Diving Rules

1. Current U.S. Diving rules will apply as modified by participating Hub Lakes diving coaches, lake reps, and diving chairperson.
2. All divers must make an honest attempt to complete all the required and optional dives
3. Hub Lakes entry forms will be issued and used for all meets.
4. All entry forms must be completely filled out and signed by the diver and coach (or lake rep) for all meets.
5. All entries must be submitted to the clerk of the meet no later than 6:15 p.m. Divers submitted after this time will be exhibition only.
6. At each meet, a minimum of 5 table workers are required. Positions are: Announcer, score keeper, tabulator, awards table (2 persons). Mt. Lakes will provide 2 table workers and 2 judges, Indian Lake will provide 2 table workers and 2 judges, and Cedar will provide 1 table worker and 1 judge.
7. No lake will be allowed to participate in a meet unless it supplies one judge, 18 or over (other than coaches).
8. Three or five judges may be used in a meet - five is recommended.
9. Referee may stop the meet any time if, in his/her opinion, the divers do not have enough time to complete the remaining dives before darkness.
10. Home team manager must cancel the meet because of inclement weather, etc. before 5:30 p.m. Any rain cancelations for meets #1-#5 will result in a makeup meet the following Tuesday night. If meet #6 is rained out, it will not be made up but any diver whose sheet was entered for the meet will have met the requirements for the Championship Meet.
11. Age groups: 8/under, 9/10, 11/12, 13/14, 15/17, 18/over.
12. Any number of divers will be allowed to dive officially from each team.
13. Boys completing their required dives as a group and Girls completing their dives as a group.
14. Scoring: (per age group) 1st- 7pts, 2nd-5 pts, 3rd-4pts, 4th-3 pts, 5th-2 pts, 6th-1pt.
15. All meets will start promptly at 6:00 p.m.
16. Divers ages 10 + under may only compete on the 1 meter board. Divers 11 + over may complete their dives on the 1 meter or 3 meter board.
17. After the completion of a dive, the referee (or by consensus of the coaches) if the dive is not to be scored. Scores will be shown simultaneously.
18. The referee (individual or committee) should be decided before the meet starts. If an individual referee isn't available, coaches, working cooperatively will fill this role by committee.
19. Judges should not discuss their score before awarding the diver.
20. Calculating diver scores is done in the following manner:
1. add the judges scores with 5 judges, the highest and lowest are discarded and the middle scores are totaled.
2. multiply the sum by the degree of difficulty for the total for that dive.
3. add the total to the running total of all dives.
21. All jumps will be completed with a degree of difficulty of 0.5 for a maximum possible judges score of 2.0. The age guidelines will be as follows:
    1. Ages 10 + under will be able to compete both back and front jumps 100 and 200.
    2. Divers 11+ over will be allowed to compete 1 jump total, either front jump (100) or back jump (200) per competition, including championships but excluding meet #6, where no divers age 11 + over will be allowed to compete jumps.
22. Weekly dive league briefings will take place from 5:50PM to 6:01PM before the meet. Coaches, lake reps, and the dive chairperson will attend should their respective Mayors not be available.