Zone Team selection dates for 14/Under athletes is 9/01/10 to 3/21/10 and for 15-18 athletes is 9/01/10 to 3/14/10 (extended to 3/22/2010).
For the 2010 meet, PVS will enter three swimmers per event for the 12 & Under events and two swimmers per event for the 13 & Over events per the new Zone Meet rules.
All times for consideration are based on the period 9/01/09 up to and including the cutoff date for your age group.
Applications must be received by the Zone Team Coordinator for the 14/U athletes no later than March 21, 2010 and for the 15-18 athletes no later than March 14, 2010 (extended to 3/22/2010). NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. All times for consideration are based on the period 9/1/09 up to and including the cutoff date for your age group. Applicants selected for the team will be notified immediately following the appicable cutoff date. Fees are not to be paid along with the application. The 2010 Zone fee $500 is to be paid once the swimmer is accepted onto the PVS Zone team. All checks are to be made out to Potomac Valley Swimming. Further payment instructions will be given once the Zone team is selected.
There will be a
Mandatory meeting for all swimmers and parents (at least one parent
must attend) on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at Walt Whitman High School
(auditorium) in Bethesda, MD from 6-8 pm. The $500 payment will be due
at the time of the meeting. No swimmer will be allowed to travel until
the fee has been paid.
The deadline for event selection of all
swimmers that qualify is no later than 5:00 pm Monday, March 22 (this
generally applies to the swimmers qualifying for 6 or more individual
events).
The team will be departing from the Montgomery
Aquatic Center, Wednesday March 31. All swimmers should arive
NO LATER
than 4:40 AM. The buses will be leaving at 5:00 AM.
Swimmers will return to the MAC, Sunday April 5 at approximately 3/4:00 AM.
Swimmers will call parents when they are 1 hour from the pool.
Potomac Valley will be staying at the Rochester
Plaza Hotel. All Swimmers MUST travel and stay with the team. Parents
can request to have their swimmers travel home with them after the
conclusion of the final team dinner on Saturday night, however this
request must be made by email and submitted to the Zone Team
Coordinator, Dave Greene
no later than 5:00 pm Monday March 22, 2010.
Best top 20 times are by age-group and event and are currently based on times for the period 09/01/09-3/21/10.
This list will continue to be updated periodically until the team selection process is completed. See here for a list of meets that are included. Ages are as of April 1, 2010; the first day of the Eastern Zone Spring SC meet. Athletes are ineligible for consideration if they have participated in a USA Swimming National Championship meet or USA Junior Championship meet and are excluded from these lists. Additionally, except for 12/U athletes, swimmers who have a qualifying time for the USA-S SCY Championship, 2010 Speedo Junior Championship meet or the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships may not participate at the Zone meet. Accordingly, a swimmer having any of these times is NOT included in these Top 20 lists for 13-14 and 15-18 year old swimmers for any event.
All times received to date appear in "Top 20 Preliminary Best Times" reports. All subsequent PVS meets will be automatically loaded, including initial relay leg swims, if properly loaded in the data base provided to PVS. Teams participating in meets in other LSC's should promptly submit an electronic file of the meet results to the PVS Database Coordinator for inclusion in subsequent updates.
Zone Team Applications received through 3/22/2010 and a missing application are now posted. If you feel your application is missing, please email PVS Zone Coordinator (click on the link).
Times from all High School Approved meets (that have been loaded into the USA Swimming Data Base Swims) through 2/28/2010 (see all meets in data base for a list) that were recognized by USA Swimming Swims are now included. These times will show the swimmer as unattached (which they are for High School Meets).
Top 20 lists were updated March 21, 2010 @ 9:25PM to add 14&Under Champs (see for meets included ).