Last week at the Summer Ontario Swimming Championships, Region of Waterloo athletes went above and beyond expectations as they continue to impress through the Summer Championship Meet Season! Making huge personal strides, ROW athletes displayed they were there to fearlessly compete against the best athletes in province! The meet as a whole was the most energetic and competitive OSCs we’ve had in the post-Covid era. Several age-group Ontario Records were broken throughout the course of the weekend, hosting many current Team Canada representatives which will be competing at the World...

This past weekend from June 15 th to June 18 th, two of Ontario’s biggest competitions of the season took place: o Ontario Summer Festivals 2023 @Etobicoke o Ontario Summer Youth-Junior Championships @Markham Pan AM All clubs in Ontario who had athletes meeting the qualification requirements were in attendance at both these meets, making for a very busy weekend for most clubs. Here’s how they went: Ontario Summer Festivals 2023 @ Etobicoke Olympium Ontario Festivals hosts many of the best 13&U athletes in the province twice per season (Winter &...

We are excited to bring to you some pre-meet information regarding our next two championship meets coming up this weekend! We will be seeing 15 swimmers attending Ontario Youth-Juniors in Markham and 14 attending Festivals in Etobicoke. This is the highest number of athletes we have sent to both meets since OYJ’s formulated into existence in 2018! Both competitions are provincial-level meets meaning we will see swimmers from across Ontario coming together to compete against some of the best in the province. Many ROW athletes are seeded to come top...

This past weekend our novice level athletes travelled down the road to the University of Guelph to compete in their last competition of the 2022-2023 swim season, the GMAC End of Year Splash! The London and Sydney swimmers did a great job adding some new events to their ever-growing repertoire, some even completing their first 50 fly ever! ROW sent 68 athletes to the meet and we saw 82 more best times fall from last month! It was great to see some skills and technique further improve from our swimmers...

In addition to our first championship meet of Spring/Summer, Region of Waterloo Swim Club had a contingent of athletes racing at Age Group International this past weekend in Etobicoke. AGI is a long-standing meet, and typically attracts several of the fastest athletes, both from in-province and out-of-province, as athletes begin to prepare for Provincial and National meets over the next 2 months. Time standards for this meet are quite tough, particularly given the double age groups [12&U, 13-14, 15-16, 17&O] with a few standards rivaling OYJ qualification times. This year’s...

This past weekend ROW competed at the first of our Championship meets, the Western Regional Championships in Windsor. ROW sent 40 qualifiers from our ND, PD1, Seoul, PD2, LA, Paris and Beijing groups to compete against all clubs in the western region where all our athletes raced their hearts out to achieve an 8th place overall finish at the competition! The hours at the pool were long but the #ROWNATION pride was flowing from all of our athletes whether they were 10 or 18 years old! Our 13& over swimmers...

Our 12& under athletes headed to the Markham Pan Am pool to compete in our final meet of May at the MAC Rising Stars meet, which took place on May 27-28. Loaded with team spirit, enthusiasm, and a desire to race, our younger athletes got the opportunity to compete against some of the larger GTA swim teams that they rarely get to match up against in the racing pool. 16 swimmers from Paris, Beijing and Barcelona stood up and raced hard to accomplish 52 personal bests over the two day...

Many Meets in May! Over the past two weekends, Region of Waterloo Swim Club was very competition-heavy with all groups racing across four different competitions, meant to serve each athlete’s individual needs. Please read ahead ROW Novice Meet – Saturday, May 6th Region of Waterloo Swim Club’s novice level swimmers took to the racing pool for the first time since February, and they blew it out of the water! The London and Sydney swimmers came to the meet with lots of team spirit, energy, and some phenomenal performances! The swimmers...

Dear ROW families: The Region of Waterloo Swim Club closed out the month of April by competing at the John Grootveld Sr. Officials Classic hosted by Toronto Swim Club at the University of Toronto. It’s not often that we are able to venture into the downtown core of the biggest city in Canada. I hope everyone was able to experience and enjoy the energy this major city had to offer. The competition was a timed finals event – meaning 13&overs do not jockey for positions heading into a second round...

We are pleased to announce the following different summer programming options that we will be hosting over July and August this year: 1. New Athlete Swim Camp: July 10th-14th 12:00-4:00pm · A half-day swim camp designed at teaching and introducing all four strokes and competitive swimming skills to swimmers aged 8-12. We are looking for athletes who may have an interest in competitive swimming but don’t have any prior competitive swimming experience. · Cost – Early-bird, register before May 14th = $285.00 · Cost – register May 15th and later...