This gala is being run under a level 3 licence to enable swimmers who are 12 years of age to qualify for Irish Age Groups Div 2.  We would appeal to clubs and coaches to bear this in mind when submitting entries and not to oversubscribe the meet.

More details about this event:

Regional Future Challenger Series for Minors Swimmers in Limerick at 6th March 2022 – Event

 

 

This meet will be run in 10 lane Short Course format

DATE: Sunday, 6th March 2022

TIME: Warm up 9am  Start 10:00 am

VENUE: University of Limerick

FEES: €5 per individual event, €16 per relay

Please reply by return text via WhatsApp group before Saturday 5th

The club will submit entries and payment directly to swim Muster and once entries have been accepted by swim Muster swimmers pay the club directly into the Club account

 

ALL SWIMMERS MUST BE REGISTERED WITH SWIM IRELAND

                             

Age Up Date 31st. December 2022

All competing clubs must provide at least one official per six swimmers per session up to a maximum of three officials per session.

The scoring takes place post event.  Clubs submit an excel document (attached) along with entries that indicates each athlete’s scoring events with the Region calculating the points after the event is concluded.  This is achieved by marking all non-scoring entries as exhibition after the meet has concluded and scoring the event.

Awards: No medals will be awarded.

 Events 10yrs 11yrs 12yrs
Option 1 4x50m 2x100m 2x200m
  – 3x50m 2x100m
  – –
 1x50m
Option 2 – 1x200m 1x200m
  – 1x100m 3x100m
  – 3x50m 1x50m
Option 3 – 1x200m 1x200m
  – 2x100m 2x100m
  – 2x50m 2x50m

 

These are the maximum number of events a swimmer may enter

Entries: No qualifying times will be published, and the meet will be open to all athletes aged 10 to 12 years registered as competitive members. Regions may decide to limit the number of entries per athlete and/or the number of relay entries per club

Relays & Withdrawals:

Clubs are permitted to enter more than one relay team per event, but only one team per club will be awarded points. The names of the four relay team members swimming in the race and the order of swimming must be declared on the official Team Declaration Sheet and submitted to the Swim Office Table no later than 60 minutes before the start of the session in which the race takes place. Failure to do so will be subject to a fine of €50 (without exception) and disqualification of the relay team.

Withdrawals must be made as directed by the Meet Organiser.

Session 1 Session 2
1, Boys 200m IM 11. Girls 200m IM
2. Girls 100m Freestyle 12. Boys 100m Freestyle
3. Boys 50m Backcrawl 13. Girls 50m Backcrawl
4. Girls 50m Butterfly 14. Boys 50m Butterfly
5. Boys 100m Breaststroke 15. Girls 100m Breaststroke
6. Girls 100m Butterfly 16. Boys 100m Butterfly
7. Boys 50m Freestyle 17. Girls 50m Freestyle
8. Girls 100m Backcrawl 18. Boys 100m Backcrawl
9. Boys 50m Breaststroke 19. Girls 50m Breaststroke
10. Girls 200m Freestyle 20. Boys 200m Freestyle

 

Awards: No medals will be awarded.

  1. Each club is allowed to nominate a maximum of two scoring entries per individual event age group
  • Future Challenger Series
  • Individual Events – 10, 11, 12 years
  1. Swimmers can only score in two individual events per meet
  2. Swimmers who have achieved a qualifying standard for the Super Series may not score in that same event
  3. Additional swimmers will be designated exhibition which means they get a time and a place, but they do not score toward the team total.
  4. The top 8 individual and relay scoring places will be awarded points as follows:

 

Meet Scoring
Individual Events 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1