and gym areas. Signs will be posted indicating any “off-limits” areas. The Clerk of Course will be on the pool deck, with a staging area in the downstairs hallway, outside the pool deck. Swimmers will be responsible for being at the Clerk of Course in time for his/her event. There will be two calls for each event. Announcements will be made in the gym and on the pool deck. We suggest that each team always have parents in the gym to oversee their respective teams while other parents are working. Parking will be available in the parking lot surrounding Godwin Hall, P lot across from Godwin (on I-81 side), and the stadium parking. Please have workers sign in at the volunteer sign-in table in the hallway outside the pool entrance on the ground floor before their session and pick up their work badges. Commonwealth Promotional will be providing T-shirts via preorder and will be given to teams prior to Champs, unless other arrangements have been made. Stroke and turn judges should bring their own clipboards. Stroke and turn judges must be present at the review meeting prior to each session or they will not be allowed to work (this includes relief judges). Judges should also wear navy shorts, a skirt, skort, or slacks, and a white top. For health and safety purposes, any swimmer with an open/bleeding wound will not be allowed in the water unless the wound is covered with a waterproof bandage or the bleeding has stopped. Please encourage your younger swimmers to use the restroom prior to their events.

Ribbons are provided to those that place 1-8th.

Volunteers Needed

AM Timers (4)

Lane 2 – Meghan Flora

Lane 4 – Emily or Jake Whistleman

Lane 6 – Jennifer Dove

Lane 8 – Mike Smith

AM Runners/Result Postings (2)

Lindsay Finnegan

LaVonne Heatwole

Gym Announcers (2)

10:00 – 11:30AM – Matt Reginello

11:30 – 1:00PM – Erin Sauder

AM Stroke and Turn (1)

John Skelly

AM Clerk of Course (1) – IN NEED of volunteer

AM Photographer (1)

Aarika Malca

PM Timers (4)

Lane 2 – IN NEED of volunteer

Lane 4 – Kris Kann

Lane 6 – IN NEED of volunteer

Lane 8 – IN NEED of volunteer

PM Stroke and Turn (2)

IN NEED of volunteer – Certification Needed

IN NEED of volunteer – Certification Needed

PM Clerk of Course (1)

Becky Harris

PM Photographer (1) – IN NEED of volunteer

Meet Director – Broadway

Erica Kann