USA Swimming Will Follow FINA's suit list

At their meeting at the end of May, the USA Rules and Regulations Committee decided to enact the same Regulations for approved suits as FINA announced just weeks earlier. The official statement released by the Committee can be found here. To my knowledge, this does not yet mean that there are any new regulations for suits within the high school swimming world. When the National Federation of State High School Association's Swimming and Diving Rules Committee met in April, they discussed the high-tech swimsuit issue at great length, however decided not to make a ruling yet regarding the suits. It will be interesting to see if this changes in the near future now that both FINA and USA Swimming have made decisions.
At that same NFHS meeting, a few other rule changes were made for the 2009-2010 season, the most notable being the new backstroke starting protocol. Swimmers are now allowed to place their feet out of the water at the beginning of a backstroke start, provided that the feet, including the toes, are not above or curling over the lip or the gutter of the pool. The article about this can be found here, and a list of rule changes for next season can be found here.
Also, a note about the blog, I am adding to the sidebar on the right a list of links to documents, including for now a list of past team champions (since 1986), the state meet qualifying times (from 2008-2009), and the state meet records. Over the next few weeks, I will be adding more useful documents there, probably in the form of results from past state meets, and anything else that may be interesting. Have a nice summer.