Team records are used as a tool to encourage and motivate swimmers and provide a competitive environment with which to do it in. The following are the guidelines Viking Aquatic Club (VAC) will use to manage this service for the team.
Reporting:
- On the USA swimming website there are reports that can be run to list the top swimmers by age group and event using the times in the USA database.
- The head coach will be responsible for running this report and providing information to the board for posting.
- The report will be generated at the beginning of the season and refreshed once a month
- In between official reporting runs any record Breakers will be invited by the coaches to write in their name and time if they placed in the top 10 allowing them to own their achievement.
- The reports in the USA database go back to February of 2001 and include all swimmers, active or past.
Records Guidelines:
- Our team records will be based on the top 10 swimmer slots for each sex, event, distance, and age bracket.
- The records list will be posted to the bulletin boards for VAC both on the pool deck and in the viewing area
- The record list will be posted to the Facebook site
- VAC On-Deck will also feature an article weekly (each time changes are made to the top 10 list) to highlight the swimmer’s achievements.
- The records list will also be posted to the VAC website on a periodic basis.
Awards:
- Metal bag tags will be issued to the swimmers for each event they hold a record for at the end of the season
- The bag tags will be laser etched with the swimmers name, event, and date
- Gold swim caps (with “Record Holder” on them) will be issued to record breakers at the next practice highlighting their achievement.
- Repeat upsets of a record by the same swimmer in the same year will not issue a new tag award. (as they already hold the record breaker award for that year and event) (This will avoid unnecessary printing of tags which can end up being costly to the club)