Since 1999, the OMNI Swim Club has been proud to host the annual Catholic Athletic Association Swimming and Diving Championships. On this page, you will find information about this meet.
At the coaches meeting prior to the start of the 2010 CAA Swimming and Diving season, two important decisions were made that affect the 2010 Championship Meet:
First, it was decided to hold ALL swimming prelim competition on one day - Saturday, March 27, 2010. (Diving prelims will still be held on Sunday, March 28, 2010.)
Second, it was decided to conduct all events where there are 16 or fewer entries as "Timed Finals" events at the finals competitions at the University of Minnesota on Monday and Tuesday, March 29-30, 2010. (There will be no prelim competition for these events.)
Since we will not know which events are being swum as timed finals until entries are received, timelines will NOT be available until a few days before the meet. However, we can provide the following approximate schedule:
Saturday morning, March 27 (at Skyview Community School): * Swimming prelims for 7-8 Girls and Boys * Swimming prelims for K-2 Girls and Boys * Swimming prelims for 3-4 Girls. Saturday afternoon, March 27 (at Skyview Community School): * Swimming prelims for 3-4 and 5-6 Boys * Swimming prelims for 5-6 Girls Sunday afternoon, March 28 (at Skyview Community School): * Diving prelims for Girls * Diving prelims for Boys Monday evening, March 29 (at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center): * Boys Swimming and Diving Finals Tuesday evening, March 30 (at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center): * Girls Swimming and Diving Finals
Teams may enter a maximum of 2 relays in the prelims
and up to 16 relays will advance to finals. However, “A” relays are seeded
first and all other relays will be seeded last according to time until empty
slots are filled.
Only “A” relays are able to earn team points and
awards. All other relays will swim as exhibition only in the Finals. If a
school’s “A” relay team is DQ’ed, a “B” relay for the same school may still
swim, but they will still not be able to earn team points or awards.
Makeup of relay teams is left up to coaches and
changes can be made at any time prior to the event being swum. One potential
example would be a case where an “A” relay has DQ’ed in the prelims. The same
swimmers could replace swimmers on a “B” relay team that has advanced to
finals, even though this is not considered in the spirit of the sport. However,
it would be allowed, since the “B” relay team could still not score points or
earn awards.
Combined Relays
During the finals only (not prelims), schools wishing
to put together a relay team comprised of swimmers from different schools may
do so if empty lanes exist. Such teams are not eligible for team
points or awards, nor will the results of such teams be included in the
official results. Also, if the Finals for a given relay event are schedule (in
the program) to only have one heat, additional heats will not be
added to accommodate combined relays. Entry of combined relays must be done on
the night of Finals competition and will be on a “first come – first serve”
basis. This rule is being put into effect for the express purpose of
affording swimmers from small teams that do not have enough swimmers to field a
relay team an opportunity to compete in a relay. (Large teams already have
this opportunity since they can enter additional relays into prelims and those
relays can advance to finals.)
Diving
Diving is considered an individual event and counts
towards the maximum of two individual events allowed per swimmer. Beginning in
2003, a new rule was placed into effect stating that competitors would be
allowed two individual swimming events and still be allowed to dive (as a third
individual event), but that their participation in diving would be as
“Exhibition” only – not eligible for team points or awards. This rule was
put into effect for the express purpose of increasing participation in diving (not
to increase the number of individual events allowed).
In cases where results indicate that a diver has also
competed in two individual swimming events, the diving event will be marked
“Exhibition” – there is not the option of making a swimming event
“Exhibition”.
Swimming "Up"
Swimmers are allowed to swim “up” in age group for
the purpose of relays only – not for individual events. Under no circumstances
are swimmers allowed to swim “down” in age group.) At least one swimmer on a
relay team must be in the age group the relay is listed for.
High School Swimmers
In 2003, at a CAA Board meeting, it was decided that
swimmers who have competed for a high school team, whether at the varsity or
junior varsity level, are still eligible to compete in the CAA Swimming and
Diving Championships. This decision was reached just days prior to the 2003
meet and word did not get out in time for this years entries, so it will become
effective with the 2004 meet.
