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1 Ozark/USA Swimming Official Approval Sanction Number: East Belleville YMCA (Gateway Region YMCA) East Belleville YMCA 2627 Carlyle Avenue Belleville, IL From I-64 take exit 16. Travel South on Green Mount Road for 3.8 miles, turn left onto Carlyle Avenue. The YMCA is across from Southwestern Illinois College and the Metro- Link Station. Limited parking is in front of the YMCA but there is ample parking in the college lots across the street or in the Wal-Mart Shopping center next door. The pool is a 25 yard, 6 lane pool with competitive non-turbulent lane lines. A Daktronics timing system with touch pads and a 6-line scoreboard will be used. The gymnasium will be available for team crash area. All swimmers must report to the bullpen for their events which will run next to the gymnasium. Food concessions will be available onsite. No food or beverages are allowed on the pool deck. Fitness areas are off limits to all swimmers and nonmembers of the facility. Jacques Thro Jacques.thro@claconnect.com Lisa Brede yosiseals@hotmail.com Friday Saturday/Sunday AM Saturday/Sunday PM Crash Area Open 4:30pm 6:30am 12:45pm Warm-Ups Begin 5:00pm 7:00am 1:00pm Officials Meeting 5:30pm 8:00am 1:45pm Timers Meeting 6:10pm 8:20am 2:00pm Meet Begins 6:20pm 8:30am 2:15pm

2 This invitational will be a mixed event meet with boys and girls seeded together in events based on age group and entry time only. However, boys and girls will be scored separately. Relay events will also be mixed events with boys and girls seeded together by age group and entry time only. However, relay teams must consist of swimmers of the same gender and age group. The 500, 1000 and 1650 freestyle events will be seeded from fastest to slowest. All events are timed finals. A swimmer may enter three individual events per day, as well as one relay. Entries in the 1000 and 1650 will count as bonus swims and do not count toward the three event per day limit. Any swimmer who enters more than the maximum number of events will be scratched down to the limit, starting with the highest event number on the day the over-entry occurs. Entries will be accepted via starting December 24 at 9:00am through January 3, 2017, or until the meet is filled. Any entries/updates submitted after the entry deadline will be considered deck entries and will only be accepted to fill empty lanes; no new heats will be added. $4.50 per individual event, $18.00 per relay and an $10.00 per swimmer surcharge. Deck entry fees are $9.00 per individual event and $36.00 per relay. Make all checks payable to the Gateway Region YMCA. Send payments to: YOSI Seals Swim Team C/O Julie Rothweil 2627 Carlyle Ave Belleville, IL Entry fees may be reimbursed for swimmers cancelling their entries only if the request is received prior to the January 3, 2017 deadline. Entries are to be submitted on HYTEK format. All entries are to be sent via to Lisa Brede at yosiseals@hotmail.com All entries/updates must be submitted in Team Manager format. No paper or disk entries will be accepted. Meet information and the Team Manager event file can be found on the YOSI website at We will confirm receipt of all entries/updates by reply . If you do not receive confirmation with 24 hours of your electronic submission contact Lisa Brede at or yosiseals@hotmail.com. Confirmation of receipt does not mean that your entry has been accepted. Payment for meet fees must be received within 5 business days after your entries have been submitted. Upon timely receipt of payment, teams will be notified of their entry acceptance. Teams will be notified of acceptance by Monday, January 16th. The YOSI Seals Swim Team has the sole discretion to determine which entries to accept. In exercising this discretion, the Seals will consider number of officials provided by the team, balance of age groups and gender in entries, support of the meet in prior years, level of competition

3 Deck entry requests sent after January 3, should be submitted in a word document and should include all required swimmer information (name, DOB, USA number, etc.) YOSI reserves the right to accept deck entries and will only be accepted to fill open lanes. Heat sheets for all pre-seeded events will be available for printing on the YOSI website at at no cost. Heat sheets will be posted by Wednesday, January 18, Time and lane assignments will be sent to coaches and posted on our website prior to the meet. Points to determine overall placement and ribbons will be awarded to the top 6 finishers in each event. Individual events: Relay events: In all multi-aged groups (8 & under, & 15-21), the swimmer will be scored and receive awards in their age group and gender. The 6 & under age group swimmers will be seeded in the 8 & under category. Swimmers can swim up (one age group allowed). Points received in these events will not count for individual high points awards. For relays only, the 8 & under group is a single age group. There is no 6 & under age group for relays. Relay points are not counted in computing individual high points awards. ribbons will be awarded for 1st through 6th place finishers. trophies will be given to the top 3 swimmers in each age group (6 & under, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-21) - boys and girls. High point scores will be the cumulative total points from (at most) a swimmer s 6 highest place individual event finishes. For purposes of high point scoring, the 1000 and 1650 will not be counted in an individual s scoring results. In the event of a tie, a swimmer with the highest finish in the individual medley will be the winner. If that does not determine a winner, the winner will be determined based upon the place of finish in the events in the order they swam in the individual medley (25 s for 8 & under, 50 s for 9-10,100 s for 11-12, & 15-21) until a winner is determined. trophies will be presented at the conclusion of the meet to the top team with 25 or more swimmers and the top team with 24 or less swimmers. YOSI is excluded from any team awards. Can only be presented by the coaches to the meet director. For planning purposes, we ask each team to forward a list of YMCA certified officials and USA Swimming certified officials that will be attending the meet during each session to the meet referee, Jacques Thro at Jacques.thro@claconnect.com. Teams will be asked to provide timers in proportion to their entered athletes in each session. Teams will be notified of the number of timers needed after compiling the entries. It is the team s responsibility to fill timer positions.

