Our next meet and first short course meet of the Winter season will be Saturday 29 April.
A staggered warm-up will be from 7.30am and racing will commence at 8.30am. This meet will replace the regular Saturday morning training sessions. We expect to be finished by around 10am and will have a pancake breakfast at the conclusion of racing. The small $2 entry fee per swimmer is to contribute to the costs of the BBQ, the remainder is financed by the club.
This meet will be short course, and times will be official.
As we are back to Short Course this meet will include a 100IM and our 200m event will be breaststroke. There will be 25/50/100m in all strokes.
There is a maximum of 4 events per swimmer and you cannot enter a 25 and 50m event in the same stroke. For those with times under 30 seconds (35 seconds for breaststroke) for 25m please give the 50m event a go. Entries may not be accepted for 25m events if you are significantly under 30 seconds or have achieved a time under this mark more than once.
The order of events is as follows:
- 1 Mixed 100 Breaststroke
- 2 Mixed Mixed 25 Freestyle
- 3 Mixed 50 Freestyle
- 4 Mixed 100 Fly
- 5 Mixed 25 Backstroke
- 6 Mixed 50 Backstroke
- 7 Mixed 100 Freestyle
- 8 Mixed 25 Breaststroke
- 9 Mixed 50 Breaststroke
- 10 Mixed 100 Backstroke
- 11 Mixed 100 IM
- 12 Mixed 25 Fly
- 13 Mixed 50 Fly
- 14 Mixed 200 Breaststroke
Entry information
Entries are via Swim Central: https://swimcentral.swimming.org.au/bounce?returnUrl=%2Fevents%2F13a36882-c581-4ad8-9d02-7dad2db5ca6d%2Fdetail
For all our new swimmers, and those getting into racing, come along and give it a go! Club meets are a fun and supportive environment to try new events and distances and practice your racing.
Unregistered siblings are also welcome, please email our club night coordinator, Amanda, at: wvsc.clubnight@wodenswimclub.org.au with your swimmer’s name, DOB and the events they would like to enter.
All Masters swimmers are also welcome. Masters swimmers should now be able to enter through Swim Central if registered to Woden Masters. If you aren’t on Swim Central please also email the above details to Amanda and we will put an entry in for you.
We also welcome anyone considering competitive swimming or trialing for the club.. Entries will be accepted through our club night coordinator or race secretary up until the closing date.
Entries close next Wednesday 26 April at 8pm. No late entries please! If you have any issues with entering via Swim Central please email Amanda asap and we will sort it out.
This post will be updated with the entry list for checking Thursday the 27th after entries close) and the seeded program and timeline (Friday the 28th) and they will also be distributed via Team App.
Officials and timekeepers
As always, we cannot run club meets without volunteers! A duty roster is available via Team App or you can contact Amanda or Nic (wvscracesecretary@wodenswimclub.org.au) to let us know what you’d like to help out with. Most roles require no experience or training and if you’d like to try a new role, let us know in advance and we can organise some training and/or mentoring during the meet.