Hunting Hills Swim Team

What are Time Trials?

Time trials is a practice meet at which swimmers swim every stroke (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and/or butterfly) that they are able to swim. This will give the coaches a baseline time for your swimmer in each stroke. As the season progresses, your child will probably "drop time", swim faster in a subsequent race.

Please register your swimmer to compete, if your swimmer does not plan on attending you will need to let us know that too, by indicating that they won’t attend. Please note that swimmers who do not participate will not have times for seeding the following meet against another team.

Why do we have Time Trials?

Time Trials gives new swimmers and parents an opportunity to experience the feel of a meet in a less crowded setting, gives returning swimmers a chance to get reacquainted with the timing and routines of a meet, and gives coaches and volunteers an opportunity to work out any kinks in the systems. Swimmers also establish a baseline time for their strokes which helps in properly placing them in upcoming meets. For this reason, swimmers swim all events at time trials unless otherwise instructed by coaches.

How long do time trials last?

Time trials can last 3-4 hours. The order of events is freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Within each stroke, we begin with 6-and under, and then progress to ages 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, and 15-and older.

What should my swimmer bring?

For time trials and every other meet, your child should wear their swim team suit and bring goggles and swim cap. You should also make sure your child has sunscreen, plenty of water or sports drink to stay hydrated, a tee shirt or sweatshirt, and two towels - one to sit on and one to dry off with. Because the meet can get long, bring a healthy snack or money to buy one from the snack bar, and a book or games.

Swimmers

Before you leave home, double check that your athlete has packed all their competition gear! Use this checklist as a starting point:

• Swimsuit
• Goggles
• Cap
• Water bottle
• Towel(s)

Athletes should arrive 15 minutes prior to the beginning of their warm up window. Refer to the timeline below for specific arrival suggestions!

Volunteers

For home meets, please check in at the volunteer table at the entrance to the pool when you arrive. The volunteer coordinator will give specific instructions for your position. At away meets, check in on your arrival with the Team Manager or Team Rep for further instructions.

Unless instructed otherwise, plan to be at your position by 8:50 AM so that we can start the meets on time!

Spectators

For the safety of swimmers and meet efficiency, please respect the guidelines for where spectators are allowed to set up. At Hunting Hills, only coaches, officials, volunteers, and swimmers are allowed on the pool deck. When we are visiting other pools, please abide by their instructions.

Timeline