Go For The Gold

All swimmers will receive a GO FOR THE GOLD (Boys and Girls) swim graph in his or her Swim Team mailbox (blue for boys and pink for girls).You can print additional copies from the team website. This is a great tool for swimmers to use to track their times for each stroke from swim meet to swim meet.It can also be used to set goals for the next swim meet.At the end of the swim season, certificates of achievement will be awarded to each swimmer based on their levels, or color zones (GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE, BLUE, RED, and WHITE).

Following are instructions on how to use your GO FOR THE GOLD graphs:

(1.)             Each swim stroke (Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly, and Individual Medley) has “times”  that fall into a color zone. 

(2.)             After you swim a particular time, go to your swim graph and find the stroke you swam and your age group.

(3.)             Highlight from the bottom up on the graph until you reach the time you swam.

For example: If you are a 10 year old boy and you swam 50.25 seconds in the 50 yd backstroke, you would go to the backstroke section of your chart and find the column with 50 yd and 10U (for 10 and under boys). Then highlight all the blocks from 58.79 up through the 51.59 block.  At the next meet that you swim backstroke: If you swim faster than 51.59, you would highlight up to your new time.

4.)               After each meet each swimmer should highlight their swim times on their swim chart.

5.)               Before each meet each swimmer should review their best times so they have a goal to aim for.  It should be noted that swimmers will not always swim their “best” time, but their “best” time will be their individual time to beat.

At the end of the season, swimmers will receive certificates for the highest color zone that they have achieved for at least two events.  To receive a BLUE level certificate the swimmer would have to achieve times in the blue color zone for at least two strokes.