How do I know which events my swimmer is swimming?

Swimmers will get a card with their event numbers when they check in at the meet.  You can declare the strokes that your  child wants to swim in Swim Manager but the coach has final say.

The team will provide sharpie markers to write events on your child’s hand and even your own.  ** GRAL rules state the children may only write their events on their hands – they may not write anything else anywhere else on their bodies. ** The only exception is dive certification which is noted on the swimmer’s upper arm.

Swimmers line up at the Clerk of Course prior to swimming their events.  Only those parents who are working at the clerk should be in that area.  It will be the swimmers’ responsibility to be at the Clerk of Course when their event comes up.  The event numbers will be announced and there will be a display at the clerk of course, but children will NOT be called individually or searched for.  If your child misses his/her event, s/he cannot make it up.

Note that girls’ events are even numbered and boys’ events are odd numbered, with the exception of relays that are mixed.

For the 8 & under 25 Freestyle and 25 Backstroke, the events are split into A and B.  A is for 6 & under swimmers and B is for 7 – 8 year old swimmers.  Those two events score those age groups separately.

A swimmer may not enter more than three individual events plus one relay event per meet.  If a swimmer misses his or her event, s/he cannot be entered into another event once the meet has started if it is to exceed the three event maximum.

The swimmer’s entries are pre-determined by the coaches and are not negotiable.

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