Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad & Tobago A.S.A.T.T. INVITATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS SUMMONS The Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad & Tobago extends a cordial invitation to you to participate in the Invitational Age Group Championships to be held in Trinidad from Thursday, December 15th to Sunday, December 18th, 2011. (FINA Approval Pending) RULES: A. AGE GROUPS: 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over The Swimmer’s age on December 31, 2010 determines the age group within which he/she is eligible to swim. B: DATES, VENUE OF COMPETITION The competition will be held at Marlins 50-meter pool at St. Anthony’s College Grounds, Westmoorings, in accordance with the FINA rules in effect at that time. An 18-meter warm down pool is available at the venue. Schedule: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) C: D Arrival of Teams First day of competition Opening Ceremony Presentation of Awards - December 14th, 2011 December 15th,2011 December 16th, 2011 at 5:40 p.m. December 18th 2011 after events. ACCOMODATIONS: (i) Courtyard Mariott Hotel Tel #: 868-627-5555 (Group rates available Request “Marlins Group Rate” at time of booking) (ii) Hotel Normandie Tel #: 868-624-1181 (Group rates available) (iii) Cascadia Hotel, St. Anns. Tel #: 868-623-4208, 623-3511 (iv) Chaconia Inn, Maraval. Tel #: 868-628-0941, 622-2346 (v) Monique’s Guest House, Maraval. Tel #: 868-628-3334, 628-2351 (Group rates available - Request “Marlins Group Rate” at time of booking) (vi) Par-May-La’s Inn and Sundeck Suites, Port of Spain. Tel #: 868-628-2008, 628-4707 TRANSPORTATION: For transfers to and from Piarco International Airport as well as transfers from the respective hotels to the pool please contact the following: (ii) E: (i) Ms. Queenie Tel #: 868-759-6716 Peter Matthews Limousine & General Services Limited Tel #: 868-633-6263 QUALIFICATIONS: Competitors must be registered swimmers with the Federation of the country sanctioning their participation. All local swimmers must be registered with ASATT, and overseas teams must present to the Organizing Committee the sanction letter from their National Federation. F: REGISTRATION AND ENTRIES: Entries must be made in Hy-Tek Meet Manager format. (The required Hy-Tek format or the Excel entry spread sheet will be distributed separately by electronic mail and will be posted on www.marlins-tt.com or www.swimtt.com. Entries must (Affiliated to the FINA, CCCAN, and Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee) 1 be sent to jasonwickham@gmail.com must be in the hands of the Organizing Committee by Thursday December 8th, 2011. Entries not submitted in the prescribed entry forms or Meet Manager format will not be accepted. Mailing Address: Telephone Contacts: Marlins Swim Club St. Anthony’s College Morne Coco Road Diego Martin Trinidad W.I. E-mail: marlinstt@gmail.com Davina Stephenson 868-497-5157 (Se habla espanol) The following rules will apply to entries: 1. There is NO limit to the number of swimmers that a club may enter in the individual events; however, only the fastest two swimmers will score points for the club. There shall be neither substitutes nor alternates in individual events. 2. Each club may enter multiple teams per relay event. However, only one relay team per club will be allowed to score for points. Each club will designate the scoring relay as the “A” relay. 3. There shall be no restriction on the number of events within which a competitor may participate. 4. Heats will be announced and swimmers missing their respective heat will not be allowed to take part in that event. 5. The 2nd year 9 - 10 age group swimmers, who will be swimming in the 11 - 12 age group in 2012, will be permitted to swim as exhibition swimmers in the 11 -12 age group for the events that are not available at the 9 - 10 age group. The 2nd 11 - 12 age group swimmers, who will be swimming in the 13 - 14 age group in 2012, will be permitted to swim in the 800/1500 metre freestyle event as exhibition swimmers. No exhibition swim will allow the swimmer to earn points individually or for their team. 6. The fees are as follows: (i) TT$100.00 US$16.00) (ii) TT$12.00 (US$ 2.00) (iii) TT$24.00 (US$ 4.00) (iv) TT$12.00 (US$ 2.00) - Team Fees per swimmer per entry per entry for Relay Team for each scratch after Wednesday 9th December 2009. (v) TT$24.00 (US$ 4.00) - Penalty fee for swimmers who fail to scratch, or fail to swim. This penalty must be paid before the swimmer is permitted to swim further in this Meet and in subsequent ASATT Meets. (vi) TT$24.00 (US$ 4.00) - Penalty fee for swimmers who fail to achieve the qualifying time in a given event. This penalty must be paid before the swimmer is eligible to swim further in this Meet and in subsequent ASATT Meets. 