Swim Kentucky Masters Invitational

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Registration Schedule

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Entry Fees & Deadlines:  An entry fee of $40 will be charged for on-line entries received until Saturday, May 18th, at 12:00 p.m. EDT.  Maximum entries are four individual events, plus relays.

An entry fee of $50 will be charged for all paper entries. This fee is for paper entries received by the paper entry deadline, late entries, and entries accepted the day of the meet. Checks are preferred. Maximum entries is (4) Four Individual events for the meet, plus relays. Make checks payable to Swim Kentucky Masters. Paper entries are to be received by Thursday, May 16th, 2024.  Paper Entries received after May 16th will be considered Late Entries and will be treated as Deck Entries.
Send all paper entries to Tom Coons, Clear Creek Family Activity Center, 717 Burks Branch Rd, Shelbyville, KY 40065.

Deck Entry Deadline: Paper deck entries will be accepted from 10:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. EDT, the day of the meet at the facility.  The fees for the paper entries received late and as deck entries (day of the meet) is $50.00 
Relay only entries is a $10.00 surcharge at the meet.

Eligibility: All swimmers must be registered with United States Masters Swimming, Inc. Each swimmer is responsible for his/her USMS card and may be required to show it upon request by officials.
To be entered, a copy of the swimmer’s current USMS registration card MUST accompany the paper entry form. The meet entry should display your registered name, USMS number and USMS club or SKY workout group name, according to your USMS card.
Unattached swimmers shall be noted as “UC-(LMSC #).”  Unattached swimmers are not eligible to swim on relays.
Each swimmer is eligible to enter and swim a maximum of four individual events for the meet, plus relays. There shall be no “exhibition” swims.

Age: The age reported on your entry form must reflect the swimmer’s age as of 05/19/2024.   Swimmers 18-24 years old competing in USMS meets may jeopardize their NCAA eligibility.

Warm-Up/Warm-Down Breaks: Swimmers must enter the pool feet first in a cautious manner. Diving shall be permitted only during the 10:15 am warmup period, in the designated lanes.  USMS article 102.4 is in effect.

Lane Assignments: Each event will be deck seeded by the pre-entered seed time of each swimmer with the slower heats first. All events shall have seed times.  Swimmers will be seeded according to time regardless of age. Women and men will be seeded together in heats. Swimmers are responsible for reporting to the blocks on time for their appropriate heat and lane for each event.  The meet will be seeded when check-in and deck entries close and heat and lane assignments will then be posted around the venue.

Split Requests: Swimmers requesting splits shall complete a Split Request forms.  Swims that meet the requirements of USMS Rule 105.2.2 shall be recorded and submitted to USMS.
Splits times, which meet the requirements of USMS Rule 105.2.2, will be submitted to USMS for all swimmers in relay lead-offs and 50, 100, and 200 yards splits from the 500-yard freestyle,.

*400 Individual Medley & 500 Freestyle: The 400 Individual Medley and the 500 Freestyle shall be men and women seeded together, by event with the 400 IM first. Both events together shall be limited to the first 32 entries received. An athlete may only enter and swim, either the 400 IM or the 500 free, but not both.  500 Swimmers shall provide their own personnel to count for them. Lap counters will be provided.

Team Representatives: All USMS registered teams should inform the meet director or the clerk of course of one official team representative before the start of event #1, or upon the team’s arrival.

800 Yd Relay: The 800 Y relay will be deck entered.  Relay teams may be entered as MEN, WOMEN, or MIXED, but teams of all types will be seeded together in the same heats, and then scored separately. Swimmers shall swim only one relay.  No swimmer may swim on both a mixed and a same-sex team in the same event. Relays should display the USMS club and the USMS registered name of each swimmer on the relay card. 
Relay cards are to be picked up from the head table, by the coach or team representative who is responsible for printing legibly all information required. Each card shall include: each swimmer’s name as registered with USMS in order swum on relay; first name, last name, age, and sex. The youngest age of the four relay team members shall determine the age group. Relay cards should be returned to the head table by the announced deadline. There shall be no “exhibition” relay swims.

Protests: Any protests concerning seed times, awards, final results, eligibility, or entries will be addressed to the Meet Director, or Referee. A protest shall be made by the team representative only.

Real-time results and event psych sheet should be posted by noon on Saturday, May 18th, on Meet Mobile and at www.Swim-Meets.TingleyLLC.com/2024/24SKYInvite.

Facility Restrictions: No smoking or alcoholic beverages are allowed on the premises.

Meet Director: Tom Coons, Clear Creek Family Activity Center, 717 Burks Branch Rd, Shelbyville, KY 40065
                         Email: FACAqDr@gmail.com                     Home telephone: 773-991-8255

Note: If paying by credit card, your credit card statement will reflect a charge from "TINGLEY LLC."