• Swimming

  • Sanctioned by Potomac Valley LMSC for USMS Inc. Sanction Number: 105-S002

  • Hosted by District of Columbia Aquatics Club

  • Competition Dates: Saturday May 31st through Thursday June 5th with Tuesday June 3rd being a break day for Open-Water Swimming. 

  • Venue: Long Bridge Aquatic Center located at 333 Long Bridge Drive in Arlington, VA 22202

  • For IGLA+ 2025 Championship, competition at Long Bridge will be conducted in an 8-lane, 25 meter format.  The other portion of the pool will be available for warm up and warm down but set up as 25 yards.  We will not be running two courses at a time.  

    • For reference, click here to view the competition pool at Long Bridge.

  • Long Bridge Aquatic & Fitness Center will allocate 5 lanes to be available to IGLA+ participants for warm-up on Friday, May 30 from 10:00am to 4:00pm. 

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• Order of Events: 

  • Day 1 - Saturday May 31st:  200 Breaststroke, 50 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly, 200 Backstroke, and 400 Freestyle 

  • Day 2 - Sunday June 1st:  50 Backstroke, 200 Individual Medley, 200 Butterfly, 100 Breaststroke, and 800 Freestyle

  • Day 3 - Monday June 2nd:  50 Butterfly, 100 Individual Medley, 100 Freestyle, 1500 Freestyle 

  • Day 4 - Wednesday June 4th: 200 Freestyle, 50 Breaststroke, 100 Backstroke, and 400 Individual Medley.  

  • Day 5 - RELAY DAY - Thursday June 5th: 400 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 200 Free Relay, and 400 Medley Relay

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• Athletes may enter up to 5 individual events, but IGLA+ 2025 Championship organizers reserve the right to drop and refund the fifth entered event should there be a high number of entries. 

• Athletes may participate in up to 4 relays on the final day.

  • Relay entries will be completed by the team captain/coach after individual registration closes.  

• The length of the competition course is not on file with USMS. Eligibility of times achieved in this meet will be contingent upon pool length measurement and approval with USMS; if bulkheads are present, their placement must also be confirmed by measurements at the meet (USMS articles 105.1.7 and 106.2.1).   

• Scheduled times for the meet (subject to change)

  • Warm-up: 8:00am to 8:45am

  • Competition: 9:00am

• The primary timing system will be automatic timing. Times from this competition will be eligible for world record, USMS record, and Top 10 consideration.

• Times swum under one-event registration are not eligible for USMS Top 10 or records consideration.  

• Seeding:

  • Odd numbered events will be USMS events, even numbered events will be Open events.

  • Heats within each event will be seeded slow to fast by time.

  • Positive Check In will be required for distance events (400 Free, 800 Free,1500 Free, 400 IM)