GCSTO’s 2012 Creekside Blues & Jazz Blast and
Ohio Swimming Senior Circuit Meet – Sanction #OH3488
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MEET DIRECTORS/ ENTRY CHAIR
FACILITIES
DIRECTIONS
PARKING
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PHILOSOPHY OF THE MEET
ELIGIBILITY REGULATIONS
ELIGIBILITY REGULATIONS
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ADAPTIVE SWIMMING
ENTRIES / Ohio Swimming, Inc. Senior Committee and the Greater Columbus Swim Team of Ohio (GCSTO)
June 15, 16 & 17, 2012 at the Gahanna Swimming Pool located at 148 Parkland Drive, Gahanna, Ohio 43230
Senior Circuit/Creekside 15-18 Time Finals
Friday - Sunday AM Prelims
Friday Warm-up: All Senior Circuit Swimmers 7:15 – 7:55 a.m./ All 15-18 Timed Final Swimmers 7:45-8:15 a.m. Prelims Start: 8:20 a.m. / Positive check-in closes at 7:30 a.m. for ALL swimmers
Saturday Warm-up:All Senior Circuit Swimmers 7:00 – 7:40 a.m./ All 15-18 Timed Final Swimmers 7:30-8:00 a.m. Prelims Start: 8:05 a.m. / Positive check-in closes at 7:15 a.m. for ALL swimmers
Sunday Warm-up:All Senior Circuit Swimmers 7:30 – 8:10 a.m./ All 15-18 Timed Final Swimmers 8:00-8:30 a.m. Prelims Start: 8:35 a.m. / Positive check-in closes at 7:45 a.m. for ALL swimmers
Finals
Friday: Warm-up: 4:30–5:15 p.m./ Finals Start:5:20 p.m.
Saturday:Warm-up: 5:30–6:15 p.m./ Finals Start:6:20 p.m.
Sunday: Warm-up: 4:30–5:15 p.m./ Finals Start: 5:20 p.m.
Creekside Blues & Jazz Blast (tentative to be finalized after final entries are in)
Friday Warm-up:All 10 & under swimmers 11:00 – 11:20 a.m./ All 11 & over swimmers 11:20-11:50 a.m. Prelims Start:11:55 a.m. / Positive check-in closes at 11:15 a.m. for ALL swimmers
Saturday Warm-up: All 10 & under swimmers 11:00 – 11:20 a.m./ All 11 & over swimmers 11:20-11:50 a.m. Prelims Start:11:55 a.m. / Positive check-in closes at 11:15 a.m. for ALL swimmers
Sunday Warm-up: All 10 & under swimmers 11:00 – 11:20 a.m./ All 11 & over swimmers 11:20-11:50 a.m. Prelims Start:11:55 a.m. / Positive check-in closes at 11:15 a.m. for ALL swimmers
MEET DIRECTORS: Steve Nye - (614) 478-5445 or , Ron Bolden- (614) – 237-7984 or and Julie Pastor - (614) 530-4100 or
ENTRY CHAIR:Brian Tann - PO Box 30483, Gahanna, OH 43230/ (614) 312-8323 or
The competition course has been certified in accordance with USA Swimming rule 104.2.2C(4). Water depth at the starting block end of the pool is 6.0 feet as far as18M off of the wall. Water depth at the shallow end of the pool is at least 3.5 feet at its shallowest and quickly deepens to 4.5 feet approximately 15M off of the wall. The pool is a stainless steel, 9 lane (8 for competition, 1 for constant warm-up/warm-down), 50M,heated facility with 4” Kiefer lane lines. There is an attached 15yd diving bay and a separate unmarked, 20yd pool available for warm-up/warm-down, as well. Team tents are welcomed and there is over an acre of grassy terrain with 20-25 tall shade pines under which participants and guests may sit.
Please google or map quest specific directions for Gahanna Swimming Pool, 148 Parkland Drive, Gahanna, Ohio 43230.
