The Langley Olympians Regional, Provincial, AGP, and National Groups competed in their third Red vs White Time Trials! The Red vs White Time Trial Event is one of the ways that swimmers in these groups will test their swimming skill and competence as meets are suspended due to COVID-19. So far, we have seen a lot of swimmers swimming their personal bests, if not close to their best. Team Red HAS MAINTAINED THE LEAD! This is a errata from the previous version. Team Red is leading by 280 Points! National...

Dear L&A OSC Families, This year, Swimming Canada has launched a getting back again challenge called #SwimAgainChallenge. Every week, our swimmers in the competitive group do a variety of sets like timed 200 kick, 300 pull, etc. Coaches submit the results of this challenge to Swimming Canada and Swimming Canada ranks the results nationally. In addition to this, swimmers in various age specific age category (week 1: 15-17 yrs, week 2: 13-14 yrs, week 3: 11-12 yrs, week 4: 10 yrs and under) are given a chance to get an...

Dear AGP Group Families, On Tuesday, Oct 27, we will be doing our annual Swim Challenge. The Swim Challenge is a venue for swimmers to challenge themselves and see how fast they can go for 5,000 metres. We do this event every year in the fall and have seen swimmers greatly improve year over year! This year, we are doing this over a span of 1 hour 30 minutes (doing 1500s around 27 minutes). Swimmers are to swim full stroke freestyle without stopping. In the past, majority of the swimmers...

Dear Provincial Group Families, On Tuesday, Oct 27, we will be doing our annual Swim Challenge. The Swim Challenge is a venue for swimmers to challenge themselves and see how fast they can go for 5,000 metres. We do this event every year in the fall and have seen swimmers greatly improve year over year! This year, we are doing this over a span of 1 hour 30 minutes. Swimmers are to swim full stroke freestyle without stopping. In the past, the majority of the swimmers in Provincial Group are...

The Langley Olympians Regional, Provincial, AGP, and National Groups competed in their second Red vs White Time Trials! The Red vs White Time Trial Event is one of the ways that swimmers in these groups will test their swimming skill and competence as meets are suspended due to COVID-19. So far, we have seen a lot of swimmers swimming their personal bests, if not close to their best. Team Red is still leading by a small margin of 270 points! Team White is starting to make a move by having...

Dear Families, We hope you had a great thanksgiving weekend! We would like to send you an update pertaining to our pool locations. As of today, we have over 60 members registered in our programs from Mini Olympians to National Group. Our operations are definitely smaller than before due to the limitations that we currently have on gatherings and swimming pool bather loads. However, despite this, our coaches and swimmers are working hard to ensure everyone is having a great and safe learning experience! As an update to families, the...

Dear L&A OSC Families, We hope you had a good start to October and the Fall Season! We would like to send a reminder to all families regarding our protocols pertaining to COVID-19. As the Flu Season comes up, some families and children may get some symptoms pertaining to COVID-19. Our Illness Policy (Return to Sport Plan, Page 6) that you have agreed to asks families to "Inform an individual in a position of authority (coach, team manager) immediately if, you feel any symptoms of COVID-19 such as fever, chills,...

Dear LOSC Families, This year is different from previous years due to the changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. For us in the competitive swimming world, one of the biggest changes is that competitions with hundreds of people in a venue is not allowed. Competition is one of the drivers of improvement in the sport. Therefore, the coaching staff decided to host time trials on a periodic basis to help swimmers track their improvement as well as be provided the opportunity to race their peers and selves. In order...

Dear L&A OSC Families, We have updated our Return to Sport Plan to reflect changes in lane desity in ACUCC. Please see the following link to review the new RTS. Changes were highlighted in GREEN. Thank you L&A OSC Staff

The Langley & Abbotsford Olympians Swim Club is offering 75% off on all equipment with the old L&A OSC Logo on it. These items include, Hoodies, Sweat Tops, White T-shirts and Red Dryland T-shirts. We also have three Red Backpacks available and 2 mesh bags available at regular price. If you are interested in ordeing any of these items you can find our equipment order form attached to this email. You can send in your order form to our office email, [email protected]. Please know that sizes may be limited. Thank...