How to Read a Heat Sheet
Here is a video to help:https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/crhooIVfxtm
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 a flip chart with this information near the announcer's table.
Changes to the Heat Sheet may be made based on swimmers who don't arrive on time for an event or can't attend due to illness or emergency.
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 4-6 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.
