Minimum Practice: Swimmers must swim in one practice the week preceding the swim meet. Illness and vacation are at the coach's discretion.

Minimum Meets: All swimmers are encouraged to swim in at least two meets.

Meet Attendance: If you are unable to attend the swim meet, you must still register as “not attending”. We need to know this information when the meet is being built.

Maximum Entries: Each swimmer ages 7 and up will swim a MAX of 3 individual races. Relays will be selected by the coaching staff (read Relay Policy below). We have 150 swimmers on the team with many attending every meet, we cannot let each swimmer swim every event and accommodate our allocated venue time.

Volunteer Obligations:

Families must achieve a minimum of 9 volunteer points by filling positions over the season, typically during meets.

If you need to cancel last minute you will need to inform the volunteer coordinator. Meets are run entirely by volunteers! If you are unable to attend the meet, then someone else needs to fill in for your role in addition to fulfilling their role.

Please review your volunteer role duties prior to the meet and contact the lead volunteer if you have any questions.

Piranhas relay policy rewards swimmers with the opportunity to swim in additional races. Relay races for swimmers 5-18 year old will be assigned based on the coach's discretion. There are a number of factors, aside from the fastest times, that go into building a relay such as consistency, hard work, and chemistry. We also try to give every swimmer the opportunity to swim in at least one relay per year.

This is a healthy incentive to work hard and promotes competitive swimming. Although the Piranhas Swim Team is a fun summer team, we strive to balance competing at the highest level while allowing swimmers to fully experience swim team. Relay allocation is purely at the coach's discretion. We hope to enhance the swimmers' enjoyment and give them a good experience that will encourage them to work hard to achieve relay status.

Relays are special, swimming on a relay is a privilege and not a right. There are limited spots available on the relays. If you've selected that your child is available to stay for a relay and then leave, you are now taking a relay experience away from 3 other swimmers. Swimmers that miss relays due to arriving late to a meet or leaving early may forfeit their opportunity to be selected in future relays.

Swimmers must arrive in time to participate in warm-ups. Swimmers that do not make it in time for warm-ups will be scratched from the relay teams. We have to check in swimmers and verify relay teams prior to the start of the meet. When a swimmer isn't here in time for team check-in's then the relay has to be re-seeded on deck and in the computer or scratched for legality purposes.

If your child has a severe allergy please ensure you have appropriate medication (e.g. Epi-Pen) on hand and inform the Team Coordinators and Head Coach.

We are often in grasses or parking lots during meets. If you child has a bee, fire ant or other insect allergy please come prepared.