How is Pacifics meet schedule prepared?
Swim meets in Pacific are scheduled on an annual basis, with both Pacific and its member zones going through a process of determining its meet calendar and offering its member clubs the opportunity to host the meets on the calendar through a formal bidding process. Each spring, the Scheduling Committee of the Board of Directors, which includes representatives of the zones and the senior and age group programs, prepares a draft schedule of the major meets in Pacific for the upcoming calendar year. This schedule includes Pacific’s senior meets and its major age group meets (for example, Far Westerns and Junior Olympics). The schedule takes into account the dates of important regional and national championship meets as well as holiday weekends. This draft meet schedule is then approved by the entire Board of Directors at its May meeting. During the month of June, through a formal bidding process, clubs that are interested in hosting any of the major Pacific meets are required to submit a
