The Club promotes a staged progression from 16m to 25m to 50m and onto 100m based on the swimmers ability to cope with the increased distance.
Parents are encouraged to self-monitor qualification times and only progress their swimmers when they are met. This helps all our swimmers feel confident in the distances they swim and help club nights run efficiently.
Children 10 and over can swim 50m events without a qualifying time.
Children under 10 must swim 25m events until they have two qualifying swims under the following times:
- Freestyle – 23 Seconds
- Breaststroke – 30 Seconds
- Backstroke – 30 Seconds
- Butterfly – 25 Seconds
Swimmers 12 years and over can swim 100 metre events without first attaining qualifying times.
Before swimming in the 100 metre individual medley event, swimmers must first have achieved upgrades from 25 metres to 50 metres in at least two strokes.
Swimmers under 12 need to obtain the following 50 metre times to qualify for 100 metre events:
- 45 seconds for freestyle
- 50 seconds for butterfly
- 55 seconds for backstroke
- 60 seconds for breaststroke