Maroubra Swimming Club Pointscores
Updated 28 Jan 2010
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We cater for all swimmers' abilities with a pointscore competition that challenges the swimmer's own ability and not winning a race against other swimmers.
Club Points
The basis of our competition is that you are swimming against your own time, not the swimmer in the next lane. At each Friday's Club night, a swimmer's times are recorded, with points awarded for each swim. The points awarded depend on your time and how much better your time is each week. You do not have to be in training to swim.
Points are awarded as follows:
| swimming faster than your best time | 5 points |
| equal to, or within 0.5 sec, of your best time | 4 points |
| more than 0.5 sec below your best time | 3 points |
| on your first night or if you are late signing-on (see above “Club Nights”) | 2 points |
| If you advance to a longer distance | 5 points |
Each Friday night, there is one freestyle and one form stroke event. Points are displayed on our noticeboard (in the DRAC foyer) and on the Top Times page of our website.
Distances
The distance a swimmer competes depends on their ability and not on their age. Very young and inexperienced swimmers usually start with 12.5m races and as a swimmer’s skills and race times improve, they will move up to 25m, 50m and 100m races for each stroke. The times a swimmer must achieve to compete at a certain distance are detailed below. The time required to move up to a longer distance is called the elevating time.
Distances swum at Club each week are 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 metres.
ONCE A SWIMMER ACHIEVES AN ELEVATING TIME, THE SWIMMER MUST SWIM IN THAT DISTANCE AT ALL CLUB NIGHTS. FOR 100M SWIMMERS, THERE WILL BE 50M SPRINT NIGHTS DURING THE YEAR, USUALLY RUN ON THE SAME NIGHT AS A DISTANCE EVENT (200m OR 400m).
Longer Distance
We also encourage longer distance swimmers with 200 and 400 metre events held every 3 weeks on alternative Fridays (ie: not both on the same night). These special events have their own pointscores. Click here for more details.
End of Year Trophies
Pointscores are published on our website an noticeboard every three months. At the end of the season, points are tallied and trophies awarded on our Presentation Day.
