{"id":6155,"date":"2016-09-06T14:42:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2016-09-06T14:42:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:42:05","slug":"entries-open-for-the-asa-national-masters-championships-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/entries-open-for-the-asa-national-masters-championships-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries Open for the ASA National Masters Championships 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bgC0gXJ4Ik\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimming.org\/masters\/entries-open-asa-national-masters-championships-2016\/\">Draft Programme released for the ASA National Masters Championships 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Draft Programme released for the ASA National Masters Championships 2016&#8221; &#8212; Masters Swimming Hub\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swimming.org\/masters\/entries-open-asa-national-masters-championships-2016\/embed\/#?secret=bgC0gXJ4Ik\" data-secret=\"bgC0gXJ4Ik\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ASA National Masters Championships 2016\u00a0takes place at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre between the 28 \u2013 30 October.<\/p>\n<div class=\"site-container\">\n<div class=\"group site-content\">\n<div class=\"column main\">\n<div class=\"group\">\n<div class=\"column primary\">\n<div class=\"group post-content\">\n<p>The championships are highly anticipated every year and one of the highlights of the Masters swimming calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Individual entries are now open and will close on Friday 30 September at 12 noon. Once a session is full, entries for these events will close. Make sure you get your entries in soon so you don\u2019t miss\u00a0out on your place. This includes swimmers who are only entering relay events.<\/p>\n<p>Relay entries will be open until Wednesday 5 October at 12 noon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo\">You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimming.org\/library\/documents\/1693\/download\">download the entry pack for the ASA National Masters Championships 2016 here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<h2>New format for ASA Masters Entries<\/h2>\n<p>As the event has got more popular, the Masters Working Group have decided to change the event format slightly to keep it manageable. From\u00a02017 there will be qualifying times which swimmers must meet in order to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of the Masters Working Group, Verity Dobbie, said: \u201cWe listened\u00a0to the ASA Masters members\u2019 views and took\u00a0on board suggestions. As a result, we realised this event is no longer a participation event. It is the pinnacle of the annual Masters calendar which\u00a0many swimmers aspire to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe considered all of the options and\u00a0concluded that swimmers can enter until the event is full in 2016. As of next year (2017), we will be introducing qualifying times for all events.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis will mean swimmers need to have a time on British Rankings within two years of the closing date of the competition for 2017.\u201d \u2013 Verity Dobbie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ASA will release qualifying times soon. This will allow swimmers to judge how close they are to these times at the 2016 event. Swimmers should plan for achieving their qualifying times ahead of the ASA National Masters Championships 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft Programme released for the ASA National Masters Championships 2016 The ASA National Masters Championships 2016\u00a0takes place at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre between the 28 \u2013 30 October. The championships are highly anticipated every year and one of the highlights of the Masters swimming calendar. Individual entries are now open and will close on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/entries-open-for-the-asa-national-masters-championships-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Entries Open for the ASA National Masters Championships 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}