Swimming and Diving Advisory Committee Summary Final
Held March 4, 2015
1. Recommended no changes to the boys swimming event qualifying standards and the following three changes in the girls swimming event qualifying standards for next year:
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Event
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Girls (yds)
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200 Individual Medley
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2:18:49
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100 Butterfly
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1:02:69
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500 Freestyle
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5:30:39
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2. Recommended the following alteration to the diving qualifying standards for both boys and girls, to allow an option of qualifying for the state meet through a six-dive meet list or an eleven-dive meet list during the regular season:
Option 1. Six-Dive Meet List: Requirement of 230 points with 12.2 degree of difficulty minimum. This score and DD must be achieved in a six-dive meet. The competitor must complete all six dives. Divers may not pull six dives out of an eleven dive list to meet this requirement. The voluntary dive must come from the group of the week, and the five optional dives must represent all five dive groups for state qualification. Base dives (101, 201, 301, 401, 5111) may not be selected as optional dives for state qualification.
Option 2. Eleven-Dive Meet List: 356 points with no degree of difficulty requirement other than meeting the NFHS rule requirements for a legal list. The competitor must complete all eleven dives. Base dives (101, 201, 301, 401, 5111) may not be selected as optional dives for state qualification. Motion passed 6-0-1.
* 3. Recommended that the Board of Directors place an item on the 2016 Annual Ballot to remove the sport of swimming and diving from the coverage of By-Law 5.1.4 and to create an exception for both girls and boys swimming and diving that mandates two classes beginning with the 2016-17 school year.
4. Recommended that for the State Meets the diving announcer read only the dive number, position and the degree of difficulty as long as the full dive description is visible on the scoreboard at the venue. This procedure is allowed under the NFHS rules.
5. Recommended that diving practice on Friday at the State Meets be allowed to begin at the start of swimming warm ups (thus reducing warm-up lanes by 3) and be divided into two flights (1:15 – 3:30 and 3:30 – 5:45) alphabetically by school, to be reversed every other year. Divers from different schools who have the same approved Diving coach (listed as such on the Pass List) will be placed in the same flight. No changes were recommended for the Saturday diving warm-up schedule.
6. Recommended that at the State Meets, after the semifinal round of diving, the diving finalists are seeded for finals order based on their semi-final scores (lowest to highest).
7. Recommended that the Board extend the contract with the St. Peters Rec-Plex as the venue for the boys and girls state meets, without issuing a Request for Proposals, due to the Advisory Committee’s stance after discussion and facility review that the Rec-Plex is the most appropriate venue for our Championship Meet and the only facility that meets the minimum facility standards set by the committee.
* Denied
** Tabled
*** Approved as Amended
**** No Action
All Others Approved