Here's a report on Saturday's Open Water Summer Splash

Attention All AMS Clubs ... We are once again hosting The Eric Namesnik Memorial Meet, July 17-19 at the University of Pittsburgh. Your help is requested to volunteer for this meet. This is an LSC-run meet and your help is greatly appreciated. We ran this meet in 2007 with your help, and it was a great success. Please sign up to volunteer. We are in need of the following workers for each session: 4 Place Judges 1 Head Timer 16 Timers 2 Marshalls 2 Runners 2 Hospitality Room Wprkers 2-3 Concession Workers 1 Morning Announcer Please step up by July 8th, by contacting Pete Barry at pracoach@gmail.com Thanks!

May's HOD Election results ... At the recent HOD Meeting, the following individuals were elected to these offices. Their terms commence September 1, 2009. General Chair – Paul Seiferth – 2 year term Secretary – Laura Hartman – 2 year term Age Group Vice Chair – Pete Barry – 2 year term Technical Planning Chair – Ken Luttinger – 1 year term Registration Chair – Dan Smith – 1 year term Safety Chair – Bob Mermelstein – 1 year term

2009-2010 Short Course meet Hosts ... The Hosts for our 2009-2010 meets have been selected. Please review the dates your Club will be hosting meets and forward a confirmation with your acceptance of the awarded meet(s) to Donna Beyerl, Age Group Chair. If there are any issues with the meet(s) awarded, please contact Donna Beyerl immediately.

AMS' own Coach Chuck Knoles has authored an opinion-editorial ... CollegeSwimming.com is displaying Coach Knoles' op-ed about the new tech suits and their use. Open the "News Archive", scroll to May 15th, 2009. It is titled "The Year of the Suits".

Scholastic All-America applications ... Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors! The USA Swimming and AMS Scholastic All-America application deadline is August 1st. If you qualify for either of these awards, do not forget to submit your application with all the required documentation. You've worked too hard to let this award slip by! Get your School's transcript information before you leave for Summer vacation or else you may forget about it. The AMS application may be found in our Forms Library. The USA Swimming Scholastic All-America information can be found here. 5/14/09

Attention AMS Club Entry Personnel ... AMS Meets occuring before the Summer Celebration, June 19-21, require Short Course Yard entry times to be submitted. More and more Clubs are using websites by several different website designers to create their meet entry files, versus using Hy-Tek Team Manager software. If you are one of these clubs and are having problems getting your website to submit Short Course Yard entry times now that Long Course season has started, please contact Tech Planning Chairman Bob Rinsma for support. Do not submit Long Course Meter times for AMS Meet entry until the Summer Celebration.

You know the Swimmer pictured on your Athlete's Registration card? USA Swimming is conducting a vote for next year's Male Swimmer. Go here to place your vote!

2009-2010 Short Course Schedule information ... A draft of the 2009-2010 Short Course Season Schedule has been created. The 2009-2010 Short Course Meet Schedule is now open for bidding. The bidding period will close on April 30th, 2009. The requirements for submitting meet bids are to complete the Meet Bid Application Form and the Safety Checklist. Forward hardcopys of the Meet Bid Application and Safety Checklist to Donna Beyerl, 206 Vilsack Road, Glenshaw, PA 15116, or you may send a .pdf copy to donnabeyerl@gmail.com. Donna will forward the safety checklist to our Safety Chair. Awarded meets will be announced at our May HOD meeting. 4/5/09

The Three Rivers Swim Camp ... A "Stroke Development and Training" Day Camp is being held at the Henry Kaufmann Family Recreation Park, Rosecrest Drive, Monroeville from June 14, 2009, Through June 18, 2009. Click here for all the details. 4/5/09

2009 Long Course Schedule information ... The 2009 Long Course Season Schedule has been finalized. Some of the Meet Structures may be found here. There is a change to the Classic Meet hosted by JCCS on May 15-17, 2009. It is now an "Open Meet" with No Qualifying Times; however, entry times are required to enter the meet. The meet being hosted by CVSC, the Steel City Invitational May 8-10, 2009, is also a "No Qualifying Times" meet. No Club may enter both the Classic and the Steel City Invitational meets. You must choose which meet to enter. Once the CVSC meet is full, all subsequent Club entries will go to The Classic Meet the following weekend. Please be aware of this when making plans with your Club. In like fashion, no Club many enter both Age Group Open meets being hosted by Hampton on May 30-31, 2009, and by FCKW/WHAT on June 5-7, 2009. You must choose which of these meets to enter as well. 3/19/09

Congratulations to our latest Class of USA Swimming Scholastic All-Americans! The 2008 list of AMS' USA Swimming Scholastic All-Americans is here.

Congratulations to all of our 2008 Scholastic All-Americans! The 2007-2008 AMS Scholastic All-American list has been added to our Special Honors section.

The 2009 AMS Budget has been approved ... The 2009 AMS Annual budget was approved at the November 2008 HOD meeting.

The 2008-2009 Registration material has been posted ... The Registration forms for 2008-2009 have been posted in our Forms Library (Business Pages, Forms Library).

Important message from the AMS Webmaster regarding computer viruses ... We continue to experience the effect of some recently created viruses. These viruses are being propagated by email from AMS members who choose to not employ virus protection. If you do not use an updated form of virus protection, you could be the cause of our problems. Please read this important message.