Swimming and Diving Advisory Committee Summary                                                                       

Held March 2, 2010                                                                                                                 

 

        1.    Recommended that entered team members, coaches, and managers (approximately 760 individuals on average) must have space on the deck, and that this requirement be placed in the meet specifications for the Request for Proposals for State Swimming and Diving. 

 

        2.    Recommended that the meet specifications within the Request for Proposals for State Swimming and Diving require the minimum area specified in NFHS Rule 9-1-1 in front of the diving board, and that a minimum of two warm-up lanes be required, with three preferred. 

 

        3.    Recommended the following state qualifying time changes for 2010-11:

Event

BOYS (yds)

GIRLS (yds)

200 Medley Relay

No change

No change

200 Freestyle

1:52.59

2:04.59

200 Individual Medley

No change

2:20.89

50 Freestyle

No change

25.99

100 Butterfly

57.29

No change

100 Freestyle

50.69

56.99

500 Freestyle

No change

No change

200 Freestyle Relay

No change

1:47.99

100 Backstroke

58.79

1:05.79

100 Breaststroke

1:05.59

No change

400 Freestyle Relay

No change

3:57.99

1M Diving

No change

No change

 

        4.    Recommended that the policy for the selection of state meet dive judges be modified to allow members of the Swimming Advisory Committee to select individuals that have a strong expertise in diving to judge at the state meet.  [Currently, advisory committee members may only select active interscholastic swimming or diving coaches to judge diving at the state meet.]

 

*       5.    Recommended that one statewide coaches association per sport, which is recognized by MSHSAA, be allowed to present up to four awards at the MSHSAA State Championship for the sport concerned. 

 

        6.    Recommended to the Handbook Review Committee that By-Law 162 be amended (Annual Ballot) to indicate that all interscholastic swim meets (despite level) be required to utilize at least one registered swimming official.

 

***    7.    Amended:  Recommended that the following short course events be allowed only at invitational, varsity meets as a Missouri State Adoption (as per NFHS Rule 5-1-1a), at the discretion of the host school.  Participation would count as an event toward the allowable number of events per individual and a first-leg performance in a RELAY that meets the state qualifying standard (only when fully automatic timing [FAT] is used) could count as a qualifying time for the corresponding shorter event.  This adoption would be allowed on an experimental basis for two years, and will be revisited by the Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors in the spring of 2012.

                        Events:

                        200 Butterfly

                        200 Backstroke

                        200 Breaststroke

                        400 Individual Medley

                        1000 Free

                        800 Free Relay

                        400 Medley Relay

 

***    8.    Amended:  Recommended that All-Relay Invitational Meets be allowed as a Missouri State Adoption (as per NFHS Rule 5-1-1a); such meets would include relay events only.

 

*              Denied

**             Tabled

***           Approved as Amended

****          No Action

               All Others Approved