2025 East Coast Champs Meet Details

Mar 24

Swim Nova Scotia is excited to host the 2025 East Coast Championships March 27-30th at Dalplex Pool in Halifax!

A few important reminders and updates for everyone:

HEAT SHEETS:

Friday Prelims

FACILITY ACCESS:

All teams must enter/exit Dalplex through the main doors and check-in with facility staff. Access to the main locker rooms will be available for all swimmers; coaches may enter/exit through the back stairwell. NS swimmers & coaches can access the facility with their bag tags; out of province swimmers will receive their bag tags on Thursday night and can access the facility using them for the remainder of the weekend.

SPECTATOR INFORMATION:

All spectators must remain in the designated spectator areas – the pool deck is reserved for swimmers entered in the meet, registered coaches and volunteers/officials working the designated session.
Spectators must enter/exit Dalplex through the main doors (the emergency exit at the back will NOT be available)

PARKING:

Parking passes are required to park in the Dalplex Parking lot on Friday only. Each Club will receive 1 parking pass for their Coach; this can be picked up from Bette or Angela in the computer room on Thursday.

TECHNICAL:

There will be no split warm-ups; however lanes 7 & 8 will be designated for Para Swimmers, Special Olympic Swimmers and 12 & Under Swimmers for the first 30 minutes of each warm-up period
Sprint, Pace & Backstroke start lanes will be open for the last 20 minutes of each scheduled warm-up period

Session Reports V2 (as of Mar 25) are now available - B finals have been removed (see below) for those events with less than 20 swimmers; we will review after the scratch deadline daily.
Psych Sheets V2 (as of Mar 25) are now available & Psych Sheets (by age group) are now available- all entries have been confirmed.
Positive Check-In: Will be required for the 400/800/1500m Freestyle events:

o Thursday Distance due at 3:30pm

o Saturday 400m Free due on Friday at 7:00pm

o Sunday Distance due on Saturday at 7:00pm

Distance Events: Reminder that the 400/800/1500 Free will swim fastest to slowest, alternating gender. These events may be reseeded after positive check-in.
Combined Events: Coaches will be notified if any individual or relay events will be combined
Relays: Names can be changed up 30 minutes before the relay is scheduled to begin; however, they will be due at 5:00pm daily (please come to the computer room to make changes once submitted).
PARA & Special Olympic Events: These will be added into finals – coaches with Para & Special Olympic Swimmers should let the computer room know if these swimmers would like to swim in the Para final daily by 12:00pm
B Finals: B finals will take place for each event, by age group if there are 20 or more swimmers after the first scratch deadline. Based on the current entry list there will be NO B finals in the following events (reflected in this version of the Session Reports).

Friday finals:

Events 7-8, 12 & U girls and boys 200 Free

Events 9-10, 12 & U girls and boys 50 Fly

Events 11 & 12, all age groups

Events 13 & 14, 12 & U girls and boys and 13-14 boys

Events 15 all except 15 & O boys

Events 16, 12 & U

Saturday finals:

Events 21 & 22, 12 & U girls and boys

Events 23 & 24, 12 & U girls and boys & 13-14 boys

Events 25 & 26, 12 & U girls and boys and 13-14 girls

Events 27 & 28, 12 & U girls and boys and 13-14 boys

Events 29 & 30, 12 & U girls and boys

Sunday finals:

Events 35 & 36, 12 & U girls and boys

Events 37 & 38, 12 & U girls and boys

Events 39 & 40, all age groups

Events 41 & 42, 12 & U girls and boys, & 13-14 girls

Events 43 & 44, 12 & U girls and boys

AWARDS:

Medals will be presented throughout finals for 1-3rd place in each event on the diving platform following each race. Swimmers are reminded to wear a shirt for their presentation, if they can’t make it, please send another swimmer that can pick up their award on their behalf. These will be taking place during the competition.

OFFICIALS: