Glen Cove Swim Team

Swim meets are held on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings.

There is a lot of planning that goes into the preparation of the meet sheets and assignment of swimmers to events. Swimmers must RSVP online before being placed in meets, and parents must select a volunteer Job for the meet.

RSVP Deadlines:

Please email Coach Dan and [email protected] for any last minute meet changes (sickness, etc).

Meets Explained

TIME TRIALS

An organized time trial will be held one week before the first CSL Dual “A” Meet. It is run as an official meet with a referee, a starter, timers, and stroke-and-turn judges. Its purpose is to familiarize swim team members and officials with how meets are conducted and establish times so the coaches will have a better idea of the swimmers' abilities. Swimmers for the first Saturday morning A meet are chosen based on the times swum at Time Trials. All team members are expected to attend and to swim every stroke they can.

CSL DUAL “A” MEETS

Five CSL Dual "A" Meets are held on Saturday mornings at 8:00 AM. At the end of the season, a trophy is awarded to the team that wins the most meets within its division.  Boys and girls swim separately in five age groups (8 & under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-18). Swimmers compete in the group corresponding to their age as of JUNE 15.

Individual events are held in each of the four strokes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly) for each age group. One relay event is held in each age group, plus a mixed-age relay. 8 & unders and mixed-age swim freestyle relay and the other age groups swim medley relay. Both teams enter three swimmers in each individual event and one four-swimmer team in each relay event. A swimmer is limited to two individual events and one age-group relay.  CSL ribbons are awarded for first, second, and third-place finishes.

Because these meets are a team effort and scored, the coaches determine who swims in each event. Swimmers may be asked to swim something other than their best or favorite event in order to score points for the team. We expect everyone to cooperate with the coaches’ decisions.

Relays: Relays are usually at the end of the meet. We attempt to place every swimmer in at least one relay; though sometimes, due to uneven numbers, not all swimmers are able to participate. Relay teams will be different at every meet depending on swimmers’ progress and vacation schedules. Please do not take your child home before checking to see if they are swimming a relay.

DEVELOPMENTAL “B” MEETS

Developmental meets are held on Wednesday evenings. These meets consist of all the individual events listed above, as well as an individual medley (IM) for all age groups, plus separate freestyle and backstroke events for 6 & unders. No relay events are held at B meets.

While B Meets are open to all team members, these meets are held mainly for those swimmers who do not swim in "A" meets. There are entry limitations that give developing swimmers the chance to win official races. More competitive swimmers also have the chance to participate in "unofficial" swims to improve their times.

THE FOLLOWING MEETS ARE MULTI-TEAM MEETS.

RELAY CARNIVAL

In past seasons, each division conducts a Relay Carnival held on a Wednesday evening in the middle of the season. Every team may send two relays for each age group and two mixed-age relays. One of the relays is an all-freestyle relay, and the other is a medley relay, which consists of four swimmers, each swimming a different stroke in the following order: back, breast, fly, free. Coaches select the swimmers for these events. This is a scored meet and a trophy is awarded to the division winner.

DIVISIONALS

Each division holds a Divisional Individual Championship Meet - or “Divisionals” - after the regular season. This Divisional Meet consists of the same individual events as a dual meet with the addition of Individual Medley for all age groups except 8 & unders. Each team in the division is allowed two swimmers per event. There are no relay events at Divisionals.

Coaches will check with eligible swimmers the week before Divisionals to see which events they would like to swim. Each swimmer is allowed to swim a maximum of two events. The swimmers with the fastest two times on the team in an event in each age group will usually swim that event. If a swimmer has one of the top two times in more than two events, they may pick which two events they want to swim. In this case, a swimmer with the third or even fourth fastest time in an event may qualify to swim it in Divisionals. If one of the other teams in our division cannot fill their lanes, the fastest time from one of the other teams will be used to fill the lane. Therefore, there could be more than two swimmers from one team in an event. Awards are given for each of the 12-place finishes. First through sixth place finishers receive a plaque and seventh through twelfth receive a ribbon. This is the qualifying meet for the CSL All-Star Individual Championship Meet, or “All Stars”.

INDIVIDUAL ALL-STARS

The swimmers with the 18 fastest times from all CSL Divisional meets swum that day will be eligible to compete in the same event at the All-Star Meet the following Saturday. Making All-Stars is a tremendous accomplishment.