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Jane Mooney

Selection for the 2023 NAIG Games NT swim team will take place during the NWT Territorial held over the wekend of Febuary 10 -12 hosted by The polar bear swim club(RIMP) in Yellowknife . In total 12 swimmers swimming in either 14/u 16/u 19/u can be selected . Any athlete that can complete 50m swimming a legal stroke and that fulfills the criteria(under Games Info TAB ) to attend the Games may tryout . These games will be hosted by swim Nova Scotia at the Dalhousie swim complex (Halifax) from...

Jane Mooney

New Qualifying standards for the upcoming Summer Games and relevant information pertaining to the 2022 Games is available under the relevant 'Tab' in the dropdown menu . A new "C" or ' covid 'standard has been temporarily introduced to give swimmers a chance to qualify in light of the current situation.These standards may be removed for future Games .

Jane Mooney

Congratulations to the four Tier winners for the 2020/2021 season as well to the 'Most improved "swimmers per Tier .Over the course of the season all swimmers nominated to a Tier by their coach swam 10 compulsory short course events ,These included a long distance ,Individual medley .Sprint and Supersprint event .Due to numbers all Tiers were swum as mixed gender events .Tiers were nominated at swimmers current skill level. The 10 events were swum in organized timed sessions in March ,May and June of 2021. The fastest time recorded...

Jane Mooney

Due to late pool openings and Covid restictions on number of persons in a facility at one time ,a virtual passport comprising of 10 events in different Tier levels will be swum 3 different occasions during training over between March 2021 and June 2021 . Events encompass distances from 400m to 25 and have adaptations for different skill levels .In mid June the winners of each of Tiers 1 to 4 will be announced as well as the most improved in each .Passports will be signed off and monitored by...

Jane Mooney

The 2021 Canada Summer games has been postponed until 2022 in light of the covid 19 Pandemic. Further information will be availble once the organizers have decided how this will impact selected athletes and Sport specific age catogories. Please see attatched letter from the Games Council and organizers . csg-postponedment-letter

Jane Mooney

The 2019 North American Indigenous Games have been postponed until 2022 in light of the covid- 19 Pandemic Please see attatched message from the Sports Council and organizers september-2020-naig-council-announcement september-2020-naig-postponed

Kelvin Yee

Corona-virus-media-release-postponement-announcmeent_032401.pdf For more info click here for the Aboriginal sport Circles web page

Jane Mooney

2020 Time standards are now available and will be used as qualifying criteria for the 2021 Canada Summer Games and training camp See - Swimmers information tab - "Qualifying standards " .

Kelvin Yee

Provincial Times standards The Provincial Standards will be used to qualify for Provincials - Short Course and Provincials - Long Course. Championship Standards The Championship Standards will be used to qualify for the Spring Championships and Summer Championships. NEW for 2018-2019 - Two Standards are required to qualify for the Spring and Summer Championships. Standards 2018-2019-championships.pdf 2018-2019-provincials.pdf

Kelvin Yee

Cannabis in Sport Athletes subject to the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP) must be aware that this does not affect the status of cannabis in sport. Cannabis continues to be a prohibited substance and a positive test can still result in a sanction