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Virginia VISAA Swimming & Diving Championship Bishop Ireton High

Independent School & Fork Union
Schools Athletic
February 17-18, 2023 Military Academy
Association Liberty University
FRIDAY Swim Prelims 9:30am, Finals 6:00pm
Girls Diving Event 1:00pm
SATURDAY Swim Prelims 9:30am, Finals 6:00pm
Boys Diving Event 2:00pm

Dear All,

Bishop Ireton High School and Fork Union Military Academy are excited to share the 2023 VISAA State
Championship meet announcement. We are eager to bring our teams together at Liberty University for
an unforgettable experience - both in the water and on deck!

Coaches, please review this announcement in its entirety and be familiar with important deadlines. As a
reminder, it was our charge “to plan, design, and deliver the highest quality and most exciting
championship meet experience for high school swimmers and divers from Virginia’s independent schools
through and in the following order: good sportsmanship, team character, positive spirit, and quality
athleticism,” and we hope to do so!

Please visit the VISAA Swim Cloud site for any information pertaining to the meet, including psych
sheets, heat sheets, meet photography, and more. Spectator tickets will be available for purchase
online here on January 1, 2023.

Kaitlyn Gerke, Bishop Ireton Head Coach

Jon Larson, Fork Union Military Academy Head Coach

Important Deadlines
Deadline/Date

Warm-up Requests sent to Kaitlyn Gerke & Jon Larson Monday, January 30 by 11:59PM

Athlete Waiver Requests sent to Evan Stiles Monday, January 30 by 11:59PM

Meet Entries submitted in SwimCloud Sunday, February 12 by 11:59PM

Dive Sheets completed on Clean Entries Sunday, February 12 by 11:59PM

Corrected entries (if necessary) submitted in SwimCloud Monday, February 13 by 11:59PM

Preliminary Psych Sheet published Tuesday, February 14 by 12:00PM

Final Psych Sheet published Wednesday, February 15 by 12:00PM

Meet Location Liberty University Natatorium

1521 Liberty Mountain Dr
Lynchburg, VA 24515
https://www.liberty.edu/flames/athletics-facilities/natatorium/
Meet Facility The facility features a nine-lane, 50-meter pool with a movable bulkhead.
An additional eleven-lane pool is used for warm-up/cool-down. A separate
17-foot-deep diving well includes 1- and 3-meter springboards and a
three-column tower, featuring 1, 3, 5, 7.5 and 10-meter platforms.

Meet Directors Kaitlyn Gerke, Bishop Ireton High School, [email protected]

Jon Larson, Fork Union Military Academy, [email protected]

Subcommittee Officiating Bill Gill, Norfolk Academy

Chairpersons
Entry Coordinators Bucka Watson, St. Christopher’s
Mike Peters, Collegiate School

Timing & Scoring Bill Dealey, Seton School

Senior Parade Denis Schmidt, St. Gertrude/Benedictine

Hospitality Dawn Foley, St. Paul VI

Awards Kristen Kirkman, Norfolk Academy

Diving Coordinator Diane Maiese, [email protected]

Ready Room Coordinator Julia Robbins, St. Anne's-Belfield

Meet Announcer Trish Buswell, Bishop O’Connell

Live Streaming Woodberry Forest

SwimCloud Webmaster Mike Peters, Collegiate School

Meet Photography Caroline Gerke, Bishop Ireton

Meet Vendor Swim & Tri

Warm-up Assignments Jon Larson, Fork Union Military Academy

Kaitlyn Gerke, Bishop Ireton

Meet Clerk Joe Ferguson, Bishop Ireton

Rules The Meet will be governed by 2022-2023 National Federation High

School Swimming and Diving rules for championship meets.

Eligibility ● The meet is open to current 8th-12th grade students.

