What is SCY? LCM?
I work in the IT industry and there are no shortage of TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) in our industry. 😄 Swimming also has their fair share of TLAs and if you do become a swimming official (I'll cover that topic later on), you will encounter even more abbreviations. Coming from Australia where we use the metric system (like so many other parts of the world), all of the measurements used in the USA were so foreign to me. Even after 6 years living in the US, my phone's weather app still displays the weather in Celsius 😊 So when my son participated in his first ever swim meet back in mid-2014, seeing events such as 50 "yards" freestyle was so foreign to me. As a swim parent, you should be familiar with the below acronyms: 1. SCY (Short Course Yards) 2. LCM (Long Course Meters) 3. SCM (Short Course Meters) You can think of USA Swimming having 2 distinct seasons in a year: a) Short Course season: generally this is from September to March of the following year. The sw...