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Post Covid-19 Return To Competition - LSC Sanction Requirements

Covid-19 Addendum

USA Swimming September Sanctions Update

Dear members,

We remain focused on supporting our teams and members in their return to training and their continued progression through our “crawl, walk, race” return to competition.

There has been little change in circumstance regarding necessary precautions to take due to COVID-19 and the related access to water. As a result, the USA Swimming Board of Directors approved the following event sanction for September 2020:

LSCs will be limited to the sanctioning of meets comprised only of athletes and clubs registered within the LSC.*

(*A club, geographically isolated within their LSC, may be granted the opportunity to compete in an adjacent LSC with permission from both the club’s LSC and the adjacent LSC.)

An LSC shall establish submission deadlines for sanction or approval applications and shall publish such deadlines, along with relevant instructions and forms.

More than anything, it is important to remember that all training and competition must conform to local, state, and federal public health guidelines.

Should you have any questions regarding meet sanctioning and competition, please contact Joel Shinofield at jshinofield@usaswimming.org.

Tech Suit Restriction for 12-and-Under Swimmers

Effective 09/01/20
102.8 SWIMWEAR
.1 Design
F. No Technical Suit may be worn by any 12 & Under USA Swimming athlete member in competition at any Sanctioned, Approved or Observed meet.

1) A Technical Suit is one that has the following components:
a. Any suit with any bonded or taped seams regardless of its fabric or silhouette; or
b. Any suit with woven fabric extending past the hips.

(Note: WOVEN FABRIC-A suit with woven fabric and sewn seams that does not extend below the hips is permitted.)
(Note: KNIT FABRIC-A suit with knit fabric and sewn seams not extending below the knees is permitted.)
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This rule is in effect for all USA Swimming competitions in the United States, so any manufacturer or vendor selling a suit in the United States is subject to the above rule. No Technical Suits may be worn by any 12-Under USA Swimming athlete member in competition at any Sanctioned, Approved or Observed meet.

A Technical Suit is one that has the following components:

Any male or female suit with any bonded or taped seams is defined as a technical suit regardless of its fabric or silhouette.
Any male or female suit with woven fabric and to the knee or mid-thigh is defined as a technical suit regardless of the type seams: bonded, taped or sewn. (Note: A woven suit with sewn seams and in a male brief or female regular cut not to the knees is not defined as a technical suit and is not restricted).

Bidding Process for Meets

2. Meet Bidding Procedure
The short course and long course meet schedules for the LSC are determined at the spring and fall House of Delegates meetings, respectively.

2.1 In order to gain permission to host a USA SWIMMING meet, a club must have a representative at the appropriate LSC meeting to make known the club’s desire to host a meet on certain dates and give a defined meet format.
2.2 Notification of the Technical Planning Chairman prior to the LSC meeting about proposed meets allows for overall LSC meet planning.
2.3 Clubs must provide information about event fees, awards, and surcharges for each bid. Requests for sanction or approval of any meet not bid at the LSC Meeting will be reviewed by the Sanction Committee to determine if the meet interferes in anyway with previously bid meets. If the committee determines a conflict, request for sanction/approval will be denied.
2.4 Approval is given by vote of the House of Delegates.