Time Standards

Understanding the times standards in USA and Minnesota Club Swimming is important, especially if you are new to the sport. The time standards are a tool meant to serve a couple of purposes:

• First is to rate and rank times. Achieving times is helpful in encouraging athletes to improve upon their times and achieve higher standards.
• Second, the time standards can be used to designate which athletes may participate within a certain meet.
• Third, time standards enable meet hosts to control the size of meets.

Many states in club swimming use USA Swimming National Age Group (NAG) Standards as the base for their own time standards. However, states typically devise a system of their own to help control the size of the championship meets (i.e.: State Meet Finals, ABC Finals, etc.). 

Minnesota Time Standards (2019-2020)

• Minnesota Short Course Yards (SCY) Time Standards (Effective 10/15/2019)

• Minnesota Long Course Meters (LCM) Time Standards (Effective 10/15/2019)

National Motivational Times

• 2017-2020 National Age Group Motivational Standards (Updated 9/30/16)

• 2020 Speedo Sectionals Maximum Time Standards

​National Meet Standards

• 2019 Toyota US Open - December 4-7, Atlanta, GA

• 2019 Winter Juniors - December 11-14, Federal Way, WA

• 2020 Spring Speedo Sectionals - March 12-15, Pleasant Prairie, WI

• 2020 NCSA Spring Juniors - March 17-21, Orlando, FL

• 2020 NCSA Age Group Championships - March 25-28, Orlando, FL

• 2020 Olympic Trials - June 21-28, Omaha, NE

• 2020 Summer Juniors - August 6-10, Stanford, CA

• 2020 Summer Speedo Sectionals - July 15-18, Minneapolis, MN

• 2020 Summer NCSA Juniors - July 28-August 1, Indy, IN

• 2020 Futures Championship - July 30-August 2, Fargo, ND