Download results from meet at Bel Air: Aberdeen vs. Bel Air Results

Great job on Saturday. We hope you all had a great time, especially our new families. We had many questions we thought we would answer as a group. It is very difficult to clerk and encourage 190 swimmers- we need your help.

1) It is very important that your child go to the clerk of course when the announcer calls their event. The clerk will put them in the right place. Lauri and SueEllen position themselves to help line up the little ones and walk them over, but they do not have time to search for every child on the team. Please make sure to tell them if you are timing and then they will keep them near while you are working. Please encourage your child to be at the right place and not playing in another team’s pool, playground, sandbox, snackbar, etc. if they are supposed to swim.

2) Do not leave the meet until you have read the relay sheet, we caught 4 children dressed, leaving and they were in relays. If they tell us they cannot stay for a relay we will honor that, but if they just leave without checking, we will not put them in a relay in the future.

3) Swimmers, upon finishing their event should wait for all swimmers to finish and then shake the nearby lane’s swimmers hands. Our team practices good sportsmanship at all times. We also pick up our trash and return the furniture we moved.

4) Wednesday night meets run late. Your child may only be in 2 events. Some of our age groups are too big to swim 3 events. Why? Because in each event we are only allowed to enter 9 to 12 swimmers per event. Most teams work out an agreement to allow us more. Bel Air was extremely generous to us Saturday because our 2 teams were huge! However small teams especially on a Wednesday night meet will hold us to the rule. Your freestyle event may be in the relay or even not at all. We try very hard to rotate you around so you can swim all events. All we ask is that you try!

5) Requests for events: As the season progresses you may make a request for an event on our home Saturday meets, we will need you to write it down 3 days prior to the meet and give it to your coach.

5) We thank all our wonderful parents that helped, timed, officiated, clerked, handed out candy, scored,coached, wrote ribbons…. whew!

6) You can check all of the league results and your times at the Harford Swim League Website www.harfordswimleague.org

Hope you had fun Saturday!! Thank you!!!!!!