Meet Directors

Dave Kraft  dmkraft77@aol.com

Dave Greene DGreene@rockvillemd.gov

Christa Krukiel ckrukiel@msn.com

Location

Saturday& Sunday, November 3-4                           

Germantown Indoor Swim Center        

South Germantown Recreational Park

18000 Central Park Circle

Boyds, Maryland  20841 

Dates and Times

Saturday, Nov. 3

13 and 14 year-olds: Warm-ups 7:00 AM, Meet Starts 8:00 AM

9,10,11,and 12 year-olds: Warm-ups 11:00 AM, Meet Starts 12:00 PM

All-Ages “Relay Finals”: Warm-ups 5:00 PM, Meet Starts 6:00 PM

Sunday, Nov. 4

13 and 14 year-olds: Warm-ups 7:00 AM, Meet Starts 8:00 AM

9,10,11,and 12 year-olds, plus All-Ages Crescendo Relay: Warm-ups immediately following the 13-14 distance events, no earlier than 12:00 PM, Meet Starts one hour after warm-ups begin, no earlier than 1:00 PM 

Meet Purpose

To allow the top Age Group programs in the United States to compete in an actual Age Group Championship meet, in addition to the Virtual Club Championship.

Eligibility

Open to registered United States Swimming 14 and Under athletes from the invited teams. 

Swimmers will compete at the age attained on the first day of the meet. 

Rules

Current United States Swimming rules will govern this meet. 

Swimmers may compete in up to 4 individual events, and as many relays as are offered in their age group.

3 swimmers per club per individual event (except 11&12yo 500 free, and 13&14 1000/1650 free – only 2 swimmers per club per event).

One relay team per club per event.

All events are timed finals, and will be swum slowest to fastest.

Seeding

All entries should be in short course yards (SCY) format.  Converted times are acceptable.

Scoring

Individual event scoring will be calculated by Power Points (the same values as those used in the Virtual Club Championships) --  not by place.  A maximum of two swimmers per club per event will be scored.

Relays (one per club) will be scored as follows:

1^st – 800 points, 2^nd – 700 points, 3^rd - 650 points,

4^th – 600 points, 5^th – 550 points, 6^th - 500 points.

Special Awards

Awards will be presented immediately following Session 5. 

A banner will be presented to the 1^st place team. 

Plaques will be presented to the individual male and female with the outstanding performance of the meet (based on Power Points). 

Warm-up

The prescribed Potomac Valley warm-up procedures and safety policies will be followed.  It may be necessary to assign lanes for warm-up.  Information regarding assigned warm-ups will be available the week prior to the meet in the form of an e-mail to each participating club.

Timers

Clubs will be responsible for providing their fair share of timers, and will be assigned lanes by the meet manager.

Officials

Certified officials who wish to work at this meet should contact Bill Maneely, at swim323@lycos.com.

Supervision

Coaches are responsible for the conduct of their swimmers, both at the meet and in the warm-up/warm-down area.  Inappropriate behavior will result in suspension from the meet and from the Germantown Indoor Swim Center.

Admission

There will be no admission charge. 

An all-session program will be available for $5.00

Fees

Fees are $5.00 per individual event, and $10.00 per relay event

Warning

Any club that enters an unregistered athlete, falsifies an entry in any way, or permits an unregistered coach to represent them, will be fined the sum of $100.00, and no further entries will be accepted from the club until that fine is paid.

Entry Procedures

Computer disk entries require a meet entry report by SWIMMER and a report by EVENT from Team Manager.  Also submit a completed “Entry Cover Sheet.”  Send completed entries, including the name and phone number of a club representative to:

Christa Krukiel

20548 Strath Haven Drive

Montgomery Village, MD 20886

301-468-4276 work, 240-683-9626 home

E-mail entries preferred.  E-mail procedures:

In the subject heading, write “NAG Team Challenge - ****” (with club initials in place of ****).

Include the entry file from Team Manager, as well as reports by SWIMMER and by EVENT (preferably as a Word for Windows document).

Include total number of swimmers and total number of events, along with contact information (name, phone number, e-mail) of a club representative in the body of the e-mail.

E-mail the entry to ckrukiel@msn.com

Send check, including “Entry Cover Sheet” to Christa Krukiel at the address below.

Make checks payable to MCRD (Montgomery County Recreation Dept.).

Each club is requested to remit one check to cover the entry fees of the entire team.  Please do not send cash.  Entry fees are due with entries.

Meet Directors are requested to acknowledge receipt by return e-mail within 24 hours.  Clubs submitting entries that do NOT receive an acknowledgement should contact the Meet Director by other than e-mail to confirm receipt.

Send check for meet entry fee to:

Christa Krukiel

20548 Strath Haven Drive

Montgomery Village, MD 20886 

Entry Deadline

Entries are due by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. 

NOTE: The above date is the deadline for clubs to submit their entries to the Meet Director.  Therefore, clubs usually set an earlier deadline to receive entries from their swimmers.  Check with your club for this information.

Girls Event

Event Description

Boys Event

1

13-14 200 free relay

2

3

13 year-old 200 IM

4

5

14 year-old 200 IM

6

7

13 year-old 100 back

8

9

14 year-old 100 back

10

11

13 year-old 200 breast

12

13

14 year-old 200 breast

14

15

13 year-old 50 free

16

17

14 year-old 50 free

18

19

13 year-old 200 fly

20

21

14 year-old 200 fly

22

23*

13 year-old 500 free*

24*

25*

14 year-old 500 free*

26*