GKAISA CHAMPIONSHIP MEET DETAILS

City Meet will take place Thursday, July 11 through Saturday, July 13.

• Preliminaries for swimmers 10-Under will be held on Thursday, July 11. Warm-ups will begin at 1:00 pm, with a meet start time of 3:00 pm.
• Preliminaries for swimmers 11-Up will be held on Friday, July 12. Warm-ups will begin at 7:00 am, with a meet start time of 9:00 am.
• Finals will be held on Saturday, July 13 for the top 16 in each event. Warm-ups will begin at 7:00 am, with a start time of 9:00 am.

Many additional details/documents may be found on the City Meet tab on the GKAISA website (<-- link) including the Meet Invitation, Daily Meet Schedule (<link), and Meet Entry Procedures (<--link).

REGISTRATION

Teams will register online for City Meet by clicking on the Registration tab on the GKAISA website. ONE registration per team. Items to have prior to registering your team:

• Total number of athletes competing at city
• Team tent size
• Total number of GKAISA city meet t-shirts by size
• Total number of parking passes by day (Thursday/Friday/Saturday)
• Preferred payment method (by card online or by check mailed to Shawna Davis at 7540 Lyle Bend Lane, Knoxville, TN 37918).

HOSPITALITY

No hospitality is being provided. The hospitality room will be set up with tables/chairs for coach breaks.

CITY MEET TENTS (<--link)

All tents must be reserved through GKAISA (All Occasions will again be providing all tents including set up, take down). You must reserve them online with City Meet registration. Payment can be made either online during registration or by check payable to GKAISA and mailed to Shawna Davis at 7540 Lyle Bend Lane, Knoxville, TN 37918.

Prices are as follows:

• 20x20 = $395.00
• 20x30 = $500.00
• 20x40 = $655.00
• 30x40 = $998.00

If you are requesting a different size tent than your team has had in the past or if you are requesting a different location, please contact Nick Hall at 865.332.8334 or by email at [email protected].

CITY MEET ADS (<--link)

Ad sales help us defray the cost of City Meet for our teams and help us provide scholarship money to our graduating seniors. We are asking for your assistance by promoting City Meet ad sales with your families. The deadline to submit an ad is Friday, July 5.If sponsor level dictates, then banners should be delivered to Allan Jones on Wednesday, July 10.

For inquiries or to place an advertisement, please contact Nick Hall at 865.332.8334 or by email at [email protected].

GKAISA CITY MEET T-SHIRTS(<--link)

Please promote the sale of City Meet t-shirts to your parents and swimmers. Proceeds from t-shirt sales go toward helping defray the costs of City Meet and to assist in funding GKAISA scholarships for swimmers. Cost will be $15. Sizes available will be Youth S, M and L and Adult S, M, L, XL, XXL and XXXL. This year’s logo is on the City Meet page.

Shirts must be ordered during the online Registration process (one order per team) by due by July 3. Payment can be made either online during registration or by check payable to GKAISA and mailed to Shawna Davis at 7540 Lyle Bend Lane, Knoxville, TN 37918.

SENIOR SWIMMER RECOGNITION (<-- guess what!?)

Please submit graduating senior information via the Google link below by July 7 for all graduating seniors on your team for recognition in the heat sheet and on the scoreboard during city meet as well. Google doc 2024 GKAISA Graduating Seniors

NATIONAL ANTHEM AND TOP QUALIFIER MUSIC (<--it’s a bogo!)

If anyone on your team is interested in auditioning to perform the National Anthem (<--hint), please have him or her contact Brad Salsbury at 865.603.8435. Auditions may be carried out in person, over the phone or by video audition (preferable) sent to [email protected].

For more information, see the City Meet tab on the GKAISA website. Deadline to submit is Monday, July 8.

Also, we will again be asking each top qualifier from the 15-18 age group to choose “walk-out” music for Finals on Saturday. This music will be played over the indoor speaker system after the Consolation heat has been swum and before the finalists are introduced. Please note: This music must be appropriate for all age groups. Any style of music is allowed, but absolutely no lyrics containing sexual content, profanity, or references to violence will be allowed. All music will be screened for content.

