Selection Criteria
The County Development Pathway to be delivered by Kent Swimming will be 12 years as at the end of the first year of each annual cycle - so for 2026/27 swimmers will be 12 as at 31 December 2026.
For 2026/27 we select 42 swimmers. Swim England have the option of nominating para swimmers so if this occurs the overall number of other swimmers may be reduced if a swimmer drops out following initial selection or if none we will increase the overall numbers as we do not want to prejudice those who were initially eligible to be selected.
Subject to that there will be 21 open/male and 21 female swimmers selected. In order to be fairer to those swimmers who were born later in the year (and subject to minimum standards based on FINA points) a minimum of 10 open/male swimmers and 10 female swimmers born on or after 1 July 2014 will be selected.
The selection will be based primarily on times for 200m Individual Medley Long Course and then Short Course rankings up to the end of the London and South East Regional Competitions. As mentioned above we reserve the right to draw a line based on FINA points below which we will not select swimmers without considering other swimmers who have higher points scores at first 200m form events and then 200m freestyle who may not be ranked in the 200IM rankings.