7. Entry fees are due by Thursday 15th December 2011.Team entry reports will be posted on the websites, emailed or faxed to the respective Clubs by Friday, December 9th 2011. All participating clubs are asked to indicate any discrepancies in the team listing by 2 Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.. If no acknowledgement of errors is received by this date the Association will assume that the entry report was correct. The psyche sheet will be posted on the website www.marlins-tt.com and www.swimtt.com by Monday 12th December 2011. G AWARDS: 1. Medals will be awarded to the first three (3) places in each event. Ribbons will be awarded from 4th to 8th place in each event for the 8 and under and 9-10 age groups only 2. A Trophy will be awarded to the team gaining the highest aggregate of points. Team points will be accumulated in all events. 3. Trophies will be awarded in each age group category to the top three swimmers with the highest aggregate of points. Relays will not count toward individual scoring. Please note that there are no ties for the age-group high-point awards. In the event of more than one swimmer amassing the same number of points at the end of the meet, the swimmer with the higher number of individual victories will be given the award. Should there be an equal number of victories, the number of second place finishes, third place etc. shall be the determining factor. SCORING SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS: First Place Second Place Third Place Fourth Place 9 points 7 points 6 points 5 points Fifth Place Sixth Place Seventh Place Eight Place 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point Double points for relays. H: MEET OFFICIALS: The Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad & Tobago will appoint Judges, Officials and Referees for the Competition, and competing Clubs are invited to submit with their entries, names of qualified persons willing to serve as Timekeepers, Judges, etc. during the meet. I: TECHNICAL MEETING: A short briefing will take place on the pool deck for all coaches and team officials prior to the start of session 1 on Thursday, December 16th 2010. J: PROGRAMME: There will be no heats or preliminaries. All entries will be timed finals. “Over the top starts” for all Freestyle, Breaststroke, Fly and I.M. events. K: ORDER OF EVENTS: 1. Timed Finals shall commence at 6:00 p.m. on the 1st and 2nd days and at 5:00 p.m. on the other two (2) days. Morning events will commence at 9:00 a.m. 2. The pool will be opened one and a half (1½) hours before each competition for warm up. Please note that there will be open warm-up with designated sprint and pace lanes to be restricted for that use only from 45 minutes before start of competition. 3. The 13 – 14 and 15 & Over 800/1500m Freestyle events will be swum combined for seeding purposes, but will be scored separately per age group. The top 16 entry times received will form these event, i.e. maximum two heats per event. 4. All 200m events, excluding freestyle and IM and all 400m events will be swum combined 3 for seeding purposes for age groups 11-12 to 15 & Over, but will be scored separately per age group. The top 24 times received will form these events i.e. maximum 3 heats per event. 