Senior Circuit preliminary session participants & spectators are to park in the FRONT lot, which is the lot on the west side of the facility just as you enter in off of River Drive. You will be let in the front gate and can then walk to the back pool. Creekside timed finaland Senior Circuit finals participants & spectators are to park on the east and southeast side of the facility there near the back pool. Follow the service road to the left of the pool office, which will curve to the right long the back pool, to find this parking. Coaches & officials, only, may park inside the fenced area of the back pool which can be accessed through a double gated fence in the southeast corner of the competition pool. Handicap parking is available in the front lot or can be accessed inside the fenced area of the back pool. Contact a meet director for permission to park in the latter. All parking is free.
The Ohio Senior Circuit’s intent is to promote excellence within the ranks of Ohio Swimming. The purpose is to provide a venue for those swimmers aspiring to attain Sectional and National qualifying times, but also to give all Senior swimmers within Ohio the opportunity to participate in a high quality competitive meet with shorter preliminary sessions and more opportunities to swim at night. The Ohio Senior Circuit Championships are open to all swimmers who meet the following criteria;
- All 15 & over athletes who have achieved the meet time standards
- All 14 year old swimmers who have achieved the 2012SUMMER Central Zone sectional time standards.
- Ohio Swimmers will get first priority into the meet in the event that a preliminary session begins to exceed 2 ½ hours.
1. The meet will be governed by current USA Swimming & Ohio Swimming rules and regulations. By the act of entering, each team, coach and swimmer agrees to abide by these rules and regulations.
2. All coaches, officials, and participating teams must be registered members of USA Swimming (USAS). All coaches on deck must join USA Swimming as “coach members”. No coach shall be permitted on the pool deck unless that coach is a valid “coach member” of USA Swimming with all his/her certifications current. It is required at all Ohio USAS sanctioned meets that the coaches present and wear their USA Swimming membership card.
3. All participants must be currently registered USA Swimming athletes. Team entries must contain the USA Swimming registration number of all participants being entered. There will be no USA Swimming registrations accepted at the meet.
4. Any swimmer entered in the meet who is unaccompanied by a USA Swimming coach member must be certified by a USA Swimming coach member as being proficient in performing a racing start or must race from within the water. This may be done prior to the meet by having that coach member contact the meet director or may be also be done on-site by another USA Swimming coach member. It is the responsibility of the swimmer or the swimmer’s legal guardian to ensure compliance with this requirement.
5. The swimmer’s age the first day of competition will determine their eligibility for the meet.
6. Ohio Swimming, Inc safety guidelines and warm-up procedures will be in effect at this meet. See “Warm-Up Procedures” for a detailed description of these procedures as they relate to each session of this meet.
7. GCSTO reserves the right to be able to enter any 15 & over who does not meet the qualifying standard of the AM session of the senior circuit portion of the meet to ensure that we have enough workers for that session of the meet.
8. No deck changing will be allowed. Any athlete found to be deck changing will be removed from the meet.
9. It shall be the swimmers’ and coaches’ responsibility to acquaint themselves with all of the information contained in this meet information book.
10. ATHLETE PRIVACY PRESERVATION: Use of audio or visual recording devices, including a cell phone, is not permitted in changing areas, rest rooms, or locker rooms.
Swimmers with a disability are welcomed to enter OSI Meets. Entry procedures are the same as for all other swimmers. Please provide advance notice of any necessary accommodations needed by the swimmer. List with your entry the swimmer’s name, entry times, strokes/distances, days/sessions, and how the swimmer prefers to be seeded. Disability swimmers will be seeded with the same age group in either the same distance race or a longer distance race (i.e. 50 free during the 100 free event). Qualifying time standards at regular season meets are waived for swimmers with a disability. At Ohio Swimming Championship Meets swimmers with a disability may enter if they qualify in at least one event for the US Paralympic National Championships. At the Central Zone Meet four swimmers with a disability are welcome on the Ohio Zone Team without meeting the qualifying time standards. More information is available under “Adapted Swimming” on the Ohio Swimming web site (
1. Entry times for both portions of this meet will be seeded long course meters, short course yards, and then short course meters, and shall be times achieved since January 1, 2011. While there are qualifying time standards for the Senior Circuit portion of the meet there are no qualifying time standards (upper or lower) for the Creekside Meet. Times cannot be updated once received and telephone entries cannot be accepted. All entries must be in a compatible SD3 format.In order to help with having the most accurate timeline possible in the Creekside Meet portion, please DO NOT TO ENTER ANY "NT’s" (NO TIMES) FOR SWIMMERS. Instead, use a conversion of a short course yard time or BEST "guess"timate of your swimmers times without exception please.
