The draft competition calendar has been completed and posted to the Swim BC website for the 3-year period 2021-22 through 2023-24 Seasons. The meet dates for next season are summarized below for your convenience:
2021-22 Swim BC Meets
Winter Divisionals – February 25 – 27, 2022
Winter Provincial Championships - March 10 – 13, 2022
Summer Divisionals – June 24 – 26, 2022
Summer Provincial Championships - July 14 – 17, 2022
Open Water Championships – July 18, 2022
Once all locations have been confirmed, we will send an update out to the membership and update the website. For more information, visit our website.
Last week the Provincial Government announced their Restart Plan, which includes the next steps for Sport. At the beginning of this week, viaSport released their Return to Sport Restart 2.0 chart. Swim BC has adapted that chart to reflect how the current Return to Sport plan affects Swimming. You can view it here. We are currently in Step 1 of Restart 2.0 and will update the chart as we get more detailed information. The earliest we will move into Step 2 will be June 15th. Similar to previous announcements we likely won’t have more details until that date. This is really encouraging news and we should see sport restrictions lifting over the summer. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Swim BC.
Challenge Set #4 results are now available! Swimmers have been working incredibly hard on these Challenge Sets and it has been really fun to see our membership engage with this program. As in previous weeks, the top 5 swimmers for each age group are listed below. Full results are available here and on the Results page. We also have an interactive version if the results available.
Full cumulative results here.
Women 2008 & Younger
New Provincial Record!
Big congrats to Leilani Fack of LOSC for breaking two provincial records! She is the new provincial record holder for the Women 13-14 SCM 50m Free with a time of 25.56 beating the previous record set in 2017 by Jessica Luo of UVPCS. She also broke the Women 13-14 SCM 100m Free record with a time of 55.96 which had previously been set by Alexandra Gabor of Whitehorse in 2007! Both records were set on May 22nd during the Spartan CSI Pacific Athletes Meet.
Sincere congratulations on your hard-earned success.
As I’m sure you’re aware, BC received some very good news yesterday as the Provincial Government announced a 4-step plan focused on safely getting life in BC back to normal – BC’S RESTART: A PLAN TO BRING US BACK TOGETHER.
Club Boards, coaches, parents, and swimmers are likely wondering how this will impact your swimming world immediately, and into the near future. After yesterday’s announcements by Premier Horgan and Dr. Henry, viaSport called a meeting for all sports to relate what they were aware of, and what their next steps look like. Here’s what we know:
Step 1
Between May 26 and June 14 there is NO change to the way we’ve been conducting our sport INDOORS.
Effective immediately outdoor sport can remove physical distancing requirements and conduct training as normal. For swimming, this means full, “normal” practices can occur in outdoor pools. This is within your club only, no club collaboration. There is no cohort limitation.
Time trials can be held in outdoor pools, with no spectators. If you have access to an outdoor pool, you can host a sanctioned time-trial with minimal officials and no spectators. Again, this is for in-club activity only, no external clubs.
Adult sport (Masters) is permitted to train outdoors, as described above. There is no change for indoor-pool training, it is limited to two persons maximum; 3m physical distancing; individuals 22 years of age and over.
Travel is permitted within the current ‘merged’ health region only. CSI-Pacific / Swim BC designated High Performance swimmers are permitted to train and compete within their current ‘merged’ health region. Swimming Canada carded swimmers are permitted to travel for competition and training throughout the province – they are considered “employed” and are permitted to travel for work.
Indoor masks requirements have not changed
Step 2
Earliest start date June 15 pending case counts, hospitalization, and vaccination rates.
Current information suggests a progressive return to standard training for both youth sport and adult sport (Masters)
We expect viaSport will release guidance in the next week or so on how we will be able to progress indoor training opportunities and begin to sanction intra-club time trials again.
Step 3
Earliest start date July 1 pending case counts, hospitalization, and vaccination rates.
According to information currently available, we anticipate a return to inter-club competition with limited spectators.
Step 4
Earliest start date September 7 pending case counts, hospitalization, and vaccination rates.
According to information currently available, we anticipate a return to normal competition with updated COVID Safety Plans in place.
Swim BC is now anticipating we will be able to host an in-person BC Swimming Congress Sept 30, Oct 1, 2 in Whistler. The Congress will feature the Team Aquatic Supplies BC Swim Coaches Conference; Club Development Series; Officials Symposium; Swim BC Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet; and the Swim BC AGM. Clearly a lot must happen between now and then, we will keep the membership updated regularly.
Challenge Set #3 has wrapped up and the results are now available! We have half way done the Challenge Set Initiative, which means it’s time to award the interim awards. The top 3 performances in each age group category and the top 1 for varsity & para will receive $50 gift certificates from both Team Aquatic Supplies and Racetek. We are only half done, so keep up the hard work as there are more awards to win.
All the interim award winners are listed below. These swimmers will receive their awards at the end of the Challenge Set Initiative in June. Full results are available on our Results page.
Women 2008 & Younger