If you have a swimmer or relay that is top-qualifier (<--the fun stuff), please email the title of the song and name of the artist to Brad Salsbury at [email protected] no later than 5:00 pm on Friday, July 12. Please put “GKAISA Heat Winner Music” in the subject and include your name, your team, your event, and your event number in the email. Also, please include any cueing instructions (i.e., “start at 1:32”). Approximately, 30-45 seconds will be played.

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION (<--too much to offer here; see below!)

2024 GKAISA Scholarship Information is available on the GKAISA website. We will award four scholarshipsthis year: the Tom Schumann and Bill Lauer Service Awards, the James Rich Courage Award, and the Terry Gardner Memorial Scholarship.

For the Tom Schumann (<--here) and Bill Lauer (<--and here) Service Awards, only one girl and one boy from a team may be nominated following the outlined service criteria (<-- even here). The nomination must be signed by the head coach and must include an essay from the swimmer.

The James Rich Courage Award (<--link) is given to a swimmer in the 15-18 age group who has either demonstrated great courage in the face of adversity or who has shown exceptional leadership in a difficult situation. The nomination must be made by the head coach.

The applications for these three awards are due by July 8 to GKAISA President Sherren Chadwell at [email protected]. Please include a photo (head shot) of the nominee. Scholarships will be awarded during Finals on Saturday, July 13.

TheTerry Gardner Memorial Scholarship (<--link) recipient is meant to embody the values and qualities that Terry represented and believed in. The criteria for the scholarship and information on submission is on the GKAISA website. Please note that the deadline for submissions is Monday, July 8 at noon to the Gardner family as instructed.

Photos of all winners will be displayed on the scoreboard at City Meet, and recipients will be recognized in the Heat Sheets.

ATHLETE PROTECTION AND OTHER POLICIES IN PLACE AT AJIAC

The Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Program (MAAPP) (<--fyi) is in effect at City Meet. UT’s Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center will enforce this policy. At all times during City Meet, the UT team locker room will be used for athletes, coaches, workers and officials ages 18-up. The visiting locker rooms will be used for athletes under 18 years of age. There will be signs posted during the meet to direct people, but we thought it would be helpful to advise you of this prior to the meet.

Marshals will be doing periodic sweeps of the locker rooms to be sure that proper behavior is taking place. ABSOLUTELY NO CELL PHONES OR CAMERAS IN THE LOCKER ROOMS AT ANY TIME.

Also, the diving well at Allan Jones will be closed on Thursday and Saturday of City Meet. We have been requested to advise that absolutely no one will be allowed in the diving well on these dates.

PARKING

Parking will be available in the garage across from Allan Jones at the cost of $10 per day.

Please have your parents order passes through your team and submit the number and payment when you register for City Meet. Be sure you specify the day for each of the passes. For Finals Saturday: If you reasonably believe that a swimmer will qualify for Finals, please encourage that swimmer's parent to purchase a Saturday pass. We will have a very limited number available for purchase for Saturday finals.

If you have parents who do not want to purchase parking, parking will be available at the Metron Center lot off Kingston Pike (approximately 1 mile away near Tyson Park). ABSOLUTELYNO shuttle service will be provided.

IMPORTANT DATES

July 3:

• City Meet Registration Due by 6pm
• City Meet Entries Due by 9pm
• Senior Names and Logos Due

July 5:

• City Meet Ad Deadline

July 7:

• Final Entry Changes Due by 6pm

July 8:

• Tom Schumann and Bill Lauer Service Award nominations due
• James Rich Courage Award nominations due
• Terry Gardner Memorial Scholarship nominations due by noon
• National Anthem Audition Deadline

July 11:

• City Meet Preliminaries (10-Under)

July 12:

• City Meet Preliminaries (11-Up)
• Senior Walk-out Music due 5:00 pm

July 13:

• City Meet Finals (All Ages)
• Scholarship Recognition

Worker assignments and warm-up assignments are based of team entries and will be released the week of city meet.  The psych sheet will be posted on Tuesday July 9th.  Please refer to the 2024 GKAISA City Championship Meet (<-- ...aaannndd that's a wrap!) webpage for all things city.

See you all by the pool! Happy swimming.

Other questions/concerns? Contact Sherren Chadwell at 865.604.6074.

GKAISA Board