REC Scoring Guidelines:

• Coaches releases the score sheet on the day of the REC meet.
• In the score sheet, Home and Away representatives copies the swimmer’s names from the Master sheet and writes the swimmer’s names manually in the score sheet.
• There must be 2 copies of score sheets – One for the Home Coach; Second for the Away Coach.
• There are 3 scorers at the table:
  • Home team:
    • Primary scorer
    • Secondary scorer
  • Away team:
    • Secondary scorer
• Scores by ranking:
  • Individual event:
    • 1^st – 5 pts.
    • 2^nd – 3 pts.
    • 3^rd – 1 pt.
  • Relay event:
    • 1^st – 8 pts.
    • 2^nd – 4 pts.
    • 3^rd – 2 pts.

Primary Scorer:

1. Checks the score cards if it has scores written on it.
2. Separates Heat 1 event from the rest.
   1. Heat 1 event hands over to the Secondary scorers.
   2. Heat 2 & above events (and DQ sheets if available) are to be set aside. Scorers do NOT record these times.
3. Sorts the score cards by fastest to slowest times.
4. Writes the ranking (1 to 6) in the score card.
5. Hands over the score cards together with the DQ sheet (if available) to the secondary scorers.

Secondary Scorer:

1. Checks the times if ranked correctly.
   1. If not, scorers updates the cards with the correct ranking.
2. Checks the names of the swimmers if matches with the score sheet.
   1. If names does not match, scorers writes the correct swimmer’s name(s) in the score sheet.
3. Check the event if Individual or Relay and Junior or Senior and record the scores:
   1. If INDIVIDUAL and JUNIORS event, record the score in the 1^st & 2^nd Home/Away columns in the right side of the sheet.

*Please refer to the 1^st row in the diagram below that has the scores 5 & 3.

1. If RELAY and JUNIORS event, record the score in the 1^st & 2^nd Home/Away columns in the right side of the sheet.

*Please refer to the 3^rd row in the diagram below that has the scores 8 & 4.

1. If INDIVIDUAL and SENIORS event, record the score in the 3^rd & 4^th Home/Away columns in the right side of the sheet. (Need to be confirmed)

*Please refer to the 4^th row in the diagram below that has the scores 5 & 3.

1. If RELAY and SENIORS event, record the score in the 3^rd & 4^th Home/Away columns in the right side of the sheet. (Need to be confirmed)

*Please refer to the 5^th row in the diagram below that has the scores 8 & 4.

1. If one team sweeps the ranking (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd),  the score will automatically be:
   1. Individual – 5 pts.
   2. Relay – 8 pts.
   3. The other team will automatically have either 0 or 1 pt. (Need to be confirmed).

1. DQ and UNF in the score card:
   1. If swimmer(s) is disqualified, write “DQ” in the sheet and no score.
   2. If swimmer(s) has “unofficial”, write “UNF” in the sheet and no score.
2. Write the Totals in each Home and Away columns per event.

*Please refer to the 2^nd row in the diagram below that has totals of 8 & 8.

1. Once done recording, set aside the cards.
2. Home and Away scorers must match each other’s totals.
3. Tally the scores of the Juniors and Seniors at the end of the score sheet and add the overall totals – Home vs Away.
4. Give the final score sheet to the Home Coach.

Sample Score Sheet:

Sample Totals: