The following is an explanation of how incentive caps can be earned.
A bronze cap is earned when a swimmer set 3 PR's (personal record) in one swim meet. The PR's must be from the current swim season. Please note that seed times will follow a swimmer from year to year so it is necessary to make certain the seed time is from the current year.
A silver cap is earned when a swimmer sets 3 PR's in two consecutive swim meets. Times must be from the current swim season. The swimmer does not have to swim the same three events in order to earn the silver cap however the 3 events must be from the current swim season.
A gold cap is earned when a swimmer breaks an RBG record or a meet record.