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Swim
Meets Are you
Ready?
As the swim family, you need to decide if you are
interested in swimming in a meet and be proactive
in signing up. If you
are interested but are not sure your swimmer is ready, talk to your
coach. Coaches try not
to push or hype meets because we know how expensive they can get
and it needs to be a family decision. Once you sign up the Head Coach,
with the input of the coaching staff, will decide what events are
best for the swimmer.
If there are specific events you want to suggest please do but keep
in mind the coaches may be working on certain goals of which you
are not always aware.
As always feel free to discuss with coaches before or after
practice. (For safety
and insurance reasons parents are not allowed on deck during
practice.)
Are you Eligible?
Age Group & Open
Meets are offered in "B" (slowest), "BB", and "A" through "AAAA"
(fastest) time classifications. These classifications have
nationally established time standards. For example, a swimmer must
have achieved an "A" time to be eligible to swim that particular
event in an "A" or faster meet. Detailed eligibility information is
provided in the meet announcement (linked via our website). These meets are split into
morning and afternoon sessions based on age or gender. Including
the warm-up period prior to the competition, the morning session
generally runs from 7:00 a.m. to noon and the afternoon session
generally runs from 1:00 until 6:00 p.m. These are general time
frames; each meet is different so please check your meet
information so your swimmer arrives on time for warm-ups.
How to sign-up Meet Entry Process
CBAC relies heavily on
the web for our meet entry process. CBAC will try to update families
via email for upcoming meets but, if you are interested, you need
to keep your eye on our web site. When the information becomes
available CBAC will link to event schedules and post a sign-up
list.
Deadlines for meets are usually 3 weeks prior to a
meet but sometimes can be more! CBAC allows itself 1o days to
get the interested swimmers to the coaches to determine which
events they want for the swimmer, enter this into the database,
submit to opposing team, and have the check sent (required by most
teams before they will enter our swimmers.) Meets can only have a certain
number of swimmers in them to avoid having sessions run too long.
CBAC must get their entries in early to avoid being shut out of
meets that are oversubscribed. The hosting team then allows
themselves to collect the many team entries and seed the meet. Often host teams will put
items of interest (like local hotels, restaurants, and additional
meet details) on their web sites so you may want to check that out
too.
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