News & Updates

Sebastian Massabie from the Pacific Sea Wolves broke the World Para Swimming World Record in the S4 50m Butterfly while competing at the 2024 Citi Para Swimming World Series USA in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 14, …

Congratulations to HYACK’s Shima Taghavi on breaking the National Age Group Record for the women’s SCM 200 Breast in a time of 2:29.69!  Shima broke the record previously held by Courtenay Chuy which had been on …

Swim BC has an opportunity for a highly motivated and skilled individual to join our team in the position of Administration Coordinator.  The responsibilities of the position focus on the provision of support to Swim BC …

The Junior Pan Pacific Championships took place from August 24th to August 27th in Honolulu. Three BC swimmers were selected for the team: Adam Wu (SKSC), Bill Dongfang (ISC) and Katie Schroeder (LOSC). After 4 days …

The 2022 Canadian Junior & Senior Swimming Championships are taking place in Montreal from July 25th through August 1st. The competition has 638 swimmers representing 145 clubs. British Columbia has an excellent contingent of 114 swimmers, …

The Canada Summer Games will be taking place this August in the Niagara region. Swim BC is pleased to be announcing the Team BC staff and swimmers. Congratulations! We look forward to productive preparations this spring …

Divisionals are being hosted from February 25th until the 27th across 3 regions. For more information, click read more.

To help send the message of anti-bullying, Swim BC is providing a “Pink Cap” for swimmers throughout the province.  We’re encouraging our clubs to make a statement in their local pool and wear their Pink Caps …

Swim BC is proud to announce that Jeannie Lo is the new President of Swim BC. Elected by the Board of Directors at the Oct 30th Board meeting, Jeannie takes over from Linda Metcalfe after her four …

The Annual General Meeting of Swim BC was conducted last night (October 14).  With 39 voting delegates in attendance, two special resolutions addressing bylaw amendments were passed and three new board members were elected by acclamation.

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. The challenge is …

Swim BC is excited to announce the Team Aquatic Supplies BC Swim Coaches Conference will be offered virtually. Since the cancellation of the in-person Coaches Conference in Whistler, we have been working to provide this great …

Coaches Week 2021 is from September 18 to 26th. Swim BC would like to acknowledge the great work our coaches do in representing our sport and guiding our athletes. Thank-you for all that you do. We …

On September 24th Swim BC will be presenting the technical program to Swim BC coaches for the 2021-22 season and beyond. This will be followed by questions and answers, then a collaborative workshop. Your participation and …

Swim BC is profoundly disappointed to announce the cancellation of the 2021 BC Swimming Congress.  Over the last week or so the incredible shift in COVID-19 daily transmission rates, hospitalizations, and deaths, coupled with the BC …

The BC Swimming Hall of Fame Committee (Brian Johns, Doug Perks, Chris Hindmarch-Watson, Ken Radford and Sam Thoms) are pleased to announce the 2021 inductees.  Richard Weinberger, Donovan Tildesly and Ted Simpson are to be inducted …

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics will be taking place from August 24th until September 5th. The swimming competition at the games will run from August 24th until September September 3rd. We are excited to cheer on the …

Swim BC would like to recognize the performances by BC athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Leilani Fack of the Langley Olympians has done it again and broke 2 provincial records! She is the new provincial record holder if the Women 13-14 SCM 100m Freestyle with the time of 55.63 and the …

Swim BC Virtual Summer Provincial Championships have successfully completed with 347 swimmers participating from 28 clubs. Clubs should be very proud of their accomplishments through such a challenging time. The quality of swimming in the province …

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are upon us! The games will run from July 23th until August 8th. Swimming will take place from July 24th until August 1st in the pool. The 10km Open Water events …

Swim BC is very pleased with the continued support of the Virtual Divisionals. We have had many reports of how this virtual meet generated direction, excitement, and great swims from our teams from across the province. …

2 National & BC Records Broken!! They did it again! The Hyack relay team broke two more relay records over the weekend. Laon Kim, Paul Orogo, Matthew Wang, and Justin Jung set the following new records:

Congratulations to Paul Orogo, Justin Jung, Laon Kim, & Matthew Wang from HYACK for breaking three Provincial and Canadian National records this weekend. They are now the record holders for following events: 13-14 Male 200m Medley …

Challenge Set #6 is completed which wraps up our Challenge Set Initiative. We had a great turnout for the initiative and would like to thank everyone who participated. Now that the Challenge Sets have completed, it …

Swimming Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have announced Canada’s swimming team nominated to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 26 athletes were nominated to the team to represent Canada in Tokyo. Swim BC would …

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