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Heat 1
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#59
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#57
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#58
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#60
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Heat 2
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#55
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#53
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#51
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#49
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#50
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#52
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#54
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#56
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Heat 3
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#47
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#45
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#43
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#41
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#42
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#44
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#46
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#48
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Heat 4
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#39
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#37
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#35
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#33
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#34
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#36
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#38
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#40
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Heat 5
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#31
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#29
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#27
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#25
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#26
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#28
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#30
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#32
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Heat 6
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#21
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#15
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#9
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#3
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#6
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#12
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#18
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#24
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Heat 7
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#20
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#14
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#8
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#2
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#5
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#11
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#17
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#23
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Heat 8
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#19
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#13
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#7
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#1
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#4
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#10
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#16
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#22
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MEET ADMIN AREA - (AKA The clerk of course desk) The area where meet administration and officials handle the seeding, placing, scoring, and all other functions of swim meet processing.
IM (INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY) – A race done by an individual swimmer consisting of one equal leg of each of the four competitive strokes - butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle - in that order.
FINALS - The session of a meet after prelims at a prelims/finals meet. It is generally swum in the evening. Finalists are the fastest swimmers in the preliminary rounds usually swum earlier that day. The number of finalists depends on the meet.
HEAT SHEET - A listing of all swimmers in a meet by event number, heat, and lane assignments.
LONG COURSE POOL - A type of competitive pool that measures 50 meters in length. Also called an "Olympic sized pool." Seniors may compete in Long Course at any time throughout the year, while Age groupers typically have a Long Course season of March to August.
PRELIMS (PRELIMINARIES) - In certain meets, qualifying rounds held for each event to determine the finalists - usually the morning before the finals at USA Swimming meets.
PROOF OF TIME- A requirement at some meets to make certain that all swimmers have legally met the time standards for that meet.
PSYCH SHEET- A ranking by seeding times for all the swimmers entered in each race of a meet.
MEET REFEREE - The USA SWIMMING official who has authority over all other officials at the meet. He makes all final decisions and sees to the efficient running of the meet.
SEEDING TIMES - The time a swimmer uses to enter a meet. This time usually determines one's heat and lane in a particular event.
SENIOR SWIM MEET - A meet that allows all USA SWIMMING registered swimmers to compete, regardless of age who have met the qualifying time standard for a specific event(s). Usually the time standards are of a challenging nature.
SENIOR SWIMMER – BAC allows swimmers into our Senior program if they meet the minimum age of 14 or have met the minimum requirements in terms of speed, talent, and work ethic, they have graduated from the BAC Gold Group, or they are returning from College to train.
SHORT COURSE - A type of competitive pool that measures 25 yards or 25 meters in length. In American swimming it will almost always be 25 yards. The Age Group Swimmers short course season usually lasts from September to March while the Seniors short course season varies depending on level and age.
Pacific Swimming. - The name of the Local Swimming Committee (LSC) charged by USA SWIMMING to govern competitive swimming - mainly in the Bay Area but can stretch as far as Reno Nevada. There are approximately 150 active teams in Pacific Swimming.
SPLIT - An incremental time that may be in the results and that coaches often record for teaching the concept of pacing. For instance, a swimmer's time for each 50-yard leg of a 100-yard event.
Negative Split– Making the second split of a race faster than the first split. For example, in a 200 yard free this might be 101.00 for the 1st 100 and .59 for the 2nd 100.
STARTER - The USA SWIMMING official at a meet responsible for starting each heat and calling the next to the blocks. Starters rotate throughout a meet.
STROKE JUDGE - A certified USA SWIMMING official, who determines the legality of strokes and disqualifies swimmers who do not conform to USA SWIMMING rules.
"SWIMMING WORLD" - A monthly magazine with articles and stories about competitive swimming, as well as some regional and all national meet results. Write "Swimming World" / P.O. Box 45497 / Los Angeles, CA 90045.
TIME STANDARDS - Certain qualifying times that insure all competitors are of reasonably the same ability in their respective meets. The swimmer's goal should be the betterment of his or her time progressing through Barracuda, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Senior, National level and all the way up to Olympic Trials.
AGE GROUP NATIONAL TOP 10 - A tabulation of the Top 10 fastest swimmers for each age and event, starting at 11 and ending at 18, in a given competition year. The final list is published in Fall for the previous year and broken down into Short Course and Long Course.
TOUCH PAD - The part of an electronic timing system that rests in the water at the finishing end of each lane. Swimmers’ times are electronically recorded when the pad is touched.
UNATTACHED - The status a swimmer receives when not representing a club or when changing from one USA SWIMMING club to another. A swimmer must be "unattached" for 120 days from his or her last competition with a previous USA SWIMMING club. During this time that swimmer may compete individually and train with the club but is not eligible to score points for a team or swim relays. Swimmers representing their High School during the HS season must swim Unattached at club meets after they have competed in their first HS meet of the season. However, once the HS season has concluded, the swimmer can return to his or her club team without having to wait the 120 days.
USA SWIMMING - The governing body of Age Group and Senior Swimming in the United States. National Headquarters are in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the Olympic Training Center.
USA SWIMMING # (ID) - The personal registration number of each athlete member in USA Swimming. The formula for deriving your USA SWIMMING # is: birth date (6 digit format MMDDYY), first three letters of the first name, middle initial, and first four letters of the last name. For example: John A. Smith was born September 1, 1959. His USA SWIMMING # is 090159johasmit (If the swimmer has no middle name or their name is less than 3 letters, the spaces are filled in with ***)
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