2025 St. Patrick’s Day Invitational

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Registration Schedule

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Rules: 2025 USMS Rules and Southeastern LMSC Safety guidelines and warm-up procedures will govern. Safety guidelines specify feet-first entry during warm-ups, except for designated sprint lanes. This is a short course yards meet. All events will be timed finals.

Sanctioned By: Southeastern Masters Swimming for United States Masters Swimming Inc.

Host Club: Kingsport Aquatic Center Viperfish Masters Team

Location: Kingsport Aquatic Center
1820 Meadowview Parkway, Kingsport TN 37660 (423)343-9758
Directions to the Kingsport Aquatic Center can be found on www.swimkingsport.com

Facility: The HMG competition pool at the Kingsport Aquatic Center is a 50 meter pool divided by moveable bulkheads making it two 25 yard pools with 8 lanes on each side. It has a minimum depth of 5 feet and a maximum depth of 13ft. The pool is equipped with Daktronics Timing System. Warm up/warm-down lanes will be available throughout the meet in the shallow end of the HMG competition pool.  The length of the competition course is in compliance and on file with USMS in accordance with articles 105.1.7 and 107.2.1, but as a bulkhead course, is subject to length confirmation. Eligibility of times for USMS Top 10 Records will be contingent on verification of bulkhead placement.

Online Entry:  https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=2548&smid=18909

Eligibility: All swimmers must be registered with United States Masters Swimming. Swimmers must use the online entry system, which streamlines checking USMS registrations, putting your entries into the meet database, and entry payments. 

For swimmers who are not USMS members, One Event Memberships are available for a cost of $20.

Warm Up and Meet Start Times:

	Warm Up	Start Time
Friday, March 14	3:00pm - 3:50pm	4:00pm
Saturday, March 15	7:00am - 7:50am	8:00am

Entries and Fees:

• A swimmer may enter up to six (6) individual events for a flat fee of 45.00
• Registration payments can be paid online at: https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=2548&smid=18909
• Late entries will be accepted until Sunday, March 9, at 11:59pm. All entries must be received by 11:59pm on Sunday, March 2 or they will be charged an additional $15.00 fee.
• Age for entries determined by the swimmer’s age on March 15, 2025.

Entry Deadlines:

All individual entries and fees must be received by 11:59 pm EST on Sunday, March 2nd.  Any entries arriving after that date will be considered late and require an additional $15.00 fee.  Late entries are due by Sunday, March 9th, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. No more entries will be accepted after March 9th.

Seeding: All events will be seeded slowest to fastest with mixed gender. A swimmer with no seed time may indicate “No Time” or “NT” in the time slot and will be seeded as the slowest time in the event. Results will be tabulated by gender and age group, as defined by USMS guidelines.

Relays:  

• As always, there is no extra charge for relays!  
• Only team members registered for the meet may participate. 
• Mixed relays consist of two women and two men.
• Men's and Women's relay events may be combined. 

Disabled Swimmers: An information sheet for disabled swimmers is available to prepare the facility and meet officials. Please contact Operation Coordinator of Programming, Madison Gump at, madisongump@kingsporttn.gov, (423) 343-9767.

SCORING:   First 6 finishes in each event, by age and gender, will be scored as follows: Individual events 7-5-4-3-2-1; Relay events 14-10-8-6-4-2. 

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS:  High point awards will be awarded to 1st through 3rd place male and female. Individuals must swim at least 4 individual events to be considered for a high point award. 

TEAM AWARDS: Trophies will be awarded to the top three teams in the meet. Teams must have at least 3 people entered and swimming in the meet. 

Officials:
Meet Director: Madison Gump
Entry Chair: Madison Gump
Meet Referee:  Jack Gump

Facility Rules:
The Kingsport Aquatic Center employees respectfully ask:

• No outside coolers, food, or drinks be brought into the building.
• No smoking or use of Electronic Cigarettes is allowed in the building or parking lot area.
• Only swimmers, coaches and meet personnel will be allowed on the pool deck at any time.
• Changing into or out of swimsuits other than locker rooms or other designated areas is prohibited.
• Use of audio or visual recording devices, including cell phone, is not permitted in changing areas, rest rooms, or locker rooms.

Water Fountains:  are available for refilling reusable bottles, which are sensor activated.

Parking:  The KAC as well as the adjacent YMCA will be open during the meet.  In deference to the YMCA members, please have your families park in the lot adjacent to the outdoor water park. Additional parking is available at the Meadowview Marriott, located just 1/2 mile from the Aquatic Center.  If needed, you may drop off swimmers at the Aquatic Center before driving over and parking at the Meadowview lot.

Timing System:  The primary timing system will be automatic timing (Daktronics Timing System, with scoreboard). Times may be submitted for USMS records and USMS Top 10 consideration.

Special Notes:  All men’s, women’s, and mixed events will swim together. The Meet Director reserves the right to limit the number of entries, in any event, to run the meet within the time allocated. The Meet Director reserves the right to insert breaks to provide sufficient rest for the swimmers between events. The HYTEK event file, psych sheet, results, and other meet information will be posted on the Kingsport Aquatic Center website as they become available. 

Refreshments:  The Kingsport Aquatic Center will have a concession stand available for prepackaged drinks and food to be purchased at your discretion. They will also have water stations available for swimmer use.

Hotels:  The closest hotel to our facility is Meadowview Marriott Conference Resort & Convention Center. It is about a half mile away and is located at 1901 Meadowview Parkway, Kingsport, TN 37660.

Additonal Hotels Nearby: 
Fairfield Inn & Suites Kingsport
Hampton Inn Kingsport
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Kingsport
Quality Inn
Comfort Suites 

Campgrounds Nearby: 
Warriors’ Path State Park 

Please check out Visit Kingsport https://visitkingsport.com/ for a list of things to do, places to stay, where to eat, events, visitors guide, and contact information. We look forward to you visiting Kingsport and will see you soon!
 

Meet Course: 25 Yards

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