● Athletes must be in good standing with the school he/she
represents.
● Athletes must be no older than 19 years of age on August 1st
immediately prior to the championship meet.
● A swimmer must have achieved the VISAA qualifying time established
for the events entered. The qualifying time must be swum in a VISAA

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 meet during the current season.
○ A VISAA meet is a multi-team meet officiated by certified
starter/referee and stroke and turn judges, in which an athlete
represents their school.
○ Times must be recorded with either a touchpad or at least two
watches.
○ Times swum in a single team time trial do not count.
● To ensure promotion of High School Swimming student-athletes must
participate in at least half of their team’s in-season meets.
● Waivers may be requested from a committee that consists of: the Meet
Directors, VISAA Swimming President, Head Referee, and Diving
Coordinator (if necessary).
● Waivers may be allowed in very limited cases, including:
○ Swimmers involved in school sponsored exchange programs
○ Prolonged sickness or other approved medical reasons.
● Waivers must be submitted by Monday, January 30th to VISAA
Swimming President, Evan Stiles at [email protected]

Entry Rules ● Individual Events

○ Any eligible swimmer who has swum the qualifying time for
an individual event during the 2022-2023 season may be
entered in that event.
○ Each team is allowed unlimited entries in individual events,
but only a team’s top four (4) qualifiers are eligible for
Championship or Consolation Finals.
■ In the event any team qualifies more than 4
swimmers in the top 16 during prelims, the coach
must designate which 4 swimmers will compete in
finals. Designations are due to the timing & scoring
operator 15-minutes prior to the end of prelims.
○ An individual swimmer may swim no more than two (2)
individual events and no more than four (4) total events,
including relays.
● Bonus 50 Free
○ Any swimmer that qualified for the meet in an individual
or relay event, and meets the Bonus qualification time, is
eligible to enter the Bonus 50 Freestyle.
○ Entry in the event will count toward a swimmer’s event
total.
○ Bonus event swimmers are not eligible to score points in
the event.
○ A relay only swimmer entered in the bonus 50 free
must participate in at least one relay.
● Relays
○ Each team that had a relay swim the qualifying time
during the season may enter a single “A” relay in that
relay event.
○ Any swimmer who participates in a relay during the season
that meets the VISAA State qualifying time is eligible to swim
in that relay event.
○ Any swimmer who has qualified for an individual event,

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 including diving, is eligible to swim in any relay at States.
○ Each team may enter one exhibition “B” Relay in all three
relay events, but every swimmer on that relay must have
qualified either individually or on a relay that met the
qualifying time during the season. “B” Relays may not
score.
○ Relays may be entered without swimmers’ names, but final
relay cards are due prior to the race.
○ Swimmers who participate in a “B” Relay during the
preliminary session may compete in an “A” Relay of the
same event during finals. This will still count as 1 event for
the swimmer.
● Relay Cards
○ 200 Medley Relay Cards specifying the relay line-up shall be
submitted 30 minutes prior to the start of the session.
○ 200 Free Relay Cards specifying the relay line-up shall
be submitted prior to the conclusion of the Women's
500 Freestyle.
○ 400 Free Relay Cards specifying the relay line-up shall
be submitted prior to the conclusion of the Women’s
100 Breaststroke.
○ Swimmers whose names are submitted on the relay cards
must swim that event, in the order listed on the card, unless
the Meet Referee allows for a substitution.
○ Any team that does not submit a relay card by the deadline
must swim the relay as listed in the meet program.
○ If enforcement of this regulation causes a swimmer’s total
event count to exceed four (4) total events, the
swimmer/relay is subject to the following NFHS regulation:
■ The competitor(s) is/are disqualified from that event
and further competition.
● The competitor(s) shall not be disqualified from events in
subsequent rounds for which he/she has previously, legally qualified.

Entry Submission All entries must be submitted to Swimcloud by Sunday, February 12, 11:59pm.
● Go to the Home page of the VISAA Swimming & Diving State
Championship webpage.
● Select either:
○ Add entries by event
○ Add entries by swimmer

