Swim Groups

Swimmers may participate in individual main events for their own age group only. A swimmer’s age group is defined by his or her age on June 1 of the current TSA swim season. Swimmers do not change age groups during the TSA swim season. The age groups, distances, and strokes for individual main events shall be as follow, separately for boys’ events and girls’ events:

6 and under: 15 yards each of freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke.

7 and 8: 1 length of the pool each of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.

9 and 10: 1 length of the pool each of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.

11 and 12: 2 lengths of the pool each of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.

13 and 14: 2 lengths of the pool each of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.

15 through 18: 2 lengths of the pool each of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.