Brier Creek Country Club

Welcome to Brier Creek Country Club.  Below is some information for visiting teams to understand our pool, and details for fellow TSA representatives to ensure the meet runs smoothly.  Please contact us if you have any further questions.

Address:

10601 Arnold Palmer Dr, Raleigh, NC 27617 

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Parking:

Your team is welcome to park in the front lot along Arnold Palmer Dr.
Typically, this lot does fill up and then you're welcome to park on the pool side of Arnold Palmer or Club Hill Dr. It is preferred the visiting team park only on the pool/tennis court side of Arnold Palmer Dr, do not park on both sides.  

Cars parked on the opposite side of the street of the pool on Club Hill Dr. or Arnold Palmer Dr create a safety issue for traffic and our children and are subject to towing.

Map of Pool / Setup: See below picture, visiting team setup is on the non-blocks side of the pool and near the slide well. Home team will be on the side near the Swim Pavilion and the blocks.

Meet Admin Stuff:

• Currently we are NOT certified to operate at night according to Wake County.
• This means we must stop the meet approximately 30 minutes past sunset, approximately 9:15 pm at the latest.
• Please try and limit entries for your team so both teams can enjoy the entire meet, including the Free Relays.
• We do everything we can to limit each event to 2 -3 heats maximum, would appreciate if you do the same.
• Please encourage your kids to have non-tinted goggles handy if possible once the sun goes down
• If we are running short on light/time as we progress thru the meet. We can discuss if we should consider swimming only main heats in Butterfly, and then go to Free Relays as those are always a kid favorite.

• Typically, our coach will have meet maestro updated by Sunday night, and we can lock and merge the meet entries by noon on Monday. We can be flexible with this if you need, please contact Coach Pat (Copied).
• Any updates to the meet after printing (typically Tuesday around noon), will need to be updated with a paper change form so we can update accordingly. We will provide you them at the computer desk.
• Computer entry is done under the Green Awnings behind the blocks. You’re welcome to sit your data entry folks and ribbon people there as well.

Timing System:

• We have a Timedrops system with 16 keyfobs to allow both teams to use for timing. We do not use stop watches, but rather two timers per lane along with an Order Of Finish judge for each team.  Each lane will have a timer from each team.
• Starting is automated by the starter, so timers only need to press the button to stop the time upon swimmers touching the wall.
• Each team will provide a place judge who will agree on the top 6 finishers of each heat 1 only.  These are only used when times are in question. This means the two times are not captured or are off by more than 0.30s or we mutually agree something is wrong. Per guidance of the TSA, we do NOT look at place judges if we have two good times, we will honor the time. We split timers for the teams so one timer from each team is in each lane. Please remind your timers to ensure they time the correct lane. We have had people particularly on 6U consistently timing the wrong lane, so I’ll remind of that during the timer meeting at 5:45 behind blocks.
• We will import times into Maestro as quickly as feasible during the meet.  This typically is done within a few heats of an event and at that time will update swimtopia.  All times are considered not official until the conclusion of the meet.
• We also recommend parents download the free app “Time Drops Live” (free) on Android/Apple to be able to follow the meet live.
  Time Drops Live ANDROID
  Time Drops Live APPLE
  • This will provide a virtual ‘scoreboard’ like event experience that the parents and/or coaches and see the unofficial times instantly and follow progress.
  • The PIN will be set to “2024” for this meet. Once the meet starts you should search and find our teams name and use pin “2024” to connect.
  • Of course, the times will be imported a few minutes after the event to Maestro, which updates Swimtopia as well but that requires a subscription.

Printing:

We will print as recommended in the guide from TSA except for the items crossed out below, let me know if you have any comments or concerns:

Home team then Prints the following Official Meet Documents:

1.One Order Of Finish Judge Report. This is a 33 page document printed for Heat 1 only. This becomes the OOF report to be filled out together by the OOF judges and run to the Meet Admin table during the meet after events are completed.

2.1 set of single sided Heat sheets for Home team Clerk of Course – marked Master

3.1 set of single sided Heat sheets for Away team Clerk of Course – marked Master

4.Heat sheets for home volunteer’s use

5.Timer sheets for all lanes if used. Guidance is to print 4 to 5 events per page for the sake of timely entries into Meet Maestro.

6.Agreement of Score form if felt necessary.

7.Deck Change forms as needed.

If you have any other requests, please let me know and I will see if I can accommodate. If our printer is cooperating, we will reprint a copy of the master heat sheet for each clerk of course just before the meet start so we have one master updated with any scratches that may come in. Otherwise, the Clerk of Course master will be from earlier in the day.

Volunteers:

• 1 Timer for each lane. 1 Timer from each team will pair up for each lane.
• We ask you to provide one to two people to do your ribbon sticking. We will print the labels for the ribbons, so your volunteer just needs to stick the label on the ribbon.
• We also ask you provide a runner as well for DQ's and assorted tasks on your team.

Warm-Ups:

The pool will be available for your team to warm up from 5:25 to 5:55.
We ask you to be out of the pool and have your team lined up for National Anthem and first relays as close to 6pm as possible given our light limitations.

Officials / Timers Meeting:

We will meet near the computer table at 5:45 behind the blocks for timer and officials meeting.

Food:

Our club would like to remind visiting teams, NO OUTSIDE FOOD is permitted.  

Our pool provides Mulligans Grill and typically a swim meet special grab and go menu. Credit cards only will be accepted (MULLIGANS DOES NOT ACCEPT CASH). We will try and communicate any specials to the TSA reps but the 2025 standard menu can be found here:

Mulligans 2025 Menu