Colorado All Stars Team
Making the Colorado All Stars Team in January each year will allow the swimmer to travel to represent the state at an elite regional meet. The Colorado All-Star Team is selected using a high point system for Colorado swimmers 14 & Under in the following age categories: 10 & Under, 11-12 and 13-14. Using the USA Swimming database, top times are obtained for each gender and age category for only the events swum at the Midwest All-Star meet. In addition, only times achieved between the start of the 2023-2024 Short Course season and the completion of the CSI Pioneer Open meet are eligible for All-Star consideration. Swimmers will be considered in the age category in which they fall based on their age at the first day of the Midwest All-Star meet; January 6, 2024. The overall top 10 swimmers in each gender and age category will be selected to the Colorado All Star team.
Colorado Zones Team
Making the Colorado Zones team at the end of the summer will allow a swimmer to travel with the Colorado team to compete representing Colorado Swimming against the other state's teams in the western section of the United States. As per meet guidelines, Team Colorado is allowed 400 individual events of which no more than 160 entries may be slower than the qualifying standards set by the Western Zone. In addition, swimmers are restricted to a max of six (6) individual events.Coaches select events based on maximizing the performance of the overall team and working within the aforementioned Western Zone entry limits. It is important to understand that making the qualification standards qualify you to be on Team Colorado and are not a guarantee of the events an athlete will swim at the meet. The coaches will choose the individual and relay events for each swimmer. That being said, swimmers will be entered in events in which they are qualified first based on team dynamics, and then non-qualifying swims may be entered, while still staying within the entry limit. Swimmers preference, which you can include on Team Colorado Application in the Other Information section, is referenced in case we enter swimmers into non-qualifying events, however, swimmers may be entered in events they did not select. There is no guarantee a swimmer will have the opportunity to swim a non-qualified event. Additionally, there is no guarantee as to the number of individual events a swimmer will be entered. While the goal is for each swimmer to have the most individual events possible, there is a chance some swimmers will have 3 or 4 individual events.
