Deniliquin Swim Club members have been hard at it in training and preparation for the club's first event for the new year.
Taking place on Saturday, January 11, the long course meet will see competitors from a number of swim clubs from surrounding towns.
Entries for the event can be made on Swim Central and close tomorrow.
There will be events for all strokes - freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly - and individual medleys.
Age groups for each event will include eight years old and under, nine years old, 10 and 11 years old, 12 and 13 years old, 14 and 15 years old, and over 15s.
Competitors should register with the age they will be on the day to be placed in their correct age group.
An entry fee of $8.50 for these age group events is to be paid upon registering.
Deniliquin Swim Club’s meet will also have all-age ‘tolerance’ events, which are run as encouragement events across all strokes and age groups.
Those eight and under registering and competing in any of the 50m events may not swim in the all-age ‘tolerance’ events.
Medals will be given out to the first, second and third place getters, while encouragement awards will be given to those swimming in the ‘tolerance’ events.
The day will kick off at with a warm-up time from 11am through to 12pm, after which the competition will officially get started.
Deniliquin Swim Club president Chris Butcher said the club is excited to be hosting the region’s first meet of the year.
“We get about 100 swimmers coming to compete from all over the Riverina and Northern Victoria, which usually makes about 300 people in total,” he said.
“We will have just over 40 from our club compete on the day.
“In the 8-11 years age bracket we have some really strong numbers.
“Being a registered Southern Inland Swimming Association event means that swimmers can get a qualifying time for other events at regional and state level.”
Swim Club has a strong association in Deniliquin, with this year marking the 140th year of competitive swimming in Deniliquin.
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