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.


Event Number: We swim the Backstroke, Freestyle, Breaststroke, Butterfly,  Individual Medley, Freestyle Relay and Medley Relay.

Heat Number: In each of the events, there are HEATS. Each heat has 5-10 swimmers - depending on the size of the pool.

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

Seed Time: Once a swimmer participates legally in an event, they will have a "seed time" in that event for the next meet. Swimmers are placed in heats and relays according to their seed times*.

Results

Seed Time: The swimmer's fastest time prior to this meet.

Finals Time: The time they swam at this meet