Schedule
- We will have an in-house meet on Saturday, June 11th. Swimmers should arrive at 8 am; this will be a dress rehearsal for this season's meets as well as time trials.
- The schedule for the meets is available on the Suburban
Swim League Site. The schedule for The Slugs is the following:
- June 18th: Away/ Glasgow Pines (Saturday)
- June 22nd: Away/ Westminster (Wednesday)
- June 25th: Home/ Hockessin Athletic Club
(Saturday)
- June 29th: Away/ Skyline (Wednesday)
- July 6th: Home/ North Star (Wednesday)
- July 9th: Away/ Yorklyn (Saturday)
- July 10th: Mini-meet at North Star - Warm-up at 8:00 am, Meet starts at 8:45 am.
- July 13th: Home/ Fairfield (Wednesday)
- July 16th: Home/ Maple Valley (Saturday)
- July 16th: Old Timers Meet at Valleybrook - Warm-up at 2:00
pm, Meet starts at 3:00 pm. Results
- July 17th: 13 & Over Championship Time Trials at Oakwood Valley - First warm-up at 2:30
pm, Meet starts at 3:45 pm
- July 18th: 11-12
Championship Time Trials at Penn Acres - First warm-up at 4:20 pm, Meet starts at 5:30 pm
- July 19th: 9-10
Championship Time Trials at Fairfield - First warm-up at 4:20 pm, Meet starts at 5:30
pm
- July 20th: 8 & Under Championship Time
Trials at Skyline - First warm-up at 4:20 pm, Meet starts at 5:30 pm
- July 21st: Championship
Time Trials Rain Date
- July 23rd: Championship Finals at Western Y - First warm-up 7:30 am, Meet starts at 9:00 am
Reminders
General
- Wednesday meets start at 6:00 pm, swimmers report at 5 pm.
- Saturday meets start at 9:00 am, swimmers report at 8 am.
- If you have to leave a meet early it is your responsibility to inform the coaches asap.
- We need volunteers at all meets. Parents are expected to volunteer for at least a 1/2 of each home meet and some away meets (see Volunteer Positions)
- Parents are responsible for their children's behavior at swim meets. If you are volunteering please arrange for another parent to monitor your children.
Home meets
- Please park on the street or in the section of the parking lot further away from the pool.
- The section by the pool is for our guests.
- Bring lots of slug juice.
- Slug juice:Make a bottle of green water [slug juice] using green food coloring for your
swimmer to pour in the pool before the meet during a traditional slug
ceremony. If you don't have green food coloring, just bring water.
- Bring your contributions for the snack-bar
Races
- Races are numbered 1-70. (see schedule here)
- These are ordered by gender and by age: girls 6 and under and boys 6 and under, etc.
- They are also ordered by stroke: freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, as well as medleys and relays.
- Races 1-8 are relays – 4 swimmers to a team, each swimming a lap.
- Races 9-60 are individual races.
- Younger swimmers swim one lap; at age 9, swimmers start swimming 2 laps.
- Races 61-70 are medleys – one swimmer doing four laps of four different strokes.
- Each swimmer can swim up to three races at a meet but sometimes a swimmer will swim less than three races.
- Sometimes the line ups change in the middle of the meet, so make sure to stay for the whole meet.
- If you can’t stay for a whole meet or need to arrive late, let the coaches know this ahead of time.
- It makes things very difficult for the coaches when people leave in the middle of a meet without telling anyone.
The first couple of meets, it’s mystifying trying to figure out when your kid swims. After that, it’s very easy because the numbers of the races tend to stay the same in following meets.
Lining up
- Lining up is primarily for younger swimmers.
- Lining up means that an older swimmer on the team will be asked to keep track of your swimmer in order to get him to his/her races on time.
- This older swimmer may approach you, looking for the swimmer.
- Please make sure you know where your swimmers are at all times so you can help the liner uppers get your kid to the race.
- Goggles: right before a race is when most swimmers seem to lose their goggles. Right after your child’s races, have her/him put the goggles in a spot where they can be located before her/his next race..
In between races
- When not racing, swimmers should feel free to cheer for their teammates, play with each other or get a snack.
- Swimmers should not wander away or play on the playground.
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