Official Meet Schedule - 2012
- Swim meets are held on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings
- The first meet of the season is on Saturday, June 9th
- All Wednesday swim meets start at 6:30pm
- Parents are responsible for transporting their swimmers to and from each meet
Check-in times are listed on the schedule. YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED LATE IF YOU DO NOT CHECK-IN BEFORE WARM-UPS, AND YOUR EVENTS WILL BE REASSIGNED.
If you are going to be late, you can call Kathy Houle 630-965-0095-cell or Laura Johnson 312-968-9391-cell or someone else on the team so they can inform the coaches that you will be coming
MEET PARTICIPATION
Everyone participates in the meets. If you cannot attend a meet, please notify the coach, in writing, at least 2 days prior to the meet. Conference rules allow each swimmer to compete in up to 3 individual events and 2 relays. Swimmers must attend practice at least TWICE each week to participate in the meet. The coaching staff will determine what events each swimmer will have based on their performance and attendance at practice and age group size. Everyone will swim at least one event. Some swimmers will swim exhibition. If you become ill during the day and cannot participate in the meet, please call Laura Johnson at 213-9062 or Kathy Houle at 483-0016 so the events can be reassigned. To be eligible to swim in the A Conference meet you must have participated in at least 4 dual meets. It is extremely important that ALL swimmers attend the Conference meets. If for some reason you know that you have to be away on July 24th or July 31st, please notify the coach in writing no later that July 1st.
LINE-UPS
After warm-ups, it is very important that swimmers check the team line-up. Each swimmers name will be listed along with their events for the meet. Many swimmers write their events on their hand for easy reference!
EXHIBITION
During the season, swimmers will swim exhibition events. Exhibition races do not count towards meet points, however exhibition times can be used as seed times for the Conference meets. Swimming exhibition gives a swimmer the opportunity to improve his/her strokes and gain experience in a race situation.
SWIM MEET SURVIVAL KIT
Most meets last 2-1/2 to 3 hours. It is important that swimmers and their families come prepared. The following is a suggested list of items to bring to the meets:
- Sunscreen
- Sweat suit/warm clothing
- 3 Towels per swimmer
- Ballpoint pen – to write events on hand
- Sleeping bag/blanket
- Snacks, water, Gatorade
- Entertainment – cards, travel games, books, video games
- Lawn chairs – some pools do not have ample spectator seating
BIG BROTHER/BIG SISTER MENTOR PROGRAM
Older swimmers will be asked to help, support, and encourage younger swimmers. Swim meets can be very confusing. Big Brothers/Big Sisters will assist the swimmers to their events and walk them to the coaches after they swim. Parents are responsible for keeping their child in the team area so they can be easily located. We all try to give our swimmers as much encouragement as possible and have found that the older swimmers offer great support to younger swimmers.