2007/8 ASA Licensed Meets Calendar
These are
competitions you enter yourself. The
Open Meets Secretary will have details of some open meets and will put details
on the notice board. These have varying
age groups and events so you need to consider what you want to enter. You will have to complete an entry form and
ask a club official to sign it before sending it off with the appropriate
fee. There will be a closing date for
entries so you may not hear for some time whether or not your entries have been
accepted.
Some open meets
will be ‘Licensed’ and will have a ‘Level’ stated of 1, 2, or 3. Level 1 is aimed at National qualifiers,
Level 2 at District qualifiers and Level 3 at County qualifiers. Licensed open meets will have lower and
upper limit qualifying times for each event.
These opens will provide swimmers with official qualifying times for
Midland and National Championships.
Remember that you must be registered with the ASA to enter an open meet.
Popular open meets
are sometimes organised as a ‘club entry’ and the completed forms and cheque are collected and submitted by
the Open Meets Secretary. Details will
be posted on the noticeboard.
If your entry is
accepted you will normally receive entry cards for the events you are swimming
a week or so before. You must take
these to the event as you will not be allowed to race without them. On arrival at the event you need to find
the box in which to ‘post’ your entry card (normally in the reception area of
the pool). Some open meets may run
without card entry, in which case you will receive a list of the events entered
and cards will be handed out to swimmers at the event.
These open meets
can go on for some time, very often most of the day, or weekend! Make sure you take plenty of food, drinks,
costumes, towels and maybe a book to read while you wait for your race.
There will need be
an adult with a ‘coach’s pass’ from the club on the poolside to supervise
swimmers and this needs to be checked when entering the competition.