The first official date to remember for the 2015-2016 Arena Pro Swim Series comes next Tuesday, when entries open for the tour’s opening Minneapolis stop.
Minneapolis is the only Pro Swim Series event to take place in the fall of 2015. The Minneapolis meet is typically swum in short course yards, but will be a long course meters event in 2015 because of the upcoming Olympics and U.S. Olympic Trials.
2015-16 ARENA PRO SWIM SERIES SCHEDULE
| Nov. 12-14, 2015 | Arena Pro Swim Series at Minneapolis | University Aquatic Center  |
| Jan. 15-17, 2016 | Arena Pro Swim Series at Austin | Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center |
| March 3-5, Â 2016 | Arena Pro Swim Series at Orlando | YMCA Aquatic Center |
| April 14-16, 2016 | Arena Pro Swim Series at Mesa | Skyline Aquatic Center |
| May 12-15, 2016 | Arena Pro Swim Series at TBD | TBD |
| June  2-5,  2016 | Arena Pro Swim Series at Santa Clara | George F. Haines International Swim Center |
| June  2-5,  2016 | Arena Pro Swim Series at Indianapolis | IU Natatorium |
The Minneapolis Pro Swim Series takes place from Thursday, November 12th until Saturday, November 14th at the University of Minnesota’s Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center. That’s also the facility that will host next summer’s U.S. Open and U.S. Junior Nationals.
Entries open Tuesday, September 15th at 11:00 A.M. Central Time, and the meet will be capped at 600 swimmers. More information here.
Information on how to enter, plus the event order and qualifying times can be found here.
Will the standards be the same for the rest of the Arena Pro Series?
TBD for the Grand Prix meet in May. It used to be in Charlotte. If I’m right, the pool is in renovation. Greensboro as replacement?
The times are very fast. The swimmer in our house made the cuts for last year and we were hoping that they wouldn’t move too much. Not sure how much smaller it will make the meet by doing this.
That post came out a bit weird. I meant to say that over the summer he made the times for last year and we were looking at attending this meet if the cuts didn’t move too far. They moved quite a bit, so no trip to Minnesota this fall for us.
Last year they relaxed the Minneapolis time cuts as the meet deadline approached (likely
because entries were lagging). Maybe that will happen this year as well?
Anyone notice how much faster they made the cuts from last year? They went from a bit slower than winter jrs to around trial cuts. My question, is did they cut out a lot of potential participants?
Serious question: How come there’s no stops in the Northeast? I’m sure that there’s a lot of people, like myself, who would love to see a meet in like the NYC area.
jarrettbrown – there’s not a great venue, for one. It’s possible that nobody in the Northeast has bid for one too. And finally, in general, very few pros are based in the Northeast, and relatively few of the top college programs as well.
For whatever reason….the hosting rotations at all levels (NCAA, Nationals) seems to bypass the Northeast.
The 1998 Goodwill Games pool in Nassau, NY hosted spring nationals in 2007 and the U.S. Open in the early 2000s but I think it hasn’t been maintained very well. The (old) Big East moved their conference meet from there starting in 2009. That’s the only potentially viable facility that comes to mind in the Northeast. SUNY Buffalo also has a 50 meter pool with separate diving well but not a ton of deck space.
Always weird to me as non American to read that there’s no place in the Washington or New York region to host a swim meet.
The same reaction as when I read that USA can’t host the world championships. 😆
University of Maryland actually has an adequate facility (50 meter with a warm-up warm-down pool and a large seating area) and is located less than 10 miles outside of Washington, DC despite the fact that the cut their NCAA swim programs.