Washington State Senior Games
Swimming
Date:
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Time:
8:30 am - Warm-up
9:30 am - Competition begins (Event Schedule)
9:30 am - Competition begins (Event Schedule)
Venue:
Commissioner:
Henry Valz
henryvalz@yahoo.com
henryvalz@yahoo.com
Events:
(All distances shown in yards)
- Backstroke - 25, 50, 100, 200
- Breaststroke - 25, 50, 100, 200
- Butterfly - 25, 50, 100, 200
- Freestyle - 25, 50, 100, 200, 500
- Individual Medley - 100, 200, 400 (deck entries allowed for the 400 IM)
- Relays - 200 Freestyle, 100 Medley
Fees:
- Registration fee: $35 ($25 if postmarked by May 20)
- Event fee: $10 per event
- More information on fee details
Registration Rules:
- No on-site registration is authorized.
- Participants may enter a maximum of 9 events, not including relays.
- Swimmer's age division for competition will be determined by their age as of December 31, 2025.
- Swimmers must provide their own suits, caps, goggles, towels, etc.
- If available, please indicate seed times on your application form. If none are available, seeding will be by age group, oldest to youngest and slow to fast.
Facility:
- 25 yard, 6-lane competition pool with starting blocks; electronic timing; 81.5 degrees F.
- A separate warm-up pool is available.
Rules:
- No diving is allowed during warm-ups except when announced by an official and only in designated sprint lanes.
- No equipment, i.e. fins, paddles, etc., will be allowed at any time.
- Participants may start in the pool, dive from the deck, or from the blocks.
- The meet will be conducted in accordance with the USMS rules as modified by the National Senior Games Association (NSGA) rules of competition.
Format:
- Warm-up time is from 8:30 am to 9:20 am. There will be a mid-meet break and additional warm-up and cool-down time.
- The 500 yd. freestyle requires an on-deck positive check-in by 9:00 am.
- The breaststroke and butterfly turns must be done with both hands touching the wall simultaneously.
- The order of strokes in the individual medley is: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
- For all events except the 500 yard freestyle, women will swim first, by age division, then men, by age division.
Relays:
- Relays will be deck seeded.
- Relays will be organized at poolside from names taken from the registration form. If there are insufficient registrants, volunteers will be solicited.
- Relays will have aggregate age groups of the combined ages of the relay members (i.e., 200-223, 224-247, etc.).
- The mixed relay requires two men and two women.
Refreshments:
- Water and fruit snacks will be provided for athletes.
- Other snack items will be available for sale to all.
| Swimming Events - Sunday, July 20 | |
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| 8:30 am to 9:20 am | Warm-up |
| 9:30 am | 500 yd Freestyle |
| 20 minute cool-down, warm-up | |
| Remaining events are listed in the order they will be held. |
100 yd Breaststroke 25 yd Butterfly 200 yd Freestyle 25 yd Backstroke 200 yd Freestyle Relay (mixed) 50 yd Freestyle 200 yd Individual Medley 50 yd Breaststroke 200 yd Backstroke 100 yd Freestyle |
| 20 minute break | |
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400 yd IM (deck entries allowed) 100 yd Medley Relay (mixed) 100 yd Butterfly 25 yd Breaststroke 50 yd Butterfly 100 yd Backstroke 200 yd Breaststroke 100 yd Individual Medley 25 yd Freestyle 50 yd Backstroke 200 yd Butterfly |
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