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 ● Entries must include first and last name, gender, grade level and seed
times. Seed times should be actual or converted short-course yard times
that meet the qualifying standards.
● All times for entry must be in results of a meet that has been uploaded to
Swimcloud.
○ If you have any questions on how to upload a meet, please click
here.
● Except for relays, all entries are final once they are submitted.
● Once submitted, teams will receive a confirmation email with an attached
list of that team’s official entries by Monday, February 13.
○ It is the responsibility of the person submitting the entries to verify
that the entries were received accurately.
○ Entries that do not meet the requirements will be rejected.
○ Corrected entries (if necessary) are due Monday, February 13,
11:59pm.
● The final psych sheet will be published on SwimCloud on Wednesday,
February 15
○ No changes can be made to the preliminary psych sheet after it’s
published. Only clerical corrections will be allowed.
● All entries, including divers, must be submitted in Swimcloud. No HyTek,
manual or hardcopy entries will be accepted.
● Meet entry fees: $6.00/individual event; $30.00/relay; $5.00/athlete
surcharge; $400 cap per team
○ An invoice will be sent directly to the Athletic Director of each
participating school in order to collect each team’s respective
entry fees following the VISAA meet.

Diving ● The Diving portion is hosted by Dive Coordinator, Diane Maiese

○ Diane can be reached at: [email protected] or (856)816-0153
● All Diving Coaches should make contact with Coach Diane as soon as
possible so she can communicate meet details to them directly.
● Diving entries are restricted to athletes that can prove they can
successfully complete eleven (11) dives necessary for a championship
event.
● All divers must have successfully completed each dive in their list during
the regular season and have earned a minimum award of two-and-a-half
(2.5) from three (3) scoring judges.
○ Awards that are dropped and not used in calculating the dive total
score may not be used.
● Divers that fail two dives will be disqualified from the competition.
● Dive selection must comply with 2022-2023 National Federation High
School Swimming and Diving Rule 9, Section 4, Article 1.
● Diving Entries should be entered with Swimcloud along with the
swimmers by February 12.
○ Dive entries will be coordinated through Clean Entries at the
following link: https://www.cleanentries.com/allmeets.aspx

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 ○ Please navigate to the above website and, when available, you
will find the 2023 VISAA Championship meet in order to
complete your entries.
○ Only divers that submit diving sheets through Clean Entries by
the deadline will be entered in the meet.
○ Changes are permitted until 60 minutes prior to the start of the
diving competition.
● All schools that enter one or more divers must supply one volunteer to
assist with the administration of the diving competition.
● The competition order of divers will be determined by random drawing
by the Dive Coordinator.
● All Diving coaches will meet in the hospitality room to coordinate final
details of the diving competition.
● Diving results will be announced immediately after each event. Awards
for the top-8 will be presented during finals Saturday evening, following
the first swimming event. The coach of the first-place diver will present
the awards.

Meet Format Qualified swimmers will participate in Preliminaries on Friday and Saturday
morning. The eight (8) fastest swimmers will return in the evening to swim in
the Championship Finals. The next eight (8) fastest swimmers in preliminaries
will return in the evening to swim in the Consolation Finals.

Warmup ● Submit requests for any/all warmup slots to Kaitlyn Gerke

Time [email protected] and Jon Larson [email protected] by
Requests/ 11:59pm, January 30.
Lane ● If a request is made for a late warmup on one day, you will most likely
Assignments have an early warmup for the other day.
● Following the submission deadline, warmup assignments will be posted
to SwimCloud and distributed via email following the request deadline.

Thursday Session I: 4-4:30 pm 16 Lanes per session - Assignments will

Night Session II: 4:30-5 pm be posted on SwimCloud following
Warm-up Session III: 5:30-6 pm warm-up deadline requests
Schedule: Session IV: 6-6:30 pm
Session V: 6:30-7 pm

Diving Warm-up: 4-7pm Diving boards are open to all teams at

any point during Thursday warm-up.

Packet Pick Up Coach packets can be picked up from Kaitlyn Gerke, Jon Larson or Joe Ferguson
at Liberty during warmups Thursday evening. Bill Gill will also be available at that
time to answer any questions regarding officiating of the meet. Coaches are
responsible for having access to all of the information in the packets and in this
meet announcement.

