SAL Strokes and Turns Official Competency (2022)

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After viewing the USA online videos which can be found by clicking here: USA Officials Videos Please answer the following questions. Read each question carefully before answering. You must score 18/22 in order to demonstrate competency. If you have any questions, contact Elena Spearing @ elenaspearing@gmail.com

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In a 100 yard breaststroke event a swimmer completes 50 yards and, thinking that the race is over, pushes back from the wall to read the scoreboard. At this point, realizing that the race is only half over, the swimmer returns to the wall then pushes off on the breast and completes the required distance in good form. Should the swimmer be DQ’d? *

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Yes

During a breaststroke turn the swimmer touches the wall with his left hand and then touches immediately after with his right hand. The judge raises a hand for a DQ. The coach argues that the turn was legal because both hands were on the wall at the same time. Does the DQ stand? *

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Yes

To get further distance from her breaststroke pulls a young swimmer’s hands are brought all the way down to her legs on each pull. Is this legal? *

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Yes

Although a breaststroker’s head breaks the surface of the water during each cycle, a Judge raised their hand and filled out a DQ slip for not taking a breath during each cycle. Is this a valid DQ? *

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Yes

A young swimmer approaches the first turn in the 50 yard breaststroke. Prior to touching he does a flip turn and pushes off the wall with both feet. Is this a legal turn? *

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Yes

To achieve a faster finish in the freestyle a swimmer likes to take a powerful stroke towards the end of his race that forces his entire body to be underwater before he touches the wall. Is this legal? *

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Yes

Near the finish in a butterfly race a swimmer starts his final stroke and finds himself too close to the wall to make a full recovery, so he ducks his head under and reaches forward simultaneously with both hands underwater from the breast to touch. Is this legal? *

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Yes

A swimmer in the 100 yard butterfly takes a simultaneous two-arm pull, kicks several times with her arms at her sides, brings both arms simultaneously forward over the water, keeps her arms stretched out in front of her for several kicks and then does another simultaneous two-arm pull. She repeats this process throughout the swim. Should she be DQ’d? *

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Yes

The swimmer in lane 4 is a terrific butterfly swimmer but he takes only one kick and then one arm stroke that brings him to the surface of the water. Is he allowed to take more arm strokes while under the surface of the water? *

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Yes

A breaststoke swimmer has her goggles fall down on the start and she re-positions them so she can see and continues the race. Is this a DQ? *

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Yes

A swimmer in the backstroke who has gone past vertical towards the breast does a flip but fails to touch the wall and sculls back to touch. The judge reports this as a DQ. Is this a valid DQ? *

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Yes

A backstroker starts her race and surfaces prior to the 15M mark. She then re-submerges and re-surfaces, again, prior to the 15M mark. Is this legal? *

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Yes

In an 8 and under 25 yard backstroke event the stroke judge recommends a DQ based on the fact that the swimmer swam elementary backstroke and not a “crawl” backstroke. Should the swimmer be DQ’d?a. *

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Yes

A swimmer was DQ’d when, after swimming past the backstroke flags, she turned her shoulders past vertical to start her turn and had to glide and was kicking while on her breast to get into position before she executed a single arm pull. All this motion, gliding and kicking, was continuous. Should the DQ stand? *

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Yes

A swimmer completed a backstroke turn correctly and then as she left the wall and before she could get to her back she fixed her goggles so they wouldn’t be resting on her nose, she was disqualified because she was not at or past vertical toward the back when she left the wall. Is this a correct call? *

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Yes

A swimmer leaves the pool believing he has finished his freestyle race. Finding out that he has not swum the correct number of lengths, he enters the pool again to finish. Is this legal? *

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Yes

A swimmer likes to swim the butterfly. He would like to do the butterfly during the freestyle event. An official tells his coach that he can swim butterfly but he can’t alter the stroke at any time during the race. Was this a correct statement made by the official? *

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Yes

A young freestyler just completed the only turn in the 50 yard freestyle but didn’t touch the wall. She started to swim and got as far as the middle of the pool when she decided to return to the turn end of the pool and touch without doing a flip turn. In the meantime, the official raised his hand and wrote a DQ slip. Was this a valid DQ?. *

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Yes

In the 200 meter individual medley, the swimmer touches the wall at the end of the breaststroke leg with two hands simultaneously then does a flip turn before pushing off to start the freestyle leg. Is this legal? *

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Yes

During the freestyle portion of the medley relay, the swimmer in lane 2 decided to do some butterfly and some freestyle. Should the relay be DQ’d? *

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Yes

When judging a relay exchange, what process must be followed to determine if the swimmer left early? *

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Once the swimmer touches the wall, look up to see if the swimmer's feet are on the block.

Try to watch both the swimmers at the same time

Once the swimmer’s feet leave the block, look down and observe whether the previous swimmer has touched the wall with any part of their body

A or C

None of the above

You observer a swimmer performing the butterfly and you think the swimmer may be doing the stoke illegally. What should your action be? *

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Do nothing, butterfly is a hard stroke to perform.

Fully raise your hand to indicate a possible DQ. Discuss the possible DQ with the starter at the next available time.

Get another judge's opinion before raising your hand

Ask the coach if his swimmer is doing the stroke correctly

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