June 27, 2005

Friday, Aug 15th - Iowa High School Swim Coaches Association Clinic

(6:30 pm in Marshalltown at Best Western Regency Inn)

Monday, Aug 18^th - Storm Lake (Middle School) (7:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, Aug 19th - Linn-Mar (7:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, Aug 20th - Bettendorf (7:00 p.m.)

Thursday, Aug 21^st - West Des Moines Valley (Administration Building) (7:00 p.m.)

2008 Season Dates:

1^st Practice – Monday, August 18th

1^st Competition – Monday, September 1

Regional Meet – Thursday, October 30^th (Diving), Saturday, November 1^st (Swimming)

State Meet – Friday, November 7^th (Diving), Saturday, November 8^th (Swimming)

Regional Meet: Regional Diving will be held on Thursday, October 30 with Regional Swimming held on Saturday, November 1st. Regional swimming and diving sites will be comprised of the same teams. Divers will perform 11 dives. The top four divers from each regional plus the next 12 highest scores from all regional meets will advance to the state meet. A mandatory panel of seven diving judges will be utilized. Three of the judges will be contracted by the IGHSAU with meet management responsible for securing the additional four judges.

Limitations: An athlete is allowed to participate in 12 meets against varsity competition during a season, but shall never be charged with more than one meet on a calendar day. If the athlete swims junior varsity and varsity on the same day they are charged with one meet. Schools can host diving-only meets in order for divers to participate in 12 meets.

Power Point Submissions Mandatory: Beginning this season, swim coaches are required to submit power point meet results to the Athletic Union. There are two mandatory reporting dates. The first reporting deadline is Monday, September 22. Failure to submit power point results by September 22^nd will result in a reminder letter being mailed to the coach, athletic director, principal and superintendent. The final power point reporting date is Monday, October 20. Failure to submit a power point times by the final reporting date will result in the head coach being suspended from coaching in the IGHSAU regional and state swim meets. Power point forms can be downloaded in the swimming and diving section of the IGHSAU website.

Personal Entry Forms: Reminder that the Personnel Entry Forms are online. All forms can be downloaded from the IGHSAU web page by clicking the “Online personal entry forms” link on the right-hand side of the webpage under “Forms & Applications.” You will need a password to access the online forms, which you can get from your Athletic Director. There are four forms that need to be filed with the respective site/office for regional and state competition. These forms will be available in late August. Please contact your athletic director in order to complete the forms on time.

Iowa Adaptations

Rule 5-1-2b: A mandatory 15 minute break following the 500 Freestyle, if four or more teams.

(This break is in addition to the break following the 50 Freestyle.)

Rule 5-1-3: A mandatory 15 minute break following the 500 Freestyle.

(This break is in addition to the break following the 50 Freestyle.)

Rule 3-1-1: Applies to regular season only. At the regional meet each school may enter three participants for individual events and one relay team for each relay event.

Mascot/Nickname (Clarification of Rule 3-3-1): Member schools’ athletic teams may only utilize one mascot/nickname. Schools involved in a cooperative sharing agreement must compete under the host school district’s adopted nickname and/or mascot.

Diving Points: The Iowa Department of Health made a ruling that diving boards may be replaced on pools with water depth of 10-12 feet. However, the replacement of a complete diving stand will not be permitted unless the water depth is 12 feet. This would be a violation of Iowa Code (641 IAC Chapter 15).

In an effort to provide consistency and accuracy in handling the scoring of meets when diving in not held, this serves as written notice as per Rule 9-1 Penalty 2. (When diving is not conducted because of inadequate water depth and written notice is given to the opponents at least two weeks prior to the first home meet or a date specified by the state association, diving is not conducted and no points are awarded.)

Iowa code does not allow the following sites to replace the diving stand due to having less than 12 feet of water. Therefore, Diving will not be held and no points awarded at the following sites:

Ankeny, CR Prairie-Williamsburg, Davenport Central, Des Moines East, Des Moines Hoover, Des Moines North, Indianola, Lewis Central, Ottumwa, Perry, Southeast Polk, Spencer, Storm Lake, Vinton-Shellsburg.

At all other schools diving will be held and points will be scored accordingly. If the diving situation at your school has changed, please contact the IGHSAU immediately.

Best of luck in 2008,

Jason Eslinger

Assistant Director