Venue:	Northam Aquatic Facility
When:	Saturday, 4 - Sunday, 5 March 2023
Hosted:	Northam Swimming Club

This event is open to Regional Clubs only and showcases the talent from clubs around country WA. Clubs will choose the team that will represent the club at the Pennant. Once the event list has been organised, it will be available for clubs to download here so that the teams can be picked.

Multi-Class Events have been included in Country Pennants this year and will be swum after the 17 & Over events in each stroke. MC Swimmers can compete in either of the standard event or MC event but can not swim more than FOUR individual events as per normal CP rules. The MC events will not be scored, so no points added to Club’s for these events

Note: If the club doesn't have Team Manager, then HyTek also offer a Team Manager Lite version which is a limited version of Team Manager but still capable of organising entries for the country pennants. A guide for using the Team Manager Lite version is also available. Unfortunately one of the limitations on the Lite edition is it cannot import the existing results from My Swim Results.

When using Team manger to pick your team, ensure you use the function Meet Division to only bring up the events for your Grade.

Tip: If your club uses Team Manager but the results in it are a bit out of date - why not extract the results from My Swim Results using a "Export Membership" -> "HyTek Team Manager Results File" which will download the results from the club for 2 years (+ older PB's) suitable for importing into a new / empty Team Manager database to bring it up-to-date. More info (go straight to step 2).

Alternatively, if a club would prefer to use excel to submit entries, then please contact My Swim Results to use a template specific to the clubs division which will make the conversion easier. Please allow additional time before entries close to organise this.

Team Manager Entry file plus PDF copy of the Individual Meet Entries Report by Event and the Entry Fee Report to be emailed to [email protected] prior to 9pm Friday 17th February. Please include contact name & phone number with your email. 

Swimmers who wish to compete at Country Pennants must hold one of the following memberships with Swimming WA on or before February 17, 2023.

The following are the rules surrounding the Splash and Dash events (# 502 to 507)

1. To be eligible for Splash and Dash the swimmers must be a member of SWA
2. Only available to swimmers 8 years and Swimmers should be able to swim the 50 metres
3. If an 8-year-old swimmer is entered as part of a team in any one stroke they are ineligible to compete in that stroke in splash and dash events. For example, if they are entered to swim a 9 years freestyle with their team, they are ineligible to swim a freestyle in Splash & Dash. If they are then not swimming in the breaststroke and backstroke in their team event, they can swim both these strokes in Splash and Dash (this allows the 8-year-old swimmers to swim 3 strokes at the event plus relays). They will still be eligible to be part of the all-in section at the end of event
4. All 8 years swimmers who swim in Splash and Dash events will still be eligible to swim in both the under 10 years freestyle or medley relays for their team.
5. No medals will be awarded for Splash & Dash events only ribbons and a certificate 
6. The three events (breaststroke, freestyle and backstroke) must be entered into using the team manager as part of the entry process by each club
7. A charge of $5.50 per event will be charged for breaststroke, freestyle and backstroke, there will be no charge for the all-in section at the end of the events.
8. Breaststroke is at the end of the breaststroke section of the program between after event 140
9. Freestyle is at end of day one after event 240
10. Backstroke at the end of the backstroke section after event 440
11. An all-in event will be held for all swimmers 8 years and under after the Freestyle Relays during the 20 minutes it takes to get results finalised. Swimmers will be asked to nominate for this on Sunday prior to the event. Entries for this event close at the end of Session 4 – Butterfly on Sunday.
12. NO BUTTERFLY EVENT will be available for Splash & Dash

2023 Country Pennants Information
Meet Events-2023 Country Pennants Northam