• Open to all USA Swimming registered athletes.
• Contestants must have equaled or bettered the applicable cut-off times.
• Time must have been achieved no earlier than January 1, 2004.
• Entry times and USA Swimming memberships are subject to confirmation.

• Unless otherwise noted, all events will be conducted as prelims and finals with C, B, and A finals (swum in this order).
• All relay events will conducted as timed finals with only the fastest two heats being contested during the evening sessions.
• A contestant may enter no more than three (3) individual events per day and no more than seven (7) individual events for the meet, including bonus events.
• Bonus Events: Swimmers making 1 qualifying time will be permitted to enter one bonus event. Swimmers making 2 or more qualifying times will be permitted to enter two bonus events
• Entry times for the 200 Medley Relay will be provable times for the 400 Medley Relay.

• The Women's 1650yd freestyle and Men's 1000yd freestyle will be conducted as timed finals on Thursday evening
• The Women's 1000yd freestyle and Men's 1650yd freestyle will be conducted as timed finals and swum on Sunday afternoon. The fastest heat of these two events will be swum in the Sunday evening finals session.
• A determination will be made based on entries received whether to swim these events in one or two courses.
• All events will be swum slow to fast.
• On Thursday, if one course is used, all heats of the Women's 1650 will swum first, followed by the Men's 1000. If two courses are used, the slowest heats may be moved to permit both courses to finish at approximately the same time.
• On Sunday, if one course is used, a heat of the Women's 1650 will alternate with a heat of the Men's 1000. If two courses are used, the slowest heats may be moved to permit both courses to start at approximately the same time.
• In either case, the second fastest heat(s) will be scheduled to finish at 5:00 pm.

The prescribed Potomac Valley Swimming warm-up procedures and safety policies will be followed. Enter the pool only at the start end of the pool. Enter feet-first, unless the lane has been designated for one-way starts.

All warm-up periods shall be supervised by the appointed marshals. Coaches shall not permit their athletes to enter the pool until the marshals have declared the pool open for warm-up. No entry is permitted across lanes, from the pool side, or from the non-start end of the pool, under any circumstances. Marshals shall clear the lane of all swimmers before opening the lane for sprinting. All sprint lanes are one-way only and the swimmer must exit at the opposite end of the pool. During warm-ups, periods are divided equally between general and specific programs. The first half of the of warm-up will be dedicated to general warm-up and the last half of the warm-up will be dedicated to specific warm-up. During the general warm-up, no pace work or sprinting will be permitted. During the specific warm-up, the outside lanes will be designated as pace lanes and lanes 2 & 7 will be opened for sprinting in accordance with the procedures outlined above. The meet director or referee may modify the schedule or lane assignments depending on the pool configuration, the number of swimmers, the availability of separate warm-up facilities, etc., as long as USA Swimming and PVS safety considerations and the equitable treatment of all entered athletes is not compromised. All such changes will be announced and posted throughout the meet venue. Athletes who act in a manner that is injurious to themselves or others will be disqualified from their next event.

• Verification of time for all timed final events (including relays) is required with entry.
• Times will be verified through the USA Swimming SWIMS data base. Coaches entering with times not in the database should be prepared to prove the time with a copy of official meet results. High school, college and YMCA Swims must be from a swim officially observed by USA Swimming.
• The USA Swimming Scratch Policy Rule (207.7.9) will apply throughout the meet.
• Times will be seeded in the following order: SCY, LCM, SCM
• The meet is expected to be conducted in one course for all sessions, except on for Thursday and Sunday's Distance Sessions. If the number of entries warrant, meet management with the concurrence of the Meet Referee reserves the right to swim the Friday, Saturday and Sunday preliminary sessions in two courses.

• Awards will be presented to champions and runners-up in Women's Team, Men's Team and Combined Team scores.
• Male and female Individual High Point and runner up awards will be presented.
• Swimmers placing in the top 8 in individual events will receive medals.
• Relay teams placing in the top 3 will received medals.

This meet has been designated a "National Championship Certified Meet" for the purpose of recertification for officials working the meet. Please refer to the USA Swimming web site for specifics regarding certification opportunities.

Officials meetings will be held one hour prior to the start of each session (preliminaries and finals) except that Friday morning's meeting will start 90 minutes prior the start of the session. Attendance at the meeting is required to work the session.

Credentials will be available to pickeup at the lobby registration desk at the following times; 10AM to 6PM Thursday, 6AM to 9AM Friday. At other times, contact the meet director.

1. Entries must arrive by the due date and time.
2. Include with your commlink file one (1) report by name and one (1) by event. Create these reports in Team Manager and save as Word for Windows files.
3. In the body of your e-mail provide entry numbers (girls, boys, totals). Include contact information (e-mail, phone, mobile phone, hotel).
4. Send e-mail to Terry Randolph at randtb@msn.com
5. Send entry fee check separately. Except for FAX entries, it must arrive by 2:00 PM on Monday, March 14.

Optional: Before preparing your entries, events and SCY QT's for this meet can be downloaded and then imported into team manager (go to team manager/file/import/meet events). The file will be available zipped as 33mm031705.zip 01/24/05

Entries that are not submitted on the required forms or proper computer format, are not complete, or are not legible, will not be accepted and will be returned. The Meet Director will not be held responsible if there is not time to properly resubmit the entry.