Machine Aquatics Team Update 01.11.2024
Machine Aquatics Team Update 01.11.2024
In this issue:
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High School Championships Season
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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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PVS Scholar Athletes
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Recording Volunteer Hours
High School Championship Season
As we come in the middle of January, we will begin the high school Championship season for all of our swimmers. These Championships provide an opportunity for our high school swimmers to race their best events and achieve some of their best times of the season. We wish all of our high school swimmers the best of luck during this exciting season.
As a team, Machine swimmers will all be impacted by the high school meet schedules. We have several practice times and locations will have changes due to meets at their facilities. Your site director will be in contact with you about updated practice times and locations. We understand that not all changes will be convenient for our families. However, the demands on our facilities are very high during this period of the season and require flexibility and understanding of all our families.
Meet Information for this Weekend
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 Thursday. 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
Upcoming Meet Information
Click here for the 2023-24 Competition Schedule (PDF).
Click here for the Machine Google Calendar.
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
Click HERE to enter the Green and Orange Bowl
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
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $6.00
LITTLE BLUE PENGUIN ENTRY DEADLINE: 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
Click HERE to enter the Little Blue Penguin meet
Polar Pentathlon
January 28, 2024
Dulles South Recreation Center 24950 Riding Center Drive South Riding, VA 20152
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $7.50
OPEN TO 10&U VA SWIMMERS ONLY - - EXCEPT those that have obtained 2 or more PVS 14&Under Championship qualifying times.
Girls: Warm up 8:10-8:55am, 9:00am start Boys: Warm up: 12:10-12:55pm, 1:00pm start
Click HERE for the Polar Pentathlon Mini meet announcement
Click HERE to enter the Polar Pentathlon Mini Meet
February Distance Meet
Feb 11, 2024
Fairland Aquatic Center, 13820 Old Gunpowder Rd, Laurel, MD 20707
OPEN TO SWIMMER 9&O - QUALIFYING STANDARDS APPLY
Per Swimmer Surcharge: $5.00 Individual event fee: $6.00
FEBRUARY DISTANCE ENTRY DEADLINE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 23
Qualifying provable times for 13&Over Swimmers:
The athlete must have a provable time for 1000 yd Freestyle of 14:00 or faster for the 1000y/800M Freestyle or must have a provable time of 6:30 or faster in the 500y/400M Freestyle.
The athlete must have a provable time for the 1650 yd Freestyle of 23:00 or faster for the 1650y/1500M Freestyle or a provable time of 14:00 or faster in the 1000y/800M Freestyle.
Qualifying provable times for 12&Under Swimmers:
A provable qualifying time in the event as listed above or the athlete must meet the following stepping stone progression:
A provable time of 7:20 or faster must have been swum in the 500y/400M Freestyle before entering the 1000yd Freestyle.
A provable time of 15:00 or faster must have been swum in the 1000y/800M Freestyle before entering the 1650yd Freestyle.
Click HERE for the February Distance Meet Announcement
Click HERE to enter the February Distance meet
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 ENTRIES ARE CLOSED
**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
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.
Congratulations to our PVS Scholar Athletes
Congratulations to the following Machine swimmers who have been recognized by Potomac Valley Swimming in their list of th 2022-23 Scholar Athletes. Scholar Athletes must have achieved these qualifications:
1. Have completed grade 9, 10, 11 or 12 during 2022-2023;
2. Have attained a 3.5 or higher grade point average (GPA) for the 2022-2023 Academic Year; AND
3. Have achieved a 3.5, or higher, Event Standard Average in a minimum of five events. NOTE: a maximum of two (2) ‘B’ times or one (1) ‘C’ time are permitted.
Our Machine PVS Scholar Athletes are:
Trent Badrak, Kyle Armitage, Joshua Black, Daniel Chua, Megan Cleaver, Kaitlyn Estes, Caitlin Gross, Eliana Iaci, Olaoluwadeji Jones, Justin Kim, Griffin Koester, James Leather, Liam Rayson, Colleen Read, Lizzie Rebich, Annika Rieger, Sydney Schlabach, James Scott, Leah Silverstein, Aleena Stukus, Kira Thornton, Olivia Waugh, Elizabeth Alston, John Bajwa, Kendall Carpenter, Sara Chen, Robert Eachus, Harper Freeman, Jackson Harriot, Megan Janczyk, McKenna Lyons, Gian Michael Matabang, Angelina McMahan, Claire McMahan, Ethan Piccolo, Addilyn Ramey, Kellan Rayson, Charlotte Skoug, Mackenzie Speilman, Nathan Widman, Caden Wilkinson, Morgan Wright, Corinne Blachere, Elizabeth Bryan, CJ Ho, Kedar Kamhampaty, Ian Kang, Zariya Khan, Cameron Kuhn, Blake Madsen, Sydney Suma, Ken White, Nicole Zhang.
Click here for the full list on the PVS website.
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.
