Purpose
The Junior Festivals are 12 & under swimming events hosted in 4 zonal locations around the country across one weekend in 2025. The purpose of these meets is to provide 12 & unders a fun environment to participate and race, with the focus on achieving personal bests and “make every stroke count.”
Entry Information
Swimming New Zealand policies and the New Zealand swimming rules govern this competition. This meet is open to financial, registered (at the time of competition) Swimming New Zealand competitive and club swimmers and foreign swimmers registered with foreign World Aquatics affiliated swimming federations.
This meet is targeted toward the following regions: •
- Swimming Bay of Plenty
- Swimming Hawkes Bay Poverty Bay
- Swimming Taranaki
- Swimming Waikato
Qualification Criteria
Age as at 28 February 2026. Swimmers must be 12 years and under as of this date to be eligible for this meet.
The qualifying period is from 1 January 2025 – 16 February 2026.
