Derbyshire ASA

The Performance Pathwayand

Meet Licensing changes

Long and Short Course Seasons

• Long Course up to Summer Championships• Short Course up to Winter Championships

• Long Course Qualifying Window

• Times from L1 and L2 Rankings• County Championships are L1 or L2

Changes to Counties

• Entry Times to be from Rankings

• DASA have chosen to accept L4 times

• 10/11 at Year-end is youngest age group

• They can now swim 100’s

Changes to Counties

• Essential 50m and 100m events must have heats and finals

• Desirable200m events to have heats and finalsSub-groups in heats (i.e. Not 10yrs to 20yrs together)Cyclical seeding of last three heats of events with finalsOther heats and HDW events to be spearheaded.

Ranking Times for Entry

• DASA have chosen to accept L4 times• Level 4 is single club, or ASA “Low Level

Competition” • Swimmers can be Category 1 or 2• Requirements for Officials are specified –

they are tighter than before but not onerous.

Officials for Level 4• Referee [1] – licensed and qualified to at least J2(s).

• Starter [1] – Qualified to at least J2.

• Judge of Stroke [2] – Qualified to at least J1.

• Finish Judge [2] - No qualification or training required.

• Chief Timekeeper [1] - minimum of J1 in training and qualified to timekeeper.

• Inspector of Turn/Timekeeper – Start End [1 per lane] – Qualified to a minimum of timekeeper. – Turning End at least 1 per two lanes i.e. 6 Lane pool = a minimum of 3 Inspectors of Turn all

of whom must qualified to a minimum of timekeeper.

• All individuals officiating at any meet of any level must be a member of a clubAs should ALL your helpers !

What you need to do

• Get at least your Club Championships Licensed

• If it’s a problem, get together and organise a “Low Level Competition”.