Good morning parents,

If you have been following along with the regionals meet entry process, we are almost at the final step where psych sheets can be published.

Today all head coaches were given an entry report listing how many entries there are in each event.  Any event that didn't have the minimum number of provincial qualifier spots filled is eligible for event changes in that age group (e.g. if there was only 1 swimmer entered in the boys 11-12 200 IM then all of the 11-12 boys would have the option to scratch one of their events and move to the 200 IM instead so that region E would be able to send 2 provincial qualifiers to provincials in Edmonton next weekend).

There are no events in our region that our swimmers have qualifying times for to change to; so our entries will stay as we have submitted them.

On Thursday we should receive the final psych sheets for regionals and I will distribute them to all families.

One major difference from regionals to the invitational meets we have been attending all season is that this is a heats/finals format.  Everyone will swim their events in the AM session and then the top 8 in each gender/age group will swim again in the afternoon in finals.  Even if there are 8 or less entries in a given age group for an event, all swimmers must swim in the heats to qualify for finals.

Heats will be senior seeded as we have seen at all meets so far this season.  The finals will be separated out by gender/age group so you will be able to see who wins medals directly from each heat.

The exception to the heats/finals rule is the 400, 800 and 1500 which will run as time finals.  They will be seeded so that swimmers in the same age group/gender are beside each other so swimmers can race against each other.

The 1500 is the first event Saturday morning, the 400 is the first event Saturday afternoon and the 800 is the last event before the free relays Sunday afternoon.

If anything comes up and you need to scratch your swimmer from the meet, please reach out to your swimmer's coach ASAP so we can try to make changes to relays to accommodate as many swimmers as possible.

Red/Yellow - Bryson - [email protected]

Silver/Dev - Eli - [email protected]

Orange - Max - [email protected]

Black - Amy - [email protected]

Coach Amy