Pataskala Area Swim Team

We have set up the scholarship process for the Porpoise Swim team. Residents in Licking County can take advantage of the Licking Memorial Health Systems (LMHS) Youth League Scholarship funds to join the Pataskala Porpoises Swim Team program.

Steps to Apply for the Scholarship:

• Application: Visit the LMHS Youth League Scholarship Application at LMHS Application Link and complete the form.
• Submit W 9: Email a W9 form, along with contact information and address, to ensure proper delivery of the check.
• Email Submission: Send the required documents to Kelly at [email protected]
• Program Information: Use Pataskala Porpoises as the program being applied for.

Once the application process is complete, LMHS will notify the Pataskala Porpoises Board. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

USA Swimming Rules & Regulations

Concussion Information Sheet

STROKES: Backstroke * Breast Stroke * Butterfly * Freestyle

DIVES & STARTS: Competitive Starts * Transition to Blocks * Backstroke Starts

TURNS: Freestyle Flip Turn * Backstroke Turn * Breast Stroke Turn * Open Turns

Blocks:Where the swimmers dive/enter the pool

Bullpen: The area where swimmers report before each event to check in

Deck: The area immediately around the pool.

DQ: Disqualification due to a technically incorrect stroke, kick, turn, finish or false start.

Event: The race in which a swimmer competes (ex: 50yd freestyle)

False Start: Leaving the blocks before the sound of the starter or before the swimmer touches the wall on relay exchanges.

Heat: Race with swimmers seeded at the same level; may have more than one heat per event

Heat Sheet: Heat sheets give you the order of events, list out the names of the participants in each event, and divides them into heats and lanes. So with a heat sheet you can find your swimmer’s name and know when they will swim and in which lane they will be in for each event. You can also see how they stack up against the competition by looking at the seed times.

Officials: Officials wear white shirts at the meets. There is a referee who is in charge of all other officials at the meet, sees to the running of the meet and makes all the final decisions. The starter calls swimmers to the blocks and starts each heat. The stroke judges determine the legality of the strokes and turns.

Psych Sheet: Psych Sheets are read in a very similar way as heat sheets, except they do not have heat and lane assignments. Instead you’ll see each event listed with a list of swimmers ordered by seed time, fastest to slowest.

Scratch: Not to swim an event after being entered.

Seed Time: The time used to enter the swimmer into a meet. This determines a swimmer's heat and lane assignment. Usually, it is the swimmer's best time for that event within the past season.

Time Drop: This refers to any event during which a swimmer takes less time to swim that event (without DQing) than they did in earlier attempts at the same event.