Machine Aquatics Team Update 01.04.2024
Machine Aquatics Team Update 01.04.2024
In this issue:
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Meet Information for this Weekend
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Upcoming Meets WITH Entry Deadlines
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Submitting High School Swim Times
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SwimSwam Recognizes Kennedy Masten
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Recording Volunteer Hours
Meet Information for this Weekend
January Distance Meet
January 6-7, 2024
The St. James, 6805 Industrial Road, Springfield, VA 22151
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $6.00
Both events are positive check-in. Swimmers may check-in online to be pre-seeded. Swimmers who do not check in online prior to the online check in deadline may check in on deck and be deck-seeded. Deck-seeded heats will follow the pre-seeded heats.
All heats will be seeded fastest to slowest, mixed gender.
Online Positive Check In Deadline
Online Positive Check In 1000yd Freestyle Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, Noon
Click HERE to check in for the 1000yd Freestyle
Online Positive Check In 1650yd Freestyle Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, Noon
Click HERE to check in for the 1650yd Freestyle
Swimmers must check in at least 2 hours prior to the pre-scratch estimated finish time in order to be deck-seeded. Positive check-in is not yet open. Positive check-in will be available during the middle of next week.
Click HERE for the January Distance meet announcement
Click HERE for the January Distance preliminary psych sheet
Click HERE for the January Distance entry report
Upcoming Meet Information
Click here for the 2023-24 Competition Schedule (PDF).
Click here for the Machine Google Calendar.
NOVA Winter Invitational Meet - Open to 13&O Swimmers with Coach Approval
Jan 13, 2024 - Jan 15, 2024
NOVA Aquatics Center - 100 NOVA Way, Richmond VA 23238
Individual Event Entry Fee: $12.00 Swimmer Surcharge per person: $2.50
NOVA WINTER INVITATIONAL ENTRIES ARE CLOSED
Heat Sheets will be emailed and added to NOVA's website by Thurs. at 6:00pm. NOVA will provide Open Swim on Fri. from 4:30pm - 7:30pm.
Click HERE for the NOVA Winter Invitational meet announcement
Click HERE for the NOVA LC Winter Invitational psych sheet
Click HERE for the NOVA LC Winter Invitational estimated timeline
Click HERE for the NOVA LC Winter Invitational warm-up schedule
Green and Orange Bowl
Jan 26, 2024 - Jan 28, 2024
The St. James, 6805 Industrial Road, Springfield, VA 22151
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $8.00
GREEN AND ORANGE BOWL ENTRY DEADLINE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 12
Click HERE for the Green and Orange Bowl meet announcement
37th Annual Black History Meet
Feb 16, 2024 - Feb 18, 2024
Takoma Aquatic Center, 300 Van Buren Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $7.00
37th ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY ENTRY DEADLINE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 23 OR WHEN ENTRIES FILL. WE HAVE SPACE FOR 350 SWIMMERS.
**The 37th Annual Black History Meet will be limited to 350 Machine swimmers. We will keep a waitlist in case additional space opens up.**
QUALIFYING STANDARDS APPLY
Click HERE for the 37th Annual Black History meet announcement
Little Blue Penguin Pentathlon
January 28, 2024
Fairland Aquatic Center, 13820 Old Gunpowder Rd. Laurel, MD 20707
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $6.00
OPEN TO 10&U MD SWIMMERS ONLY
OPEN TO 10&U MD SWIMMERS ONLY
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $6.00
ENTRIES CLOSE SUNDAY, JANUARY 14
Warm-up: 7:15 am; Events: 8:00 am
Reminder: In order to be eligible for the Pentathlon Event Awards, swimmers must achieve a legal time in the following (5) five events: • 7-8 and 6 & Under Swimmers: 25 fly, 25, back, 25 breast, 25 free and 100 IM • 9-10 year old Swimmers: 50 fly, 50 back, 50 breast, 50 free and 100 IM
Click HERE for the Little Blue Penguin Meet Announcement
High School Swim Times
We are working to ensure that all times from the observed high school meets are included in our Team Unify database. This is not an automatic process. Many high school teams have the wrong USA Swimming member ID for swimmers so results do not reconcile with the member information. Also, not all high school meets are observed, ie, dual meets.
With the changes to the USA Swimming ID numbers and the integration with the USA Swimming times database, we will need to manually collect and record your high school times into the Machine Team Unify database. Please be aware that Team Unify DOES NOT LINK to the USA Swimming database so if the times are not provided to us, we have no way of getting them into the Machine database.
To submit your times for the observed high school meets for the 2023-34 season, please use this form. You will be asked to provide your swimmer’s ID number, the event and time and a screen shot of the result.
SwimSwam Recognizes Kennedy Masten
SwimSwam Magazine highlighted Madeira swimmer, Kennedy Masten, with their 2023 Swammy Awards, as an Honorable Mention, for the 10 & Under Swimmer of the Year Award. In their article, Swim Swam notes Kennedy led the age group in two events, both 50 freestyles. She swam a 25.76 50 SCY free and 29.62 in the 50 LCM free. She also was #2 in the SCY 50 fly (27.99), #2 in the LCM 50 back (34.20), #3 in the SCY 100 free (57.22), #4 in the SCY 50 back (29.51), and #5 in the LCM 100 free (1:05.32).
Way to go, Kennedy! Keep up the hard work!
Click here to see the full article on the SwimSwam site.
Recording Volunteer Hours
Please send your hours as you complete them by clicking the form below. When you reach 22 hours, we can process a refund check for you. To help us track your volunteer hours, please CLICK HERE.
