FAQ

We will be following the USA Swimming guidelines in regards to tech suits.  

102.8 SWIMWEAR .1 Design F. No Technical Suit may be worn by any 12 & Under USA Swimming athlete member in competition at any Sanctioned, Approved or Observed meet. 

2) A Technical Suit is one that has the following components: 

a. Any suit with any bonded or taped seams regardless of its fabric or silhouette; or 

b. Any suit with woven fabric extending past the hips. (Note: WOVEN FABRIC-A suit with woven fabric and sewn seams that does not extend below the hips is permitted.) (Note: KNIT FABRIC-A suit with knit fabric and sewn seams not extending below the knees is permitted.) 

Identification, Approval and Enforcement Virtually all suits that fall within the definition of restricted tech suits have been through the FINA approval process and bear the FINA approved logo. Therefore, most suits that have the FINA approval logo are not legal for competition come September 1, 2020. There are a handful of suits in the market with the FINA logo that would be considered legal for Age Group competition. These suits will bear an additional green checkmark logo developed by USA Swimming to indicate approval (the two versions are to the right). Each manufacturer must submit a suit to USA Swimming to gain approval to use the checkmark on their suits. This green checkmark will only appear on suits that have the FINA logo-it will not be on all approved suits. All suits with the FINA logo and without the secondary approval logo will be easily identified as a restricted suit for 12 & under competition. There have been some questions from officials on “closer examination” of a suit. In most cases if a suit has the FINA approval logo it is not legal for 12-Under use. The burden of knowing if a suit is compliant or not is really on the parent, coach and swimmer. 

Individual Events

• 1st - 3rd place: medals

• 4th - 16th place: ribbons

Relays

• 1st - 6th place: medals

• 7th - 16th place: ribbons

There is an award ceremony for team awards about 90 minutes after the last final event once all scores are completed processing in the system. This will take place in the Atrium. No individual awards are presented at this time. Individual awards are sent home with team representatives.

Team & Conference Awards to be presented:

• Dual Meet Championship

• First, Second, Third Place Team Conference Trophies

• Age group Conference Trophies

• Sportsmanship Award Trophy

Individual Events

All individual events will have preliminary heats on Saturday. These events use circle seeding with the fastest time in lane 4 of the 3rd heat, second fastest time in lane 4 of 2nd heat, etc). On Sunday, seeds 1-8 (determined from preliminary heats on Saturday) will swim in the conference finals, seeds 9-16 will swim consolation heats, while seeds 17 and 18 will serve as alternates for possible re-seeding.

• Final Heat (1st - 8th place): 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11 

• Consolation Heat (9th - 16th place): 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 

Relays

All relays will swim timed finals on Sunday only. Exhibition “C” relays will swim in the first heat. All “B” relays will swim second, and “A” relays in the final heat and will be seeded according to submitted times at the seed meeting. If possible, “B” and “C” relays may be combined into a single heat. 

• Final Heat (1st - 8th place): 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22 

• Consolation Heat (9th -16th place): 18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2

Only one (1) relay per team may score in any given event. If two (2) relays from the same team place in the top six (6), their team will receive team points for the highest place finish only. The points for the lower finish will not be awarded at all. Both team relays will receive the accompanying awards/ribbons for their respective finish.

Swim-offs occur if two swimmers have the exact same time in preliminaries. These will determine the final heat in any event will be conducted on Saturday, following the completion of initial preliminary heats.

Don't worry, Simply Swimming will be on sight both Saturday and Sunday with essential swimming needs.