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Girls Swimming and Diving Tournament Information

State Girls’ Swim Meet Information

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1. The Girls’ State Swim Meet will be held at Mandan Community Center Pool on Friday and Saturday, November 14 & 15, 2008, Lorell Jungling, Mgr.
2. Meet Schedule:

   Friday
   	11:00 a.m	-	Scratch Meeting for Coaches and Officials
   	11:15 a.m.	-	Diving Sheets Due
   	11:30 a.m	-	Diving Warm-Ups Begin
   		-	Officials Meeting
   	12:30 p.m.	-	Diving Preliminaries
   	2:15 p.m.	-	Swim Warm-Ups Begin
   	3:15 p.m.	-	Clear the Pool
   	3:30 p.m.	-	Parade of Athletes
   			Swimming Prelims following Parade of Athletes
   	Note: There will be a 15 minute break immediately following the 50 Yard Freestyle and a 10 minute break immediately following the 500 Yard Freestyle.
   Saturday
   	9:30 a.m.		Diving Warm-ups
   	11:00 a.m.	-	Diving Semi-finals
   	11:45 a.m.	-	Coaches and Officials Meeting
   		-	Diving Warm-ups
   	12:15 p.m.	-	Swim Warm-ups
   	1:15 p.m.	-	Clear Pool
   	1:30 p.m.	-	Parade of Athletes
   			Swimming and Diving Finals
   	Note: There will be a 5 minute break immediately following the Medley Relay

3. The meet finals will operate under the current National Federation Swimming and Diving Rules
4. Order of events: Rule 5, Section 1, Article 1.
5. Finals: Eight contestants will qualify for the finals and eight contestants will qualify for the consolation finals in individual swimming events. The twenty highest scoring divers through the preliminaries advance to the semi-final round. (Rule 9-4-3). The sixteen highest scoring divers, through the semi-finals will advance to the final round (Rule 9-4-4). There will be no preliminaries for relays. Finals will be seeded by their regular season time and will be held on Saturday.
6. Scoring for finals: individual events (16 places): 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Relay Events: 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22-18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2.
7. Each team shall be permitted a maximum of four entries in an individual event. Qualifying times are mandatory,using 105% of the 20th place cumulative time from the three previous State Meets. The following are those times
8. A competitor shall be permitted to enter a maximum of four events, no more than two of which shall be individual events. Being designated as a member of a relay team does not count as an entry unless the swimmer actually competes in a relay event.
9. Heats will be drawn as prescribed in the current National Federation Swimming and Diving Rules Book in Rule 5 of Section 3 by using the swimmer's best time as reported during the season.
10. Diving: Diving will be conducted in accordance with Rule 9. Divers shall qualify for the state with a total of 275 points in eleven dives. This scoring must be during a regular season meet with a minimum of three judges scoring. In the event that there are less than 32 qualified divers, consideration divers will be added to fill the field of 32, using the 250 point-11 dive and 150 point-6 dive consideration divers in that order.
11. It is the responsibility of the coach to see that no competitor is entered in more than two individual events and that each athlete’s full name, grade and seed time appears on the entry list.
12. The entry form is to be electronically commlinked using the HyTek program to the NDHSAA office (Sue.Carlsrud@sendit.nodak.edu) in Valley City, no later than 10:00 a.m. on Monday, prior to the state meet. DO NOT FAX OR SEND ENTRY THROUGH THE MAIL. ENTRIES SUBMITTED LATE WILL BE ACCEPTED ONLY IF ACCOMPANIED WITH A $25 LATE ENTRY FEE. NO ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER WEDNESDAY PRIOR TO THE STATE MEET. THESE ENTRIES ARE FINAL. Diving sheets must be e-mailed as an attachment or faxed to 701-845-4935.
13. There will be a scratch meeting at 11:00 a.m. Friday, of the state meet and at 11:45 a.m. Saturday, of the state meet. No changes or additional entries are allowed at this time.
14. Diving Entry Sheets: Double check the previously submitted diving sheets and return to the Diving Referee, before the deadline of 11:15 a.m. Friday, of the state meet. Changes shall be permitted until the specified time on Friday, prior to the start of the diving competition. Correction of errors noted by the diving referee shall be permitted until the start of the diving competition. Interscholastic Championships (Rule 9: Section 3, Article 4):
    1. Number of Contestants: 1-32
    2. Preliminaries: Any two required and three optional
    3. Semi-Finals: Two required and one optional
    4. Finals: One required and two optional
    5. The 20 highest scoring divers through the prelims qualify for the semi-finals.
    6. The 16 highest scoring divers through the semi-finals qualify for the finals.
    7. NOTE: When there are more than 32 contestants, the first 3 dives listed on the written description for preliminaries shall be performed to reduce the field to 32.
15. Eight lanes are to be used for preliminaries in the State Meet.
16. Electronic timing with touch pads and horn start will be used, along with a back-up timing system.
17. For safety purposes, the following will be enforced concerning activity at the conclusion of the State Meet.
    1. The pool will be cleared immediately following the 400 yard freestyle relay.
    2. The entire pool area will be cleared of all swimmers and spectators immediately following the awards ceremony.
18. Three team trophies and eight individual plaques for each event will be awarded (except relays in which only the first, second, third and fourth place teams will receive individual plaques and places 5 through 8 will receive ribbons). Places 9 through 16 in each individual event will receive ribbons. Competing members of the first and second place teams will receive individual team plaques.
19. Teams will be reimbursed at the end of the school year as per the 2005-2006 team payment plan.
20. Admission:
    1. 1 Day Tournament Ticket
    2. Adults - $10.00, Students - $5.00
    3. 2 Day Tournament Ticket
    4. Adult - $18.00, Student - $8.00
    5. Note: No reserved seats.