Oksana Chaput and National Letter of Intent (NLI) Signing day University of Minnesota Congratulations Oksana! After a two year long recruitment process and year long wait after commitment, today is the NCAA National Letter of Intent (NLI) signing day! The NLI is the formal agreement between the NCAA, the Big 10 Conference, and the University of Minnesota. This is the day that Oksana formally became a University of Minnesota Gopher Swimming and Dive Team member! After years of hard work, focus, commitment, discipline and above all athletic excellence, you have...

Manta swimmer Anja Krueger has committed to joining the UBC Thunderbirds Varsity Swim Team for the 2021 season! Anja will be joining Canada’s premier varsity swim program that boasts the 24-time national champion women's team and the 18-time national champion men's team. The UBC swimming program has produced over 40 Olympians, and the current roster includes past and potential future Olympians; she is eager to continue her own swimming journey by training with her new teammates and learning from them. Anja had set her sights on university opportunities with excellence...

Elite swimmer Jasmine Cheung heads to University of Alaska Fairbanks to continue her swimming. We are very proud of your hard work and success in and out of the water. Congratulations Jasmine!

It is our pleasure on behalf of the Board of Directors to announce the appointment of Tommaso Panizza as the new head coach for the Manta swim club starting September 21, 2020. Tommaso has been the head coach of the Thunder Bay Thunderbolts for the past 2 years and his 10 years of coaching experience includes being the National development coach and Elite Age Group Director for the North York Aquatic Club in Toronto. He is very excited to move his family to Winnipeg and continue to grow our club...

Swim Manitoba recently announced the appointment of Coach Szilvie Carrière as Head Coach of the Manitoba Swim Team, 2021 Canada Games to be held in the Niagara region from August 6th-12th, 2021. Coach Szilvie’s love of swimming began in Hungary, a nation always capable of developing competent international swim athletes. Szilvie was amongst them on the Hungarian National Swim Team meanwhile earning a teaching degree in sport. Immigrating to Canada, she immersed herself in the sport teaching novice swimmers. Recognizing Szilvie’s ability, she was encouraged to coach performance level athletes...

A team is a group of individuals who work together to accomplish a shared goal. MANTAs goal is to take the club to new heights and utilizing everyone's unique strengths of our MANTAs swimming family, build upon our past success and develop into a national model of excellence committed to each individual and overall TEAM success while constantly emphasizing our six core values: Honesty, Integrity, Competitiveness, Resiliency, Respect. Sharing a goal creates a sense of enhances team cohesion since teammates know everyone in the pool is working their hardest to...

First and foremost, THANK YOU to all the Manta families that helped at our 2020 Grand Prix - LC. The phenomenal success of our Manta swim meets is a reflection of the ever-increasing dedication and enthusiasm of our volunteers’ display on a continual basis. It’s one of the best in the country. This event would not have been a success for our swimmers without your involvement. MANTA swimmers set the bar higher at 2020 Grand Prix when they claimed the team title for the second straight year. MANTA swimmers preserved...

Well Done Manta!! MANTA always strives for excellence and looks to compete at the highest level when the time, preparation and value of the meet is in proportion to the importance of the competition. Continual program development and buying into a belief system has paved the way to amplify MANTAs team success on various stages of competition that the sport of swimming has to offer. “Hard working” has infused itself as an attribute within MANTAs cultural DNA; creating well rounded people/athletes that contribute to MANTAs values and actions each day....

We are proud to announce that the Canadian Coaches Association has selected Coach Novak as a mentor for the 2020 Mentorship Program. This year's program will continue to build on the opportunities from 2017, 2018 and 2019 for coaches to learn from other top Canadian coaches. Manta Swim Club is committed to living its core values and providing an appropriate environment to encourage the full development and participation of all swimmers with the focus on realizing maximum individual potential at a pace appropriate for each individual. As a Swimming Canada...

Held on Saturday, December 7, about forty Swim Academy athletes competed, most for the first time. This low pressure program invites our non-competitive swimmers and parents / guardians to experience a swim competition. Thanks to parents who volunteered to time, our competitive swimmers, coaches, Start Official Janine Cheung and Referee Chris Torrance who helped to deliver the Rising Stars Swim Meet on schedule.