2026 Cherry Knolls Swim Team Prelims/Finals

Neptune Nation,

It has been a fantastic 2026 season! BUT…the season is NOT over yet. We strongly 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 29th @ 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 11th, 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 qualify 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 posted on the RMSL website or check out the Top 25 Report.
• Your swimmer must have participated in 2 official meets this season to swim in Prelims per RMSL rules. The Intrasquad meet does not count as an official meet.
• Every swimmer must have an established time for Prelims. NO NTs this year! This means you must have swum the event during the regular season in order to swim this event at Prelims. If your swimmer would like to swim a particular event in Prelims, but they do not yet have a time, please have them swim this at our final meet this weekend.
• We will have a Prelims Party for all swimmers who sign up for Prelims on July 5th at 6pm. 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 2026 prelims practice schedule
• Sunday evening July 12th at 6 pm we will have our End of Season Awards. ALL are invited!

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 or Finals events. If you have multiple swimmers in multiple meets, you are only 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 may also need to 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 Thursday June 29th 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 - Justin, Dori, Russell & Leah