Friday Swim Warm-up I: 7:45–8:10 am 16 Lanes - Team Assignments TBD

Preliminaries
Schedule Warm-up II: 8:10–8:35 am 16 Lanes - Team Assignments TBD

Warm-up III: 8:35–9:00 am 16 Lanes - Team Assignments TBD

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 Final Warmup: 9:00-9:15 am ● Lanes 1,2+9 – Relay Starts
● Lanes 3-8 – One way sprints
● Warm down pool (7 lanes) –
Continuous swim

Officials Meeting: 8:15 am Hospitality Room

Coaches Meeting: 8:30 am Hospitality Room

Timers Meeting: 9:00 am Hospitality Room

National Anthem: 9:25 am

Preliminaries Start: 9:30 am Events 1 through 12, excluding

diving events 9-10

Annual VISAA Coaches Meeting Hospitality Room

immediately following prelims

Friday Coaches Meeting: 11:00 am Hospitality Room for all dive coaches
Girl’s (boy’s and girl’s team coaches)
Diving
Girl’s Warm-Up: 12:00-1:00 pm All 1 meter boards open

Girl’s Diving Event: 1:00 pm

Friday Swim Open Warm-up: 4:30–5:45 pm All Lanes – Open Warm-up

Finals Schedule Lanes 1-9 (Competition pool) only for
swimmers participating in Finals on
Friday night

Final Warm-up: 5:45-6:00 pm ● Lanes 1,2+9 – Relay Starts

● Lanes 3-8 – One way sprints
● Warm down pool (7 lanes) –
Continuous swim

Officials Meeting: 5:30 pm Hospitality Room

Timers Meeting: 6:00 pm Hospitality Room

National Anthem: 6:05 pm

Finals Start: 6:10 pm Events 1 through 12, excluding diving

events 9-10

Medal Ceremonies Medals for each boy’s and girl’s event

will be presented in a single break after
the Championship Finals of the next
boy’s and girl’s events. Coach of the
first place finisher will present the
awards.

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 Saturday Warm-up I: 7:45–8:10 am 16 Lanes - Team Assignments TBD
Swim
Preliminaries Warm-up II: 8:10–8:35 am 16 Lanes - Team Assignments TBD
Schedule
Warm-up III: 8:35–9:00 am 16 Lanes - Team Assignments TBD

Final Warmup: 9:00-9:15 am ● Lanes 1,2+9 – Relay Starts

● Lanes 3-8 – One way sprints
● Warm down pool (7 lanes) –
Continuous swim

Officials Meeting: 8:15 am Hospitality Room

Timers Meeting: 9:00 am Hospitality Room

National Anthem: 9:25 am

Preliminaries Start: 9:30 am Events 13 through 24

Continuous Warm-up/Warm-down Warm-up pool – 7 lanes

Saturday Men’s Warm-up: 1:00-2:00 pm All 1 meter boards open

Boy’s Diving
Men’s Diving Event: 2:00 pm

Saturday Open Warm-up: 4:00-4:30 pm 16 Lanes – Open Warm-up

Swim Finals Lanes 1-9 (Competition pool) only for
Schedule swimmers participating in Finals

Final Warm-up: 4:30-5:00 pm ● Lanes 1,2+9 – Relay Starts

● Lanes 3-8 – One way sprints
● Warm down pool (7 lanes) –
Continuous swim

Officials Meeting: 4:45 pm Hospitality Room

Timers Meeting: 5:00 pm Hospitality Room

Line up for Senior Parade: 5:15 pm

Senior Parade: 5:30 pm See guidelines on page 14

National Anthem: 5:55 pm

Finals Start: 6:00 pm Events 9, 10 and 13-24

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 Medal Ceremonies Medals for each boy’s and girl’s event
will be presented in a single break after
the Championship Finals of the next
boy’s and girl’s events.
Coach of the first place finisher will
present or designate a person to give out
awards.

