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Ripples St Marys Swimming Club Inc.
AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR EXCELLENCE PROGRAM
HISTORY OF THE PROGRAM
The Junior Excellence Program was established in 2007 to recognise, reward and incentivise junior swimmers who are on part of their swimming journey, learning and refining as they develop into senior swimmers. Each year Swimming Australia releases the JX criteria and standards for the forthcoming season which swimmers, parents and coaches can use as targets throughout the year.
Swimmers aged from 9 to 13 years, who accomplish times set by Swimming Australia, qualify at gold, silver, bronze or blue standard, depending on their best performance/s during the season.
All ‘approved’ swim meet results are loaded into the Swimming Australia’s Swim Central and used as results towards an overall award for each individual swimmer.
At the end of the qualification period, Swimming Australia will publish the JX results on the website.
Australian JX 2022-2023 Criteria and Qualifying Times
The 2022-23 Australian JX program recognises performances from 1 May 2022 to 30 April 2023. Australian JX automatically recognises swimmers aged 9-13 years with gold, silver, bronze or blue standard, based on their best performance/s correlating to the times set by Swimming Australia. To qualify for the program, swimmers need to be a member of an Australian swimming club and achieve a qualifying time at an approved meet.
To enquire further whether an event is an approved meet please contact your State/Territory office or visit the relevant competition flyer for more details. If your child has a birthday within the JX season, they will be recognised with their highest standard achieved in one age bracket – not both. Furthermore, lead off times will not be recognised in the program, only individual swims will qualify.
9-10 Year-olds
Gold Standard - At least 1 Tier 1 time in any of the specified events
Silver Standard – At least 1 Tier 2 time in any of the specified events
Bronze Standard – At least 1 Tier 3 time in any of the specified events
Blue Standard – At least 1 Tier 4 time in any of the specified events
11-13 Year-olds
Gold Standard - At least 1 Tier 1 time in two or more of the specified events
Silver Standard - At least 1 Tier 1 or Tier 2 time in one or more of the specified events
Bronze Standard - At least 1 Tier 3 time in one or more of the specified events
Blue Standard - At least 1 Tier 4 time in one or more of the specified events
NOTE: 9-10 year-old times will be recognised from both short course and long course events. 11-13 year old times will be recognised from long course events only.
MUTI-CLASS SWIMMERS
The Australian JX Multi-Class The Australian JX multi-class recognition will be determined using the Multi-Class Point Score (MCPS) system. The MCPS is based on the world record (WR) times for each classification and will be updated annually. The WR is allocated 1000 points with times above and below awarded a point score incrementally. Swimming must hold a current classification to be eligible for JX recognition.
9-10 Year-olds
Gold Standard – At least 1 Tier 1 MCPS time in any of the specified events
Silver Standard – At least 1 Tier 2 MCPS time in any of the specified events
Bronze Standard – At least 1 Tier 3 MCPS time in any of the specified events
Blue Standard – At least 1 Tier 4 MCPS time in any of the specified events
11-13 Year-olds
Gold Standard - At least 1 Tier 1 MCPS time in two or more of the specified events
Silver Standard - At least 1 Tier 1 or Tier 2 MCPS time in any of the specified events
Bronze Standard - At least 1 Tier 3 MCPS time in any of the specified events
Blue Standard - At least 1 Tier 4 MCPS time in any of the specified events
NOTE: 9-10 year-old times will be recognised from both short course and long course events in both multi-class and able bodied competitions. 11-13 year-old times will be recognised from long course events only, in both multi-class and able bodied competition.