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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a team rep and making these calls is hard.

As a rule of thumb, if the temperature is below 60 degrees, we will cancel.  I don't want to make kids miserable. The temperature was 62 degrees when we started, so it right at the cusp. The rain and wind didn't help things, but we've had a stretch of very warm weather so the water temperature wasn't too cold.

Our swimmers were definitely cold after warmup, because they were wet and many of them were getting ready to swim the first events and so they didn't get redressed.  If the swimmer had extra dry towels and dry clothes to put on, they were okay.  We skipped relays and ended early.

Cancelling a meet is a big decision.  I hate to waste the number of man hours of work that goes into prepping for a meet.  If you run concessions, food has already started getting cooked.

At the end of the meet,  the swimmers were happy that the meet happened but glad to skip relays.  Lots of kids scratched due to the cold and that was fine. [/quote]

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