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Casey Seals Open Water Swim Award

Open Water Swim Award trophy

The Casey Seals Open Water Swim Award runs every year for open water swim events from 1 May to 30 April in the following year.

This is open to all club members.

If you're currently not a member but you'd like to participate, visit the Membership page for more information about how to join and to download a brochure about the club and Masters Swimming.

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.

We retrieve your results from the events listed in the Victorian OWS calendar and enter them into our points calculator. Any other events that you participate in can also be included if you send me the details of the event.

The progressive points will be displayed here during the season.

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.

How is it worked out?

Points are calculated for every open water swim event that you do during the season. This includes organised events that are not a race and are more of a social swim, but excludes regular training-style swims.

Points calculation

The points for each swim are 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 (most swims in Victoria allow wetsuits), your score is increased by a "non-wetsuit factor". With a wetsuit, top swimmers will be about 30 seconds per kilometre faster and upto 2 minutes for slower swimmers.

Total score

Your total score is calculated as:

  • your 4 highest scoring swims plus
  • 10% of the points for each of your other swims plus
  • 5 points for each open water swim event

More detailed information

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 before 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

The progressive points will be displayed in this PDF document. This will be updated regularly during the season.

Details of individual swims

Details of all the swims recorded for the season will be in this PDF document. The progressive points are taken from this.



Questions?

Any questions about the award can be sent to Greg Chaplin at ows@caseyseals.com.au (no unsolicited commercial emails please).


