Ryan Woodruff, Lynchburg YMCA
We did this set as a fun twist on our tradition of doing a fly Set today. The secondary goal was to expand their knowledge of times (and encourage them to memorize theirs).
One swimmer picked a category and distance. I then asked them for the correct question (this is Jeopardy, remember) to go with my answer.
For instance, if a swimmer picked “Your best times (SCY)” for 200, I gave the answer “this is your best time in the SCY 200 IM. Swimmer would say “What is 2:01.26.” If he was within the range mentioned in the picture above, the group performed the 200 as 50 kick/100 drill/50 swim all fly. If he was incorrect, we did the 200 fly fast for time and a 100 ez free.
This picture below shows which swims we ended up doing fast (red X) and which we did as 1/4 kick, 1/2 drill, 1/4 swim. The swimmer who was the contestant selected the member of the group who went next.
There are of course tons of variations you could do on this theme. I printed up our best times, team records, and world records ahead of time, but I imagine this could also be fun to do with swimming trivia.
The Swimming Wizard 
I love your creativity! This looks like fun for sure. One question though, how did you have best times for a distance of 150? Did you use practice times? Thanks!
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Thank you. Glad you like it. When a swimmer chooses “best times” for 150, the event I was asking about does not have to match that distance. Instead, that distance is the amount of swimming at stake if the swimmer gets it wrong. Does that make sense?
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a-ha… yes it does. I think in your example, they matched so what’s I went with. Thanks again!
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