Oyster River Otters

What Is a Swim Meet?

During the regular season, Otter swimmers have the opportunity to participate in 2 types of meets

Dual or tri meets: lasts from 3-5 hours depending on the size of the teams involved.

Typically, we try to schedule 1 league meet per month and may travel to one away league meet per month.

Each swimmer is required to be in a minimum number of meets in order to participate in the Champ meet. All swimmers are expected to compete in the Champ meet. In the winter, 3 meets are required whereas only 2 meets are required in the summer. Some USA swimming meets are recognized as meeting the requirements of the leagues.

More details on how home meets run can be found on the page “Otter Home Meets.”

USA Swimming Meets: last from 1-5 days depending on how it is set up.

Swimmers can participate in as many or as few days/events as they want.

Fees are charged for this meet. Usually $3.50 per event and must be paid before entries are sent in to the host team.

Usually 10 or more teams (500 plus swimmers) attend these meets over the course of the competition days.

More events are offered than at the league meets. See “Individual Goals” page for possible events.

At the end of each season there are two kinds of Championship meets available for Otter swimmers.

The league meet, which gathers in all of the teams within the league, and is usually a 2 day meet.

All Otter swimmers are expected to attend this meet.

HOWEVER, swimmers are not there for every hour of those days.

Each Championship meet is divided into sessions by age and sometimes by gender in order to limit the time any one swimmer must be present. Usually a swimmer will be involved in more than 1 session, but each session has a limited amount of time.

All events and session are posted well before Champs begin and each swimmer knows exactly what they are swimming and when.

New England Championship Meets are usually the weekends prior to the league Champ meet. Swimmers must have achieved a qualifying time to participate in these meets.

For more information and time standards go to www.neswim.com.