NKB Celebrates the Successes of the 2023-2024 Season

Heather Page Fairley



NKB Celebrates the Successes of the 2023-2024 Season
September 19, 2024

This week sees the Barracudas coming together for the first official time of the 20204-2025 season, but not without celebrating the Olympic levels, literally and figuratively, from this past 2023-2024 season.  As they do every year, these Mighty Barracudas have ridden the waves of success and we are excited to celebrate them!





2023-2024 NKB Award Winners
If your swimmer was recognized but did not receive their award, please contact [email protected] to arrange pick up from the NKB office.  

 

AWARD OF MERIT
The swimmers at NKB not only swim fast but are very dynamic individuals.  The recipients of the Award of Merit are swimmers who have demonstrated in the pool that they train, race, and perform with great success.  Moreover, they do it with a positive attitude.  They can also be seen supporting teammates, volunteering, leading cheers, and regularly contributing to the positive, family-oriented climate at NKB.

2023-2024 Award of Merit Winners
 
 
MOST IMPROVED SWIMMERS
NKB Swimmers are constantly striving to improve – strengthen our core, lengthen our stroke, streamline tighter, increase our arm turnover.  It sure feels great when we can see the results of this hard work!  These swimmers showed the largest drop in time across all of their events during the 2023-2024 Season.

2023-2024 Most Improved Swimmers
 
 
FIRST TIME QUALIFIERS
Throughout their careers, our swimmers will experience many firsts – first final swim meet, first final swim, first tour team selection…. Just to name a few.  These NKB swimmers have achieved some of those firsts during the 2023-2024 season by qualifying to their first Championships at the Regional, Provincial, and/or National levels.  We know these are just the first of many accomplishments!

2023-2024 First Time Qualifiers
 
 
IMX CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS
Is your swimmer Xtreme? The IM Xtreme (IMX) is a challenge originally developed to identify and rank swimmers on their all-around performance in the following events:
  • 10 Years & Under: 200 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM
  • 11-12 Years Old: 400 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM
  • 13 -18 Years Old: 400 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 200 Fly, 200 IM, 400 IM
Where did the points come from?  Rankings are based on power points, a system developed by USA Swimming and Hy-Tek. 

2023-2024 IMX Champions
 
 
PROVINCIALLY EXTREME ATHLETES
Explanation: Building well rounded athletes is at the core of NKB’s programming.  These athletes take this to heart, and push themselves to be successful in ALL strokes at ALL distances, whether it’s their “favorite” stroke or not.  They recognize every race is an opportunity to excel, and as a result of this true grit, they have achieved provincial level performances (or higher!) in EVERY STROKE at EVERY DISTANCE.  
  • 12 & Under Swimmers are considered against the Swim Ontario Festivals Standards
  • 13 & Over Swimmers are considered against the Swim Ontario Age Group Standards
2023-2024 Provincially Extreme Athletes
 
 
RECORD BREAKERS
At NKB, the 2022-2023 season was filled with swimmers rewriting our record books, both with Team Records and Top Ten All-Time Performances.  These swimmers topped the charts in their 2023-2024 races

2023-2024 Record Breakers
 

TOP RANKED PERFORMANCES

Explanation: The swimmers of NKB not only want to achieve personal bests, they also want to be tops at regional championships… then provincial championships… then national championships… They never stop striving for the top.  These awards recognize those NKB swimmers who ranked in the NKB Top 5 Age Group Performances, NKB Top 10 All-Time Performances and the Top 25 Canadian in their age group/event when the waves settled at the close of our 2023-2024 season.  

2023-2024 Top Ranked Swimmers at the Club Level
2023-2024 Top Ranked Swimmers in Canada
 

PRESIDENT’S AWARD  (presented in June 2024)
Explanation: This award recognizes individuals whose respect for coaches, chaperones, team mates, themselves and for what the club stands for inspires others to strive to be the best that they can be!

Merielle Brousseau
 

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR (presented in June 2024)
Explanation:  This award recognizes individuals whose sincere efforts promote the positive growth within the organization and are representative of the vast reservoir of potential from which dreams become reality!

Heidi Wechselberger
 

FOR THE KIDS AWARD (presented in June 2024)
Explanation:  The kids are the reason we are all here, but we know the support and sacrifices of the families make their quest for success in the water possible.  Every year, there are a few people who stand out as leaders in doing it all “for the kids.”  While this award recognizes these leaders, a big THANK YOU goes out to everyone who does it “for the kids” day in and day out.

Julie Hewitt
 



Congratulations to Julie Brousseau and Coach Scott Faithfull for representing Team Canada at the
Paris 2024 Olympics!