Here is where you can get ready for the season,
find out how to register your swimmers, get connected with our sponsers, contact the
swim team board, brush up on CAL regulations and generally get
everything you ever wanted to know about the Tarrington Swim Team
answered.
Let's face it we all need a buddy. This will be your buddy. Everything you need to know about swim team (and some things you didn't) are in these pages. Download the Parent's Handbook today and make a new friend. Click here to download your own copy today. Unlimited quantities are available.
Click HEREto go to the Swimmer Registration Page and find out how to register your swimmer for the 2011 season.
The
Heat Sheets (Usually sold at home meets for $1.00) list each event in the order that they will be swum during a meet.
Swimmers are placed in heats, fastest to slowest then similarly in lanes. It is possible for some heats to contain gold,
silver and/or bronze swimmers.
The
“seed time” listed in the heat
sheet could be one of the
following: - The only time the swimmer has swum this event this season - The fastest time (or a coaches’ time) the swimmer has swum in the past
year (only used for the first meet of the season) - The first time the
swimmer has swum the event this season.
A “seed time” determines where in the event the swimmer will swim. The faster
swimmers will swim first and the slower swimmers will swim last. Swimmers who have never swam the event will have an “NT” (No Time) and will
be placed at the end of the event, after the last timed swimmer.
Swimmers with a Gold time swim first, then Silver,
followed by the Bronze swimmers.
The fastest swimmers in a heat
will be placed in lanes 3 and 4,
the next fastest will be in lanes
2 and 5 with the slowest swimmers in that heat being in lanes 1 and 6.
The
number of swimmers that are entered in an event will determine the number of heats. The software
program that we use for meets will “seed” the meets, placing the swimmers in
heats and lanes according to their times. If all of the lanes cannot be filled
in an event, the computer program determines which
heats
will have empty lanes. These will usually be lanes 1 or 6.
Most people will purchase a heat sheet in order to determine when their swimmer(s) will
be swimming. Then their child will
ask them to find the heat and lane that they are swimming in order to write their
events, in Sharpie of course, on
their hands or arms.
Interested in becoming a volunteer? Looking for the Volunteer Schedule? Have a conflict with the schedule and don't know what to do? Click HERE.
We have lots of opportunities for you to choose from. Click HERE to go to our sponsors page and lear more about becoming a Gold, Silver or Bronze Tarrington Swim Team Sponsor. And be sure to check out some of the other ways to get your name out there in support of the team!
We are committed to our communities and work with the Chesterfield Aquatic League to raise support for Connor's Heroes Foundation, who provides assistance to children and their families who are being treated for cancer in Richmond, Virginia.
