Meet 101: New to swim meets? Here's some info to get you started.
- LOCATION: Meets are held at our local pools. We will have both home and away meets each season. Regular season meets are on Thursday nights. (Exception is July 2nd meet due to the holiday and finals). Please see the Meet Calendar/Signups page for our meet schedule.
- DECLARE: your swimmer every Monday night in the Swimtopia App. Very Important!! This tells the coach whether or not your athlete will be competing in the meet. Please declare swimming or not swimming.
- KNOW: what your swimmer is swimming before the meet. (this greatly reduces anxiety for young swimmers!) Look in the Swimtopia App, or arrive early and look at the posted heat sheets. Many parents write the event/heat/lane on their swimmer's arm like the picture below. Any questions-check w/ the coach!
- REST--HYDRATE--REFUEL: important for the whole season, but especially on Thursdays between morning practice and the meet. Swimmers burn a lot of calories and get dehydrated easily--we don't see them sweat or get hot due to the coolness of the water. Please encourage your swimmer to drink extra fluids!!
- ARRIVE 10 MINUTES EARLY : athletes should be standing at the blocks with caps and goggles on, ready to warmup at the warmup time.
- VOLUNTEER: we need multiple parent volunteers at each meet, but especially at our home meets, where we run our famous "Froggies Grill". This is a great way to meet people at the pool! If your athlete is competing, we need you to signup for a volunteer shift, please! As always, volunteers are encouraged to step away and cheer on their Froggie as they compete!
- HAVE FUN !! : every Thursday after practice, the Froggies, parents and coaches have a pizza lunch for teambuilding and to fuel up before the meet that night. Each meet has a dress-up theme: tie dye, tiki, toga, Frog night, etc. Our Frogs dress up and do their team chants to get pumped up! The meets are the social events of the week! Finally, at Fun Fridays, join us for our weekly coaches "Fearless Frog" awards, followed by passing out our ribbons earned at the previous night's meet. Some Fun Friday events we have had recently include tie-dying shirts, pancake breakfast, and Pop Tart day.
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