Club Meets

During the season, Club Meets will be held each Saturday morning, starting at 8.00am or Friday evenings commencing at 6.00pm. Members should arrive at least 10 minutes before start times to ensure a prompt start. The pool is available for warm-up 30 minutes prior to start times. Please refer to the Club Meet Calendar for the schedule of club meets.

Events will be conducted for the four individual strokes over distances of 15m (beginners), 25m, 100m and 50m in that order. Swimmers who have qualified for 50m may elect to swim 100m in that stroke. However, swimmers can only swim one distance for each stroke (e.g. not 100m and 50m Freestyle).

100m and 200m Individual Medley events will be held at the end of each meet, but swimmers may only enter one IM event. In order to qualify for the Individual Medley a swimmer must have qualified to swim 50m in three of the four form strokes. Swimmers who do not qualify but require a qualifying time for carnivals may swim the Individual Medley at the discretion of the Head Coach. Swimmers who are 12 and over are expected to swim 200m Individual Medley.

The order of strokes will vary each week and will be placed on the notice board on the day. Freestyle will be swum first or second on the program. The others will be rotated, in order, beginning on the first day of competition.
Results will be posted on the notice board at the pool and on the JHSC website by the Monday following club.

Rules for Club Meets

When the Referee’s whistle is blown there should be absolute silence for the start.
No event will be delayed for any swimmer who does not report when called.
The Referee’s decision is final. Any swimmer who is disqualified will not receive any points in that event.
Swimmers must remain in the water, with caps on, in the lane in which they swam until ordered out by the Referee and then they must leave by the nearest side of the pool.
Weather conditions may cause cancellation of Club swims either in total or during the course of the program. At the discretion of the Management Committee any such cancelled days and/or events may be taken into consideration regarding the number of swims necessary for Championship qualification.

Advancement to longer distance events

Children may advance from 15 to 25 metre events only at the discretion of the Head Coach.

Qualifying times for advancement to 50 metre and 100 metre events are as follows (swimmers must equal or better the times listed below):

	From 25m to 50m
Freestyle	22.00 sec
Breast Stroke	27.00 sec
Backstroke	25.00 sec
Butterfly	23.00 sec

Swimmers will graduate from one distance to another upon reaching the qualifying time in a particular stroke. Once qualified for 50 metres in a particular stroke a swimmer cannot return to 25 metres for Club meets except at the referee’s discretion.

Any swimmer who has qualified for 50m can elect to swim 100m in that stroke (instead of 50m).

Any swimmer graduating from one distance to another will take with them any “most improved” points that they have gained in the season.

Records

Records must be established under SQ rules, at Club Championships, or at specific Club Meets and Carnivals as determined by the Management Committee in consultation with the Head Coach. To attempt to break a record, a swimmer must have recorded a time within 0.5s of the record time to be eligible.

Before the beginning of the meet, the swimmer must inform the coach of their desire to attempt to set a record and approval must be sought from the President or Vice President. Approval may not be granted for various reasons including:

Proximity to an official meet where the swimmer will have the opportunity to break the record.
Deferment to a more convenient meet for the club.
No swimmer can attempt more than one record at a single meet.
No swimmer may reattempt the same event for a period of 4 weeks.
Attempts will be conducted in accordance with SQ rules.
Attempts will be marshalled as per a normal club swim.