As you may already know, I’m on the Central High School Swim Team. This is my second year. Yesterday was a historic moment for the Central High swim team ‘08. Our first meet! I must say, I was impressed. Though, half our team was made up of new members, we still did extremely well. We had several of our new members break records! Two on our team, who are year round swimmers, won first place in their events and we had multiple in-heat first places. Here is a break down of some swim terms regarding when you swim and where.
Event – this is what race you are swimming in. Example: Boy’s 100 Butterfly or Girl’s 50 Freestyle
Heat – Because there are only eight lanes in the pool, when there are more than eight people entered into one event we must split them up in to multiple heats. Therefore, if you have 13 people you would have two heats. The first heat containing eight people (maxing out) and the second heat containing 5 (the rest of the competitors in that event).
Lane – Self-explanatory, a lane is what portion of the water you are swimming in between two lane ropes. There are eight lanes. Read the rest of this entry »
