The annual Lollipop meet for is Friday July 27, 2018 at Rutherford Pool, 4609 Marley Road, Fairfax, VA. This is a special B Meet for Mini Swordfish, 8 and Unders, and 9-10 not swimming in Divisionals.  This meet is designed to encourage our young swimmers to swim further and different strokes than they have all season. A lot of kids swim their first 25 meter freestyle and/or their first attempt at other strokes at the Lollipop meet.

Arrival: Swimmers should arrive at Rutherford Pool by 8:15 AM. Warmups will take place at 8:30 AM and the meet will begin at 9:00 AM.

Events: Swimmers can participate in 2 strokes.  Events include the short course with kickboard, short course freestyle, short course backstroke, and 25 free, 25 back, 25 breast and 25 fly. Please sign up your swimmer and select events using Swimtopia.

Awards: Swimmers will not receive ribbons for this meet, but the kids will receive lollipops after each event. The races will be timed, but will not be recorded on timecards (or in Swimtopia), so swimmers should ask for their times after each race.  

Volunteers: The older kids from the Rutherford Rats swim team official this meet. Sit back and enjoy the meet!

After the Lollipop meet: 

• The Minis will come back to the pool to get their donuts, paper plate awards and team gift.
• The 8 & unders and 9-10s will return to the pool for donuts (and will get paper plate awards and team gift at Awards night on Saturday night).

The teams of our B-Meet League meet to compete on an individual basis in the Individual Medley(IM) Carnival. At the IM Carnival, all participating swimmers swim the Individual Medley - one length of the pool of each of the four stokes in the following order: Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Freestyle. The IM is an event not swum in Saturday A-Meets, but times can be used to qualify swimmers for Divisionals. (Note that in order to participate in the IM Carnival, swimmers must be legal in all four strokes.)