Urbanna Otters

Directions & Parking (click here for directions via Google Maps)

• Address: Urbanna Swim Club is located at 8030 Urbanna Road in Manassas, VA 20109. The club is directly across from Westgate Elementary School on the right-hand side of Urbanna Road. Please use your favorite mapping tool to determine the best route for travel from your home. Our gates will open at 6:05 a.m.
• Parking: There is a parking lot at the pool which has handicapped parking; please notify us if you need additional parking accommodations. Once the pool lot fills up, additional parking can be found at the school across the street. If parking on the street, please respect the owner’s driveways.

Warm-ups & Meet Timeline

Volunteers

• Shifts
  • Urbanna uses the following shift schedule for Timers and Recorders as well as administrative officials. If the visiting team uses a different schedule, please notify the meet announcer.

Volunteer Shifts (does not include Officials)

Locations:

• Team Area: Visiting teams may set up in the grassy area inside the Club adjacent to the volleyball court, and around by the deep end of the pool. Urbanna sets up in the grass inside the club in front of the basketball courts.  BEHIND THE DIVINGBOARDS/START IS OFF LMITS TO SETTING UP VIEWING.
• Visiting Coach Area: Visiting team coaches have benches in front of the visiting team area and on the side of the pool.
• Clerk of Course: is located in a sheltered area on deck to the right of the baby pool.
• Scoring & Ribbons: are located under the pavilion behind the pump house near the shallow end of the pool.
• Computer: inside the clubhouse
• Announcer: is located at entrance to pool at the guard desk.

Other Meet Support and Information:

• Please gather all belongings and pick up all trash before leaving. In the event of rain, soggy grounds set up occurs in the parking lot. The visiting team will be notified by an Urbanna Official.
• The announcer will call each event twice. Swimmers should report at first call. A “last call” will be made. Swimmers arriving after the event has been seeded may not be able to swim. Please advise your coaches and parents to listen for announcements for event reporting.
• As a private club, we have strict time constraints on turning the pool over to the membership, we cannot hold up progression of the meet to locate swimmers who fail to report.
• Per directives of the PWSL, swimmers will not be allowed to compete in PWSL meets if they have body paint, hair paint, and/or sharpie ink on their body beyond event information. The child will be given the opportunity to remove the paint.
• Urbanna requests that all swimmers keep their electronic devices secure in their belongings in their team area.
• No cell phones are ever permitted in the bathrooms.
• As per PWSL by-laws, no pictures may be taken at the start from the starting end of the pool. Additionally, “meet officials, including timers, recorders, judges, starters, and referees, should not be using any device capable of photography or recording while on shift. Meet officials should ask for relief if a phone must be used, and use that device from the sides of the pool.”
• Bad Weather: Club phone: 703-361-3233. Check for any changes, delays or cancellations for the meet.

Any other questions email [email protected]