12&Under Tech Suit Ban To Be Enforced at All FL Swim Meets

Jim Kelly
12&Under Tech Suit Ban To Be Enforced at All FL Swim Meets
 
12 & under swimmers will not be allowed to compete in Technical Suits at the upcoming Florida Swimming Age Group Championships and Senior Championships or any other FS Swim Meets per rule 102.8 below.

102.8 SWIMWEAR
  • (F) No Technical Suits shall be worn by any 12 & Under USA Swimming athlete member in competition at any sanctioned, approved or observed meet. [Effective September 1, 2020] 
    • (1) Exceptions to the foregoing restriction are only for Junior Nationals, U.S. Open, National Championships, and Olympic Trials.

Should you have any questions, please contact Brendan Hansen at bhansen@usaswimming.org.
 
Identification, Approval and Enforcement
 
Virtually all suits that fall within the definition of restricted tech suits have been through the FINA approval process and bear the FINA approved logo. Therefore, most suits that have the FINA approval logo are not legal for competition come September 1, 2020.
 
There are a handful of suits in the market with the FINA logo that would be considered legal for Age Group competition. These suits will bear an additional green checkmark logo developed by USA Swimming to indicate approval (the two versions are to the right). Each manufacturer must submit a suit to USA Swimming to gain approval to use the checkmark on their suits. This green checkmark will only appear on suits that have the FINA logo-it will not be on all approved suits.
 
All suits with the FINA logo and without the secondary approval logo will be easily identified as a restricted suit for 12 & under competition.