PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE IN NSAA REGULATIONS Proposal Generated by Joe Kutlas, Grand Island, School Access Code, District 4 This proposal was submitted on: Oct 28, 2011 This proposal is submitted by: Name: Joe Kutlas School: Grand Island NSAA District: 4 The proposal deals with: Activities Manual: Swimming  Page: 14, 15 The section/paragraph/sentence indicates what is to be added/deleted/changed to the current Bylaw/Approved Ruling: ADDITIONS are in all capital letters. (Changes/Deletions are in parentheses.) Page 14 8 lanes will be used in the preliminaries AND FINALS in all swimming events. Scoring. (Twelve) SIXTEEN places will count for scoring. Page 15 �� Relays: (32-26-24-22-20-18-14-10-8-6-4-2.) 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22-18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2. �� Individual events in swimming and diving: (16-13-12-11-10-9-7-5-4-3-2-1.) 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Awards. Championship and runner-up team trophies will be awarded. Medals will be awarded to individuals in the first (six) EIGHT places in all events. The head coach of the championship team will receive an award. Any award given to a team or individual prior to, during or immediately following an NSAA state contest is to be awarded by the Nebraska School Activities Association Entries. All entries swimming/diving must be submitted electronically on the NSAA webpage under the School Login section. • All entries for the State Swimming and Diving Championships must meet the automatic qualifying standard. If there are not (24) 32 competitors entered in a swimming event who have met the qualifying standard, additional qualifiers who have met the secondary standard will be added based on time to reach (24) 32 entries – IF THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH SECONDARY TIME ENTRIES TO REACH 32, ADDITIONAL ENTRIES WILL NOT BE ADDED. The secondary time represents 8% of the qualifying standard FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENT AND 5% FOR RELAY EVENTS. Individuals to be considered as additional qualifiers must be submitted for consideration at the time that entries are due in the NSAA office. *If there is a tie for the (24th) 32nd spot via secondary time, an additional heat will not be added. The section/paragraph/sentence that needs to be added/deleted/changed would read as follows: Page 14 8 lanes will be used in the preliminaries and finals in all swimming events. Scoring. Sixteen places will count for scoring. Page 15 Relays: 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22-18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2. Individual events in swimming and diving: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Awards. Championship and runner-up team trophies will be awarded. Medals will be awarded to individuals in the first eight places in all events. The head coach of the championship team will receive an award. Any award given to a team or individual prior to, during or immediately following an NSAA state contest is to be awarded by the Nebraska School Activities Association. Entries. All entries (swimming/diving) must be submitted electronically on the NSAA webpage under the School Login section. All entries for the State Swimming and Diving Championships must meet the automatic qualifying standard. If there are not 32 competitors entered in a swimming event who have met the qualifying standard, additional qualifiers who have met the secondary standard will be added based on time to reach 32 entries– if there are not enough secondary time entries to reach 32, additional entries will not be added. The secondary time represents 8% of the qualifying standard for individual events and 5% for relay events. Individuals to be considered as additional qualifiers must be submitted for consideration at the time that entries are due in the NSAA office. *If there is a tie for the 32nd spot (secondary time), an additional heat will not be added. Cost Analysis of Proposal: Cost would be minimal to the NSAA, just 2 more medals per event (8 per relay event). But would potentially increase revenue for the preliminary sessions, since the increase in athletes would increase the number of spectators and would likely sell out those sessions. Cost to teams would also be minimal. Possibly additional transportation and lodging. Most teams would only add 2-3 more athletes. Rationale for the proposed change: State swimming meet was originally held in a 6 lane pool, which is the reason awards were first limited to 6 places. Conference championships are held in 8 lane pools and the State meet in held in a 10 lane pool. This will bring the State championship up to date. The Metro conference championship awards medals to 8 and has 16 in finals/consolation finals. The State meet should be as good or better than a conference meet. Nearly all other state championships award 8 medals. Numbers of teams and competitors in swimming has increased greatly over the years, with never a change in the state format. This is overdue. It is time to reward more student athletes with the state experience. This will not lessen the achievement nor dilute the level of competition at the state meet as qualifying times have steadily dropped over the years and times that were in finals in past years would now not make the qualifying standard. The additional places added would be within seconds or tenths of seconds of the current 12th place times. Several events over the past several years are already have had more than 24 competitors in prelims. Shows that the quality is increasing. No changes in individual qualifying standards or how those times are calculated. It will not be easier to qualify for this meet. Relay secondary times were lowered to ensure that all relay teams would be deserving of a spot, would limit numbers top 28-30 teams using past times. Would potentially increase parity in the competitors making finals, opening more spots to athletes from non-traditional swimming powers. Would make depth more of a factor in determining state team champions. No additional volunteers or NSAA staff would be needed to implement the changes. Still using the same number of lanes. Just adding one heat per event in prelims. Would allow more rest for competitors during prelims and eliminate the need for breaks. Less dead time. Time line would not change for finals. Would only add two lanes (competitors) per heat. Lanes which are used for prelims but not currently used in finals. Number of athletes would increase slightly, most likely effect would be that athletes competing in one event or only relays would now compete in more individual events.