On Friday, November 12, 2021 we will be holding our annual Time Trial Meet at the Fitch Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Center (WARF) at 800 Waterloo Road, Warrenton, VA 20186 across the street from Fauquier High School.  Please read this entire post.

COVID Policies:

• There are none!
• Spectators are allowed and no masks are required.
• I love living in Warrenton!

The main purposes of the meet are to:

• Establish baseline times for every swimmer against which we will measure progress during the season.
• Teach everyone our pre-meet routine, particularly our warm-up routine and how we show respect for our National colors.
• Get our Meet Officials trained

Actions for Each Swimmer Prior to the Meet:

1. Ensure you know your warm-up lane assignment, including to which end of the pool you should report (will be posted below shortly)
2. Ensure you know your heat and lane for each event that you are swimming. Either write it on your hand or have it recorded in some other fashion.  (will be posted below shortly).
3. Come to the pool dressed to swim so we can minimize locker room use with so many kids.  The locker rooms are open though.

Time Trial Meet Entries: 

• Here are our entries for the meet, by event and by name:
  • Entries-2021 Time Trials-by event-v5
  • Entries-2021 Time Trials-by name-v5
• And here is the Meet Program that shows your specific Heat and Lane Assignments:
  • Meet Program-2021 Time Trials

Event Timeline:

6:00 p.m.          Dry Deck Set-up by Bill Dealey, Deck Set-up by the Team Managers, Team Area Captains’ Meeting with Coach Koehr.

6:59 p.m.          Swimmers start stretching on the tile in leisure pool, next to the competition pool.  Arrive prior to that, put your bags in the team areas in the competition pool and then clear out to the leisure pool to minimize the disruption to the OCCS practice that is going on until 7:00 p.m.

6:59 p.m.         Officials meeting on deck in the competition pool by the doors to the leisure pool

7:09 p.m.         Timers meeting on deck in the competition pool by the doors to the leisure pool

7:10 p.m.          Begin Warm-up Session 1

7:20 p.m.          Begin Warm-up Session 2

7:35 p.m.          Training on the Opening Prayer and the National Anthem

7:50 p.m.          Time Trials Begins

Meet Timeline-2021 Time Trials

9:30 p.m.          Projected End Time

Dry Deck Officials:

• Unlike normal Seton meets at the WARF, the Dry Deck Officials will set up under the scoreboard

Wet Deck Officials:

• The Referee (Mr. Seltman) and the Starter (Mr. Haggerty) will be set up in front of the dry deck officials in a segregated area.
• The Stroke & Turn judges spread around the side and end of the pool
  • Some of the judges are new and will be shadowing experienced judges as part of their training

Timers:

• We will operate with Head Timer Will Waldron and two (2) timers per lane
• One (1) timer will operate the CTS plunger and a Dolphin electronic stopwatch, and one (1) timer will operating a CTS plunger.
• Here are the Timer lane assignments and a link to sign-up.  We still need a few timers as of this posting.

Clerk of the Course:

• Unlike a normal meet, we will operate a Clerk of the Course to stage swimmers prior to their events.
• The Clerk of the Course will be across the pool from the Starter
• This will not be a normal feature of our meets, but given the inexperience of so many of our swimmers and the limited space behind the blocks, we will do it for this meet only.
• Alexandra Luevano and Jessica Morales will run the Clerk of the Course

Team Areas:

• We will establish five (5) Team Areas, each with assigned Captains.
• The team areas will be arranged around the perimeter of the pool from the Scoring station under the scoreboard to the Lifeguard room.
• Going clockwise around the pool starting at the Scoring Station:
  • 6^th and 7^th Graders – Captains Ceili Koehr and Mary O’Malley (24)
  • 11^th and 12^th Graders – Captains Lucy Garvey and Kevin Orellana (34)
  • 8^th Graders – Captains Teresa Bingham and Joey Dealey (17)
  • 10^th Graders -Captains Isabelle Luevano and Joe Wilson (15)
  • 9^th Graders – Captains Lily Byers, Nathan Luevano, and JJ Brox (32)

Warm-up:

• We will warm-up in two sessions with six (6) to eight swimmers per lane.
• Here are your warm-up Lane Assignments:
  • Warm-up Lane Assignments-2021 Time Trials
• We will warm-up in two sessions:
  • Session I – 7:10 to 7:20 p.m.
  • Session II – 7:20 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

National Anthem:

• How we handle the opening prayer and the National Anthem is very important to me.
• We will:
  • Review why the National Anthem and our National Colors are so worthy of our respect.
  • Learn how to stand at attention like a US Marine.
  • Practice lining up for the prayer and the anthem
  • Practice showing respect while the anthem is being sung.

Swimming Events:

• We will utilize a Clerk of the Course which will be located just to the right of the starting blocks behind the lanes closest to the bleachers.
  • Swimmers will report to the Clerk of the Course a couple of heats prior to their event.
• We will use the Clerk of the Course and flyover starts
  • When a heat finishes, that heat will remain in the water until the next heat has started over top of them (i.e. “Flyover Start”)
  • Then the swimmers in the water will exit and return to their team area.
  • As those swimmers are clearing the area behind the blocks and while other swimmers are still swimming in the water, the next heat will move from the Clerk of the Course to their place behind the blocks.
  • This flow of swimmers will be repeated for each heat.

Restrooms:

• The locker rooms are open for use!
  • Given our very large numbers, please try to minimize their use by arriving at the pool with your suit on under your clothes.
• There is a family restroom outside the pool area at the bottom of the stairs for Coaches and Officials.

Spectators:

• Spectators are allowed in the bleachers!
  • But you can see better if you are a volunteer on deck 😉
• All results will be posted in near real-time on the Meet Mobile App under “Seton Time Trials 2021”
  • We will post results for all Seton Meets on Meet Mobile so I’d suggest that it is worth downloading.
  • You can find the App in the App Store under “Meet Mobile: Swim”
• We will not be live-streaming this meet.

Final Note from Coach Koehr:

• The Management of the WARF and the Town of Warrenton are generously allowing us to, once again, hold our annual Time Trials Meet at their facility.  Let’s make sure we show respect for them and the other patrons of the pool, particularly the teams practicing prior to our meet.
• Please remember:  “It’s not about good.  It’s about better.”
  • Just come and do the best you can, and we will spend the rest of the season learning to swim better.