4 Full concessions will be available during the meet. On the Blocks will be available for swimming apparel and equipment needs. This meet is held under the approval of USA Swimming. USA Swimming technical rules apply. In granting this approval it is understood and agreed that USA Swimming shall be free and held harmless from any liabilities or claims or damages arising by reason of injuries to anyone during the conduct of the event. The only swimsuits permitted are those in compliance with FINA and USA Swimming rules. Coaches are expected to maintain appropriate swimmer conduct. The Meet Director and/or Meet Safety Marshals/Officials will exclude any swimmer or parent from the meet for unsafe, disruptive or bad behavior, at the meet referee s discretion. Swimmers and coaches must obey meet officials at all times. All swimmers must report to the bullpen before each event, except for the 1000 and 1650 for which the swimmers will report directly to the starting blocks. It is the swimmer s responsibility to report on time. Failure to do so will result in the athlete being scratched from that event. Only swimmers competing in current session, coaches of entered teams, and officials and volunteers working in current session/area will be allowed in the bullpen or the swimmers area of the pool deck. Spectators must be quiet during all starts. No flash photography during starts. No coolers will be allowed on the pool deck. No smoking anywhere in the facility or on YMCA property Please keep trash picked up in team areas. Cell phones, cameras and video recording equipment are not permitted in locker room areas. 1 Mixed IM 2 Mixed IM 3 Mixed IM 4 Mixed IM 5 Mixed Freestyle 6 Mixed Freestyle* 7 Mixed Freestyle* *Swimmers must provide their own lap counter. Event is limited to top 36 entries.

5 8 Mixed IM 9 Mixed Freestyle 10 Mixed 8 & under 25 Butterfly 11 Mixed Butterfly 12 Mixed Butterfly 13 Mixed 8 & under 50 Backstroke 14 Mixed Backstroke 15 Mixed Backstroke 16 Mixed 8 & under 25 Breaststroke 17 Mixed Breaststroke 18 Mixed Breaststroke 19 Mixed 8 & under 50 Freestyle 20 Mixed Freestyle 21 Mixed Freestyle 22 Mixed 8 & under 100 Medley Relay# 23 Mixed Medley Relay# 24 Mixed Medley Relay# 25 Mixed Freestyle* # Individual relay teams must be composed of *Swimmers must provide their own timers (2) and lap counter. Event is limited to top 18 entries. There will be a 10 minute warm-up before the Mixed Freestyle 27 Mixed Butterfly 28 Mixed Butterfly 29 Mixed Backstroke 30 Mixed Backstroke 31 Mixed Breaststroke 32 Mixed Breaststroke 33 Mixed Freestyle 34 Mixed Freestyle 35 Mixed Medley Relay# 36 Mixed Medley Relay# #Individual relay teams must be composed of 37 Mixed 8 & under 100 IM 38 Mixed Butterfly 39 Mixed Butterfly 40 Mixed 8 & under 25 Backstroke 41 Mixed Backstroke 42 Mixed Backstroke 43 Mixed 8 & under 50 Breaststroke 44 Mixed Breaststroke 45 Mixed Breaststroke 46 Mixed 8 & under 25 Freestyle 47 Mixed Freestyle 48 Mixed Freestyle 49 Mixed 8 & under 100 Freestyle Relay# 50 Mixed Freestyle Relay# 51 Mixed Freestyle Relay# 52 Mixed Freestyle* #Individual relay teams must be composed of *Swimmers must provide their own timers (2) and lap counter. Event is limited to top 18 entries. There will be a 10 minute warm-up before the Mixed Butterfly 54 Mixed Butterfly 55 Mixed Backstroke 56 Mixed Backstroke 57 Mixed Breaststroke 58 Mixed Breaststroke 59 Mixed Freestyle 60 Mixed Freestyle 61 Mixed Freestyle Relay# 62 Mixed Freestyle Relay# #Individual relay teams must be composed of the swimmer of the same gender and age group.