2. We expect this to be a very large meet and, as such, have taken steps to allow us to speed up meet operations. Positive check in will be required for ALL EVENTS in all preliminary and all timed final sessions of this meet. As well, male and female athletes will be seeded together in all preliminary sessions and all timed final sessions of this meet. Finals session will then be swum as separate gender events. In the timed final portions of this meet we will also seed different age groups together according to their entry time in each of those events. Open lanes and extra heats in a long course meet can add a significant amount of time onto a session each day thus the reason for the institution of these procedures.
3. Entry fees must be paid by the first day of the meet. The entry for each individual must include the swimmer's name, current USA number (all digits), and team affiliation. All relay swimmers must be entered in the meet prior to the first day of competition.SWIMMERS SHALL NOT COMPETE IN THIS MEET IF THEIR ENTRY FEES ARE NOT PAID TO THE MEET HOST PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEET.
4. All swimmers must enter under an USA Swimming team affiliation or as unattached.
5. Bonus Swims: Swimmers who enter the meet must have achieved an automatic time standard are eligible to swim bonus swims under the following formula:
1 Automatic Cut = 3 Bonus Swims 2 Automatic Cuts = 3 Bonus Swims
3 Automatic Cuts = 3 Bonus Swims.
All bonus swims must be faster than the bonus event time standard.
ENTRIES
CONTINUED…
ENTRY ACCEPTANCE PROTOCOL &
ENTRY DEADLINES
ENTRY ACCEPTANCE
TIMELINE
EVENT LIMITS
ENTRY FEES
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MEET FORMAT / 6. Swimmers in the Senior Circuit portion of this meet must have achieved the time standard in all events entered. $50.00 fines will be levied on each unproven time. Checks for these fines are to be made payable to Ohio Swimming, Inc. and sent to the meet host to be forwarded on to Ohio Swimming.
7. If a swimmer is not entered through fault of the Meet Host, the error will be corrected no matter which session of this meet the athlete is to swim. For the senior circuit portion of this meet
An otherwise qualified swimmer who was mistakenly not entered by his/her Entry Chairperson may be deck-entered up to twelve (12) hours before the scheduled beginning of the event, provided she/he pays the appropriate entry fee, plus $25.00 processing fee to the Meet Host. NO ENTRY WILL BE ACCEPTED UNLESS IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY THE ENCLOSED CERTIFICATION FORM PROPERLY FILLED OUT AND SIGNED. THIS FORM CERTIFIES THAT ALL ATHLETES AND COACHES ARE PROPERLY REGISTERED AND/OR SUPERVISED.
GCSTO has established an entry acceptance protocol for all GCSTO Meets which will be used for the Creeksidetimed finals portion of this meet.For the Senior Circuitportion of this meet entries will be accepted on a first come-first-serve basis since this is a meet partially sponsored by Ohio Swimming.Due to the fact that the Creekside Blues and Jazz Blast Meet has been the only central Ohio meet in operation during the long course season that does not require time standards and due to the fact that GCSTO has a pre-established entry acceptance protocol for those clubs who have consistently supported out meet we need to keep these procedures intact for the timed final portions of our meet. Gold Level acceptance teams areDCST, Upper Arlington, WAC WOR. Silver Level acceptance teams are Buckeye, Columbus Hilltop Y, Delaware, Liberty Township New Albany. Bronze Level acceptance all other Central Ohio teams followed by any other (non-central Ohio) team with special consideration for those who have supported this meet in the past. As long as entries are received by the entry closure date, no matter when they are received, Gold Level teams are guaranteed acceptance into this portion of the meet. If the meet remains open and we can accept more swimmers then the Silver Level teams are accepted based on their entry date as compared to one another. If the meet remains open from there then entries are accepted based on a first-come-first serve basis with first priority given to other central Ohio teams.
