The Junior Competition dates will be from Saturday, October 8 to November 26, 2011 and from Saturday, January 28 to March 10, 2012. This allows 15 weeks of games with the semi-finals on Saturday, March 17 and finals on Saturday, March 24, 2012.
DRAWS
Draws will be circulated as soon as BWPI knows how many teams will be playing in each Grade. Please select the appropiate link to the left to view the most recent draw information.
JUNIOR GIRLS
Junior Girls’ compete in the following divisions - U13 A / B / C, U14 A / B / C, U15 A / B / C, U16 A / B / C and U18 A / B / C. For U13, girls must be born in 1999 or later, U14 – 1998 or later, U15 – 1997 or later, U16 – 1996 or later and U18 – 1994 or later. Again this season, the girls’ games will be played at the Valley pool, St Rita’s pool and Somerville pool every Saturday. The plan is to use the same pool / Age Group Division allocation as last year:- U13C, U14C, U15C and U16C competitions at Somerville; U16B and U18B & C at St Ritas; All other Age Group Division competitions at the Valley. However, the final decision regarding which pool each Age Group Division will use will be made once final team numbers are known.
JUNIOR BOYS
Junior Boys play the following grades: U13, U14, U16 and U18. The age requirements for the divisions is - For U13, boys must be born in 1999 or later, U14 – 1998 or later, U16 – 1996 or later and U18 – 1994 or later. The competition will be conducted on Saturdays. All games in the boys’ competition will be played at the Musgrave Park pool.
DUTY CLUBS
Duty Clubs are assigned to each of the Junior venues every Saturday and, during their assigned times, have the responsibility of overseeing the running of the day’s competition - in particular, keeping the games running to time, ensuring there are table officials for each game and the Clubs provide referees as per the program. The Duty Club is expected to have at least one Club representative at the pool during its assigned time to ensure these duties are carried out.
The Duty Club is also required to supply two (2) referees for the first game of the day - the day must run to the programmed times and this can only happen if referees are present and, on time, for the first game.
Duty days are assigned on the basis of the number of teams a Club has competing at a particular venue for the season.
BWPI-appointed Pool Coordinators are at every Junior venue each Saturday to assist the Duty Clubs with their responsibilities.
TABLE OFFICIALS
For every Junior game, each of the competing Clubs is expected to provide a table official, either to score the card or operate the game clock. BWPI recommends that Clubs assign 3- 4 people per team who are willing to learn, become proficient at these table duties, and fulfil this role for their team for the season. The Pool Coordinators will assist with the training and on-going mentoring of these table officials. If Clubs roster different people for Table Duties each week, it requires hours of the Pool Coordinators’ time every week to teach these duties, and proficiency is never reached. In such cases, BWPI, through its Pool Coordinators, is actually performing the table duties each week for these Clubs.
REFEREES
BWPI requires that all referees officiating in the BWPI Junior competitions hold a current NOAS accreditation. Information on referee accreditation courses can be found on the Water Polo Qld website.From 2012-13 season, only those referees who hold a current accreditation will be permitted to officiate in the BWPI competitions.
All Junior games are programmed with two referees, with the two teams playing in one time slot each to provide a referee for the following game. All Clubs must remember - it is hardly fair, when your game has just been played with two qualified referees, to ignore your responsibility and fail to provide a suitable referee for the game that follows.
It is a Club’s responsibility to ensure that the referee it appoints to fulfil its refereeing duty is competent to referee the assigned level of game. Referees must be 16 years or older and a player/referee can only referee games in the Age Groups younger than that in which he/she plays.
Again this season a PENALTY will be imposed for the non supply of referees in the Junior competition. (For example - Brigidine is playing Barracudas in U14A - each team is then to supply a referee for the following game - if Brigidine fails to do so, their U14A team will be deducted 2 competition points.)
The BWPI Referee Coordinator will be overseeing the on-going assessment, mentoring and education of developing referees within the competition. Information Workshops will also be held during the season.
