MASTERS SWIMMING

Overview

Pool Location:

Boston Sports Institute, 900 Worcester Street, Wellesley MA 02482.

Directions: Take Route 9 (east or west). There will be a stop light that will allow you access to the facility from either direction.

Fees:

Early Bird Entry Fee: $40 (until May 1)

Entry Fee: $50 (until June 1)

Late Entry Fee: $65

Entry Deadline: June 14

Eligibility: 

Athletes must also meet at least one of the criteria below:

• A full-time resident of Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut or, New York
• A full-time student of a Massachusetts academic institution
• A full-time member of a Massachusetts based swimming club 
• A registered member of New England Masters Swimming 
  

Age Groups:

Masters I: Ages 19 - 34

Masters II: Ages 35 - 49 

Masters III: Ages 50-64

Masters IV: Ages 65+ 

**Bay State Games reserves the right to combine divisions due to low registration numbers

All ages are as of June 23, 2024

Male and Female Divisions  

Format

Course 

• The meet will be in short course yards (SCY)
• The Boston Sports Institute Competition Pool is a 10-lane, 25-yard pool with seven-foot-wide lanes and non-turbulent lane lines. Attached to the main pool is a diving well area that is available for warm-up and warm-down, approximately 3 (25-yard) lanes. The finish end of the pool is 12.5 feet deep; the turn end of the pool is 7 feet deep.

Seeding Information

• The meet will be swum as timed finals. 
• All events will be swum mixed gender and slowest to fastest.
• All events will be seeded by time and not age groups.
• No events will swim with more than one swimmer per lane.
• A positive check in system will be used. Athletes must check in prior to each session 
• Seeds will be based on times supplied in registration

Rules

• No membership to any swim organization is required 
• USMS rules will apply at the meet
• USA Swimming officials will be used at all sessions
  

US Masters Swimming

Recognized by New England Masters LMSC on behalf of USMS

The length of the competition course is on file with USMS. Eligibility of times achieved in this meet will be contingent upon pool length measurement and approval with USMS; if bulkheads are present, their placement must also be confirmed by measurements at the meet (USMS articles 105.1.7 and 106.2.1). 

Times are eligible for USMS Top 10 and USMS National records, but not FINA Records.

This meet will use automatic timing.

Sanctioned/Recognized by the New England LMSC for USMS, Inc.

Sanction/Recognition Number is 024-R003

Events

Entry Information:

• Athletes may enter a maximum of six (6) event
• All participants are asked to provide events and seed times (in SCY) on their registration form
• Athletes registering online should have their event and seed time information ready before they log on to register
• All events are swum mixed age and mixed gender. Results are separated by age and gender.

Schedule

Saturday, June 22:

Warm up: 5:30 p.m.

Meet Start: 6:15 p.m.

400 IM   

200 FR   

AWARDS

100 BR   

AWARDS

50 BK 

200 BK

AWARDS

100 FL   

AWARDS

50 FR   

500 FR   

AWARDS

Sunday, June 23:

Warm up: 4:00 p.m.

Meet Start: 4:45 p.m.

50 FL 

200 FL   

100 BK   

AWARDS

200 IM   

AWARDS

100 FR   

AWARDS

50 BR   

200 BR   

100 IM   

1000 FR   

AWARDS