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Updated City Meet Information

City Meet is upon us! I have included you will find the Crash Area Map, Heat Sheets, and updated warmup times in the message that follows. Please be prepared for heat and rain. I will not be at the preliminary sessions of the meet on Friday. I must attend a mandatory class every weekday until the 14th of July for my new position at Dalton High School. I will get to the meet as soon as I can. The rest of the coaching staff will pick up my slack.

Anyone who has been to City Meet will tell you to be prepared for hot, muggy weather and at least one good rain storm. Plan on delays due to weather. We WILL finish the meet. Bring shade, chairs, snacks, and drinks.

Remember! City Meet is a Prelim/Final Meet. If your swimmer finishes in the top 16 overall in their event, they get to come back at night and race in finals! If your swimmer's relay finishes in the top 8 overall, their relay gets to race in finals! There are a few timed final events. A timed final means they only swim the race in prelims. They score based on how they place in prelims. The timed final events are the six and Under 25 free and 25 back. The eight and under 50 free and 100 IM are timed finals. All 100 freestyles are timed finals.

Heat Sheets

You can find the Heat Sheets for Preliminaries HERE. We will add the link to the Finals Heat Sheets when they become available.

Updated Warmup Times

Friday 10 and Under Preliminaries - 8:00 AM

Friday 11 and Over Preliminaries - 12:30 PM

Friday Finals - 10 and Unders - 5:30 PM

Friday Finals - 11 and Overs - 5:55 PM

Saturday 10 and Under Preliminaries - 7:20 AM

Saturday 11 and Over Preliminaries - 12:10 PM

Saturday Finals - 10 and Unders - 4:30 PM

Saturday Finals - 11 and Overs - 4:55 PM

Directions to the Pool - HERE

Parking - There will be some parking spaces blocked off next to the pool - please do not remove the cones to park in those spots. Your best option for parking will be in the big field behind the pool. To access that parking area:

1. Turn on Van Cleave Street as if you were going to the pool.
2. Drive past the entrance to the pool.
3. Take a right on Forrest Road.
4. Take a right on Stephenson Drive.
5. Take another right on Gilbert Drive.

Gilbert Drive will run directly to the parking area.

Setup - Please feel free to set up a tent in our crash area tonight, beginning at 4:00 PM. CRASH AREA MAP

Clerk of Course --- There will be a clerk of course for the 10 & under sessions, and all swimmers in finals will need to go to the clerk of course.

***Relays will report directly to the block and NOT to the clerk of course, for the 10 & under session. Finals relays WILL come to the clerk of course, so we can verify they are all present.

Volunteers

We are required to supply two timers for each session.

Relays

Relay names are printed in the Heat Sheet, but we may adjust the relays during the meet based on performances happening during individual competition. This is a championship meet, and we will do everything possible to put up our fastest relays.

Swim Caps

All swimmers must wear Dalton Dolphins caps. No Dolphins cap, no warmup. No Dolphins cap, no race.

Swimsuits

CASL rules do not allow tie-back swimsuits. They also do not allow suits endorsing non-CASL teams. 12 and unders may not wear tech suits. If you don't know what a tech suit is, you don't have one. 13 and overs should not wear tech suits in prelims (except for the 100 free). However, 13 and overs should "suit up" for finals if they have a tech suit.

T-Shirts

If you ordered a T-shirt, Coach Hamontree will have them at the Crash Area setup tonight and throughout the weekend.