Swim Meet Declaration
You are required to use Swimtopia to "Declare" (or indicate your attendance) for all swim and dive events.
How to Declare for A Meets:
- Declare for all meets you’d be available to go to - only declared swimmers are visible for the coaches to choose from for to create the line-up for the meet
- Coaches make the line-up based on the fastest times and available swimmers
This can be done whenever you know your summer schedule. Some families declare for all A meets at the beginning of the season, and others do this week by week. For A meets, coaches make the lineup based on the fastest swimmers and who is available to swim that week. The deadline to declare for A meets is midnight on the Wednesday prior to each Saturday A meet.
Once signed in, click on the "Meets/Events" tab where you will see a list of upcoming meets and events. On the right-hand side of each meet is a button labelled “MEET ENTRY”. It will be green if the meet is still open for signing up, and gray if the meet is closed.
Click on the green “MEET ENTRY” button. You will see a list of athletes associated with your account. Click “Edit” to add or change each athletes attendance.
Click the “Save” button at the bottom of the screen. You are all set!
How to Declare for B Meets:
- YOU must check which events you would like them to swim (anything they didn’t swim Saturday)
- If your swimmer is swimming 4 events within the swim meet, please indicate in the comments which one you would like exhibition
- NO DECK ENTRIES!!!!
For B meets, parents will sign up swimmers for the meet AND choose their events. (See below the rules for B meet events) The deadline to declare for B meets is midnight on the Monday prior to each Wednesday B meet.
Once signed in, click on the "Meets/Events" tab. There you will see a list of upcoming meets and events that have jobs associated with them. On the right-hand side of each meet is a button labelled “MEET ENTRY”. It will be green if meets are still open for signing up, and gray if the meet is now closed for signing up.
Rule for how many events in a swim week:
During a swim week (defined as an A meet and the following B meet), a swimmer may swim a maximum of 4 individual events and the individual medley (IM). Each swimmer may also swim in 1 relay event. For example, if Tommy Tarpon swam freestyle in Saturday's meet, then he can swim backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly in the Wednesday meet. If Tommy is 9 or over (or younger with coaches' approval) he could also swim the IM on Wednesday.
Exhibition swimming in B Meets: If a swimmer was disqualified in an A meet event, the swimmer can reswim that event as exhibition in a B meet if requested by the coach. Please see Team Handbook for more information on Exhibition Swimming.
