Laura Manikas Memorial Classic Hosted by the Funky Fish Swim Club Sat-Sun, February 3-4, 2018 Sanctioned by USA Swimming and Illinois Swimming Sanction # ILS18-0202 Meet Director & Entry Chair Meet Referee Tommy Gilbert John Bishop 3009 Winchester Dr. jbishop@f-w.com Bloomington, IL 61704 Safety Chairperson Phone: (847) 946-7518 Teresa Fish tgilbert@iwu.edu tfish@iwu.edu LOCATION: FACILITY: SCHEDULE: STAGING: RULES & SAFETY: Fort Natatorium at Illinois Wesleyan University s Shirk Center 302 E. Emerson, Bloomington, IL 61701 The Fort Natatorium pool is a 25 yd., eight-lane pool with starting blocks and touchpads at one end. The start end depth ranges from 4 6 to 13, and turn end depth is 3 6 in all lanes. Colorado 6 with eight-lane scoreboard. The diving well will be available for warm-up/cool-down during the meet. Swimmers may only enter from the far (non-starting) end. A marshal will supervise the diving well. Saturday & Sunday AM (10 & under): Warm-up 7:00 AM, meet starts 8:00 AM Saturday & Sunday PM (11 & over): Warm-up 12:00 PM, meet starts 1:00 PM Saturday Distance: Immediately following the conclusion of the Saturday PM session, there will be a 20-minute warm-up break before the start of the 1650. Team areas will be located on deck for swimmers only. All USA and ISI swimming and safety rules will be strictly enforced. Any swimmer entered in the meet must be certified by a USA Swimming member-coach as being proficient in performing a racing start or must start each race from within the water. When unaccompanied by a member-coach, it is the responsibility of the swimmer or the swimmer s legal guardian to ensure compliance with this requirement.
ELIGIBILITY: All USA Swimming registered athletes are eligible. All swimmers must be registered prior to entry deadline. Entries listed as Registration Applied For will not be accepted. Registration forms can be obtained from the Illinois Swimming Office, 1400 E. Touhy Ave., Suite 410, Des Plaines, IL 60018, phone (847) 842-1596. A swimmer s age as of February 3, 2018 will determine their age for the meet. MEMBERSHIP: Insurance regulations require that all swimmers, coaches, judges, starters, and meet referees be current members of USA Swimming. It is each club s responsibility to register their swimmers, coaches, and officials. Swimmers, coaches, and officials who are not current members of USA Swimming may not participate in the meet or be on deck. COACHES: POOL: All coaches must be currently registered with USA Swimming and must continuously display their current USA Swimming Coach Member registration card while on deck. The competition course has been certified in accordance with 104.2.2C(4). The copy of such certification is on file with USA Swimming. ENTRY DEADLINE & FORMS: Entries will not be accepted before 8:00 AM, Friday, January 5. We will accept entries until noon on Monday, January 22. Only entries received by e-mail will be accepted; no hand deliveries. Please send a Hy-Tek file to tgilbert@iwu.edu along with a PDF copy of your entries showing swimmers current registration numbers. Entries will be on a first received, first entered basis. Entries received before the due date will be returned. Complete entries include: entry fees, signed release, and entry form. All payments and hard copies of entries are due within 48 hours of email. Entry summary sheet and waiver should be mailed to the address shown on the summary sheet. CHECK-IN: TIMELINE: Positive check-in will be conducted at the meet. Check-in will close 45 minutes prior to the start of each session. The Meet Director reserves the right to pre-seed the meet and eliminate positive check-in if the timeline allows. The Meet Director reserves the right to limit entries, events, or heats, or to modify the meet format, in order to conform with the 4-hour session limit. Possible modifications include fly-over starts, elimination of relays, and limiting events 200 yards and longer. The Meet Director also reserves the right to insert one or more breaks in each session and/or use fewer than 8 lanes in order to ensure
