The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) swimming & diving 2022 season is fully underway, with Section meets currently taking place in the lead-up to the State Championships later this month.
The CIF State Swimming & Diving Championships will take place from May 12-14 at the Clovis Olympic Swim Complex at Clovis West High School in Fresno. Swimmers will qualify to compete at the meet by virtue of their performances at their respective Section Meets, based on the qualifying criteria below:
CIF STATE MEET QUALIFYING STANDARDS
The various California Sections may send swimmers and divers to the State Meet, using the following formula for each event:
Automatic qualifying standards per event – top X finishers from Section meets as below.
- CIF Southern – 5
- CIF North Coast – 3
- San Diego – 3
- CIF Sac-Joaquin – 3
- CIF Central Coast – 3
- CIF Central – 3
- CIF Los Angeles – 2
- CIF San Francisco – 1
- CIF Oakland – 1
At-Large Entries
Swimming: Once allocated automatic qualifying spots from each section are filled, sections may enter additional competitors provided they have met or bettered the “At-Large” Automatic or Consideration standard for their event in their Section Meet that qualifies athletes for the CIF State Swimming & Diving Championships. In the event that there are not 40 automatic qualifiers, consideration times will be used to fill each event to 40 qualifiers/relay teams. “At-Large” qualifying times must be achieved in Finals of the Section Championships. All times must be recorded on “Fully Automatic Timing” systems (FAT). No hand times will be accepted.
Diving: No At Large Qualifiers. Each section will get one additional entry for diving.
SECTIONS SCHEDULE
| SECTION | DATES | LOCATION | RESULTS |
| CIF Central | May 4-7 | Clovis West High School | |
| CIF Central Coast | May 6-7 | ||
| CIF Los Angeles City | Diving: May 5. Swimming: May 7. |
Diving: Palisades Charter High School. Swimming: LA Valley College
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| CIF North Coast | Diving: May 5. Swimming: May 6-7. | Concord Community Pool | |
| CIF Oakland | |||
| CIF Sac- Joaquin | Girls Diving: April 29. Boys Diving: April 30. Swimming: May 5-7. | Tokay High School | |
| CIF San Diego | May 4-7 | Granite Hills High School | |
| CIF San Francisco | April 29-30 | City College of San Francisco | All-City Results |
| CIF Southern |
Diving: April 27-28. Swimming: May 2-7.
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| CIF State Meet | Diving: May 12. Swimming: May 13-14. | Clovis West High School |
2022 CIF STATE MEET QUALIFYING TIME STANDARDS
(Times must be obtained at Section Championship meets in individual events. No relay lead-off times permitted.)
| Girls | Boys | |||
| Auto | Consideration | Event | Auto | Consideration |
| 1:47.34 | 1:51.34 | 200 medley relay | 1:35.07 | 1:37.65 |
| 1:51.86 | 1:54.46 | 200 free | 1:39.95 | 1:42.28 |
| 2:04.75 | 2:07.84 | 200 IM | 1:52.31 | 1:55.10 |
| 23.71 | 24.27 | 50 free | 21.09 | 21.51 |
| 55.6 | 57.16 | 100 fly | 49.77 | 50.65 |
| 51.43 | 52.88 | 100 free | 46.2 | 46.89 |
| 4:59.05 | 5:07.44 | 500 free | 4:31.93 | 4:38.85 |
| 1:37.22 | 1:40.30 | 200 free relay | 1:25.73 | 1:28.16 |
| 56.44 | 57.91 | 100 back | 50.39 | 52.55 |
| 1:04.00 | 1:05.25 | 100 breast | 57.04 | 58.38 |
| 3:32.09 | 3:36.97 | 400 free relay | 3:08.27 | 3:12.45 |
Wow, that’s some wild depth for automatic times.
What do these numbers 5, 3, 1 mean? What is the formula?
I believe each section can send that many swimmers regardless of time swam…just based on place? I could be off on that however. Southern California being the largest section gets the most spots…etc.
What are At-Large qualifying times?
I’d guess it would be next fastest times after all the automatic qualifiers from all the regions have been accounted for.
Ohio did (and I believe still does) do something similar. There are 4 district meets and each district has X number of automatic qualifiers which are the people who finish in the top X places in that event (including relays) at the district meet. Then the remaining 10 or so spots (when I was swimming the total number of entrants was capped at 24 for every event) are filled based on the next fastest times from all the district meets.
D1 is gonna be so good in SD this season!