Swim Meet 101
Swim Meets are a very fun and competitive environment. For those of you who are new to competitive swim team, meets are going to look a little bit different than the pre-competitive swim meets. Before the meet begins each swimmer is going to have preassigned events, heats, and lanes. To look at this you will need to go find/buy a heatsheet. The coaches will line up the kids by their age and walk them over to the "clerk of the course" for each event. From there the clerk of the course will put each kid in his heat and lane. After the swimmer has completed his race he or she will go talk to the coach that is watching the pool and ask him or her how they swam. After that they can go talk to parents or sit down in the team area and rest for the next race.
The events are organized as follows
50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 50 Backstroke, 100 Backstroke, 50 Breaststroke, 100 Breaststroke, 50 Butterfly.
Each event is organized by age and gender. For example it goes boys 5-9 and then girls 5-9.
The age groups are: 5-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-18.
What to bring?
For swimmers: water bottle, swimcap, goggles, towel, and snacks.
For parents: Chair, waterbottle, sunglasses, and anything else you think you might need
Jobs
Each parent is required to volunteer for at least 2 jobs in order for your kid to swim at all city
Both home and away meets have jobs, although home meets have more.
To sign up for jobs, there will be a spot under each meet. You can then pick and choose from there.
Swim meet times
Pool opens at 5pm
Be at pool by 5:15 for stretching
In water warmups at 5:30
Meet starts at 6pm
All City
The last swim meet of season will be called All City. The top 3 swimmers in each event in each age group will be able to swim at All City. The swimmer must have completed in at least two meets. If your swimmer is not going to be around, please let us know ASAP so that another swimmer can swim instead. If your child qualifies a family member must volunteer!
Weather at a meet
The coaches will determine if the meet will be on hold until weather has passed or will agree on a makeup date unless the meet has completed all breaststroke races.
