2026-27 Bid Procedures: Short Course
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.
PRELIMINARY MEET SCHEDULE V1
Please note this preliminary Meet Schedule is PRELIMINARY!! There could be errors that need correcting.
CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE: - VERY TENTATIVE
- Seniors - February 18-21st
- Regionals - February 26-28th - CONFIRMED
- 12/Under Age Groups - March 4-7th
- 13-18 Age Groups - March 11-14th
MEET ANNOUNCEMENT V1:
- Please read the directions on page 1
- Directions for adding meets in SWIMS 3.0
BLACKOUT DATES:
CSI protects the dates of the CSI Annual Award Banquet, Long Course Regional Championships, and reserves the right to protect dates for important LSC events. No meets will be sanctioned or approved on these dates.
- November 1 - CSI Annual Award Banquet
BID DECLARATION LINKS:
- 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 6: Regional Championship Bid Open
July 20: Regional Championship Bid Deadline at 5:00p
July 23: Regional Champs awarded
July 23: Regularly Scheduled Meet Bid Open
August 24: Regularly Scheduled Meet Bid Deadline at 11:59p
August 27: Correction Period Deadline at 1:00p
September 2: 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 14: Meet Announcement and event file deadline for Dec, Jan meets
September 21: 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.
- You can get me your information sooner or later, there is penalty for either. Program Ops and I will get it posted soon after you send it.
SWIM MEET POLICY AND PROCEDURES
SANCTIONED MEET APPEALS PROCESS
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.