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 Open Water Swim Award winner

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

Year

Winners & Placegetters

Points

Details

2010/11

1st	77.4 points	Sarah Byron
2nd	74.3 points	Greg Chaplin
3rd	66.2 points	Jason Hall

2009/10

1st	79.4 points	Ebony Ebenwaldner
2nd	60.4 points	Ann Gibbs (Hutchings)
3rd	57.5 points	Mal Winder

2008/09

1st	79.1 points	Ann Hutchings
2nd	72.4 points	Greg Chaplin
3rd	62.2 points	Malcolm Winder

2007/08

1st	78.4 points	Malcolm Winder
2nd	73.4 points	Shane Quirk
3rd	73.3 points	Cecilia Benedict

2006/07

1st	69.3 points	Ann Hutchings
2nd	67.1 points	Greg Chaplin
3rd	66.2 points	Peter Ebenwaldner

2005/06

1st	77.2 points	Dale Kendall
2nd	75.0 points	Ann Hutchings
3rd	73.1 points	Greg Chaplin

2004/05

1st	67.4 points	Allison Devine
2nd	57.6 points	Ebony Ebenwaldner (Currell)
3rd	56.5 points	Peter Ebenwaldner

2003/04

1st	97.9 points	Ebony Ebenwaldner (Currell)
2nd	84.3 points	Shelley Devine
3rd	82.4 points	John Fancett

2002/03

1st	104.7 points	Kelli Van de Water
2nd	96.4 points	Greg Chaplin
3rd	87.4 points	John Fancett

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