Development Meets

 

To enter and compete in a Development meet you need to be a member of the Annette Kellerman Swim Club (not just the AKAC training program.

 

For new swimmers, development meets are usually the first type of meet you compete in. They are run in a similar style to most school carnivals with the addition of some events. .

Development meets are designed to encourage new swimmers to compete with swimmers of a similar standard so they gain confidence in a racing environment with the emphasis on participation and having fun.

New swimmers can use development meets to gain qualifying times for other meets such as qualifying meets, Country and State meets.

 

Swimmers are rarely disqualified at development meets but officials may speak to them if they have done something wrong. Swimmers should not be upset by this: it is so they will learn and improve.

Coaches will usually try to identify one development meet every 6 weeks.

If a swimmer does not have a time for a particular event (NT) or their best time for an event these meets are an excellent opportunity to achieve an entry time to enter qualifying meets.

 

Development meets will be listed on the full calendar and will be green in colour.

 

There is rarely an entry limit on how many races a swimmer can enter for a development meet however 4-5 is usually a good balance. Swimmers should where comfortable try to enter 100’s to begin to develop their race skills for higher level competition.

 

Each Swimmer must have a parent present to assist in timekeeping duties if required. Usually a timekeeper is rostered on for one hour.

Please also see:

Timekeeping

Meet entries

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