Back to Archive List The Championship Meet is the Olympics of the Marin Swim League season. Every swimmer should make it a priority to represent their team at this festive event.

All league teams participate and all members who have participated in a minimum of three meets during the season may swim. Sixteen lanes are used, eight lanes for girls and eight lanes for boys. The meet takes all day to complete.

Meet Format
10 & Unders swim in the morning and the older age groups in the afternoon. Otherwise, the events are scheduled in the same order as in a dual meet, however, slower swimmers heats are first working up to the fastest swimmers in the last heats of each individual event.

Points are scored for the teams by individuals placing first down through sixteenth place. All heats are considered counting. Medals are awarded to the first eight finishers in each individual event and 1st through 3rd in relays. All heat winners receive ribbons except for the last heat. High point trophies are awarded for the top three swimmers in each age grouping for both boys and girls based on points scored in individual events.

Warm Ups
Warm ups at Champs will be at 6:30am for the 8&unders, and 6:50am for the 9-10s. For the afternoon session. 11-12s will warm up at 1:00 and 13&ups will warm-up at 1:20.

Parking!!
Due to ongoing major construction in the IVC parking lots, there is a drastic reduction in the number of parking spaces available for the Championship Meet this year. Parking passes will be REQUIRED for the available spaces. Priority for these passes will go to Champs Snack Bar volunteers (Note: Tomio will be in contact for those lucky few). In short, the parking situation is even WORSE than last year! Please help by carpooling and make sure you read parking details on the Champs website (see below).

Champs Online
Parking instructions, volunteer job descriptions, the volunteer timeline, the Meet timeline and much more are all available on the MSL Champs website. Heat sheets will be posted mid-week. Note that there are NO printable Heat Sheets for this meet. Please support the host team (Orcas) by buying the Championship program ($3) which will include the printed Heat Sheets.

http://marinswimleague.org/champs09

At the Meet
Because of the size and length of this event it is very important that parents insure their swimmers get a good nights' sleep before the meet. During the meet it is very important that everyone pay attention and get the swimmers to their events. It can get very hot at IVC, so make sure you bring a lot of sunblock and drink plenty of fluids!

Needless to say this meet gets very, very crowded! We ask for everyone to please look after our younger swimmers, especially our Seal Pups, to make sure that they are safe and don't get lost in the throngs of people.

There is no reserved or dedicated seating in the bleachers, no sleeping bags, tents, are chairs are permitted. The MSL will set up tents to for general use by all. Our team will have a dedicated area (in the corner, behind the Snack Bar) on the lawn.

Only swimmers, timers and meet officials are allowed in the area behind the starting blocks. All 8 and under line-ups occur on the road above the pool.

Tents
Many of our team tents will be used for the snack bar this year so if anyone has a pop-up canopy they can bring and set up in the team area- we would really appreciate it.

Cool Down
It always helps to have coolers with ice and water in our team area to keep our swimmers hydrated- it would be great to have families help out with this.

GO SEALS!!!