Pinole Home Meet Registration, Battle of the Ages Registration!!!

Benicia Stingrays

GREAT job at Time Trials team!  It was fun to see the littlest Stingrays be so brave and swim their races!  And it was great getting the older kids back in the water!  Thank you to all of our families, new and old, for stepping up to volunteer!   Thank you to our adult coaching staff for running such a smooth meet and getting us back into competition mode!!!  And a special thank you to our junior coaches--it is not easy racing and then IMMEDIATELY running around the pool to help with the littles, and they did it for every single race!  

 

Pinole Home Meet Registration 

  • The deadline to register for the Pinole Home Meet, on Saturday, May 31st, is Saturday, May 24th.  Don't forget to register.  Deadlines are firm, and we will not allow late adds as we did for Time Trials.  

 

Battle of the Ages Registration Opens Tomorrow!!

It's hard to believe we are registering for Battle already, but here we are!  This is one of the best and fastest meets of the season!  It is a longer meet that takes place over the entire weekend.  Many of our swimmers will earn their first County Qualifying Times of the season here.  Meets like Battle are where families and swimmers make lifelong friends as they celebrate their victories and endure the long and usually hot weekend!  It is a complete blast!!!   

 

What is Battle of the Ages?  

  • 2-day Saturday-Sunday Invitational Meet open to Stingrays between 5-18 year of age (no 4-year-olds)
  • There will be about 20 teams in attendance.
  • Unique meet in that swimmers compete only against swimmers of their same age (so a 13-year-old swimmer only swims against 13-year-old swimmers, not 13 AND 14-year-old swimmers)
  • You and your child pick which events your child will swim in
  • ALL participating families must fulfill a volunteer shift (including board members, core volunteers, and those who have bought out of their volunteer requirement).  This does NOT fulfill one of your 4 meet volunteer jobs for the season.  
  • If your swimmer wants to get faster, swimming against fast kids at invitationals is how it happens!!!

 

Date

  • Saturday, June 28th - Sunday, June 29th, 2025
  • Meet starts at 9:00 am both days and ends at approximately 3:00 pm

 

Location

  • ​College Park High School,  201 Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
  • Note, that we are back at the 2023 location, which is different from the 2024 location of Pleasant Hill Middle School

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Entry Fees

  • $35 per swimmer​
  • This is a flat fee per swimmer, and each swimmer may select a maximum of 4 events to participate in over the two days; you pick if your swimmer participates in one or two days
  • PLUS $30 per adult volunteer in your family (more information below)

 

Registration 

  • Registration opens on Monday, May 19th
  • Registration closes on Monday, June 9th.  Late registrations cannot be accepted
  • Registration forms can be printed and turned in at the pool.   If you do not have a printer, a few printed hard copies will be available at the pool on the Family Folder Cart.  Please only take these if you don't have a printer.  
  • Fill out one registration form per family and turn it into the black mailbox attached to the Family Folder Cart.  
  • Payment
    • Attach a check made payable to Benicia Stingrays (note "Battle of the Ages" AND swimmer's first and last name in the check note), place it in an envelope, and turn it in with the registration form 
    • OR pay electronically via Zelle 
      • Name = treasurer@bsrswim.org
      • ​Note in memo:  "Battle of the Ages" and "Swimmer's Name"
      • If paying via Zelle, do NOT submit your reg form unless you have already paid via Zelle.  

 

Volunteer Assignments

  • ALL families will be assigned a volunteer shift. The job assignment will be emailed to you closer to the event date.  
  • EVERY adult who volunteers MUST pass a background check (you must repeat the background check this year, even if you were checked for last year's Battle or were recently checked through a different organization).  This is dictated by the insurance that Pleasant Hill requires for this meet, and is not because of a Stingray requirement or issue.  
  • If you register your swimmer to participate, it will cost you $30 for the background check.  Please include this $30 with your registration payment.  Results of your background check will be kept confidential.  If you plan to split your shift with another adult in the family, both adults will need to be background checked, and it will cost $60 for both of you to get background checks.  
  • Details on the background check will be emailed to Battle Families shortly.  It should be straightforward and does not require fingerprint scans, etc.  
  • If you elect not to participate in the background check so that you can not volunteer, fail the background check so that you can not volunteer, or no-show on your assigned volunteer shift, the credit card on file will be billed $150.