How are Pacifics senior time standards and meet program arranged?
Pacific’s senior program is designed to provide Pacific’s older and faster athletes with the opportunity to swim the events offered at national championship meets, usually in a trials and finals format similar to national championships. Senior time standards, and senior competition, are not keyed to a swimmer’s age — for qualifying purposes, what matters are only the times the swimmer has achieved. Pacific’s and USA Swimming’s senior time standard categories follow, slowest to fastest: Junior: the entry-level standard for the senior program. To relate these standards to the age group standards described above, Junior times are generally comparable to the A times for 13-14 year-old swimmers. Junior Trials and Finals, Senior, Senior Trials and Finals: each level moves up a notch in terms of difficulty. As a point of reference, the Senior Trials and Finals time standard — the fastest of the senior time standards — roughly approximates the Far Western meet standard for the 13-14 and 15-
