Guidelines

ST. PAUL CITY CONFERENCE: Boys' Swimming/Diving Guidelines

  1. The boys' swimming coaches will meet on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 4:00 p.m. at Arlington H.S. All coaches, including any assistant coaches, must attend this meeting.

  2. Practice will begin Monday, December 1, 2008.

  3. All coaches are encouraged to join the St. Paul Coaches Association and the Minnesota State Coaches Association.

  4. The National Federation Rule Book will be followed in the conduct of all meets.

  5. Dual meets:
    1. There will be an admission charge of $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for students.
    2. Each school will be allowed three entries in each event and three relay teams.
    3. The visiting team (listed first on the schedule) shall have choice of odd or even lanes. Once made, this choice applies to all events on the program.
    4. At all conference dual meets, there will be two heats/events. The first heat will be a non-scoring junior varsity heat. The second heat will be the varsity heat and this will be scored. A non-scoring fourth diver for each team may be used in the diving event.
    5. The diving event will be a part of each meet. Each school will be required to provide a qualified diving judge. Each judge will score each dive.

  6. Conference swimming records will be established based on conference duals and the Conference Meet best times and should be set in a pool with functioning touch-pads. Any record not set with pads must be timed with three watches.

  7. The All-Conference team shall be named by the coaches at the end of the Conference Meet. Three swimmers shall be named in all individual events. One relay team shall be named for each of the relay events. All swimmers will be named to the All-Conference team based on the best time in each event. A swimmer is limited to two individual events and two relays for this honor. It is up to the discretion of the coaches to add swimmers as Honorable Mention.


BOYS' SWIMMING PREVIEW RELAYS

Friday, December 12, 2008
Humboldt High School, 6:00 p.m.
Tickets: adults -- $5.00, students -- $3.00

  1. Maximum relays per team (two per event)

  2. Stop watch lane assignments:
    1. Lane 1 -- Como Park
    2. Lane 2 -- Highland Park/SPA
    3. Lane 3 -- Central
    4. Lane 4 -- Harding
    5. Lane 5 -- Johnson

  3. All coaches will help with diving (five judges, two remaining will help at table.)

  4. Warm-up schedule:
    1. Divers -- 4:00-4:45
    2. General warm-up -- 4:45-5:45
    3. Clear pool and introductions -- 5:45

  5. Coaches meeting at 5:30 p.m. (please bring team roster, preview swimming entry sheet and preview diving entry sheet.)

  6. Events:
    • 200-yd. Medley Relay -- 4 swimmers, each swimming 50 yards.
    • 850-yd. Freestyle Medley -- 4 swimmers, 50-100-200-500 yards.
    • 300-yd. Breast/Fly Relay -- 4 swimmers, 50-100-100-50 yards.
    • 200-yd. Backstroke Relay -- 4 swimmers, each swimming 50 yards.
    • 400-yd. Freestyle Relay -- 4 swimmers, each swimming 100 yards.
    • Diving -- Total of six dives per team.
    • 400-yd. Medley Relay -- 4 swimmers, each swimming 100 yards.
    • 200-yd. Freestyle Relay -- 4 swimmers, each swimming 50 yards.
    • 400-yd. Individual Medley Relay -- 4 swimmers, each swimming 100 yards.


BOYS' SWIMMING CONFERENCE MEETS

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Humboldt High School, 11:00 a.m. (diving with 10:00 warm-up); 1:30 p.m. (balance of meet with 12:30 p.m. warm-up)
Tickets: adults -- $5.00, students -- $3.00

  1. A swimmer can only swim in one Conference Meet, either Junior Varsity or Varsity Conference meet -- a swimmer cannot swim in both (other than divers).

  2. Seeding:
    1. In order to assure seeded positions, the best competitive times of all entries must be submitted. Times shall be determined by conference meet times. Non-conference times will be accepted if the swimmer's time has been achieved in bona fide competition and signed by the meet official.
    2. The swimming coordinator will do the seeding according to the swimming rule book.
    3. All entry forms for the conference meet must be submitted to the swimming coordinator on or before Friday, February 6, 2009. No entries will be accepted after that date.
    4. Each school may enter two (2) relay teams in each relay event (only one can score.)

  3. Each school will be required to provide three (3) lane timers with watches and one (1) qualified diving judge for the conference meet. Timers are to be on duty throughout the entire meet.

  4. Awards:
    1. Plaque - to first place team
    2. Medals - to each individual contestant winning first, second and third.
    3. Ribbons - to each individual contestant winning fourth, fifth and sixth.

  5. The site manager is responsible for calling in the scores.


BOYS' TWIN CITIES SWIMMING MEET

DATE: Saturday, February 7, 2009
TIME: 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Humboldt H.S.
Tickets: Adults -- $5.00, students -- $3.00

  1. The conference champion will represent the St. Paul Conference in the Twin Cities Meet. In case there is a tie for the Conference Championship, how the two teams did in head-to-head competition will be the first determining factor in breaking the tie. If a tie still exists the school that has not participated most recently will automatically qualify.

  2. Conference passes will be honored.

  3. The competing school will be allowed transportation expenses.

  4. The site manager is responsible for calling in the score.