Stockport Metro Mini Meet Grand Prix

Road to London 2012

2012 Series

Introduction and Aims

· The Mini Meet Grand prix is a series of time trials for junior swimmers aged 10 - 12 years. This year the series will be restricted to swimmers from clubs actively involved with Stockport Metro’s ‘club link’ programme and also to those clubs who are willing to provide volunteers for every round.

· The aim of the Mini Meets is to give our young swimmers added incentive to attend their training sessions and to work hard by providing an ideal competitive environment in order to develop their racing skills

· To provide an early introduction to the ASA BAGCATS awards for swimmers, parents and club coaches

· Regular Mini Meet attendance will allow a coach to monitor each swimmer’s progress

· Parents are also to be actively encouraged to develop skills as officials and helpers in running the series

· To provide a fun environment in which to learn competitive swimming skills and ASA Laws and ASA Rules

Stalybridge Squad

Squad List Stockport Metros Mini Meet series 2011-2012

Good luck to all the swimmers we hope you enjoy the competition.

Aged 10 and over

Summer Baker, Connor Derry, Catriona Doyle, Jackson Hurst, Georgia Pilejko, Patrick Tallents, Jacob Taylor

Aged 9 and Under

Olivia Bragg, Alex Campbell, Jade Hadfield, Ellie Hadfield, Annabelle Lees, Ciaran Moss, Max Tomlinson, Mathew Smith

Team managers

Mrs N Campbell, Mrs T Hadfield

Rules

· Ages will be calculated as at 28^th April 2012.

· Swimmers that have achieved National Qualifying times for the year 2011 can not enter

the competition.

· Swimmers that gain National Qualifying times during the Mini meet series will no longer

be able to win any awards in the competition.

It is felt that once a swimmer reaches this standard the Mini meets are no longer

appropriate for the swimmers development.

· The Grand Prix will be held under ASA Laws and ASA Technical Rules

· Any swimmer being disqualified will not have their time placed on the

rankings database, however for the purpose of the Mini Meet Grand Prix Bagcats they

will incur a time penalty as follows:

50m events

Plus 3 secs

200m events

Plus 10 secs

· Any swimmer who does not complete the course (DNF) will be given the slowest legal (non

disqualified) time in their age group.

The Mini Meet Swimming Programme

5.00pm Warm up 5.30pm Start

All rounds to take place at Grand Central Pools using whenever possible Omega Electronic timing

with scoreboard display.

Coaches please remain with swimmers on the ‘windows’ side of the pool, this will allow the

officials and marshals to organise competitors ready for each event.

Dates of Mini Meet		Closing date	All	All	Boys	Girls
Stage 1	Sat 26 Nov	Mon 31 Oct	50 Free	50 Fly	200 I.M	200 Free
2	Sat 17 Dec	Fri 2 Dec	50 Breast	50 Back	200 Free	200 I.M
3	Sat 21 Jan	Fri 6 Jan	50 Free	50 Fly	200 IM	200 Free
4	Sat 25 Feb	Fri 10 Feb	50 Breast	50 Back	200 Free	200 I.M
Finals 5	Sat 31 March	Fri 16 March	50 Free	50 Fly	200 IM	200 Free
Finals 6	Sat 28 April	Fri 13 April	50 Breast	50 Back	200 Free	200 I.M

· All age groups will swim the stages together with entry times being seeded. After the initial

submitted time, only times from the series’ previous stages will decide subsequent seedings.

Licence

· The 2012 series is expected to be licensed at Level 4, this mean swimmers can achieve entry

times for County Competitions as it was very successful for the 2011 series, however this licence

will only apply if we have the correctly qualified officials.

· If we do not have the following, the licence will be void for that round and swimmers times

will not go to the rankings.

· 1x Referee, 1x Starter, 6x Judges, Minimum of 8 Timekeepers. All of whom must be qualified.

· This years entry price will remain the same at £40 which is still only £2.25 per event.

Entries

ELECTRONIC ENTRIES

Sports systems has been used to run the meet for several years now and there is a function

in which clubs can enter their own swimmers using this system as an electronic entry. This

is strongly advised to avoid any confusion or errors. All club contacts will be e-mailed the

information to this simple format and this hopefully will be the future for mini meet entries.

All clubs are requested to enter via sports systems which all the details and files will be

available from our website, there will be a full list of instructions on there too. All entries

must be to Stockport Metro by MONDAY 31^st October 2011, this includes paper entries and all payment.

What events should I enter?

GRAND PRIX SERIES whose age group events offer the opportunity for swimmers to practise racing

skills on all strokes plus the 200m Individual Medley and 200m Free.

10 years (@ 25.6.11) to enter:
50m Fly	50m Back	50m Breast	50m Free	200m IM *	200m Free
* 10 yrs swimmers only may with the agreement of their club coach enter 100m IM initially instead(10yrs 100 IM not in Finals)
11 years (@25.6.11) to enter:
50m Fly	50m Back	50m Breast	50m Free	200m IM	200m Free
12 years (@25.6.11) to enter:
50m Fly	50m Back	50m Breast	50m Free	200m IM	200m Free

Always Remember - “Your coach is there to give advice on which events to enter”.

Awards

In order to win an individual event award, a swimmer must swim in at least 1 round and

the corresponding final of any stroke (50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast, 50 Free, 200m IM, 200m Free)

Awards will be based as follows

· ON COMPLETION OF THE SERIES OF EACH EVENT in JUNE 2011 – medals will be awarded for who

ever comes in the top 3 in each event on the night, this will help swimmers get used to a final

situation, SWIMMERS MUST HAVE COMPETED IN AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUS ROUND IN THE CORRESPONDING EVENT

TO GAIN MEDALS AT THE FINALS

Medals and awards TOP 3 in each EVENT for 10, 11 and 12 years

BAGCAT Award TOP Swimmer in each AGE GROUP for 10, 11 and 12 years

BAG Points will be awarded for every swim. Points from the best 50m swims on each stroke plus

best 200m IM

Plus best 200m Free from any stage will be added together to give the overall BAGCAT Points total.

Entry Fees

Grand Prix Series events: The entry fee is £40.00 which covers ALL events for all Rounds.

Initial entry forms with fees to be received by Lucas Connolly no later than 31^st October 2011

Subsequent entries with fees to be received by the stated closing date for the next Round.

Entry (with programme) for spectators will be £4.00 per adult person (children under 16 free).

Results

Results sheets will be displayed during the Mini Meet on poolside and on the balcony.

A full set of results and acknowledgements will be displayed on the web site

(www.stockport-metro.co.uk) shortly after each round has been completed with the notes

of the DQ’s & time penalties.

We also run Live results service which means that results will appear on the website shortly

after the end of each event.

Officials and Helpers

Due to the licence we are going to rely on helpers & officials more than ever. Each club will

need to provide officials in order for the gala to meet the requirements for the licence.

We always rely on the involvement of parents to help officiate at the Mini Meets as we offer

this development series to encourage parents and older swimmers to train as prospective

officials and helpers.

Please inform your club contact if you wish to be (a) judge (b) time-keeper or (c) to help in

marshalling, recording and checking entries on computer or (d) acting as a runner.

This year each club will be required to provide one judge and one timekeeper for every round.

Complete your club’s officials sheet & return with your entries.

General Enquiries & Info: Lucas Connolly

Stockport Metro Coaching Office, Grand Central Pools

Stockport SK1 3TA

Entry Information & Results:

www.stockport-metro.co.uk

Tel: 0161-480-5138 Fax: 0161-477-9295

E-mail: lucas.connolly@stockportsportstrust.org.uk