Meets and Events
Time Trials
Time trials are held at the beginning of the season on either the Saturday or Sunday before the first “A” meet. At the Time Trials swimmers are timed for each eligible event. If a swimmer misses time trials they must make arrangements with the Head Coach to time the swimmer in the relevant events the following week at on Wednesday evening (make-up time trials).
B Meets
“B” Meets are scheduled for some Wednesday evenings during the season at 6 pm. "B" Meets are designed to provide competition opportunities for all those swimmers who do not have times that will enable them to compete in the "A" Meets or for those “A” Meet swimmers who want to improve their times. Swimmer with all star times cannot compete in those events.
A Meets
Dual Meets:
All “A” Meets are scheduled to start Saturday mornings at 9 am. Note that swimmers and volunteers must arrive earlier based on warm up schedules for that meet. There will be five dual meets per swim season. A dual meet is comprised of forty individual events, four relay events and six individual medley events. The coaches will select the three swimmers in each individual event to represent our Swim Team in the "A" Team Meets. The one exception is that the freestyle events for swimmers in all age groups will be represented by six swimmers in each age group. A Meet results can be found on MCSL.org under Meet Results. For those interested in the order of events for dual meets they can be found on MCSL order of events_dual meets.
Relay Carnival:
Each MCSL Division has one relay carnival per swim season. The relay carnival is comprised of twenty relay events and all teams in the division compete. The relay carnival contributes points toward the calculation of the Division Champion and helps determine participants in the MCSL Relay All-Stars Meet.
MCSL Coaches Invitational Long Course Meet:
The fastest eight swimmers (with two alternates) in the league are invited to participate in each event. Times are based on the first three dual meets. Swimmers may not be entered in or compete in more than two events. Events are the same as non-relay events in dual meets with the distances doubled.
Divisional Meet:
There is one divisional meet per swim season. A divisional meet is comprised of two heats per event following the same order of events used for dual meets. All six teams from the division compete at the same time. Each team provides two swimmers per event and the two swimmers with the fastest times in each event will represent the team in the meet. In individual events, medals are awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places and ribbons will be awarded for 4th-6th places. In relay events, medals will be awarded for 1st place and ribbons for 2nd and 3rd places. For those interested in the order of events for dual meets they can be found on MCSL order of events_dual meets.
All-Star Meets:
There will be one County Relay All-Star Meet and one County Individual All-Star Meet per swim season. Both of these meets are league-wide (Divisions A-O). The winning relays from each division compete in the Relay All-Star Meet. The Individual All-Star Meet is comprised of individual and individual medley events with the fastest sixteen swimmers per event selected from all league divisions. In the Relay All-Star Meet, plaques are awarded for 1st place, medals for 2nd and 3rd places and ribbons for 4th through 8th places. For the Individual All-Star Meet, plaques are awarded to the first three places, medals for 4th, 5th, and 6th and ribbons for 7th through 16th places.
