07/24/2025
This post is to provide info about Divisionals and show the entries. Unfortunately due to size and time restrictions not every person is able to make the meet - this is a league run not team run meet. With that said we are super happy to be sending 63 athletes this year! Making divisionals is a great accomplishment/honor and all that made it should be very proud of the hard work they have done to get to this point.
First time divisionals parents, this next paragraph is for you! Divisional’s is when we swim in a meet against the other 4 teams we swam this year all at once. There are two main differences though. The first being that there is no final score, this is a strictly individual event, your swimmer is swimming their hardest for their best time possible. The second being there are multiple heats of every race. In our normal meet we get 3 lanes each race and that’s it, at divisionals there could for example be four “Girls 9-10 Freestyle” races. After the meet is complete the list of times goes in a big pot with all the times from the other 4 divisions. The top 18 times from the big pot of (as an example) “9-10 Girls Freestyle” then get to move onto Meet of Champions next Thursday in New Providence. The top 16 will swim and 17/18 will serve as alternates if one of the 16 cant swim/is unavailable. We will know who makes it Tuesday afternoon.
Divisionals will be held in Westfield again this year. Our warmup time is listed promptly at 7:55 AM. When your swimmer arrives they MUST check in with me immediately. If you swimmer does not check in with Conor or he has not heard that you are coming via email by 7:40 AM they will be scratched from the meet - no exceptions. We are listing a 7:10 AM arrival so there is time for us to get settled, get in the pool, and check everyone in. If your swimmer can’t make it please notify Conor by email not the sign out sheet. The goal is to have the meet done with by 11:15 (pending weather).
With Divisional’s we are required to have a few different volunteer roles to fill. PLEASE SIGN UP. THESE MUST BE FILLED. Each team must provide 8 timers (4 first half/4 second half), a new role of “scorer” - as I said there is no points and everything is put into a computer, I think this is just to help the person read the paper, and someone to help with the ribbons for top finishers from our team only: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0445A5AC2CA6FB6-57649466-divisionals
More info Saturday, congratulations to everyone, please volunteer, and most importantly go Dolphins!
Westfield address: Memorial Pool at 713 Cumberland St Westfield, NJ 07090