STSL League Meets

The STSL season consists of dual meets among individual teams, and three league-wide meets. The three league meets are scheduled in order each season.

The B-Meet is a last-chance meet for swimmers to earn A-Meet qualifying times (see below), and a championship meet for swimmers who do not have qualifying times. Swimmers are eligible for individual events who have not yet earned an A-Meet qualifying time in a league-sanctioned meet during the season. There are no relay events.

Swimmers may be eligible for both the A-Meet and the B-Meet based on their times, and swim different events at the two meets accordingly. That is, a swimmer swims events at the A-Meet for which he/she has qualifying times, and the other individual events at the B-Meet.

The A-Meet is the second league meet. Swimmers are eligible for individual events who have equaled or beaten the A-Meet qualifying time in a league-sanctioned meet (i.e., dual/triangular meets and the B-Meet) during the current season. There are relay events, for up to two relay teams from each member team for each relay event. Swimmers who have otherwise not qualified for the A-Meet with a qualifying time may participate on relay teams or in individual events if their team has no representatives in a specific event.

The qualifying times for the A-Meet are determined from the official times of the League Championship Meet from the previous seasons. For each individual event, the qualifying time is an average of the 12th-place (or if there were fewer than 12 finishers, the last place finisher) time in each event in the previous five League Championship meets.

A-Meet qualifying times are listed here.

Swimmers may be eligible for both the A-Meet and the B-Meet based on their times, and swim different events at the two meets accordingly. That is, a swimmer swims events at the A-Meet for which he/she has qualifying times, and the other individual events at the B-Meet.

The League Championship Meet, or City Meet, is the final league meet. Member swimmers are eligible who have at least two splashes (or swims) in a league-sanctioned meet (dual/triangular, A-Meet, or B-Meet) during the current season.  In 2012 and again in 2015 to make it permanent, the Administrative Board and Team Representatives of the league voted to name the meet in the memory of Christopher Condon.