Barracudas,

We have reached a very exciting time in the season! It's also the time when things happen very quickly and we send lots of information out to you.  We will try to keep the emails to a minimum, but please make sure to read everything so you don't miss anything important.  

The Gwinnett County Swim League holds a Championship Meet at the end of every season at Georgia Tech. This year that meet will be held July 7-9. Swimmers qualify for participation in the championship by scoring in the top 50 times in an individual event. Each team submits entries for swimmers in the top 100 times of each event. When swimmers across the county elect to participate in certain events, it creates scratch (empty) positions where they were. Those positions then get filled by the qualified swimmers behind them. Some events have scratched over 25 or more places!  CLICK HERE for details about the meet including the schedule of events.  

The way it works:
If you have a swimmer qualified in the top 100 swimmers in 1 or more individual events, and you intend for them to participate in the meet, the first thing to do is to go to the website and declare them eligible to be entered.  In addition, if you have been contacted about your swimmer participating on a relay in the meet, they must also be declared online.  Please note the details in that declaration process!  You are making commitments to the team with financial penalties attached.  Declarations must be done by June 25 in order for your swimmer to be entered in the meet. Again, if your swimmer is not declared eligible to be entered in the meet by June 25, they will NOT be entered. That is a very important point over which we have no control.  We want to make sure every eligible swimmer gets to participate, so we are stressing it to you. Please keep in mind, this declaration does not guarantee your swimmer a place in the meet. It simply gives us permission to enter the swimmer. The final Top 50 qualifiers will make up the county meet competitors. We have no way of knowing who those swimmers will be until the league breaks our excited anticipation and releases them to us. That's always an exciting day! 

Just as in regular season meets, we are required to fill volunteer positions. The jobs are assigned to our team by the league. When the league releases our assignments, we fill them by those who have swimmers participating in the corresponding session. The great thing about these assignments is that they get you much closer to the action than sitting in the stands. This is the best meet of the season to work!  

After the final meet we will continue to hold practice for swimmers in the Top 100 of any event. When the league releases the official county meet participants, we will inform those swimmers who will not be participating in the meet, and they will no longer attend practice. County swimmers will all practice together in the first time practice time.

If you would like to purchase County Meet merchandise, please go to https://stores.inksoft.com/gcsl_50/shop/home and make your purchase by June 26. There are usually some items sold at the meet, but availability cannot be guaranteed. It's best to purchase ahead of time.  Pre-purchased items will be delivered to you at practice prior to the meet. 

We will be sending out a lot more about the county meet and other end-of-season activities, so watch your email closely.

See you at the pool!