Swimming Terminology

Gala roles

Coach – supporting swimmers with warm ups, race planning and providing post race debriefs.
Team Manger – supervising swimmers and ensuring they are sent to marshalling in good time for their events
Chaperones – provide 1-1 support to swimmers if required due to specific circumstances

License Meet levels

Level 4: Internal meets like Club Championships.
Level 3: Developmental short course meets with upper time limits. Estimated entry times (Coaches times) are permitted.
Level 2: Short course meets with minimum qualifying times. .
Level 1: Long course meets aimed at national qualifiers.

Short Course (SC) – Length of swimming pool is 25m

Long Course (LC) – Length of swimming pool is 50m

DQ - Disqualified from an event for a breach of swimming rules

DNC - Did not compete in an event

HDW - Heat declared winners. Medals awarded based on times achieved in the heats. No finals take place

PB – Personal best time for an event

Coaches’ time – a time provided by a Bridgefield Coach to a swimmer for an event that the swimmer has not competed in before

IM - Individual Medley

Marshalling - area swimmers gather prior to an event in order to be allocated a heat and lane number

Over the top starts - swimmers remain in pool for the start of the next heat and exit the pool immediately after the next race starts