Summary of Changes for 2015

The following announcements affecting Nationals were made at convention last week: 1) Meet entry deadline will move from 35 days prior to the start of competition (typically a Wed or Thurs) to the following Monday (30-31 days prior to the start of competition). This basically means swimmers will have one extra weekend prior to the deadline. 2) All events 200 and up will be deck seeded at both 2015 Nationals. Other seeding decisions (e.g. by time, by age group, combining genders, etc.) will be determined once entries close and meet timelines are generated. But the change is to declare deck seeding for all the 200s upfront. 3) Meet rosters (name, age, gender, club) will be published "real-time" as swimmers enter the meet as opposed to having to wait until after the entry deadline to be available. This way coaches may better track who has entered (and who has not!) instead of having to wait until the entry deadline when it is too late to find out somebody forgot to enter. 4) Swimmers may enter both distance events at 2015 Spring Nationals (subject to some NQT restrictions). The 1650 will be first and the 1000 will be second. 5) The warm-up policy on distance day has been changed to require the pool to be open until 5pm or 30 minutes after the end of the last heat, whichever is later (as opposed to 60 minutes after the last heat ends). Jeff Roddin USMS Championship Committee