Meet Attendance Request Forms are Available: Please Note Procedural Changes
Meet Special Requests: Please Note the procedure has changed from last year.
This year all meet requests will be done online through Sign-up Genius. We will not take requests via email, calls or on deck.
All meet requests must be made by the TUESDAY the before that meet. Note this is one day earlier than last year. For example a request to miss the November 4 Nashua Meet are due by 9 pm on Tuesday October 3st. The sign up genius form will automatically close at 9 pm on Tuesday night but up until then you can add or edit a request.
At the Sign-up Genius you may request to miss a meet, come late, leave early or for you child to use the van for an away meet (van is for ages 12 and up or for younger children under the supervision of a 14 year old older sibling).
Remember, you may miss up to 3 regular season meets. Also, please limit leaving early or arriving late requests to 1-2 meets per season. The links are also at our team meet schedule: https://www.billericabgc.com/
November 4th: NashuaNovember 11th: WalthamNovember 18th: Worcester & Charlestown http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e4aa8a82ba2fc1- worcester December 9th: ArlingtonDecember 16th: DorchesterDecember 23rd: WatertownJanuary 13th: SalemJanuary 20th: Woburn
The Sign-up Genius site is not how to communicate last minute emergency illnesses. In case of an emergency absence please email the team at seawolvesbbgc@gmail.com by 10 am the day of the meet and print in the subject line “sick swimmer.” We do not read emails on weekends, but we do scan the subject lines for sick swimmer notifications the morning of a meet.
You will note that there is no request option available for Sectionals. Swimmers must arrive at report in time and stay though their assigned events. Although Sectionals is a two day event, each age group will swim for only a portion of the time. We do not have report in assignments at this time so please keep the weekend open.
Meet Information
Meets are long, there are 43 events (see attachment) and multiple heats to each event. Space is always limited so please leave what you can in a car and keep items under the seat so that more people may sit.
Home meets our swimmers are usually in the games room beside the pool area when not lined up to race. Away meets we may be in the pool area (in our own area separate from parents), a gym, a rec room… Wherever we are the swimmers should remain except for bathrooming or to get food. Please do not let your swimmer sit with you, even if the team is in the pool area, as it makes it difficult to find swimmers.
Stuff to bring to a meet:
Spare towel to sit on (or at home meets a portable chair that will not scratch the floor)
A couple dollars (we do have very reasonable concession stand as a fund raiser at home meets- so please support us!!!)
Snacks and drinks (most other teams also have concessions too)
Games such as waterproof cards (uno comes in waterproof too), that are cheap and which you would not feel sad if lost or damaged by water.
Swimmers Chamois is nice but not needed, this is towel that feels a bit rubbery, but can wipe the skin dry and then will ring dry. This is not for after a shower but to dry off between races and after warm-ups.
Bath robe to keep warm
Spare Googles
Spare Cap
How a Meet is Scored
As we go approach our first meet I thought some people might be in how a meet is scored:
As we go approach our first meet I thought some people might be in how a meet is scored:
Regular Season
The points won by the swimmers are added up within their division (8 and under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-18 year olds). First, second and third bring in points, and in the relay only the first place team takes points. Groups are defined by age only, boys and girls swim together.
Even though there may be many heats in an event, there is only one first, second, third… So if 25 children swim in the 8 and under 25 yard freestyle there will be 5 heats. A child may get a heat winner ribbon for winning their heat (we give them out, but not all pools do) but not necessarily be the first place swimmer overall.
Each division is treated like a separate meet; their points do not mix with the other divisions. Whichever team wins the most divisions out of the 5 wins the meet overall. This is interesting in that a team might have highest overall score, but loose the meet. This could happen if they won two divisions (such as 8 and under and 9-10) by a lot but barely lost the other three groupings.
Also, events are generally run from fastest to slowest overall. This way the heats are more evenly matched (it is discouraging for a new swimmer or one on the younger side of a division to be up against someone much faster and in turn it is hard for a top swimmer to go their fastest when unchallenged – even thought they should always try their hardest!). It is much easier to line the children up fastest to slowest when you don’t know what the other team is bringing.
Division Championships:
The points won by the swimmers are added up to a total for the entire team. Highest overall score wins. Places bringing in points go all the way back to 16. Divisions are divided by age groups and sex. So we will have 8 and under girls, 8 and under boys…
The points won by the swimmers are added up within their division (8 and under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-18 year olds). First, second and third bring in points, and in the relay only the first place team takes points. Groups are defined by age only, boys and girls swim together.
Even though there may be many heats in an event, there is only one first, second, third… So if 25 children swim in the 8 and under 25 yard freestyle there will be 5 heats. A child may get a heat winner ribbon for winning their heat (we give them out, but not all pools do) but not necessarily be the first place swimmer overall.
Each division is treated like a separate meet; their points do not mix with the other divisions. Whichever team wins the most divisions out of the 5 wins the meet overall. This is interesting in that a team might have highest overall score, but loose the meet. This could happen if they won two divisions (such as 8 and under and 9-10) by a lot but barely lost the other three groupings.
Also, events are generally run from fastest to slowest overall. This way the heats are more evenly matched (it is discouraging for a new swimmer or one on the younger side of a division to be up against someone much faster and in turn it is hard for a top swimmer to go their fastest when unchallenged – even thought they should always try their hardest!). It is much easier to line the children up fastest to slowest when you don’t know what the other team is bringing.
Division Championships:
The points won by the swimmers are added up to a total for the entire team. Highest overall score wins. Places bringing in points go all the way back to 16. Divisions are divided by age groups and sex. So we will have 8 and under girls, 8 and under boys…
Racers are arranged in heats from slowest to fastest. This is harder to arrange, but allows the swimmer most likely to win it all to go at the end and is how traditional big meets are run (such as colleges, nationals, the Olympics Trials…). This is why we have to decide who is swimming what weeks in advance. There are no changes that day as everything has already been planned out.
Teams may also win a division by highest score in that group, which earns the team a trophy, but it does not matter how many divisions you win to win overall to who wins the overall championship.
This is interesting in that a team might have highest overall score, but not have won any groupings. They could be a close second on every one, bringing in a lot of points and other teams (but not always the same one) be taking first. For example team A wins two divisions, team B wins two also as well as team C, but team D was always second and got the most points overall. Last year we won 5 of the 10 divisions, more than any other team, but came in second (barely!).
I hope this explains a little about how things are scored.
Thank you!
Carol
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