Entries will open at noon on Monday, May 21, 2012. No entries will be accepted before then. Entries will close at noon on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Team entries shallbe emailed so that they are received prior to the entry deadline.All entries must be in a compatible SD3 format.
No entries will be accepted on deck for the Senior Circuit portion of the meet but deck entries into open lanes, only, will be accepted for the Creekside timed final portions of the meet. For the Senior Circuit portion of the meet there will be no exceptions to this policy except as written in Article VI of the Ohio Swim Handbook and noted above in #7 of “Entries”.
For the Senior Circuit prelim/final portion of this meet, all athletes are permitted to swim a maximum of six (6) individual events in the course of this meet and may swim no more than three (3) individual events per day. Swimmers MAY mix meet sessions in a day (enter into, both, the Senior Circuit & Creekside portions of the meet) but are bound by the 3 per day limit as a result and 9 events maximum as a result if they do this each day. Swimmers may enter more than the maximum number of individual events in which they are permitted to compete and then scratch upon arrival at the meet. In such cases, however, there will be no refund of entry fees. For the Creekside timed final portion of this meet, 8 & under athletes are permitted to swim a maximum of seven (7) individual events, 9-10’s a maximum of eight (8) individual events and all 11 & over swimmers a maximum of nine (9) individual events in the course of this meet and may swim no more than four (4) individual events per day. Swimmers may enter more than the maximum number of individual events in which they are permitted to compete and then scratch upon arrival at the meet. Again, however, there will be no refund of entry fees.
Senior Circuit Individual Events - $8.00
Senior Circuit Relay Events - $16.00
Creekside Timed Final Individual Events - $4.00
Ohio Travel Fund & Championship Meet Facility Surcharge - $2.00 per swimmer entered into
* Please make checks payable to GCSTO. either portion of the meet.
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The Senior Circuitportion of the meet will be prelims/finals all 3 days. Finals for Senior Circuit individual events will consist of 8 swimmers, each, in C, B & A finals for all events but the 800 & 1500 timed final events where only the fastest 8 swimmers in each event and each gender will swim at night. Only the 8 fastest teams in each Senior Circuit timed final relay event for each gender will be contest at night, as well. All Senior Circuit Meet events are swum slow to fast with the exception of all relays, the 800 free and the 1500 free where these events will be swum fast to slow. For all relays on all days, the 800 free and the 1500 free individual events, teams and swimmers will have the option of choosing to swim in the AM session of the Senior Circuit Meet instead of the PM session. AM swim declarations must be done by 7:30 a.m. each morning. The Creekside Meetportion of the meet will be timed finals for all 3 days with all events being swum slow to fast with the exception of the 1500 which will be swum fast to slow. Official 800 splits will be provided for all athletes swimming the 1500 in the Creekside portion of the meet. Eight (8) lanes will be used for all heats in both aspects of this meet in, both, prelims and finals.
RELAYS
AWARDS & SCORING /
- Relays are all timed final events
- Teams are not limited on the number of relays they can enter, but only two relays can score.
- Relays may be entered with a ‘no time’ (NT) basis if necessary. Relay members may be declared at the meet prior to swimming the event, but must be limited to swimmers entered in the meet.
- Swimmers competing unattached may not be a member of a relay team.
- If a split time is desired on the opening leg of a relay in order to obtain a qualifying time, a lead off split form must be filled out and given to the referee ½ hour prior to the start of the relay. In addition, the team making the request must provide the necessary three (3) watches to back up the electronic timing system.