Order of Events GIRLS EVENT DAY BOYS

1 200 Medley Relay Friday 2

3 200 Freestyle Friday 4

5 200 Individual Friday 6

Medley

7 50 Freestyle Friday 8

101 50 Freestyle - Friday 102

BONUS

9 Women’s Diving Friday

Men’s Diving Saturday 10

11 100 Butterfly Friday 12

13 100 Freestyle Saturday 14

15 500 Freestyle Saturday 16

17 200 Free Relay Saturday 18

19 100 Backstroke Saturday 20

21 100 Breaststroke Saturday 22

23 400 Free Relay Saturday 24

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Meet WOMEN EVENT MEN
Qualifying
Times SCY SCM SCY SCM

2:14.01 2:30.25 200 Medley Relay 1:57.18 2:10.07

2:13.44 2:28.12 200 Freestyle 2:01.47 2:14.83

2:29.40 2:47.52 200 Individual Medley 2:18.04 2:33.23

26.96 29.92 50 Freestyle 24.14 26.95

28.96 32.14 50 Freestyle - Bonus 26.14 29.17

Diving: Proof > 2.5 of successfully completing all 11 dives

1:06.82 1:14.91 100 Butterfly 1:01.02 1:07.73

59.70 1:06.10 100 Freestyle 53.09 59.04

5:58.88 5:15.54 500 Freestyle 5:41.90 4:59.16

1:58.53 2:11.57 200 Freestyle Relay 1:43.26 1:54.62

1:06.85 1:14.96 100 Backstroke 1:02.90 1:09.81

1:16.38 1:25.63 100 Breaststroke 1:08.79 1:17.12

4:38.24 5:08.85 400 Freestyle Relay 3:59.45 4:25.79

USA Observed ● USA Swimming certified officials will be on deck.

Swims ● For times to be recognized by Virginia Swimming, the athletes USA
Swimming ID number must be included in your entry file. This requires
each coach to put the swimmers USA Swimming ID in the swimmers
profile on the Swimcloud team roster prior to entering entries.

Meet ● General Admission Fees are available for purchase as a day pass. This will
Spectators & allow entry for any or all sessions on that day.
Admission ○ Friday: $10 per person
Fees ○ Saturday: $10 per person
○ Family Rate (2 adults + children): $30 per day
● Team members in uniform are free
● Tickets may be purchased in advance of the event at TicketSpicket.com:
○ Tickets will need to be purchase for both day 1 and day 2
○ All members of a pre-paid party must be present when entering
the meet
● Spectators should go to swimcloud for all meet information, including
heat sheets for both prelims and finals.
● Spectators must remain in the designated spectator bleachers.

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Timer ● School’s mentioned below are responsible for providing timer(s) as
Assignments outlined below. The Head Timer may adjust lane assignments.

FRIDAY PRELIMINARIES SATURDAY PRELIMINARIES

Lane School Lane School

1 Covenant (1)/Veritas (1) 1 Potomac (2)

2 North Cross (1)/ VES (1) 2 Trinity Christian (2)

3 St. Christopher’s (2) 3 St. Catherine’s (2)

4 Fredericksburg Christian (2) 4 Bishop Ireton (2)

5 Seton School (2) 5 Seton School (2)

6 Cape Henry (1)/ 6 Norfolk Christian (1)/

Norfolk Collegiate (1) Roanoke Catholic (1)

7 Collegiate (2) 7 St. Anne’s-Belfield (2)

8 Highland (2) 8 Saint John Paul (2)

FRIDAY FINALS SATURDAY FINALS

Lane School Lane School

1 Hampton Roads (2) 1 Oakcrest(1)/Madeira (1)

2 Flint Hill (2) 2 Collegiate (2)

3 St. Catherine’s (2) 3 St. Christopher’s (2)

4 Bishop O’Connell (2) 4 Hampton Roads (2)

5 Bishop Ireton (2) 5 Bishop O’Connell (2)

6 Norfolk Academy (2) 6 Norfolk Academy (2)

7 St. Gertrude’s/Benedictine (2) 7 Paul VI (2)

8 Trinity Episcopal (2) 8 Trinity Episcopal (2)

Scoring ● For individual events, the first 16 places in the Championship and
Consolation Finals will be awarded points in the following manner:
20-17-16-15-14-13-12- 11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.
● For relay events, the first 16 places in the Championship and Consolation
Finals will be awarded points in the following manner:
40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22-18- 14-12-10-8-6-4-2.
● No swimmer or relay in the Consolation Finals may score ahead of a
swimmer or relay in the Championship Finals.
● No Bonus swimmers may score points in the Bonus event.

