Whiteboard

Tori Gorman cheered on by her crew in the English Channel with a whiteboard

noun - Whiteboard is a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or erasable marker in the manner of a blackboard. The white plastic is used by coaches or referees to provide instructions to marathon swimmers during an open water swimming competition or solo channel swim.

The coach wrote '2K to go' on the whiteboard to show his swimmer.

Synonym

chalk board

External links

• Cheers or Crickets: What Do You Prefer?
• Giving Yellow Cards In Open Water Swimming
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• Marathon Swimming
• Notebooks And Whiteboards In The Open Water
• Chip Carrigan Protects Athletes' Interests At All Times
• Communication In The Channel