How to Read a Heat Sheet
The Heat Sheet is a program that shows all the participating swimmers and what events they will participate in as well as the heat number and lane number. The announcer will say the event and heat number prior to each event taking place.
At the bottom of this page is an example of a heat sheet. For more explanation please refer to this link. The info in this link is the same as our sheets except heat 1 for us is the fastest heat. https://youtu.be/9BSBB9Qs8f0
Event Number: Up to 70 events in a meet, split by stroke, gender and age group.
Heat Number: In each of the events, there are HEATS. Each heat has 6-8 swimmers - depending on the size of the pool.
Lane Number: This will tell you which lane your swimmer is scheduled to be in.
Changes to the heat sheet may be made based on swimmers who don't arrive on time/no-show for the meet or did not declare for a meet.