Previous Casey Seals Open Water Swim Awards

Year Winners & Placegetters Points Details
2024/25 (season in progress)    
2023/24
1st 123.5 points Greg Chaplin
2nd 65.5 points Jan Gooey
3rd 63.6 points Lara Muttiah
4th 61.2 points Nicole Dainton
5th 47.3 points Aurel Wachter
2023/24 Open Water Swim Award final points 2023/24 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2022/23
1st 102.1 points Greg Chaplin
2nd 82.6 points Aurel Wachter
3rd 57.1 points Sam McCurdy
4th 44.4 points Jan Gooey
5th 35.9 points Jess Rossi
2022/23 Open Water Swim Award final points 2022/23 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2021/22 (reduced season from COVID-19)
1st 81.4 points Greg Chaplin
2nd 73.1 points Aurel Wachter
3rd 31.5 points Jan Gooey
4th 19.8 points Ebony Ebenwaldner
5th 18.3 points Nicole Dainton
2021/22 Open Water Swim Award final points 2021/22 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2020/21 (reduced season from COVID-19)
1st 58.8 points Ebony Ebenwaldner
2nd 55.5 points Aurel Wachter
3rd 38.5 points Greg Chaplin
4th 27.0 points Jan Gooey
5th 16.5 points Nicole Dainton
2020/21 Open Water Swim Award final points 2020/21 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2019/20
1st 103.3 points Aurel Wachter
2nd 93.6 points Yolande van Oosten
3rd 86.3 points Greg Chaplin
4th 61.9 points Tracey Gottliebsen
5th 56.5 points Jan Gooey
2019/20 Open Water Swim Award final points 2019/20 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2018/19
1st 143.7 points Molly Thwaites
2nd 118.3 points Aurel Wachter
3rd 92.2 points Greg Chaplin
4th 79.5 points Yolande van Oosten
5th 77.2 points Gary Ullmann
2018/19 Open Water Swim Award final points 2018/19 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2017/18
1st 115.0 points Molly Thwaites
2nd 95.0 points Aurel Wachter
3rd 90.8 points Gary Ullmann
4th 88.4 points Ainslie Watson-Gillis
5th 75.6 points Greg Chaplin
2017/18 Open Water Swim Award final points 2017/18 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2016/17
1st 108.3 points Aurel Wachter
2nd 92.6 points Greg Chaplin
3rd 70.1 points Megan Gooey
4th 67.9 points Jan Gooey
5th 60.3 points Yolande Van Oosten
2016/17 Open Water Swim Award final points 2016/17 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2015/16
1st 112.8 points Aurel Wachter
2nd 92.9 points Sarah Byron
3rd 85.2 points Greg Chaplin
4th 81.2 points Ebony Ebenwaldner
5th 53.6 points Jan Gooey
2015/16 Open Water Swim Award final points 2015/16 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2014/15
1st 104.7 points Aurel Wachter
=2nd 92.5 points Sarah Byron
=2nd 92.5 points Ebony Ebenwaldner
4th 74.9 points Greg Chaplin
5th 68.2 points Jason Hall
2014/15 Open Water Swim Award final points 2014/15 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2013/14
1st 101.9 points Sarah Byron
2nd 79.3 points Oliver Hutt
3rd 78.4 points Greg Chaplin
4th 78.2 points Aurel Wachter
5th 68.9 points Jan Gooey
2013/14 Open Water Swim Award final points 2013/14 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2012/13
1st 94.2 points Greg Chaplin
2nd 91.1 points Jason Hall
3rd 77.4 points Sarah Byron
4th 74.0 points Susan Kempson
5th 61.4 points Catherine Kapoyanis
2012/13 Open Water Swim Award final points 2012/13 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2011/12
1st 112.5 points Ebony Ebenwaldner
2nd 90.3 points Greg Chaplin
3rd 81.4 points Sarah Byron
4th 72.8 points Susan Kempson
5th 68.4 points Jason Hall
(changed points per non-scored swim from 10% to 25%)
2011/12 Open Water Swim Award final points 2011/12 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2010/11
1st 77.4 points Sarah Byron
2nd 74.3 points Greg Chaplin
3rd 66.2 points Jason Hall
4th 63.6 points Shane Quirk
5th 63.1 points Susan Kempson
2010/11 Open Water Swim Award final points 2010/11 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2009/10
1st 79.4 points Ebony Ebenwaldner
2nd 60.4 points Ann Gibbs (Hutchings)
3rd 57.5 points Mal Winder
4th 55.5 points Peter Ebenwaldner
5th 53.3 points Jan Gooey
2009/10 Open Water Swim Award final points 2009/10 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2008/09
1st 79.1 points Ann Hutchings
2nd 72.4 points Greg Chaplin
3rd 62.2 points Malcolm Winder
4th 61.0 points Susan Kempson
5th 57.1 points Jan Gooey
(changed points calculations method to remove 1200m handicapping)
2008/09 Open Water Swim Award final points  2008/09 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations 
2007/08
1st 78.4 points Malcolm Winder
2nd 73.4 points Shane Quirk
3rd 73.3 points Cecilia Benedict
4th 72.2 points Andrew Hollas
5th 68.8 points Peter Ebenwaldner
2007/08 Open Water Swim Award final points 2007/08 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2006/07
1st 69.3 points Ann Hutchings
2nd 67.1 points Greg Chaplin
3rd 66.2 points Peter Ebenwaldner
4th 65.4 points Ebony Ebenwaldner
5th 24.0 points Darren Crockett
2006/07 Open Water Swim Award final points 2006/07 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2005/06
1st 77.2 points Dale Kendall
2nd 75.0 points Ann Hutchings
3rd 73.1 points Greg Chaplin
4th 71.6 points Peter Ebenwaldner
5th 68.4 points Danielle Mitchell
2005/06 Open Water Swim Award final points 2005/06 Open Water Swim Award individual swim details and calculations
2004/05
1st 67.4 points Allison Devine
2nd 57.6 points Ebony Ebenwaldner (Currell)
3rd 56.5 points Peter Ebenwaldner
4th 54.9 points Andrew Hollas
5th 54.8 points Michael Nation
2004/05 Open Water Swim Award final points  
2003/04
1st 97.9 points Ebony Ebenwaldner (Currell)
2nd 84.3 points Shelley Devine
3rd 82.4 points John Fancett
4th 60.1 points Nadia Trojan
5th 41.1 points Trevor Barnes
(changed points calculations method to include handicapping based on 1200m time-trial)
2003/04 Open Water Swim Award final points  
2002/03
1st 104.7 points Kelli Van de Water
2nd 96.4 points Greg Chaplin
3rd 87.4 points John Fancett
4th 81.2 points Andrew Hollas
5th 61.7 points Shelley Devine
2002/03 Open Water Swim Award final points  

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