SRA Swim Team Handbook

VIII.  GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Aging up  When a child moves from one category to another as the result of a birthday.Aging up in JRAC means going from 8 to 9; 10 to 11; 12 to 13, 14 to 15.

Aging out  When a child turns 19 and is no longer eligible to compete in JRAC.

Championship Meet Qualifying Times

Times set by the league that must be met by a swimmer in order to swim in the Championship Meet. These are set by stroke, sex and age group.
Clerk of Course (1) The check-in point for each swimmer in order to be placed in the proper event, heat, and lane for a swim meet. (2) The officials who perform this function.
DQ   Short for disqualification. If a swimmer is observed to have failed to swim a stroke in the prescribed manner, then he will be disqualified  by a strokes  and turns official.
Heat    One individual race within an event.There can be several heats in a given event.

IM   Short for Individual Medley, a 100-meter event.In JRAC, 25 meters of each stroke a swum in the following order: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.

Intervals   In practice when swimmers swim prescribed distances during a specific period of time, i.e. swim 100 meters in two minutes.If a swimmer finishes in 1:40, then he has 20 seconds to rest. Also called repeats.

JRAC   The acronym for the James River Aquatic Club, an 18-member swim league in which Southampton  is a founding member.

Warm up  The fifteen minute period allocated to each team prior to a dual meet. The host team warms up from 5:45 - 6:00 and the visiting team from 6:00 to 6:15 p.m.

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