Guidelines

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

  1. The coaches meeting will be Tuesday, August 12, 2008, at 12:30 p.m. at Arlington High School. All coaches, including any assistant coaches, must attend this meeting.

  2. Practice begins Monday, August 11, 2008.

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

  4. 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.

  5. An All-Conference team shall be submitted by the coaches after the conference meet. Three swimmers shall be named in all individual events. One relay team shall be named for each of the relay events. 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. The post-season meeting will be held in November.

  6. The meet director shall call in the scores of all conference meets. He/She should contact John Vosejpka by phone (767-3490), Fax (293-5374) or E-Mail (john.vosejpka@SPPS.org) with results for Web site posting.

  7. Team rosters should be submitted to John Vosejpka and Vicki Knutsen no later than Friday, August 22, 2008.


DUAL MEETS

  1. There will be an admission charge of $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for students. Punch cards will be sold at the gate.

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

  3. Both teams shall provide three timers with watches and a diving judge.

  4. 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.

  5. At all conference dual meets, there will be two heats per event. 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.

  6. The home team (in last meet of the evening) will be responsible for putting away lane lines.

SWIMMING PREVIEW RELAYS

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Como Park High School (note site change), 6:00 p.m.

  1. There will be an admission charge of $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for students. Tickets will be sold at the gate only.

  2. Events:
    1. 200-yard Medley Relay - 50 Back, 50 Breast, 50 Fly, 50 Free
    2. 850-yard Freestyle Medley - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 500 Free
    3. 300-yard Breast/Fly Relay - 50 Breast, 100 Fly, 100 Breast, 50 Fly
    4. 200-yard Backstroke Relay - 50 Back, 50 Back, 50 Back, 50 Back
    5. 400-yard Freestyle Relay - 100 Free, 100 Free, 100 Free, 100 Free
    6. Diving Relay - Voluntary dive is from the forward group. Five optional dives will follow, one from each of the five groups. Three (3) divers each doing two (2) dives. Order: Harding, Como Park, Central, Highland Park/SPA, Humboldt, Johnson
    7. 400-yard Medley Relay
    8. 200-yard Freestyle Relay - 50 Free, 50 Free, 50 Free, 50 Free
    9. 400-yard Individual Medley Relay - 100 IM, 100 IM, 100 IM

  3. Each event will have a maximum of four heats. The first and second heats are for junior varsity, the third and fourth for varsity. Only one team will count for scoring.

  4. Each team with divers will supply a diving judge.

  5. Each team must supply three timers with watches. The times will time their own team.

  6. NO team score will be kept for this meet.

  7. Warm-up Schedule:
    1. 4:00 - 5:45 - General Warm-up - swimmers and divers
    2. 5:15 - 5:45 - Sprints - Lanes 1, 2, 6
    3. 5:45 - Clear pool - Introductions

  8. 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
    6. Lane 6 -- Humboldt

  9. Coaches meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Coaches bring team roster, preview swimming entry sheet, preview diving entry sheet.



JUNIOR VARSITY AND VARSITY CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Humboldt High School, 2:00 p.m. (diving warm-up at 1:00 p.m.)
              4:30 p.m. balance of meet (3:00 p.m. warm-up)
Tickets - Adults $5.00, students $3.00

JUNIOR VARSITY

  1. Seeding
    1. In order to assure seeded positions, the best competitive time of all entries must be submitted. Times shall be determined by conference meet times - non-conference times will be accepted also if the swimmer's time has been achieved in bona fide competetition and signed by a meet official.
    2. The swimming coordinator will do the seeding according to the swimming rule book and will create and print a meet program.
    3. All entry forms must be submitted to the swimming coordinator on or before Wednesday, October 15, 2008. No entries will be accepted after that date. Entries must include swimming entry form and swimming entry cards.
    4. Each school may enter an unlimited number of participants in individual events and relay events. Each participant may be entered in, at most, two (2) individual events (including diving).

  2. Each school is required to provide three (3) timers with watches. Timers are to be on duty throughout the entire meet.

  3. A swimmer cannot swim in the Varsity Conference Meet if she swims in the Junior Varsity Meet (exceptions - divers).

  4. Awards
    1. Ribbons - to each relay participant and each individual contestant winning first through sixth.

  5. Team scores will be compiled. No team award is provided for the Junior Varsity team champions.

VARSITY

  1. 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 also 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 and create and print a meet program.
    3. All entry forms must be submitted to the swimming coordinator on or before Wednesday, October 15, 2008. No entries will be accepted after that date. Entries must include swimming entry form and swimming entry cards, team roster, and nomination form for the Washington Spirit trophy.
    4. Each school may enter four (4) individuals in each individual event. Each school may enter two relays in each relay event (only one of the relays may score).

  2. Each school is required to provide three (3) timers with watches. Timers are to be on duty throughout the entire meet.

  3. A swimmer cannot swim in the Varsity Conference Meet if she swims in the Junior Varsity Meet (exception - divers).

  4. Awards:
    1. Medals to each relay participant and to each individual contestant winning first through third.
    2. Ribbons to each relay participant and to each individual contestant winning fourth through sixth.
  5. Team scores will be compiled with trophy to the championship team.
DIVING

  1. Entry requirements:
    1. Junior Varsity Championship - 6 dives
    2. Voluntary Dive - forward group
    3. The following five dives - use the rules for a dual meet entry
    4. Varsity Championship - 11 dives (dives will be consecutive). Use the rules for a championship meet entry.

  2. All diving entry forms must be submitted to the swimming coordinator on or before Wednesday, October 15, 2008. No diving entries will be accepted after that date. Entry must include a diving form for each diver.

  3. Each team with a diving entry is required to have a qualified diving judge.

  4. Each diver may be entered in either the Junior Varsity swimming, or Varsity swimming championship meets, but not both. Each diver may enter, at most, one individual swimming event.

  5. Awards:
    1. Junior Varsity Conference Diving - Ribbons 1 through 6.
    2. Varsity Conference Diving - Medals 1 through 3 and ribbons 4 through 6.





TWIN CITIES GIRLS' SWIMMING MEET

Saturday, November 1, 2008
Humboldt H.S., 1:00 p.m. (warm-up at 11:00 a.m.)

  1. The conference champion will represent the St. Paul Conference in the Twin Cities Meet. In case of tie, head-to-head competition will determine St. Paul representative. If a tie still exists the school that has not participated most recently will automatically qualify for the Twin Cities Meet.

  2. Tickets - Adults $5.00, students $3.00. Punch cards not accepted.