Rules

NJSIAA Swim Meets – Regular Season

Every meet follows a standard order of events.  Each event consists of either one competitive stroke or all four of the competitive strokes.  In addition, every race is a specific distance of 50 yards, 100 yards, 200 yards or 500 yards.

Each length of the pool is 25 years, so a 50 is 2 lengths of the pool, a 100 is 4 lengths, a 200 is 8 lengths and a 500 is 20 lengths.

Order of Events

1. 200 yard Medley Relay (4 swimmers, 50 yards each) – in the medley relay, each swimmer completes a 50 of one of the four competitive strokes. The medley relay is always completed in the order: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle.

2. 200 yard Freestyle

3. 200 yard Individual Medley (“IM”) – 50 of each stroke: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle

4. 50 yard Freestyle

5. Break

6. 100 yard Butterfly

7. 100 yard Freestyle

8. 500 yard Freestyle

9. 200 yard Freestyle Relay (4 swimmers; 50 yards each; all freestyle)

10. 100 yard Backstroke

11. 100 yard Breaststroke

12. 400 yard Freestyle Relay (4 swimmers; 100 yards each; all freestyle)

Scoring – each team may swim three swimmers or three relays.  The pool lanes are alternated between the teams. One team gets the odd numbered lanes and the other team get the even numbered lanes.

Relays

1st place = 8 points

2nd place = 4 points

3rd place = 2 points

4th – 6th place = 0 points

Individual Events

1st place = 6 points

2nd place = 4 points

3rd place = 3 points

4th place = 2 points       

5th place = 1 point

6th place = 0 points