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Timing ● Timing will be done using the Omega Timing System.

Results ● Live results will be posted on Meet Mobile. Full results will be posted
on SwimCloud and Meet Mobile.
● Printed copies of the meet results will be posted on deck.

Starting ● The Referee and Starter will use the standard USA Swimming whistle
Procedures start.
for Prelims ● The procedure is as follows:
and Finals ○ 4 or 5 consecutive whistles means get ready.
○ The Announcer will announce the event.
○ 1 long whistle means to step up on the block (into the pool for
backstroke).
○ For backstroke only, there will be another long whistle in lieu of a
command to place your feet.
○ The starter will simply say “Take Your Mark,” and a horn will signal
the start.
● Dive over starts will be used for Prelims, but not Finals.
● For each Final Event:
○ Swim the Consolation Finals (Preliminary qualifier 9 thru 16).
○ Parade the top 8 qualifiers to the blocks with music selected by the
top qualifier.
○ Swim the Championship Finals.
○ After both the girls and boys have completed a particular event, we
will present medals to the top 8 girl and boy finishers from the two
previous events.

Scratch ● Scratches will not be accepted for Preliminary events.

Procedures ● Swimmers may declare a false start by reporting to the head official prior to
for PRELIMS his or her event.
● A declared false start will count towards the event total of a swimmer but
will not cause any further penalties, such as removal from the meet.
● Any swimmer who misses his or her event during prelims will be scratched
from the remainder of the meet and may not compete in any relay events.
○ If the swimmer qualified for Consolation Finals or Finals prior to his
or her missed event, he or she may still compete in that event at
night.

Scratch ● Scratch Cards will be available from the scoring/timing table.

Procedures ● Any athlete/relay that wishes to scratch an event for which they have
for FINALS qualified to compete in finals or consolation finals is expected to fill out a
scratch card.
● Scratch cards for all events must be turned in to the scoring/timing table no
later than 30-minutes after the conclusion of the preliminary session.

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Seeding/ ● All events will be seeded in advance, and lanes will be assigned based on
Alternates the times submitted by the coaches.
● For prelims, heats will be seeded from slowest to fastest with the final three
heats circle seeded.
● The first and second alternates for the Finals events should be behind the
starter at the beginning of the event for which they are an alternate.
○ In the event a swimmer is not present for his/her event, the starter
will call one time for an alternate. If no alternate is readily available,
the heat will begin.

Music/ ● Top qualifiers may select a pre-race song of their choice for Finals.
Procession ○ Inappropriate song selections will not be played.
Leader for ○ Music selections must be delivered to the Meet Announcer by
Top the end of the prelim session.
Qualifier ● Top qualifiers may also select an individual(s) to lead the procession
of finalists to the blocks.

Meet Dispute ● Any coach may file a protest with the Head Referee for matters not
Procedure specifically covered by the rules or a misapplication of the rules.
○ Judgment calls are not subject to protest.
○ Concerns over Stroke and Turn disqualifications may be referred to
the Head Referee but cannot be protested unless the concern is a
misapplication of the rules.
● If such an event occurs, a “Meet Committee'' consisting of; the VISAA
President, the VISAA Meet Director (for swimming and administrative
issues) or Diving Coordinator (for diving issues), the VISAA Regional
Representatives and the VISAA Secretary, will have the authority to settle
such disputes.
● The Meet Committee will have the original disqualification explained to
them with all involved parties present, after which anyone else that wishes
to speak will have their opportunity.
● Once the committee convenes and reaches a final decision, the VISAA
President will communicate the decision.

Deck ● Athletes are not permitted to remove their swimsuits outside of the locker
Changing rooms to include ‘deck changing.’
and Shaving ● Shaving is not permitted within Liberty University Natatorium.
● Athletes who deck change or shave onsite may be sanctioned up to and
including ejection from the meet at the discretion of the Meet Referee.

