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What to expect
for the Super Splash??
1. When you enter
the hallway that leads to the HSE new pool, you will need to
highlight your name on the Sign in sheet. This verifies your
presence and officially enters you into the timing system. Without
signing in, even if you are present, you most likely will not be
allowed to compete. This is the norm for all meets.
2. Parents and
visitors will be required to stay in the bleacher areas and avoid
the pool deck at all costs. This is a USA Swimming rule (the
governing body for all legit competitive swimming entities) and
greatly challenges our liability to injury or other accident if
violated. Parents, please stay off the
deck……..
3. Unless you are
an official or volunteer. Volunteers will be needed for this meet--
usually only for timing and this helps pass the time and is more
comfortable than sitting in the stands!!! Volunteers for timers
usually report on deck after an announcement is made for the Timers
Meeting, which usually takes place under the main scoreboard 15
minutes prior to the meet start.
4. For parents in
the stands, you can grab a Psych Sheet. This is a reference that
shows what each swimmer in the meet is competing in. It might take
some examination, but you should be able to find your child in 2 to
3 events for this meet (assuming you signed up in time-- this is
printed well before the meet starts).
5. When swimmers
enter the pool deck, they will be able to find an alphabetical list
of swimmers that shows what each swimmer is competing in. Coaches
will be present to help at this stage.
6. After the
timing and computer volunteers go through the sign in sheet and
verify who is present, they will release a few copies of the Heat
Sheet. This shows swimmers and coaches exactly what heat and lane
each athlete will compete in. This is the swimmers road map for the
day. Coaches will also help at this point, in addition to any Clerk
of Course volunteers. It takes the timing system and computer
volunteers 30 minutes or more after warm up begins to complete this
process; with this in mind, there is not time to make mass copies.
Occasionally, copies of the Heat Sheet will be made available to
parents, however this is not the norm. We suggest that the parents
use the Psych Sheet they picked up when the entered the pool area
to determine roughly when their child will swim. From here you can
start to watch each race carefully and predict when your swimmer
will compete…. and of course cheer for both your swimmers
and those in the same event.
7. After each swimmer races,
they are required to visit their coach for post race commentary and
maybe even a cool down (easy swimming to help flush harmful post
race metabolites from the swimmer’s system). Cool downs are
an absolute REQUIREMENT for more experienced swimmers like Sharks,
Marlins & Piranhas. Parents, please support this process (Race,
Coach Commentary, then Cool-down)!!! After this is done, the
swimmer may be released to the bleacher area for a short visit to
the parents. Depending on conditions and the pace of the meet,
coaches may instead ask that swimmers stay on deck so that they can
be ready for their next event.
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