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Technicality bans Ridgewood swim team from championship meet
Thursday August 1, 2013, 3:34 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Graydon swim team has been barred from competing in next week’s Bergen County Championships because of a technicality surrounding attendance at mandatory league meetings. But a group of parents and friends are petitioning for the team’s reinstatement, claiming the ban unfairly penalizes the 92 children who make up the squad and the dozen or so who qualified for the county meet.
The nine-person executive board at the New Jersey Pool Manager’s Association (NJPMA), the event organizer, last week levied a one-year ban on the Ridgewood-based swimming team, citing its championship eligibility rule that swimming pool “managers or a representative from their facility must attend four (4) out of five (5) NJPMA monthly meetings between March and July to compete in the championships.”
Graydon’s team was issued the penalty because it failed to meet that requirement, with pool management missing two meetings – one more than the allowable amount. Ridgewood parents contend that Graydon’s manager, Steve Diamond, was absent from the last meeting for a legitimate personal reason.
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