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Preseason Swimming & Diving Memo

Happy First Day of Practice!

Best needs to you and your staff this yr. This word covers quite a lot of essential reminders and updates to make sure you’re totally ready for the season.

2025 Rules Meeting: The 2025 Swimming and Diving Rules Meeting has been posted since August 4 and might be accessed via your Bound account. All head coaches are required to view the assembly, and it is strongly recommended that assistant coaches achieve this as effectively. Completion deadline: Friday, September 5.

2025 Rule Changes: NFHS rule adjustments for the 2025 season might be accessed here.

2025 Points of Emphasis: There are only some objects highlighted this yr, however please take time to evaluation them. You can view this yr’s Points of Emphasis here.

New IGHSAU Website: The IGHSAU unveiled a brand new web site in July with the aim of constructing navigation extra streamlined—particularly for coaches and exercise administrators. Public and coaches’ pages for swimming and diving at the moment are mixed, so all info is in a single place. Please verify the web page repeatedly for updates throughout the season.

Regular Season State Qualifying Diving Meets – September 20 & October 18

Divers will now have two alternatives to qualify for the 2025 State Diving Meet throughout the common season:
– Saturday, September 20 – Waukee
– Saturday, October 18 – Marshalltown YMCA/YWCA

The prime 5 finishers at every meet will mechanically qualify for state. If a diver locations within the prime 5 at each meets, the next-highest finisher(s) from the Marshalltown meet will qualify till 10 regular-season qualifiers are reached. Efforts will likely be made to have the identical panels of officers and coaches choose each meets for consistency.

Coaches and officers chosen for these judging panels should full the NFHS Judging Springboard Diving on-line course.

If that you must add an extra diving date to your schedule to compete at each meets, electronic mail me at jasoneslinger@ighsau.org.

Note: Like swimming’s common season qualifying course of, divers who qualify throughout the common season should compete within the regional meet and file a profitable 11-dive efficiency to stay eligible for state.

NFHS Judging Diving Course Required For Officials: The NFHS has made judging consistency some extent of emphasis. The IGHSAU advisory committee voted to make the Judging Springboard Diving course obligatory for:
– Officials judging diving on the regular-season qualifying meets, regionals, or state.
– Coaches wishing to be thought of for judging at these meets.

Officials: Access the course through Dragonfly.
Coaches: Access the course by doing the next:
1. Go to www.nfhs.org and click on NFHS Learning Center on the prime.
2. Click on Courses for Officials.
3. On the left menu, choose Sport Specific Courses—“Judging Springboard Diving” will seem first.
4. Register for an NFHS account in case you don’t have already got one, then start the course.Backstroke Ledges: Backstroke ledges at the moment are authorized and will likely be used this season at each regionals and the state meet.

Scrimmages: Beginning this season, faculties might take part in as much as two scrimmages between the primary authorized follow date and the final day of the State Meet. Scrimmages should not trigger lack of faculty time.

Iowa Adaptive Swimming Program: This program permits athletes requiring wheelchairs to compete in:
– 50 Freestyle
– 100 Freestyle
– 200 Freestyle
– 100 Breaststroke
– 100 Backstroke
The 2025 Adaptive Swimming entry kind might be downloaded by clicking here.

Bound: Bound is now open for roster and schedule updates. Schools will need to have meet outcomes up to date each Tuesday throughout the common season. Meet hosts: It is essential that you just import outcomes into Bound for instances to be verified for state qualification.  A Bound tutorial for importing outcomes is offered by clicking here.

2025 Regular Season State Qualifying Time Standards: Standards are the typical of the Sixteenth-place time from the final 5 state meets. Times should be achieved in an IGHSAU-sanctioned meet in a totally automatic-timed yard pool, and verified in Bound.

200 Free – 1:57.88
200 IM – 2:12.65
50 Free – :24.92
100 Fly – 1:00.19
100 Free – :54.55
500 Free – 5:21.03
100 Back – 1:00.19
100 Breast – 1:07.65

Diving Coaches: Diving coaches may fit with all divers from the colleges they serve on the identical time. Diving coaches is not going to have to have separate diving practices for every faculty. This applies solely to diving.

Season Limitations: An athlete might compete in 12 varsity meets, with no multiple meet per day. JV and varsity participation on the identical day counts as one meet. Diving-only meets are permitted.

Concussion Protocol: All coaches should full Concussion in Sports: What You Need to Know earlier than the primary follow. Contact your AD in case you have not accomplished it.

NFHS Rule Book: 2025 is an off yr for rule e book distribution; no books will likely be mailed.

11-Dive Meets: 11-dive meet are permitted at duals with mutual consent of each faculties. Hosts are chargeable for notifying officers prematurely.

Hosting Regionals: Schools enthusiastic about internet hosting regionals should full the location availability kind in Bound. Preference is given to services with eight-lane swimming pools, although not assured.

Rule 9-4-6 – Rotating Dive Schedule (2025 Season)

Weeks 1–2: Forward Group
Week 3: Back Group
Week 4: Inward Group
Week 5: Twisting Group
Week 6: Reverse Group
Then repeat the cycle.

Diving Facility Requirements: The Iowa Department of Health dominated that diving boards could also be changed on swimming pools with a water depth of 10-12 ft.  However, changing a whole diving stand is not going to be permitted except the water depth is 12 ft.  This would violate Iowa Code (641 IAC Chapter 15). Iowa Administrative Code doesn’t enable the next websites to exchange the diving stand attributable to having lower than 12 ft of water. Therefore, diving is not going to happen, and no factors will likely be awarded on the following websites:
Atlantic, Centerville, Des Moines East, Des Moines Hoover, Des Moines North, Lewis Central, Newton, Indianola, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Perry, Spencer, Tipton, Vinton-Shellsburg, Williamsburg.

If your facility standing has modified, contact the IGHSAU instantly.

Please attain out anytime with questions. Best needs for a profitable 2025 swimming and diving season!

Jason Eslinger
Associate Director/Swimming and Diving Administrator