ABW Dec 2017
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males and females and there will be special<br />
awards for all female teams.<br />
Current inquiries from parents and kids are<br />
increasing, which is a great sign of the junior<br />
ranks increasing, starting from only 4 in 2012,<br />
it is expected to see a minimum of 40 kids<br />
compete in this year’s<br />
event, due to the growth<br />
of interest there will this<br />
year be introduced new age<br />
classes and separate events<br />
for boys and girls, age<br />
categories will be category<br />
1, for 8, 9 and 10 year olds<br />
and category 2 for 11, 12<br />
and 13 year olds, these will<br />
all be individual events,<br />
the 14 and 15 year olds will compete in Team<br />
events and the teams will be mix of 1 female<br />
and 1 male, this it to encourage more females<br />
into the sport and to make the competition as<br />
close as possible.<br />
The program expanded to<br />
assist some 400 children<br />
in basic water safety, with<br />
the major goal to be able<br />
to teach them to “float”.<br />
This year will also see the introduction of a<br />
junior novice category for kids below 8 as there<br />
are inquiries for this, which may well lead to<br />
Zambales following the Australian format of<br />
the juniors being from 5 to 16 rather than the<br />
current 8 to 16.<br />
Events will be run over 2<br />
days and at this point it is<br />
anticipated that there will<br />
be 7 events for seniors and<br />
5 events for the juniors, for<br />
safety, events will be run in<br />
heats, all of which will be<br />
timed and results based on<br />
the fastest times, so it is<br />
envisioned that in all a total<br />
of some 45 plus heats over<br />
the 2 days, so there will be plenty of action for<br />
spectators.<br />
Overall winners will be decided on a points<br />
system based on their overall placing in each<br />
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