swimmers have enough rest between events. The competition pool may be open for warm-up during these breaks. SEEDING: BULLPEN: The conforming time standard for this meet is short course yards. Swimmers will be seeded in heats from slowest to fastest. All non-conforming times will be seeded last in rank order. All 10 & under swimmers must report to the bullpen, which will be on deck near the diving well. ENTRY LIMITS: Swimmers may swim a maximum of 5 individual events and 1 relay per day. ENTRY FEES: $10.00 surcharge per swimmer in lieu of admissions, $2.00 per swimmer ISI fee, $3.00 per individual event entry, and $7.00 per relay entry. AWARDS: Awards will be given to the top 12 finishers in each individual event and the top 3 relays. Open events will not be awarded. All heat winners will receive awards. SCORING: Individual events: 16-13-12-11-10-9-7-5-4-3-2-1 Relay events: 32-26-24-22-20-18-14-10-8-6-4-2 RESULTS: A copy of the Final Results will be e-mailed to all teams having five (5) or more entrants. Individuals may order paper final results for $10.00. ADMISSION: There will be no admission charge ($10 surcharge in lieu of it). Heat sheets will be available for purchase for $2.00 at the beginning of each session. Teams with 5 or more swimmers will be provided 4 heat sheets. RELAYS: WARM-UP: All relay names & entries must be submitted to the table 30 minutes before the start of each session. All current Illinois Swimming warm-up and safety guidelines will be in effect. The host club will post additional warm-up information for all swimmers and coaches attending the meet. Marshals will ensure all teams, coaches, and swimmers follow these procedures. The meet director reserves the right to change warm-up times according to the number of entries. Teams will be assigned lanes for warm-up. Warm-up may be split into two sessions at the meet director s discretion.
SAFETY GUIDELINES 1. Coaches Responsibilities a. Coaches shall instruct their swimmers regarding safety guidelines and warm up procedures as they apply to conduct at meets and practices. b. Coaches shall actively supervise their swimmers throughout the warm-up session at meets and all practices. 2. Host Team Responsibilities a. Marshaling 1) A marshal, who reports to and receives instructions from the Meet Referee, shall be on the deck during the warm-up session. 2) Marshals shall have the authority to remove from the deck, for the remainder of the warm-up session, any swimmer or coach who is in violation of safety or warm-up procedures. b. Warm-up times and lane assignments shall be published in the meet information and posted at several locations around the pool area. The following statement shall appear in the information: Illinois Swimming, Inc. Safety Guidelines and Warm-up Procedures will be in effect at this meet. c. An announcer shall be on duty for the entire Warm-up session to announce lane and/or time changes and to assist with the conduct of the Warm-up. d. Hazards in locker rooms, on the deck area or in areas used by coaches, swimmers, spectators, or officials shall be removed or clearly marked. 3. Miscellaneous: a. Backstrokers shall ensure that they are not starting at the same time as a swimmer on the blocks. b. Swimmers shall not jump or dive into the pool to stop another swimmer on a recalled start. c. Swimmers are required to exit the pool upon completion of their warm-up to allow other swimmers adequate warm-up time. The pool is not for visiting or playing during the warm-up session. d. Warm-up procedures shall be enforced for any breaks scheduled during the competition. e. The Referee may restrict use of bands, hand paddles, or fins during warm-up. The Referee shall have control over mitigation actions necessary to relieve situations deemed as dangerous or impairing the safety of other swimmers. TIMERS: OFFICIALS: Volunteer timers may be needed at this meet. The host club will communicate a list of timing assignments at least five days prior to the start of the competition. There will be a need for officials at this event. Officials who would like to work the meet should contact Meet Referee John Bishop at jbishop@f-w.com to be assigned positions.
