Casey Seals Open Water Swim Award
The Casey Seals Open Water Swim Award for the summer open water swimming season is running again.
This is open to all club members. You don't have to register for the award - we check the results for each event listed in the Casey Seals Open Water Swim Calendar for all club members.
Visit the Membership page for more information about how to join and to download a brochure or membership form.
We retrieve your results from the open water swims listed in the Victorian OWS calendar and enter them into our points calculator. The progressive points will be displayed here during the season.
Kelli Van de Water (2003 winner) with the Open Water Swim trophy
How is it worked out?
We have developed our own formula that attempts to be as fair as possible across ages, gender and ability. It's not always the young gun swimmers that win.
Points are calculated for every open-water swim that you do during the season. Your 4 highest scoring swims plus 25% of all your other swims are added to get your total score.
The points for each swim are calculated as the total of 2 components:
1. Time
Your time is compared to the winner of your category:
Category winning time / Your time
2. Placing
Your category placing is compared to the number of entrants in your category:
1 - ( Your placing / No. entrants )
If you don't wear a wetsuit in a race where wetsuits are allowed, your points are increased by a "wetsuit factor". Top swimmers will be around 30 seconds per kilometre faster with a wetsuit, and up to 2 minutes for slower swimmers.
For more information about the award,
please view or download this PDF document.
You must be a club member
To participate in the OWS Award, you must be a registered club member.
All previous members must re-register by 1st February otherwise you will not get any points for swims that were done before you re-register.
New members will not get any points for swims done before joining (so you should join at the start of the summer swim season for maximum points).
Progressive points as at 5 February 2012
The progressive points for the season to date are in this PDF document.
Individual swims recorded upto 5 February 2012
Details of all the swims recorded so far this season are in this PDF document. The progressive points are taken from this.
Any questions about the award can be sent to Greg Chaplin at ows@caseyseals.com.au
Previous Casey Seals Open Water Swim Awards
Other useful Open Water Swimming pages
If you didn't find what you were looking for on this page, or would like to browse for more information about open water swimming or beach & water conditions, try these pages:
- Back to OWS home page
- Victorian Open Water Swim Calendar
- Open Water Swimming general websites
- OWS timing, registration and administration websites
- Websites of organisations running Open-Water Swims
- Bay, Beach and Ocean conditions