June 27, 2005

Swimming & Diving online rules meeting are available to view on the IGHSAU website from August 1, 2011 to September 9, 2011 . Coaches must view the online meeting during that time span. There are no in-person rules meeting this season.

2011 Season Dates:

1^st Practice – Monday, August 8

1^st Competition – Monday, August 22

Regional Meet – Thursday, October 27th (Diving), Saturday, October 29th (Swimming)

State Meet – Friday, November 4^th (Diving), Saturday, November 5^th (Swimming)

Concussion Management: As mandated by Iowa law, the parent/guardian of each student will be provided a concussion and brain injury information sheet. This sheet, which can be downloaded by clicking here, must be signed by both the student and student’s parent/guardian and returned to the student’s school prior to the student’s participation in any extracurricular interscholastic activity for grades seven through twelve.

Regional Meet: Regional diving meets will be held on Thursday, October 27 with regional swimming meets held on Saturday, October 29^th. 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.

11 Dive Meets: 11-dive meets are allowed at dual meets. The host school must contact and have mutual consent from the opposing school prior to the date of the meet. The host school is also responsible for contacting officials prior to the dual meet.

Power Point Submissions: Coaches must utilize the online power point system to record athletes’ performances and team power points. The online system is ready and posted on the IGHSAU website for coaches to begin putting in schedules and rosters. The username and passwords have not changed from last season.

The online system has already deleted 2010 seniors and updated the grades of the 2010 underclassmen, but coaches will need to log-in and delete anyone from the system that is no longer part of the swim team and add newcomers (freshman) to the roster. Coaches need to put in their entire roster and entire meet schedule into the online system prior to your first meet. Schools that run their meets using Hy-Tek should upload meet results into the online power point system. Coaches are reminded to log-in to their team page and verify all times.

Instructions for using the power point/performance can be found in the swimming portion of the IGHSAU website or by clicking here.

Instructions for importing Hy-Tek results into the power point system can be found in the swimming portion of the IGHSAU website or by clicking here.

Schools Interested in Hosting Regional Swimming & Diving Meets: The site availability sheet is available online at the swimming and diving website or you may download it by clicking here. (This is a downloadable Microsoft Word document). Please have this form completed and e-mailed or faxed back to the IGHSAU no later than Friday, September 23rd.

Officials Recommendations: All coaches are required to recommend officials for regional and state meets. Coaches will need to go online to recommend officials. Coaches will have 30 days after the State Swimming Meet to complete this online form. The form is located in the Personnel Entry Forms section of the website. It is password protected and your AD should have your username and password to access this form.

Personnel 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.

Officials Registration: Officials, please be sure you are registered as a girls official for the 2011 season. A list of the 2011 registered officials can be viewed by clicking here. If your name is not listed and you feel it should be, please call the IGHSAU as soon as possible.

Officials Locker: Swimming and diving officials are required to have an online locker set up to be considered for officiating regional and state events. All regional and state meet assignments, as well as contracts, will now be sent via e-mail through the lockers this season. Instructions for setting up your locker can be found on the IGHSAU website. Please contact the IGHSAU if you need any help setting up your locker.

Officials Uniforms: Beginning this fall, officials working girls regional and state swimming and diving meets will be required to wear a white shirt with khaki pants. The white shirt and khakis are not required during the regular season, however, if two or more officials are working, they need to wear the same uniform. Officials may wear the all-white uniforms during the regular season.

Jewelry during warm-ups: Coaches, please emphasize to your athletes to remove all jewelry before they begin warm-ups. This is done for the safety of all swimmers and divers. If a contestant is discovered wearing jewelry during warm-ups, the meet officials should instruct the athlete to remove the jewelry before continuing with warm-ups. If the contestant does not comply with removing the jewelry, she is withheld from warm-ups and the athlete’s coach is notified. With lanes traditionally being filled with contestants during the pre-meet and post-diving warm-up sessions, the potential for injury increases significantly. Ultimately, the coach is responsible making sure their athletes do not report for warm-ups or competition wearing jewelry and that each swimmer/diver is in proper attire. Officials should be sure to review this during the pre-meet conference between officials and coaches.

Medical Alert Medals: A reminder that medical alert medals are not considered jewelry. The medals must be taped to the body and the medal may be visible.

Iowa Adaptations

Rule 5-1-2b: A mandatory 15 minute break following the 200-Freestyle Relay, if four or more teams are competing. (This break is in addition to the break following the 50 Freestyle.)

Rule 5-1-3: A mandatory 15 minute break following the 200 Freestyle Relay. (This break is in addition to the break following the 50 Freestyle.) The adaptation to Rule 5-1-3 establishes that there is a mandatory 15-minute break following the 200 Freestyle Relay in championship meets. A second break is not required in dual meets.

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.

Rule 9-4-6 Rotating Dive Schedule: In an effort to reflect the needs of developing divers, the rotating dive schedule has expanded to allow two weeks for the first group of forward dives. The following is the revised diving schedule:

Weeks 1-2 (August 22-Sept. 4) - Forward Group

Week 3 (Sept. 5-11) – Back Group

Week 4 (Sept. 12-18) – Inward Group

Week 5 (Sept. 19-25) – Twisting Group

Week 6 (Sept. 26-Oct. 2) – Reverse Group

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: