Swim Meets 101 - Maryville-Alcoa Flying Dolphins

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Summer Swim Meets 101

Brief overview of a dual meet for GKAISA league swimming

Set-Up Crew arrives early to set up the home pool.

Arrival & Check-In

Look for the Flying Dolphin sign
Swimmers and Parent Workers check in and receive name tags and any last-minute event changes
Families find locations to set up their chairs/towels/blankets/pop tents in team groups

Warm-Ups

Home team begins warm-ups at 5pm
Visiting team begins warm-ups at 5:30pm

Volunteer Workers Meeting

Parents and officials meet briefly to discuss positions and acquire supplies (clipboards, etc)
First few heats/events arrive at Clerk of Course for beginning of meet

Meet Begins - 6:00pm

Teams vary on official opening of meet (national anthem; prayer; announcement, etc)
The Referee will give a group of short whistles which announces the readiness of the next race. A long whistle gives indication to Starter to initiate the next race.
The Starter will announce each event number, gender, age group, stroke name before the first heat in each event; then only the heat number and stroke being swum for subsequent heats of the same event number.

Order of Events (by age, then gender within these stroke events)

{Order within events: girls 8 & under, boys 8 & under , girls 9-10, boys 9-10, girls 11-12, boys 11-12, girls 13-14, boys 13-14, girls 15-18, boys 15-18}

Event:

1-10 -> Individual Medley (fly, back, breast, free)
11-20 -> Freestyle
21-30 -> Backstroke
31-40 -> Medley Relay (back, breast, fly, free)
41-50 -> Breaststroke
51-60 -> Butterfly
61-70 -> Freestyle Relay

Midway Point (typically between 7:30 and 8:15, depending)

Halfway through meet (approx. event 35) the second shift workers take over the volunteer job positions
Current team scores usually begins to be announced periodically

Freestyle Relay Event