FS Zone Team Athlete Application

2011 USA Swimming Southern Zone Meet

July 26 – July 31, 2011        Triangle Aquatic Center, Cary, NC

Swimmers! Below is the selection application to represent Florida Swimming in the USA Swimming Southern Zone Age Group Championship Meet.  Athletes selected for this meet represent the finest of Florida Swimming competing against the other 15 LSC’s in our Southern Zone. Team Florida is the four time defending champion!  Each LSC sends their best athletes to compete against the South’s best.  Being selected as a member of Florida Swimming Southern Zone Championship Team, you have been given the opportunity to compete at the top of your sport against some of the best athletes in the nation.  This year’s USA Swimming Southern Zone Meet will be held in Cary, NC at the Triangle Aquatic Center.

The majority of the team will be selected starting after April 15^th based on the Florida Swimming S/C Top 10 Rankings.Florida Swimming will invite the top 5 athletes in the 11-12, 13-14, age groups and the top 8 athletes in the 15-18 age group after compiling a high point score using the Florida Swimming S/C Top 10 Rankings (all events).  The remaining three spots for the 11-12 and 13-14 age groups will be chosen using the high point totals at the L/C Age Group Championship Meet, July 14-17, 2011. A list of the potential first round selection swimmers will be posted in Age Group News on the Florida Swimming website by the Age Group Chair in order to facilitate conversations between the coaches and families about participation in the Zone Meet. The Zone Coaching Staff will make the official invitations and swimmers will be given 3 days to make the verbal commitment and until June 1 to respond with their application and deposit of $500. 

15 – 18 swimmers who have achievedthe 2009 U.S. Open

qualifying standardsare not eligible to participate.

(There is not an upper limit time standard for 11-12 and 13-14’s).

Zone Team Application