Swimmers
intending to go to Districts/Jr. Districts must have
3 Y meets. High School swimmers must have 2 meets."
Please email Coach Bob to be added to upcoming dual
meets.
About Meets:
Please find on this site the
Meet Schedule form. Save it to your computer, open
it, fill out the NAME area, type an X on the chosen
days, save it again with your swimmer’s name as part
of the file name (meet schedule 2008-9 Joe Schmoe,
or Joe_Jane_Chris Schmoe). Send a copy to me at
porpoise.coach @ yahoo.com. Print a copy for your
refrigerator collection. Return the Meet Schedule
ASAP, before September 25th.
The Heritage YMCA encourages
participation in swim meets. The fees for “Y”
invitationals will be paid by the Heritage YMCA.
Fees for USAS/ISI meets will NOT be paid by the
Heritage YMCA. You will be billed for all fees for
USAS/ISI meets. If you miss a “Y” invitational (No
Show), you will be billed for the missed events.
Events at both “Y” and USAS/ISI meets are generally
$3.50 for each event
USAS (ISI) Registration
If you want your swimmer to
take advantage of more meets, closer to home, then
you might want to sign your swimmer up for the USAS
(ISI) swimming. Click on the “ISI form” button, it
downloads as a pdf file. Print the form. Fill out
the form. Make a Xerox of the filled out form for
your records. Send the form and a check ($60 made
out to “Heritage YMCA” with the memo ISI
Registration) to either me at practice, or through
the mail to Erica Kroll at the Kroehler YMCA, 34 S.
Washington, Naperville, IL, 60540.
There are 3 kinds of meets this
year:
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Y dual meets. The YMCA
encourages meets between Y teams. Dual meets are
2 (and sometimes 3) teams agreeing to meet and
swim each other. Dual meets usually take 3-1/2
hours (1/2 hour warm up and 3 hours of racing).
Parents are asked to help with timing,
officiating and bullpen. There is no fee for Y
Dual meets.
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Y Invitational: Some Y’s
have a larger meets where several teams are
invited. Invitationals usually are scheduled for
2 or 3 days, with different ages swimming in
either the AM or PM sessions. I.e.: 9-10’s and
11-12’s might swim 7-Noon, then 8-Unders +
13-Overs swim from Noon to 5PM. These meets do
cost per event swum, but the Naperville
(Heritage Group) YMCA encourages participation
by paying the fees for Y Invitationals
(sometimes called “Y closed” Invitationals). If
you have to withdraw from a meet, please notify
Coach Bob 4 weeks before the meet.
If you are a “No Show” for a “Y” Invitational,
you will be charged for the missed events.
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ISI Invitationals: If you
have sent your ISI registration form and check
in to Erica, you are eligible to go to ISI
meets. These ISI Invitationals are generally
close to home and offer a variety of events. You
will have to pay for each event that you swim (a
bill will be prepared for you at the Kroehler
YMCA front desk) before the meet takes place.
The fee is usually $2 to enter a swimmer, then
$3.50 for each event that a swimmer is signed up
for. Usually there are 4 or 5 events per day,
including relays.
Coaches will make the event
choices. Coaches will send the meet entry to the
host team and post the entry to the team.
If you have to withdraw from a
meet, please notify Coach Bob 4 weeks before the
meet.
If you are a “No Show” for a
“Y” Invitational, you will be charged for the missed
events.
Some Invitationals fill up
before all the teams that want to swim can get into
the meet. We call this being “Shut Out”.
Championship Meets:
Districts and State 2009
Any swimmer, who is a member in
good standing in their YMCA swim team, and who has
been in 3 "Y" meets, should be entered in the
combined District/Jr. District meet. All team
members are strongly encouraged to participate in
the District/Jr. District meet.
Swimmers at the District/Jr.
District meet are allowed 4 swims, but only 3 swims
may be individual events (or 2 relays and 2
individual events). Swimmers may combine their
District and Jr. District events (i.e.: Jr. fly and
Jr. bk with District breast). All swims, District
and Jr. District, will take place in the same
session
State times can only be made at
the District meet. State times can only be made by
swimmers entered in Districts with a District
qualifying time (Jr. District events cannot qualify
for State). See the Time Standards page.
Districts/Jr. Districts will be held at UIC in
Chicago, February 28th. Girls swim in the morning,
Boys in the afternoon.
State is at DeKalb YMCA on March 20&21. Boys swim
Saturday, Girls on Sunday.
Meet Ages;
At “Y” dual and most “Y” closed invitationals,
the age of a swimmer is their age on December 1st.
At USAS/ISI meets, a swimmer’s age is their age
on the first day of the meet, which is often a
Friday, whether you are swimming on the first day or
not.
Meet dates are sometimes subject to
change. Meet packets (invitational meets only) and
driving directions for some swim meets are
available, look for links with additional
information (usually on the host team’s website
under “meets” or “hosted meets”.
Please be sure to arrive 15 -
30 minutes ahead of warm up times. Most meets
(invitationals) have positive check-ins. If a
swimmer does not check in, it is assumed that they
are not present and will be scratched from the meet.
All swimmers are required to warm up with the team
unless special arrangements have been made with
Coach Bob.
A swimmer must swim in 3 YMCA
sanctioned meets in order to compete in
Districts/Jr. Districts and State. The
Intersquad meet is NOT YMCA sanctioned and cannot
be counted towards the 3 meets. In order to sign up
for meets, parents must return a completed meet
signup form to Coach Bob by September 29th.
The front desks at Kroehler and Fry, will not accept
the forms. The Fry YMCA will
not accept meet registrations, forms or payments
(mail them to Erica, or give them to your coach).
If you
miss a Y Invitational meet (No Show) that you
registered for, you will be responsible for the cost
of your missed events (generally $3.50 per event).
To withdraw from a meet, notify Coach Bob by email 4
weeks ahead of the meet (that is when the Y has to
pay for the meet entries). USAS (ISI) meet payments
will be billed to each family when the entry goes
in. Pay at the Kroehler YMCA in person, or send your
by mail to Erica Kroll, Aquatics Director.
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