DRONES: Operation of a drone, or any other flying apparatus, is prohibited over the venue (pools, athlete/coach areas, spectator areas and open ceiling locker rooms) any time athletes, coaches, officials and/or spectators are present. DIGITAL USAGE: Use of audio or visual recording devices, including a cell phone, is not permitted in changing areas, rest rooms, or locker rooms. CHANGING: Except where venue facilities require otherwise, changing into or out of swimsuits other than in locker rooms or other designated areas is not appropriate and is prohibited. Order of Events Female Event # Session 1 Saturday AM Male Event # 1 8 & under 25 freestyle 2 3 10 & under 100 freestyle 4 5 8 & under 50 breaststroke 6 7 10 & under 50 breaststroke 8 9 8 & under 25 backstroke 10 11 10 & under 100 backstroke 12 13 8 & under 50 butterfly 14 15 10 & under 50 butterfly 16 17 10 & under 200 IM 18 19 8 & under 100 medley relay 20 21 10 & under 200 medley relay 22 Session 2 Saturday PM 23 11-12 200 freestyle 24 25 Open 200 freestyle 26 27 11-12 50 butterfly 28 29 Open 200 butterfly 30 31 11-12 100 breaststroke 32 33 Open 100 breaststroke 34 35 11-12 100 freestyle 36 37 Open 100 freestyle 38 39 11-12 50 backstroke 40 41 Open 200 backstroke 42 43 11-12 200 IM 44 45 Open 200 IM 46 47 11-12 200 freestyle relay 48 49 Open 200 freestyle relay 50 Session 3 Saturday Distance 51 Open 1650 freestyle 52
Session 4 Sunday AM 53 10 & under 100 IM 54 55 8 & under 50 freestyle 56 57 10 & under 50 freestyle 58 59 8 & under 25 breaststroke 60 61 10 & under 100 breaststroke 62 63 8 & under 50 backstroke 64 65 10 & under 50 backstroke 66 67 8 & under 25 butterfly 68 69 10 & under 100 butterfly 70 71 8 & under 100 freestyle 72 73 10 & under 200 freestyle 74 75 8 & under 100 freestyle relay 76 77 10 & under 200 freestyle relay 78 Session 5 Sunday PM 79 Open 500 freestyle 80 81 11-12 100 backstroke 82 83 Open 100 backstroke 84 85 11-12 50 breaststroke 86 87 Open 200 breaststroke 88 89 11-12 50 freestyle 90 91 Open 50 freestyle 92 93 11-12 100 butterfly 94 95 Open 100 butterfly 96 97 11-12 100 IM 98 99 Open 400 IM 100 101 11-12 200 medley relay 102 103 Open 200 medley relay 104 5- or 10-minute breaks may be inserted as needed in order to ensure that swimmers have approximately 20 minutes between events in the same age group. This does not apply to instances in which the same age group swims back-to-back events (e.g., the 10&U 50 fly and 200 IM on Sat AM).
Entry Summary Sheet FFSC Laura Manikas Memorial Classic February 3-4, 2018 Complete this form and mail it with your check (payable to Funky Fish Swim Club) to: Teresa Fish 3106 Yorkshire Ct. Bloomington, IL 61704 Number of Entries Cost per Entry Total Individual Events $3.00 Relays $7.00 Total # of Swimmers (ISI surcharge) $2.00 Total # of Swimmers ($10 surcharge in lieu of admissions) $10.00 TOTAL FEES: Name of Club: Phone Number: Address: Club ISI Code: Name of entry person: Phone Number: Address: Email: Coach Name: Email Phone In consideration of the acceptance of this entry, I, intending to be legally bound on behalf of myself, my club, and participants in the meet from my club, hereby consign, waive, and release any and all rights and claims for damages which may occur against USA Swimming, Inc. Illinois Swimming, Inc., Illinois Wesleyan University, Funky Fish Swim Club, their representatives, directors, officers, employees or successors, from any and all injuries suffered by me or any contestant or representative in said meet, as representative of my club. I further attest that all athletes included in this entry and participating in the sanctioned/approved event are duly registered as current athlete members of USA Swimming Inc. SIGNED (coach or club rep) TITLE DATE This signed release and your check must accompany entry or entry will not be accepted. Entries must be received no later than noon on January 22, 2018.