Most of the swim meets will begin at 8:00am, swimmers must be at the specific pool at 7:30am. The warm up session will begin at 7:45am. After the warm up session, swimmers will receive their event cards informing them of their assigned event, event number, heat and lane number. It is very helpful to bring a Sharpie black marking pen to the swim meets to write event numbers on swimmer’s arm in case the card becomes lost.
Each swimmer is encouraged to work on improving their times and should emphasize this as their main goal. Improved times are better indicators of progress than the colored ribbons. Each swimmer is responsible for asking the timer for their time after each race and reporting it to the coach. It is recommended that each swimmer and parent keep track of the swimmer’s own best times on a log.
