Tamarron Torpedoes

During the season, we have two types of meets. Our 4 dual meets (regular season) and our 2 championship meets (post-season). Swimmers must qualify to attend a championship meet (Meet of Champs & All Star Meet), they qualify based on their times from the regular meets, and Coach Tim will notify the swimmers if they qualify. 

Please be aware that if you do not register your swimmer for a meet, they will not swim. Please register your swimmer as attending or not attending. (Do not leave the drop-down as undeclared, or they will not swim.  

To register your swimmer for a meet, go under CALENDAR and MEET SCHEDULE.  Please try to register your swimmer for all the regular meets at once if you know you'll be able to attend! 

Need help signing up? Click the link to watch our Meet and Volunteer Signup Tutorial

Yes, the team can win and lose a meet, and there are points scored. We will do our best to win as a team, but individual success is always a win!

Scoring points in a dual meet:

Points are awarded to the team for an individual finishing 1st-8th in an event, not a heat (each event may have multiple heats). For example, I may win my heat but have the 9th-fastest time among all 7-8 Boys, so I get no points. However, I do get a ribbon for finishing 1st in my heat! (pick up ribbons on the next practice day)

Points are awarded to the team for finishing 1st or 2nd in the relay. For example, the 9-10 girls' relay might win their heat but finish 3rd overall, so no points will be awarded, but they will get a ribbon!

No ribbons are awarded to swimmers who get disqualified.

All points from each event are added together at the end of the meet to see which team wins.

No matter what, though, the individual swimmer is ALWAYS racing the clock and trying to improve on their individual performance. Swimmers who focus on what they are doing rather than on what the person in the next lane is doing usually end up at the top of the list. “Practice is where you earn the medals and ribbons, the meet is just where you pick them up at the end of the race.”

How coaches select events for the swimmers:

As coaches, we want everyone to be able to compete in the events where they will be successful; that’s why we practice daily and consistently cover stroke details. With that said, there are rules for the meets by which we must comply, depending on the number of lanes, the home team’s discretion, and the time frame of the meet, as to how many swimmers can be entered into an event.

Disqualified: “DQ”

• Swimmers and relays can be disqualified or, more commonly, called “DQed.” Reasons for disqualification can include: a stroke infraction, a turn infraction, leaving the wall early, or touching the bottom of the pool while racing. DQs happen to the best of us. Try your best not to let it discourage a swimmer; instead, let the DQ stand for "Don’t Quit." As in, Don’t Quit trying to get better at your craft. You don’t know what you’re doing wrong until you’re told, but once you’re told, you have to do your best to fix the mistake. It’s time-consuming and very difficult to master these strokes, but the more you practice, the better you become.

Register your swimmer EARLY and stay LATE:

If you’re going to be in town, plan to compete and plan to be at the meet for the entire time. If there’s an emergency and a swimmer can’t compete for whatever reason, we may need to call on another swimmer to step up; staying the entire time can only benefit your swimmer.

Event Entry Rules for Meets (for each age group):

• Freestyle and Backstroke are unlimited entries (so everyone can swim).
• Breaststroke and Butterfly (3 Heats):
  • 6 lanes = 9 swimmers per team
  • 8 lanes = 12 swimmers per team
• Individual Medley (2 Heats)
  • 6 lanes = 6 swimmers per team
  • 8 lanes = 8 swimmers per team
• Freestyle Relay Entry Rules
  • Unlimited Entries (we will try to make as many relays as possible)
• Medley Relay Entry Rules
  • No 6 U Medley Relay
• All other Age Groups 2 Heats

“Swimming is one of the most ‘individual, team sports.’ It takes many individuals succeeding in their own personal goals to ensure that the team is successful”.

As was said before, we want everyone to compete, so we will do our best to get them into an event they have been working on diligently in practice. We take our top times and those who are working on the strokes diligently in practice and place them into the events that we think they will complete successfully, and help the team score the most points possible. By the end of the season, one of our goals is for each swimmer to attempt each stroke they can legally swim (without being disqualified) in a meet. For that to happen, we need to see each swimmer complete the stroke legally and diligently working on them in practice.

As a result, some swimmers may swim all five individual events, while others may swim only two, as they have not yet mastered the skill. We will do our best to have each swimmer compete in every stroke when we can, but please refrain from requesting events for your swimmer; that is a coach’s decision.

Relays are decided based on the four fastest swimmers in the Age Group.

• For example, the four fastest boys in the freestyle will be in the “A” freestyle relay
• Also, the fastest in each stroke will make up the “A” medley relay.
• If there are not enough swimmers to make up an Age Group relay, swimmers are permitted to “swim up” into another age group to enable the relay to compete, but cannot “swim down”. (A 6 U could swim on the 15-18 relay, but a 15-year-old cannot swim on a 6U relay) This is sometimes necessary as points for the team can be earned or lost depending on whether the relays can compete.