2025-26 SC Bid Process
How to Become a Meet Host and Bid Procedures
Connecticut Swimming offers 2 competitive season calendars. Short Course season generally runs October through March and Long Course season generally runs April through July. For each season, USA Swimming clubs are welcome and encouraged to submit a bid declaration for a meet or meets that will appear on the CSI meet calendar. Short Course season bidding generally opens in May/June and Long Course in January. CSI Program Operations maintains formal bidding procedures that USA Swimming clubs agree to abide by. Bid Procedures for the current Short Course schedule are posted below. Bid Procedures for the upcoming Long Course season will be posted later in the season.
Short Course Bid Information and Procedures
Welcome to the SC Bid Declarations page for CSI Regularly-Scheduled meets and Regional Championships. Using the Connecticut FAST application Swim Meet Bids, clubs will post their bids "virtually" to a password protected online calendar, and in real-time, view all bid declarations. Bidding clubs may move, edit or remove their bids until the deadline. After the deadline, clubs may view all bids in a calendar format, but may not edit their bids.
Meet Announcement template - V2
Please note this preliminary Meet Schedule is PRELIMINARY!! There could be errors that need correcting, and changes made by the time Teams fill out their acceptance form and pay their meet deposits.
- PRELIMINARY MEET SCHEDULE V6
- Regionals - February 27-March 1st -
- Hosts Friday: CDOG & GRYM (WYW if necessary)
- Host Sat & Sun: CDOG, GRYM, WYW, BULL, RST, LEHY
- Seniors - March 5-8th
- Age Groups - March 12-15th
- SC 2025-26 Meet Announcement Template V1
- NO changes from last SC season BUT subject to change.
- Please read the directions on page 1.
- Directions for adding meets in SWIMS 3.0
BLACKOUT DATES: The following dates are reserved for CSI championship meets and events.
- November 2nd: CSI Annual Awards Banquet
- Feb 27-Mar 1: Regional Championship Weekend
BID DECLARATION LINKS:
- Regularly Scheduled Sanctioned/Approved meet: Login to Connecticut FAST Club Administration page and click on "Swim Meet Bids"
- See SC Regional Bid Page for details concerning Regional Bids
DATES and DEADLINES
July 13: Regional Championship Bid Open
July 24: Regional Championship Bid Deadline
July 23: Regularly Scheduled Meet Bid Open
July 28: Regional Champs awarded
August 7: Regular season bids from Sept-Jan open
September 4: Regularly Scheduled Meet Bid Deadline at 11:59p
September 8: Correction Period Deadline at 1:00p
September 9: Meet Announcement and event file deadline for Oct, Nov meets
-- For any Meet held in September please notify Henk. He will work with you to get your information posted ASAP and help set deadlines.
September 16: Meet Announcement and event file deadline for Dec, Jan meets
September 23: Meet Announcement and event file deadline for Feb-March meets
Regionals Meet Announcements will be due after the Age Group Committee finalizes cuts and meet protocols for Regionals.
- After the bidding closes, the Program Operations will review the bid declarations and resolve any remaining conflicts or address any scheduling concerns.
- 10% surcharge on all LC Season meets regardless of course
- LC Regionals - no surcharge
SWIM MEET POLICY AND PROCEDURES
SANCTIONED MEET APPEALS PROCESS
- SANCTIONS and APPROVALS: Using this procedure, clubs will bid on regularly-scheduled sanctioned and/or approved meets. This option will appear as a selection item when submitting a bid.
If you have any questions, please contact Program Operations. Technical questions regarding the website and/or online submittal should be directed to Henk, office@ctswim.org.