Mar 5, 2021
Applications are now open for the Indigenous Youth Sport Legacy Fund. With the purpose of supporting high-performance Indigenous athletes pursuing excellence in sport, this grant covers expenses related to registration, coaching and equipment. Check out the guidelines and apply here.
Please distribute to any potential applicants within your program.
Mar 5, 2021
As March 8 approaches, we want to share six of the ways you can celebrate and acknowledge International Women’s Day. Advancing gender equity is work that takes collaboration and action across the sport community and beyond. While we encourage you to practice these six things every day, International Women’s Day is the perfect opportunity to recognize incredible women and leaders, refocus our visions for gender equity and to make an action plan.
Read more…
Mar 5, 2021
Congrats to all the BC Coaches who were selected to be apart of the 2021 Coach Development Groups. From Swimming Canada’s High Performance Director, John Atkinson “These groups are very important for the present and future of coaching in the current era of sport, not only in Canada, but in world swimming. We have had these coaching development groups running since 2014 and they are a targeted approach to development. We are looking to work with coaches who understand situations, work in a positive way with partners and then make any situation work for them and use that in developing their athletes and clubs. We also look at how coaches respond to situations, how they look to thrive and be leaders in a positive way, being solution focused.”
Appointed BC Coaches:
- Vincent Chung – Chena Swim Club – Select Coaches Group
- Leanne Sirup – Duncan Swim Team – Select Coaches Group – Female Coaches Group
- Ben Keast – High Performance Center Vancouver – Select Coaches Group
- Jy Stewart – Pacific Sea Wolves – Select Coaches Group – Female Coaches Group
- Annie Wolfe – Simon Fraser University – Select Coaches Group – Female Coaches Group
- Justin Daly – Spartans Swim Club – Select Coaches Group
- Judy Baker – Winskill Dolphins – Select Coaches Group – Female Coaches Group
- Tina Hoeben – KISU Swim Club – Advanced Coaches Group – Female Coaches Group
- Rob Pettifer – Richmond Rapids – Advanced Coaches Group
Mar 5, 2021
Swimming Canada has unfortunately announced the cancellation of the 2021 Canadian Masters Swimming Championships (May 21-23) and the combined 2021 Canadian Junior & Senior Swimming Championships (July 26 – August 2). CEO Ahmed El-Awadi said about the cancellation “Due to the high number of participants expected at these events, it would not be possible to put the proper distancing protocols in place to ensure these events run safely. In addition, the amount of travel required to attend these events was a major factor in the decision.” To read the full announcement, click here.
Feb 11, 2021
Coaches, please note that the Virtual Divisional Championships have been structured in a way that provides you with the flexibility to run the races as will fit best into the pool time constraints that you have. You can run the races across as many sessions as you need between February 15 – March 7th, but we will only be accepting one results file from each team. The results will be complied and published after the results deadline, March 7th.
A new, clean Results File has been prepared for your results for all swims done in the February 15th – March 7th timeframe. This new file has been published to the Swimming Canada events page which are linked below:
We have received entries for a combined total of 708 swimmers (362 Women and 346 Men) from 34 teams from the 3 Divisions.
