At a swim meet, don’t have a printer, or don’t want to download? Want to easily view a list or tool on your phone? Try these mobile-friendly versions.
Last updated on January 10th, 2023 at 03:33 pm This Swim Meet Survival Guide helps new swimmers and swim parents quickly learn the ins and outs of meets. In addition to general information about how swim meets run, this guide also provides questions. Why? To help you learn what you don’t know that you don’t […]
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Last updated on January 10th, 2023 at 03:33 pm Swim meets are more fun when swimmers and parents come prepared. This list helps new swimmers and parents not only know what to bring to a swim meet it also gives tips to each on what to expect and do there. See also Swim Meet Survival
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Last updated on March 9th, 2022 at 12:10 pm Want a quick, touchless, and paperless way to share key information at a swim meet? Host Great Meets posts with embedded QR codes make it easy! You may not have felt the need for this functionality before. But consider the many scenarios where it might be
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Last updated on March 20th, 2024 at 04:35 pm Need a quick, easy, and concise way to explain detailed long course deck protocol to officials? You, or others, can easily view this succinct briefing on a smart-phone. Or you can print or edit one of the downloadable files below. Competitive swimming relies heavily on volunteer
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Last updated on November 3rd, 2022 at 10:20 am Here’s a great tip sheet to help those who processes results at swim meets. In a perfect world, all the pad, backup button and watch times would agree. However, even under the best circumstances, sometimes timing adjustments must be made. Experienced Administrative Referee Linda Eaton, from
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Last updated on September 6th, 2023 at 10:45 am Both new and experienced swim meet admin people love this checklist. Why? Because it: Few people who run the admin side of a swim meet do it often enough to make it second nature. So, a list to jog the memory is helpful. It’s also nice
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Last updated on February 24th, 2024 at 04:23 pm Swim meet officials usually gather before each session to receive instruction and assignments. Often, a stroke briefing takes place. At multi-session meets, it’s nice to have many ways to convey this important information. The Jeopardy-style stroke briefing is one way to changes things up. This Stroke Briefing
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Last updated on March 28th, 2023 at 06:29 pm Looking for ways to improve swim meets? Get and use feedback. Here are some practical ideas on how. Getting Feedback To get feedback, simply ask a question or questions. Then, listen to, or read, the answer. There are many ways to do this. Who to ask?
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Last updated on November 11th, 2023 at 05:20 pm Competitive swimmers come to meets to get times, experience, and have fun. Therefore, swim meet timers have a vital role. Most often timers are volunteers who come from different backgrounds. Many are parents of swimmers. Some meet hosts recruit timers from high school clubs or other
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Last updated on February 6th, 2023 at 04:00 pm The task seems easy enough, get your officials, grab a bunch of people to time and then run a swim meet, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, many underestimate the number of people it takes to not only run a meet, but also to run one safely and in
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Last updated on September 8th, 2023 at 10:11 am Why have a list of swim meet worker job titles and descriptions? Aren’t timers the only volunteers you need to run a swim meet? Many meets seem to run on this idea. As important as they are, it takes more than timers to run even the
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Last updated on April 28th, 2023 at 04:31 pm Swim meet automatic timing systems are great, but getting an operator who knows how to run it is vital. One important step in running the console is remembering what to press, and when. The fast past of a meet adds an extra challenge. Fortunately, Linda Eaton
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