Why do you go to swim meets and what events there are and how to swim each of them?

The reason you go to swim meets is so you can show the coaches and your parents how well you improved since the last meet. The coaches will tell you what to improve on at practice so you can fix the problem for the next meet. You also go to swim meets to improve your time for each event you swim. You also go to swim meets to just have fun and do your best in each event you swim.  

At a swim meet you are only aloud to swim four events each day not including relays (which the coaches put you in). A swim meet is most likely two days long, always on Saturdays and Sundays, but the really big meets are four days long, most likely Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

There are many events you can swim at a swim meet. There are fifties( butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.) A fifty is two laps in the pool of the stroke you  have to do. There are 100's (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and IM.) That is four laps in the pool of the stroke you have to do. A 100 IM also known as a indivisible medially, that is a 25( 25 is one lap of the pool) of all four strokes. The order of the IM is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. The strokes have to be in that order. You can swim 200's (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.) A 200 is eight laps of the pool. There is also a 500 free. That is twenty laps of the pool. There is a 400 IM, that is a 100 of butterfly, 100 of backstroke, 100 of breaststroke. and a 100 of freestyle.