What is a Heat Sheet? What Does it say?

The Heat Sheet is a program that shows all the participating swimmers and what events they will participate in as well as the heat number and lane number. The announcer will say the event and heat number and there is also an electronic board with this information. Coach Kim will send out a copy of the Heat Sheet along with the entries by swimmer the night before the swim meet. 

Changes to the Heat Sheet will be made the morning of the meet.  The coaches will write the updated information on swimmers' arms in the morning.  Coach Kim will send out an updated Heat Sheet around noon of the meet day.  The bullpen parents will have the most up-to-date information at the pool. 

Event Number: There are 86 events in each meet.
We swim the Medley Relay, Short Freestyle (25 and 50), Individual Medley (a 25 yard of each of the 4 strokes), backstroke, breaststroke, Long Freestyle (50 and 100), Fly and Freestyle Relay. For each of those 8 races, we swim 12 events -- one for each age group/gender.

Heat Number: In each of the 86 events, there are HEATS. Each heat has 6-8 swimmers - depending on the size of the pool.

Lane Number: This will tell you which lane your swimmer is scheduled to be in.