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Casey Seals Masters Swimming Club
Masters and Open Water Swimming
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Casey Seals Open Water Swim Award
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
These are the progressive points for the 2024-25 season as at 7 April:
| Place | Name | Points | Scored Swims | Total Swims | 2025 Member? |
| 1 | Lara Muttiah | 116.0 | 4 | 10 | Yes |
| 2 | Aurel Wachter | 108.6 | 4 | 6 | Yes |
| 3 | Greg Chaplin | 99.0 | 4 | 4 | Yes |
| 4 | Kathy Cook | 63.8 | 3 | 3 | Not yet |
| 5 | Nicole Dainton | 44.8 | 2 | 2 | Not yet |
| 6 | Anuraag Roy | 30.7 | 2 | 2 | Not yet |
| 7 | Gemma Harriss | 27.5 | 2 | 2 | Not yet |
| 8 | Lee Robinson | 26.4 | 2 | 2 | Yes |
| 9 | Bryce Smith | 24.0 | 1 | 1 | Yes |
| 10 | Geoff Pryde | 19.8 | 1 | 1 | Yes |
The progressive points for the season are in this PDF document.
Details of individual swims
The progressive points are taken from this. Please check your recorded swims and let me know if there are any swims missing or are incorrect.
Details of all the swims recorded so far this season as at 7 April are in this PDF document.
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
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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
- Listing of all Victorian Open Water Swim events
- Map of the locations of all Victorian Open Water Swim events
- Victorian Open Water Swim events calendar
- Open Water Swim training squads, groups and events
- Bay, Beach and Ocean conditions
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