5. Intermissions would be held at the discretion of the Meet Referee L: QUALIFYING TIMES: Swimmers must achieve the following qualifying times in a LC Pool or the converted equivalent in a SC Pool. Failure to achieve the qualifying standards would render a swimmer ineligible to score both team and individual points in that particular event. The qualifying times are as follows: FEMALE 9 TO 10 MALE 00:49.00 01:38.37 03:19.18 00:52.68 00:53.50 00:58.50 03:45.40 50 FR 100 FR 200 FR 50 FL 50 BK 50 BR 200 IM 00:47.33 01:36.54 03:10.54 00:50.99 00:52.00 00:56.74 03:39.35 00:42.09 01:30.89 02:55.07 06:30.00 00:48.27 01:42.51 03:14.93 00:48.63 01:41.54 03:40.00 00:52.32 01:54.55 04:00.00 03:35.95 11 TO 12 50 FR 100 FR 200 FR 400 FR 50 BK 100 BK 200 BK 50 FLY 100 FLY 200 FLY 50 BR 100 BR 200 BR 200 IM 00:38.43 01:19.29 02:47.15 06:15.00 00:44.82 01:39.34 03:02.52 00:45.15 01:35.27 03:30.00 00:49.28 01:45.04 03:42.00 03:10.42 FEMALE 13 TO 14 MALE 00:38.20 01:21.63 02:51.68 06:10.00 12:30.00 .00:42.84 01:35.49 03:08.00 00:41.27 01:33.00 03:32.00 00:50.77 01:45.07 03:50.00 03:33.00 06:50.00 50 FR 100 FR 200 FR 400 FR 800/1500 FR 50 BK 100 BK 200 BK 50 FLY 100 FLY 200 FLY 50 BR 100 BR 200 BR 200 IM 400 IM 00:35.20 01:13.88 02:44.00 05:55.00 21:00.00 00:39.99 01:26.50 02:53.00 00:37.02 01:24.68 03:20.00 00:45.36 01:34.10 03:30.00 03:10.50 06:10.00 00:37.14 01:19.86 02:38.03 05:50.00 12:30.00 00:39.85 01:31.50 03:03.00 00:36.64 01:29.36 03:20.00 00:46.49 01:40.00 03:40.00 03:20.00 06:25.00 15 &0 50 FR 100 FR 200 FR 400 FR 800/1500 FR 50 BK 100 BK 200 BK 50 FLY 100 FLY 200 FLY 50 BR 100 BR 200 BR 200 IM 400 IM 00:33.41 01:10.00 02:22.80 05:35.00 21:00.00 00:37.63 01:22.99 02:47.00 00:33.54 01:12.23 02:55.00 00:41.12 01:28.77 03:01.57 02:56.26 06:00.00 ________________ Joseph Mcleod 1st Vice President A.S.A.T.T 4 ASATT INVITATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 15TH – 18TH DECEMBER 2011 ORDER OF EVENTS DAY 1 Warm-up 4:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.; Competition 6:00 p.m. (Thursday 15th) 1-2 400m Freestyle 3-4 50m Backstroke 5-6 50m Backstroke 7-8 50m Backstroke 9 - 10 50m Backstroke 11 - 12 50m Backstroke 13 - 14 200m Butterfly 11 & Over 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 11 & Over DAY 2 Warm-up 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Competition 6:00 p.m. (Friday 16th) 15 - 16 17 - 18 19 - 20 21 - 22 23 - 24 25 - 26 27 - 28 29 - 30 31 - 32 33 - 34 35 - 36 37 - 38 39 - 40 41 - 42 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m 200m 50m 50m 50m 50m 50m 4 x 100m 4 x 100m 4 x 100m Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Breaststroke Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Freestyle Relay Freestyle Relay Freestyle Relay 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 11 & Over 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over DAY 3 Morning warm-up 7:30 a.m. – 8:50 a.m.; Competition 9:00 a.m. (Saturday 17th) Afternoon warm-up 3:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.; Competition 5:00 p.m. 43 - 44 45 - 46 47 - 48 49 - 50 51 - 52 400m 200m 200m 200m 200m Individual Medley Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle 11 & Over (a.m.) 09 – 10 (a.m.) 11 – 12(a.m.) 13 – 14 (a.m.) 15 and Over (a.m.) 53 - 54 55 - 56 57 - 58 59 - 60 61 - 62 63 - 64 65 - 66 67 - 68 100m 100m 100m 50m 50m 50m 50m 50m Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Breaststroke Breaststroke Breaststroke Breaststroke Breaststroke 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 5 69 - 70 200m Backstroke 11 & Over 71 - 72 73 - 74 75 - 76 77 - 78 79 - 80 4 X 50m 4 X 50m 4 X 50m 4 X 50m 4 X 50m Medley Relay Medley Relay Medley Relay Medley Relay Medley Relay 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over DAY 4 Morning warm-up 7:30 a.m. – 8:50 a.m.; Competition 9:00 a.m. (Sunday 18th) Afternoon warm-up 3:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.; Competition 5:00 p.m. 81 82 83 - 84 85 - 86 87 - 88 89 - 90 800m 1500m 200m 200m 200m 200m Freestyle Freestyle Individual Medley Individual Medley Individual Medley Individual Medley 13 & Over Female (a.m.) 13 & Over Male (a.m.) 09 – 10 (a.m.) 11 – 12 (a.m.) 13 – 14 (a.m.) 15 and Over (a.m.) 91 - 92 93 - 94 95 - 96 97 - 98 99 - 100 101 - 102 103 - 104 105 - 106 107 - 108 109 - 110 111 - 112 113 - 114 115 - 116 117 - 118 119 - 120 121 - 122 100m 100m 100m 50m 50m 50m 50m 50m 100m 100m 100m 4 X 50m 4 X 50m 4 X 50m 4 X 50m 4 X 50m Backstroke Backstroke Backstroke Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Breaststroke Breaststroke Breaststroke Freestyle Relay Freestyle Relay Freestyle Relay Freestyle Relay Freestyle Relay 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over 08 & Under 09 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 and Over (Affiliated to the FINA, CCCAN, and Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee) 6