How do you folks feel about persons who misrepresent him/her self in this manner? These are from Heat 1 for each event recent swim meet.
1500 Free SCM
Seed Time - Time
45:00.00 - 25:50.75
40:00.00 - 26:08.92
45:00.00 - 29:57.58
45:00.00 - 20:52.58
400 Free SCM
Seed Time - Time
15:00.00 - 7:26.23
800 Free SCM
Seed Time - Time
21:00.00 - 13:53.86
20:25.00 - 16:42.46
I sent an e-mail to the USMS Rules Committee response as follows:
Article 104.5.5(11), page 35, addresses this issue. Article 104 governs national championship meets and is “Recommended for all other championship meets when possible” (see parenthetical phrase below the title of article 104). However, it is not required for all other championship meets. If used at an “other championship” meet, the LMSC would need to make a decision to use championship rules in article 104 and announce such in the meet information. As you can see from the text of 104.5.5(11), this issue has to be resolved as part of the seeding process. Except for 102.13.14, there are no penalties for entering a time that is much faster or much slower than the resulting final time. 102.13.14 only addresses a swimmer who misrepresents a seed time causing significant delay of the meet (swims significantly slower than the seed time).
Rules in Part 1 can be enhanced, i.e. rule changes can be proposed, during the next rules year which is 2014. Only emergency rule changes to Part 1 will be considered in 2013.
Kathy Casey, Chair
USMS Rules Committee
I sent an e-mail to the USMS Rules Committee response as follows:
Article 104.5.5(11), page 35, addresses this issue. Article 104 governs national championship meets and is “Recommended for all other championship meets when possible” (see parenthetical phrase below the title of article 104). However, it is not required for all other championship meets. If used at an “other championship” meet, the LMSC would need to make a decision to use championship rules in article 104 and announce such in the meet information. As you can see from the text of 104.5.5(11), this issue has to be resolved as part of the seeding process. Except for 102.13.14, there are no penalties for entering a time that is much faster or much slower than the resulting final time. 102.13.14 only addresses a swimmer who misrepresents a seed time causing significant delay of the meet (swims significantly slower than the seed time).
Rules in Part 1 can be enhanced, i.e. rule changes can be proposed, during the next rules year which is 2014. Only emergency rule changes to Part 1 will be considered in 2013.
Kathy Casey, Chair
USMS Rules Committee
