Swim Mom & Swim Dad Hats

A swim meet asks a parent to give up a whole day for a race that is over in a blink. Meets typically run four to six hours, and USA Swimming caps a single session at four. Parents are not on the pool deck unless they are officials, so the spectators sit in the bleachers, where the viewing area can be extremely hot and humid. Parents write event, heat and lane in an E/H/L grid on their swimmer's arm in Sharpie. The heat sheet doubles as a fan, and the Meet Mobile app is a staple. The most popular parent job is timer, with two stopwatches per lane. These swim mom and swim dad hats are the parent's side of the deck. The two badges name the job. The longer designs carry the jokes the swim-parent press already prints: the ratio of the hours you spend to the minutes of swimming, the phrase on swim-parent shirts, I used to have a life, now I have a swimmer, and the pride of having raised the fast one. Others cover yelling at a kid who cannot hear you, and spotting your swimmer's cap in a crowded heat. Swimming Hats belongs to the swimmer; this page is the parent. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. I USED TO HAVE A LIFE and the meet ratio line each come in a second colorway. A good gift for a meet-season parent.