Hello, Sharks!
With our first dual meet on 6/18 and our Blue & White meet in the books, I want to provide some background on how we use these results and their relevance for lineups and event selection in meets.
The Blue & White meet is a great opportunity for the Sharks to establish a baseline for the season. Seeing our team race helps the coaching staff determine where our focus needs to be in practice, what we look like when ‘the lights come on’ during competition, and see how we developed since last summer.
Additionally, during the Blue & White meet, the coaching staff marks down DQs, or disqualifications. Like holding in football or offsides in soccer, infractions in swimming related to stroke technique, turns, or starts result in a disqualification. Because the results of our meets are sent to our league, MICSA, swims that result in a DQ do not count towards the top times database for the league.
Regarding top times, MICSA posts a league wide top 16 times document for each event weekly once dual meets start. This is a document that can help you see where your swimmers stack up with the rest of the teams in the league. This helps the coaching staff create meet lineups and with the selection process for MICSA Finals. More info about the latter is in the parent handbook.
So, where can you find these results? First is an app, MeetMobile. The results from the meet are posted in real time. Not every host club will use MeetMobile but BAC does. You can download it in the App Store. Additionally, we will post the results to our team website, www.bacsharks.com. Finally, MICSA will post the top times weekly on their website, micsaswim.com. Dual meet times will be broken out by age group by event.
We’re excited for our meet against CCD!
Lastly, I am thrilled to share, “Katie Ledecky’s Gold Medal Mind-Set – The New York Times written by our very own BAC Shark Alumni, Andrew Trunsky. I encourage you and your swimmers to read this very good read. Andrew writes of Katie “In her first race, a 25-meter freestyle, she stopped along the lane line about 10 times, sometimes to clear her goggles, sometimes to clear her nose and sometime just to look around….. Just trying hard.”
GO SHARKS,
Coach Paul