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 Competition ● Prior to the 2010 meet, the National Federation of High Schools
Swimsuits announced that speed suits are banned from high school competition.
and Caps ○ All suits must be made of a textile fabric.
○ Boys can only wear jammers or briefs – nothing above the waist
or below the knee will be allowed.
○ Girls cannot wear suits that cover the shoulders or go below the
knee. Suits cannot have zippers or other fasteners.
○ Swimmers may only wear one suit during the competition.
○ However, swimmers may wear more than one swim cap
during competition, but the team cap must be on the
outside.
● Only school or manufacturer logos should be visible on swimsuits and
swim caps. Club team caps are not allowed.

Hospitality ● A Hospitality room for Coaches and Officials will be established in the
wet room off the pool deck.

Apparel ● State Meet apparel will be for sale both days by Swim & Tri. An online shop
will also be available on SwimCloud.

Photography ● Photos will be available for download free of charge from meet
photographer, Caroline Gerke’s website. Once available, the link will be
posted to swim cloud and emailed to coaches.

Team Seating ● Only credentialed team members, coaches and officials will be allowed on
the pool deck.
● Team areas will be in the bleachers and pool deck on either side of the
pool.
● There will be a watch and go section for swimmers to cheer for teammates
along the competition pool. Teams should not camp out here!

Webcast ● The Woodberry Forest School Production Network (WFSPN) will be

providing a commentated, live–stream of the entire swimming portion of
the meet to include several interviews of athletes and coaches.
https://www.wfspn.org
● There will be a direct link to the live stream through SwimCloud.

Senior Parade Prior to Saturday night Finals, we will run a Senior Parade to recognize all seniors.
The parade is a time of celebration and spirit and seniors are encouraged to dress
for the occasion! A committee made up of the Meet Director(s), VISAA Swimming
President, and Senior Parade Coordinator will walk down the line of seniors prior to
the parade to ensure outfits are appropriate and sportsmanlike:
● Athletes are encouraged to wear their school warm-ups or other
school-related attire. Non-school apparel must be appropriate!
● Athletes may get creative with accessories to their outfits, however no
face or body paint is allowed.
● Athletes that do not comply with the guidelines will be asked to remove
the offensive material. If they choose not to comply, they will not be
permitted to walk in the Senior Parade.

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Awards ● Overall Team State Champion: Men & Women
● Division II Team State Champion: Men & Women
● Overall Team State Runner-up: Men & Women
● Division II Team State Runner-up: Men & Women
● All-State: Top 3 finishers in each event
● Medals: Top 8 finishers in each event
● The following special awards will be presented based on the results of voting
by the coaches. Each school is allocated one vote:
○ Male & Female Swimmer of the meet
○ Male & Female Diver of the meet
○ Male Team & Female Team Swimming Coach of the year
○ Male Team & Female Team Diving Coach of the year
● Sportsmanship: Men & Women (recognized, but not awarded a trophy)
● Spirit: Men & Women (recognized, but not awarded a trophy)

Inclement ● In the event of inclement weather, the executive committee will work
Weather alongside the Executive Director of the VISAA to enact one of the following
Contingency contingency plans. Teams are encouraged to check SwimCloud.com in the
Plans event of inclement weather.
● Contingency Plan A:
○ The format of the meet will remain the same but will shift back by 1
day. The Thursday evening warm-up session would be moved back
to Friday evening and the Friday/Saturday events would be
switched to Saturday/Sunday, respectively.
○ Diving events will take place between preliminary and final sessions
and Friday/Saturday sessions would be moved back to
Saturday/Sunday, respectively.
● Contingency Plan B:
○ The format of the meet will be condensed, combining all
preliminary heats into 1 session, both male and female diving into 1
session, and all final heats into 1 session. Warm-ups will be
scheduled to take place on Friday morning/afternoon and session 1
(all preliminary heats) will be swum Friday afternoon/evening. All
divers will compete Saturday morning (session 2). All final rounds
will be swum in session 3 on Saturday evening.

Pool Rules As guests of Liberty University, all rules and regulations of Liberty University
Natatorium must be followed. Pool rules and policies can be reviewed here.

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