- Title: Collegiate Warm-Up Swimming Etiquette
- Informant: AnnClaire MacArt, 20, Female. AnnClaire (AC) was born and raised in Northern California. She currently lives in Hanover, New Hampshire and is a sophomore at Dartmouth College. AC is a member of the Dartmouth College Varsity Swimming and Diving Team. She has swum competitively for over 10 years, including at the age group (club), high school, and now collegiate level.
- Customary, Etiquette/ Ritual
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States
- Social / Cultural Context: AC described the basic etiquette shared among all swimmers when warming up or cooling down at a meet. She described basic behaviors that most swimmers adhere to although there is no one specifically telling them they have to. This includes accommodating other swimmers while trying to avoid annoyances, such as touching another swimmer’s feet.
- Transcript:“In a warm-up, warm-down pool, we know to swim circle. Everybody knows you swim circle. And if someone is kicking, it kind of gives you the ‘OK’ to pass them. When you’re in the warmup pool and you see somebody and you kind of like know that they’re going to go, you let them go instead of trying to push off at the same time”“We subconsciously try to figure out what (other swimmers) are doing and how to get around that or how do we slow down what we’re doing or speed up, or if someone touches your feet, that’s another term—‘get off my feet!’”
- Informant’s comments: AC commented that she has practiced this etiquette in all levels of swimming, not only at the collegiate level.
- Collector’s comments: The types of behaviors she described were pretty standard among many informants.
- Tags/Keywords: Etiquette, Warm-Up
College Warm-Up Etiquette
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