MHSAA Announces Michigan High School Girls Swimming State Meet Will Be Timed Finals

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The MHSAA has modified the state finals for girls swimming and diving this fall to allow for smaller competing groups at a time because of COVID-19.

Adjustments to this fall’s girls state swimming and diving finals were made to accommodate limits on individuals who may assemble together for indoor activities.

All diving will take place Friday, Nov. 20, at three sites to be determined. All qualifying divers will complete five dives, with the top 20 advancing to perform three more dives. From that second round, the top 16 will advance to perform their final three dives of the competition.

All swimming will be competed Saturday, Nov. 21, with timed championship races in every event instead of the traditional preliminaries and finals, meaning there is only one race for swimmers in each event and the fastest time wins no matter what heat it comes from. Scores from the swimming and diving portions will be combined to determine final team finish.

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This season’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Cross Country Tournament will begin with an additional Pre-Regional round, which will divide traditional Regionals into smaller groups in order to limit field sizes per race site. A total of 18 Pre-Regional races per each of four Divisions will qualify the four top-placing teams and seven top individuals not on those teams to nine Regionals per Division. From Regionals, the top three teams and seven individuals not on those teams will advance to each of the Finals, which will be run Friday (Division 1 & 2) and Saturday (Division 3 & 4), Nov. 6-7, at Michigan International Speedway.

To again limit field size and mixing of schools, each Division of the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Finals for both girls and boys will be run over two races – teams qualifying third from Regionals and all individual qualifiers will be in one section (or heat), with teams that qualified second or first at Regionals in a second section. Two Divisions – four girls and four boys races total – will be run each day of the Lower Peninsula Finals.

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Melissa Stratton Baker

Terrible ☹️

Athanasia Phelan
3 years ago

That’s great. NY has cancelled Girls State HS Swim Championships all together.

Jessica Middleton Newman

Athanasia Phelan Yep! And it’s ridiculous

Athanasia Phelan
3 years ago

Jessica Middleton Newman our section has cancelled our fall season ?

Jessica Middleton Newman

Athanasia Phelan ours is moved to spring in section 3

Athanasia Phelan
3 years ago

Jessica Middleton Newman yep. Same. XI

Kristine Stetz
3 years ago

Happy that they are having a season and that they are having a championship meet at all! Good luck swimmers!

Sheree Moran Marsh
3 years ago

At least there is a plan

Janna Schiller Ostvolden

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