Dave Thomas will be in Greensboro on April 21st to teach a Club Leadership Business Management School from 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM. If you would like to attend or would like to have board members or key volunteers to attend please let him know. He has the following days open for a team visit. April 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. If you are interested please let him know. He has attached a listing of the FREE services he can provide when he comes to your club. The most popular are the parent talk and the talk with the athletes about attitude, hydration, sleep and nutrition. Click below for more information.
Officials sign up sheet for Age Group Championship
The NC Swimming short course Age Group Championship in Greensboro will be held February 16-19, 2012. We are asking all officials interested in working to sign up for the sessions they would like to work. We are also offering the opportunity for officials to advance or re-certify their national deck credentials. Please visit the sign up form and we look forward to seeing you on deck in a few weeks.
There will be an officials’ meeting at 5:00 pm on Thursday afternoon and 1 hour prior to each session. We welcome all certified officials on deck.
Starters/Referees that would like to be considered for an assigned deck position, please complete the form prior to February 9, 2012.
This meet is an approved Officials Qualifying Meet for N2 at all positions and N3 S&T by USA Swimming. Officials wishing to be evaluated may indicate so on the signup form. You can find more information about the requirements of National Certification on the USA Swimming Site.
Safety Poster Contest
Charlotte Area Officials Recognized for High School Support
Left to Right: Mark Wiebke, Richard Pockat, Jim Riggs, Dave Murray, Danen Murray, Chris Kitchens, Lisa Olack, Dave Olack, Gaye Watts, Lou Mondelli, Jerry Branner, Tom Donahue, Bill Vey
North Carolina Swimming officials from the Charlotte area were recently recognized for their support of
this season’s North Carolina High School Athletic Association High School Swimming and Diving Meets.
Across the state, more than 200 NCS officials serve as meet directors, referees, starters, stroke and
turn judges, diving referees, and diving judges. In addition to their USA Swimming meets, they support
more than 400 local meets, conference championships, regionals and state finals. Officials are both USA
Swimming and NCHSAA certified.
The North Carolina high school swimming season continues with regional qualifiers in Huntersville,
Greensboro, and Cary, February 3 – 4 and will conclude with the NCHSAA State Championships,
February 9 – 11 at the Triangle Aquatic Center.
NCS Olympic Trial Qualifiers
Click on the link below for the most current list of North Carolina Swimming Olympic Trial Qualifiers.
For more information on the 2012 Olympic Trials visit the USA Swimming site below:
http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1450&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en
Top 10 Times updated and some housekeeping notes
The Top 10 Times have been updated as of 1-23-2012. We have received a few comments about formatting and search capabilities and I wanted to share some of the details, limitations and options.
First – the why. We have opted to load most documents as Google Documents. We store the document in the cloud and allow anyone to access without signing in to a google account. One of the benefits is that we have one single location where the documents are stored which helps keep files organized especially since we have multiple hands accessing the files. A second benefit is that people accessing the document from a smart phone or tablet can view and search the document (more on the search under limitations) without having to download the actual document.
Second – the limitations and options. We have had a few instances where people were asked to sign into their account in order to access the documents. That should not happen since most documents are set to public access to view. There is always the possibility that by accident we limit access and we will try to ensure this does not happen. Another limitation we have discovered is that on large files (such as the top 10 times and the bylaws) that the online search option only indexes a set number of characters. Google is aware of the problem and we hope there is a resolution soon. I tried an online search (look in the top right hand side of the document for a search window) on the recent Top 10 and it appeared to only search the first 100 of 120 pages. You can always download the original pdf (under the file menu on the top left side) and the search through Acrobat works fine.
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Information on the Observation of the NCHSAA and NCISAA Meets 2012
Observation of NCHSAA and NCISAA Meets for USA Swimming Times
The upcoming NCHSAA Regional and State Championships and the NCISAA State Championships will be observed by USA Swimming officials so that the times of athlete members of NC Swimming can be included in the SWIMS database. No conference championships or inter-city, inter-county meets are being observed.
No special requests are necessary from the swimmers or the high school coaches to get times from the observed meets into the database. Individual times and relay lead off times from the 200 and 400 Free Relays will be loaded electronically into the database for member athletes.
Times for the regional and state NCHSAA meets will not be loaded until the conclusion of the last state championship (4A) on February 11th. Times from the NCISAA 1A/2A and 3A Championships will be loaded on February 23rd.
If a high school relay team is comprised of four swimmers from the same USA Swimming club, that relay team time may be individually requested by the club coach.
The following meets are being observed:
1A/2A East and West Regionals; 1A/2A State Championships
3A East and West Regionals; 3A State Championships
4A East, Central and West Regionals; 4A State Championships
NICSAA 1A/2A and 3A State Championships
Please contact Suzanne Heath, Times Chair, at suzanneheath@suddenlink.net if you have specific questions or you see omissions or errors after the meets have been loaded into the database.
CPR re-certificaton at Spring HOD
If any coaches are interested in a free CPR re-certification at the Spring HOD convention, please contact Trish Martin at: pksmartin@bellsouth.net.
How to submit proposed legislation for House of Delegates
For proposed legislation to pass with a 50% majority (Rules and Regulations) or a 2/3’s majority (By-Laws) the proposed changes must be submitted to the NCS rules chair by March 3, 2012. Any changes submitted after this date will require a 90% vote to pass. Instructions are included below. An example and a blank template are posted on the website.
To submit proposed changes to The NCS By-Laws or NCS Rules and Regulations:
1. Use the Legislation Template posted on the website.
2. Provide a summary, rationale, your name (or group) along with a recommended effective date in the shaded box.
3. In the body, copy and paste the current rule or By-law from the website.
4. On Microsoft Word, Under review, select track changes.
5. Edit the rule or by-law to the desired wording (MS Word will strikeout deleted text and underline added text for you).
6. Save Document with unique name. Example – Proposed Legislative ChangeLegislation Template
7. Send file to ruleschair@ncswim.org
You can see / download an Example of Proposed Legislation Change and the Legislation Changes Template.
Are you Registered with USA Swimming?
Click on theREGISTRATION tab above to learn everything you need to know about being properly registered with USA Swimming. If you can’t find it there, contact Barb Frith, Registrar for North Carolina Swimming. Her contact information is below.
Barb Frith
Registrar, NC Swimming
P. O. Box 30863
Charlotte, NC 28230-0863
E-mail Contact: registration@ncswim.org
704-334-2142
704-334-2145 (fax)