2024 Cherry Knolls Swim Team Prelims/Finals

Neptunes,

2024 has been a great season and we hope it has been fun for all the kids. The season is NOT over yet. We encourage all who can to attend Prelims and show their support for our team.

Below is useful information on prelims, please read!

Prelims/Finals meet entry is now open and will close on June 30th @ 10PM. FIRM DEADLINE!

Some things to consider when making the decision to participate in prelims:

• You are making the commitment to be available to attend finals on Saturday, July 13th, should your swimmer qualify for individual and/or relay events. If you know that you and your swimmer cannot attend finals, please do not sign up to swim in prelims. Many of our relay teams do go to finals each year!
• For finals, the top 18 swimmers are taken from prelims to participate in the finals meet (16 swimmers and 2 alternates) for each event.
• Cherry Knolls does not require swimmers to have a certain qualifying time to participate in prelims. We encourage your swimmer to participate if they want to, and it is a great experience. If you are looking at qualifying times, we suggest you look at the finals times from last year that are posted on the RMSL website.
• Your swimmer must have participated in 2 official meets this season to qualify for prelims per RMSL rules. The intrasquad meet with the Knolls does not count as an official meet.
• We will have a prelims party for all who sign up for prelims on July 7th at 7pm. This is a night you do not want to miss!
• There are additional practices the week before and the week of prelims ONLY for those participating in prelims/finals. See Website for 2024 prelims practice schedule
• Sat evening July 13th at 6 pm after Finals we have a fun and casual post prelims/finals awards ceremony. ALL are invited! Swimmers that swim in prelims and finals will be recognized.

Volunteering

• RMSL assigns each team multiple volunteer shifts for each event, so we need your help!
• You must fulfill at least one volunteer shift for prelims events. If you have multiple swimmers in multiple meets, you are obligated to fulfill one shift for the week. We will do our best to limit to one shift during the week, but it’s not always possible depending on how many swimmers participate in each age group.
• If your swimmer qualifies for finals, you must also fulfill another volunteer shift at the Finals meet on Saturday.

Steps to signing in/out of prelims:

1. Please log-in to the CK Swim team website, go to meet/event schedule and select the Prelims Meet that corresponds to the age group of your swimmer(s) found after selecting the “Meet Schedule” button (It is the same place you sign up for regular meets.)

2. Select up to 3 events for each swimmer.

Prelims/Finals Meet Entry: Please be careful to go under the correct age group meet in order to sign your swimmer up. Also note that the events are the same as in the regular season dual meets, but they are numbered differently in the prelims. The events will be back to the normal numbering order at finals. The prelim entries will be open until Sunday June 30th  at 10pm, firm deadline. The Prelims and Finals meets are as follows:

3. If you have decided not to participate in prelims, please log-in and sign your swimmers out.

4. Don’t forget to also select a volunteer position for one of the meets you’ll be attending. If you don’t sign-up, a shift for a meet will be assigned to you.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to a really fun week!

Thank you!

Parent Reps