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We are a competitive club constantly looking to measure the improvement in our swimmers and the main way this is achieved with a competitive club is through regular time trials at a range of distances in a range of strokes. We aim to make this as stress-free as we can but in time swimmers become very serious about these times and push themselves to greater success.
Clissold’s system
Promotion through squads is by time. Swimmers are time-trialed in all four events over 50-metres and the four times are added together to give an ‘aggregated time’ that allocates the swimmer to an appropriate squad. This is a very effective method that defines the club ensuring that coaches teach all four strokes to the highest level and that swimmers learn and perfect each and every stroke to the highest level they can.
There are qualifying times for London which is a new ASA Region, Middlesex, which is our traditional region, then there are 2007 National Age Group Qualifying times, the 2007 National Qualifying Times and the 2007 British Championships Qualifying times.
The ASA also manages a scheme of badges and awards across all skill and speed levels to inspire and encourage young swimmers that are sponsored by a pre-sweetened breakfast cereal manufacturer which you can see here
BRITISH AGE GROUP POINTS SYSTEM ‘BAGCATS’ – GBpoints:
AN INTRODUCTION – can be found here. A BAGCAT points calculator is available HERE. YOU CAN CALCULATE YOUR OWN POINTS TALLY HERE. Swimmers are also timed at the distances listed below and these are ‘age sorted’ into age, gender, county, club and national ranking system that can be interrogated by clicking HERE. (We have no idea how accurate this is or how regularly it is updated but it seems pretty swiftly done.)
the events are:
- 100m Freestyle
- 200m Freestyle
- 400m Freestyle
- 800m Freestyle
- 1500m Freestyle
- 100m Backstroke
- 200m Backstroke
- 100m Breaststroke
- 200m Breaststroke
- 100m Butterfly
- 200m Butterfly
- 200m Individual Medley
- 400m Individual Medley
