Champs entries are due in swimtopia by tomorrow night at 9pm, so we need you all to act quickly.  Please refer to the e-mail Matt sent out regarding Champs Qualifiers.  If your swimmer made a qualifying time, please go to swimtopia and mark your swimmer as attending or not.  From there, please send an e-mail to Sandi ([email protected]) to let her know what your swimmer would like to swim.  Since this is a quick turn around, please do this as soon as possible.  Champs information, location, and times are below.

Virginia Peninsula Swim Union Championship Meet 

Saturday, August 3, 2019 

Meet Invitation Location: WISC Aquatic Center, 5700 Warhill Trail, Williamsburg, VA 23188 

Facility: 25 meter indoor pool with non-turbulent lane markers with automatic timing system and scoreboard. Pool will be set up for 10-lane competition. 

Format: 

1. Split Session Format. All 11 and older men and women will swim in the morning session. All 10 and younger men and women will swim in the afternoon session. Relays will be swum at the beginning of the afternoon session. 

2. A.M. Session Warm-Ups 7:00 – 8:20 AM Meet starts 8:30 AM 

3. P.M. Session Warm-Ups –The 2nd half warm-up are planned to start by 11:00am. The Meet will start at 12:30 P.M. Please note, warm up sessions will occur during the morning session awards and prior to start of relays. The warm-up start schedule is subject to change based on how long the A.M. Session runs. 

4. There will be four 20-minute warm-up periods in each session. Lane assignments will be based on the number of swimmers from each team in each session and will be determined after entries are processed. The Final Warm-up schedule will be set up once all the entries are in and seeded. The Meet Director reserves the right to move Warmups to the appropriate time slots once all the entries are in. 

Events: The events will be the same as in dual meets but the event number (and order of events) order is different to accommodate the split session format. All events will be swum as timed finals. All individual events will be pre-seeded according to time. Heats will swim from slowest to fastest. Age 8 and younger swimmers will be required to report to the Clerk of Course when announced (approximately 10 minutes prior to swimming their events). A clerk of course will be in place throughout the meet. 9 and older swimmers that wish to report to the Clerk of Course may do so. It is the swimmer’s responsibility to report to the blocks at the proper time for their event. Legal Relay teams MUST be submitted with your entries. You can change the relays on the cards before sending them to the blocks.