Meet Scoring and Ribbons
How are meets scored?
PWSL dual meets are comprised of 67 events: 19 relays and 48 individual events. Swimmers earn points for their teams by competing in relay events and by being one of the six fastest finishers on their team in individual events. The team with the most points wins the meet.
Individual Events:
In individual events:
The fastest 6 finishes for each team will score points by completion of legal swims.
The same team cannot score points for more than 6 places.
Example for a Dual Meet:
| Swimmer | Team | Place - for Ribbons* | Points awarded |
| Aaliyah | Us | 1 | 13 |
| Chloe | Us | 2 | 11 |
| Daisy | Us | 3 | 10 |
| Elise | Them | 4 | 9 |
| Fatima | Us | 5 | 8 |
| Hannah | Us | 6 | 7 |
| Isabella | Them | 7 | 6 |
| Jasmine | Us | 8 | 5 |
| Kiara | Us | 9 | 0 |
| Lily | Them | 10 | 4 |
| Maya | Us | 11 | 0 |
| Naomi | Them | 12 | 3 |
| Olivia | Them | 13 | 2 |
| Penny | Us | 14 | 0 |
| Sofia | Us | 15 | 0 |
| Zoe | Them | 16 | 1 |
*Ribbons are awarded to the top 12 legal finishes, regardless of team, based on time. Ribbons are also awarded for the top 12 6&Unders in Free and Back events based on time.
During a Divisional meet (3 teams competing), up to 18 swimmers can earn points in each individual event. The top 6 fastest swimmers from each team in an event earn points. Point values are assigned as follows:
| Individuals | |
| Place | Points |
| 1 | 19 |
| 2 | 17 |
| 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 |
| 5 | 14 |
| 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 12 |
| 8 | 11 |
| 9 | 10 |
| 10 | 9 |
| 11 | 8 |
| 12 | 7 |
| 13 | 6 |
| 14 | 5 |
| 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 3 |
| 17 | 2 |
| 18 | 1 |
Relay Events:
In a dual meet, the 1st place team earns 47 points and the 2nd place team earns 32 points. Each team can only earn one place of points.
During Divisionals, each team earns points for their placement in each event:
- 1st place team earns 79 points
- 2nd place earns 53 points
- 3rd place team earns 40 points
