Coaching Resources

Swim BC and Swim Alberta have come together to create a friendly rivalry to develop spirit, story, and a rallying cry to inspire and motivate coaches and swimmers to improve their butterfly development. Every time you put energy into developing butterfly swimming you are contributing to the success of Swim BC.

INFORMATION

The challenge is open to all fully registered swimmers in the competitive category in their respective provinces. Paralympic swimmers must have a Level 2 classification. Olympic Events include the 50m, 100m and 200m Butterfly. Paralympic Events include S1 – S7 50m Butterfly & S8 – S14 100m Butterfly.

There are two ways to have swims posted in the Goldin Flipper Challenge.

1. Sanctioned Meets – All butterfly swims done at any sanctioned meet will be automatically included. This can be a time trial, dual. meet, or any other competition. If the results show in the RTR Rankings they will be added with no further action required.
2. Unsanctioned Swims – In-house swims that are timed and recorded by the coach can be included in the same manner as the Officially Unofficial Rankings that were conducted last spring. These swims need to be submitted via the Hytek File and uploaded to the RTR.

Additional information:

• Announcement
• Golden Flipper – Butterfly Challenge
• Hytek File for In-house – Unsanctioned Swims

RANKINGS & SCORES

The Results and Provincial Scores will be updated at the end of each month. Good luck swimmers and coaches.

CAMPAIGNS

The Golden Flipper Butterfly Challenge is proudly supported by Team Aquatic Supplies and Speedo.

We are pleased to announce the following Golden Flipper Butterfly Challenge campaigns, designed to support the continued development of butterfly swimming and to recognize the performances of our swimmers, coaches, and clubs.

The following campaigns are being run to support our ongoing development of butterfly swimming during the 2021-22 Season. A pdf version is available for your convenience.

• Top BC Butterfly Swim Club October 2021 – June 2022
• Top Performer Prizes January – May 2022
• Performance Participation Prizes January – April 2022
• Butterfly Seminar for Swim Coaches April 28, 2022
• Kick + Swim + Kick Participation Challenge April – May 2022
• Pre-Competitive Swimmer Participation Challenge May – June 2022

Top BC Butterfly Swim Club

A small team banner will be awarded to the top BC Butterfly Club. The award will be based on team points earned during the Butterfly Challenge.

Top Performer Prizes

The top performer prizes are sponsored by Team Aquatic Supplies and Speedo and are based on LCM performances between January 1, 2022 and May 1, 2022. The top women and men in each of the following categories (Year of Birth 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, Open, and Para) will be awarded a $ 50.00 Team Aquatic Supplies online store purchase voucher for Speedo products. The award is open to swimmers from BC and Alberta.

Performance Participation Prizes

The participation prizes are sponsored by Team Aquatic Supplies and Speedo and are based on LCM performances between January 1, 2022 and May 1, 2022. Thirty-six random draws of all scoring swims will be awarded a $ 25.00 Team Aquatic Supplies online store purchase voucher for Speedo products. The award is open to swimmers from BC and Alberta.

Butterfly Seminar for Coaches

Swim Alberta and Swim BC will be collaboratively hosting a 2-hour coach seminar on Butterfly development (2 PD Points will be awarded). There will be a total of 20 coaches, 10 from each BC and Alberta. The session will include discussions on stroke development, set development, and race strategies. Each participating coach will submit a training set, which will be correlated into a catalog.

The session will run by Zoom on Thursday, April 28^th from 10:00 – 12:00 pm PST.

The application deadline is March 31, 2022 via the online application form. Coach applications will be evaluated with the following criteria: Participation (club’s number of butterfly swims per registered competitive swimmer) and Gender (top 5 women and top 5 men). Priority will be given to coaches who are not on the Swimming Canada Select or Advance coaching group.

Kick + Swim + Kick Participation Challenge                               

Random awards will be issued to swimmers who participate in the Kick + Swim + Kick Participation Challenge. Participating clubs will submit times for their eligible swimmers for a 150m as 50 Dolphin Kick + 50 Butterfly Swim + 50 Dolphin Kick. The results will be complied, and random participation awards will be selected.

Swimmers must be registered in a competitive category to be eligible for this initiative. The contest is open April 1 through May 31, 2022.

Pre-Competitive Swimmer Participation Challenge       

Random awards will be issued to swimmers who participate in the Pre-competitive Swimmer Participation Challenge. Participating clubs will submit a skills checklist for their eligible swimmers. The results will be complied, and random participation awards will be selected.

Swimmers must be registered in a pre-competitive category to be eligible for this initiative. The contest is open May 1 through June 30, 2022.

Given last season’s competitive calendar was cut short, we have made a number of one-time changes to the program. This year’s grant allocations are based on the following distributions, taking into consideration Club Grant eligible performances from 2018-19 and 2019-20.

• 40% ($ 42,000) – based on 2019-20 Grant
• 15% ($ 15,750) – based on 2019-20 BC ID Teams
• 15% ($ 15,750) – based on 2020 Winter BC Provincial Championships
• 15% ($ 15,750) – based 2019-20 International Competitions (Euro 2020 Meet)
• 15% ($ 15,750) – based on 2019-20 National and Provincial Records

Total Club Grant funds for 2020-21 – $105,000

Club Grant funds are not allocated to a specific individual. They are intended to support clubs in continued development toward competitive performance outcomes. Please refer to the Swim BC Club Grant Information and the Swim BC Club Grant Criteria documents for further details. The list of Club Grant recipients can be found here.

The opportunity to use eligible expenses for COVID stimulated costs (ie/ pool time and coaching salaries) as was permitted after March of last year, will be assessed regularly by Swim BC. Should the opportunity to utilize Club Grant funds for “COVID-related expenses” occur, this will be communicated clearly to all programs. Please note that for now, only eligible expenses as per the Club Grant program are acceptable.