Time Standards

We use time standards to give the swimmers something to work towards and to achieve.

Junior Sailfish

Junior Sailfish is where our swimmers learn to compete in all strokes and begin to be aware of trying to go faster each time they swim. There are no meet with time standards for juniors to focus on but they can strive to get better each week in hopes of improving in order to join the full Sailfish or USA Sailfish.

Sailfish and High School Sailfish

Swimmers participating in the full Sailfish program do not necessarily have to make certain times to compete but are focused on improving their times when they do compete.  They are made aware of the qualifying times for USA meets as well as AAU meets to help provide them with goals to achieve during their swimming career.

AAU

Swimmers who wish to go to the AAU Junior Olympics must qualify to the AAU time standards. In order to participate in this meet a swimmer must be registered with AAU and achieve the meet qualifying times between Aug 1 and the meet date (typically the last week of July).

USA Sailfish

USA swimmers should compare their times to the time standards listed to see where they stand and where they need to improve to make these meets. This year New England swimming has listed time cuts for the short course championships in SCY (yards), SCM (25m) and LCM (50m) and the times can be used from any USA or USA observed meet. Remember to look at the age group the swimmer will be at the time of these meets.