2008 Volunteer of the Year nominations are now being taken. If you have a person who you feel has provided significant amounts of his or her time and energies on behalf of Central California Swimming, then the Awards Committee would like you to place that person's name into nomination.
Nominations are being taken electronically on this website. Click on this Volunteer of the Year link to get to the nomination form. Nominations will be accepted thru July 17, 2009 and the committee's selection for Volunteer of the Year will be announced at the CCS LC Junior Olympics.
Available Form/Document:
WZ Gold Section Application to Officiate
WZ Gold Section Request for Evaluation
Officials planning on attending and officiating at the Western Zone Gold Section Speedo Championship Series need to apply, whether or not you are looking for an assigned possition or not. Also, this is an Officials Qualifying Meet with an national evaluator who can evaluate at all levels, so if you wish to be evaluated for recertification or advancement to the N2 or N3 level, you need to apply separately for an evaluation.
Please find links to the application forms at the head of this column. Complete the necessary application forms and forward to Jim Patterson, per the instructions on the forms.
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2009 Scholastic All American Application
As the 2008-2009 school year comes to a close, it is the time of the year when USA Swimming recognizes its high school student athletes. USA Swimming is now accepting applications for candidates for its Scholastic All-America team. High school students (grades 10, 11 and 12) with grade point averages of 3.5 or higher and who have competed from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 and have at least one qualifying time in the USA Swimming SWIMs times database are elligible. Open water swimmers and swimmers with disabilities are also elligible if they participated in specific meets.
For complete information about elligibility and the application process, click on the brochure link at the top of this column.
Remember, the deadline for applications is August 1, 2009. Both the application and a copy of the student's transcript must be received at that time. Also, please note that applications for boys and girls go to different coordinators, the address information for whom is included in the brochure.
5/20/2009
2009 Valleys Results Posted
4/15/2009
Kohlton Norys at NCAAs
4/11/2009
2009 Zone Team Info Packet
3/12/2009
2008 Travel Fund Summary
1/27/2009
2006-2007 Top 16
1/27/2009
2007-2008 CCS National Top 10
12/12/2008
New Best Times
12/12/2008
Top 5 Update
12/1/2008
New SC JO Time Stds
9/12/2008
Coaches Safety Training Chgs
The CCS Scheduling Committee Meet Bid Meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 8 p.m. at the Tulare Senior Center. All clubs wishing to bid should plan on sending their representatives to the meeting in order to bid.
The schedule has been published under the the Proposed Schedule on the Swim Meets drop down menu.
Available Form/Document:
Fresno Pacific Swim Camp 2009
Fresno Pacific University is hosting a swim camp from June 16 to June 19, 2009. A copy of the camp brochure may be downloaded/printed from the link at the top of this column.
For online information and online registration click here: FPU 2009 Swim Camp
CCS age group time standards for 2009 have been updated and posted. CCS adopts the National Age Group Motivational Times as its own. These standards were updated for the 2009-2012 Quadrennium. Also CCS has modified the standard Western Zone qualfiying times for its participation rules. And finally the new long course JO time standards have been published by the Technical Planning Committee. You can view all of these by selecting the Time Standards option on the Swimmers' Lane drop down menu.
JO time standards will be reviewed annually as CCS tries to attract more swimmers in certain age groups. Technical Planning has developed an apporach to adjust the time standards by looking at the competitive times of the previous few JO meets. In some cases time standards are soften to allow more swimmers to participate. In other cases the time standards may be toughened.
Where standards are being softened, this process may continue over multiple years. Technical Planning has limited the magnitude of the adjustments in any one year so as not to over adjust in a single year. So after every JO meet, the time standards will be reviewed and new standards will be published. The 2010 short course time standards have already been created and will be published shortly after the 2010 long course time standards have been developed based on the 2009 competitive times this summer.