Boldmere’s BIG annual open meet – ‘The Open’ will be held at Stechford baths from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd November.

This is a first come first served meet, so we need to get the entries in early. £5.75 an event.

If you are unsure what to enter, please talk to your coach as soon as you can 🙂

http://www.boldmereswimmingclub.co.uk/b_open.php

There are qualifying times for this event – please see this document:

The Open 2014 Qualifying Times

Please send your entries in to Helen Pordage by the 1st October – thank you.

Session 1

Event No Gender Event
1 F 400m Individual Medley HDW
2 M 400m Individual Medley HDW Warm Up TBA
3 F 400m Freestyle HDW Start TBA
4 M 400m Freestyle HDW
Event No Gender Event
5 M 200m Individual Medley HDW

Session 2

6 F 100m Breastroke HDW Warm Up TBA
7 M 50m Fly HDW Start TBA
8 F 100M Backstroke HDW
9 M 200m Fly HDW
10 F 200m Freestyle HDW
11 M 50m Breastroke HDW
12 M 50 Skins Final
13 F 100m Freestyle Heats
14 M 200m Backstroke HDW

Session 3

15 F 200m Breastroke HDW Warm Up TBA
16 M 100m Fly HDW Start TBA
17 F 50m Backstroke HDW
18 M 50m Freestyle HDW
19 F 100m Freestyle 10 years Final
20 F 100m Freestyle 11 years Final
21 F 100m Freestyle 12 years Final
22 F 100m Freestyle 13 years Final
23 F 100m Freestyle 14 years Final
24 F 100m Freestyle 15+ years Final
Event No Gender Event
25 F 200m Individual Medley HDW

Session 4

26 M 100m Breastroke HDW Warm Up TBA
27 F 50m Fly HDW Start TBA
28 M 100M Backstroke HDW
29 F 200m Fly HDW
30 M 200m Freestyle HDW
31 F 50m Breastroke HDW
32 F 50 Skins Final
33 M 100m Freestyle Heats
34 F 200m Backstroke HDW

Session 5

35 M 200m Breastroke HDW Warm Up TBA
36 F 100m Fly HDW Start TBA
37 M 50m Backstroke HDW
38 F 50m Freestyle HDW
39 M 100m Freestyle 10 years Final
40 M 100m Freestyle 11 years Final
41 M 100m Freestyle 12 years Final
42 M 100m Freestyle 13 years Final
43 M 100m Freestyle 14 years Final
44 M 100m Freestyle 15+ years Final
Lunch TBA – Interval – 15 minutes – 9 year olds are not permitted to enter the 100m events – Lunch TBA

9 year olds are not permitted to enter the 100m events
Event Entry Time Event Entry Time
50m Freestyle 50m Breaststroke
100m Freestyle 100m Breaststroke
200m Freestyle 200m Breaststroke
400m Freestyle 50m Butterfly
50m Backstroke 100m Butterfly
100m Backstroke 200m Butterfly
200m Backstroke 200m Individual Medley
400 Individual Medley
Total No of Entries: @ £6.00 (paper entry) per Event – @ £5.75 (electronic entry) per Event £ 

The annual Birmingham SAG Water Festival will be held at Stechford Swimming baths on the morning of Sunday 19th October with the warm-up starting at 08:30. The gala will finish by 1:30pm. Beeches will be supporting this event once again, to give our younger swimmers the chance to swim in an organised event, many for the first time.

The format of the gala is like a standard ‘Open Meet’ and is intended for developing swimmers aged 8, 9 and 10 years who have little or no competitive experience. We need your help! The Water Festival is an ideal opportunity to volunteer to help at a gala in a friendly environment. So you can be a Chaperone, Marshall, Runner, Timekeeper…if you would like to offer your time to help support this event please leave a message via ‘contact us‘ on this site or leave your details at the desk at Beeches. Many thanks for your help and support.

The Birmingham Water Festival is a gala run by the Birmingham SAG – for children aged 8, 9 and 10 who have not done galas before. For 8’s this will be their first taste of the action – there are no cutoff times for 8 year olds. For 9’s and 10’s – this is for children who have not swum through the Diddy galas, or been to Open Meets.

Please let us know asap if you would like to be involved – bring your completed form back asap.

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Pictured – last years Beeches Canon from the Water festival – made up entirely of 8 year olds – they all did amazingly well.

2014 Water Festival: Upper Limit Cut off times (9&10 Yrs)

Swimmers who have achieved – or are capable of achieving the above times (or faster) – should not enter the 2014 Water Festival.

Any entries, with times that do not comply with this, will be rejected.

Any swimmer who swims faster than the cut off time will receive a speeding ticket, and will not be in the medal places.