How are age group time standards organized in Pacific?
Let’s look at Pacific’s age group time standards, and then at the age group swim meet program in Pacific, to see how they’re set up. First, the time standards. Pacific has established age group time standards for the following age groups: 8/under, 10/under, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16, and 17-18 for individual events, and 15-18 for relays. The time standards are described below roughly from slowest to fastest. C, B, and A: age group swimming is where virtually all swimmers begin, and the B and A standards are the basic developmental and meet entry time standards used in Pacific’s age group program. B is the entry level standard (a C time is any time slower than the B time standard), and an A time is everyone’s first big goal. (Note: Pacific’s B and A time standards are not the same as the B and A National Age Group motivational time standards published by USA Swimming and used on its website to classify age group times. The abbreviations PC-B and PC-A are used for Pacific’s B and A standards.)
