JRAC Champs
JRAC sponsors a championship meet at the end of the regular season. Any swimmer who meets the Champs Qualifying time in a particular event during the regular season is ELIGIBLE to swim that event at champs, but that does not mean it is a guarantee that s/he will. It must be noted that there are some limitations on entries that govern how the coaches select swimmers for particular events.
- In order to swim an event at Champs, the swimmer must have achieved a Champs qualifying time in that event in a JRAC swim meet sometime during the summer season of Champs.
- The competitive classification—Novice, R, X, or XX—is determined by the best time achieved during the season or in the two prior seasons.
- Each individual may swim no more than 5 events over the course of the meet (2 individual and 3 relays, 3 individual and 2 relays, or 4 individual and 1 relay).
- A swimmer must have a novice time to swim on a novice relay. Regular relays can have any combination of novice, regular, X or XX swimmers. All relay teams must be comprised of at least 2 females.
- Each team in the league can enter 2 swimmers in each time category and event (i.e. 11–12 girls 50 free, each team is allowed 2 entries in the novice category, 2 entries in the regular category, 2 in the X category, and 2 in the XX category, for a maximum of 8 girls in the 50 free for that age group).
The coaches will do their best to ensure that each swimmer who qualifies for champs and wants to attend champs will, but final decisions about who swims in which events will be at the discretion of the coaching staff and done in a manner that will yield the maximum benefit to the overall team performance. Swimming in the Championship Meet is a privilege and not a right, and the opportunity is earned through the course of the season. The championship team and their events will be posted on Saturday morning the weekend before the meet. Alternates will be selected and can practice with the championship team from that point forward. Champs will be indoors, but kids will sit outside when not competing. RT will have a tent at the meet so that swimmers will have a place to rest and stay cool between events. The meet concludes with relays.
Our coaches would like to ask swimmers and parents to make championships a priority! The JRAC Championship meet is the culmination of 10 weeks of hard work, so please keep this date in mind when you are planning vacations this summer. If you have a choice between missing a meet this summer or Champs, it would be better to miss one of the meets rather than Champs. Please keep this day free this summer.
