The Region of Waterloo Swim Club is very pleased to recognize Payton Felder for her fundraising efforts during this past year. Payton raised over $1,200 in order to help pay for attending the International Children’s Games in Hungary. When the Games were canceled due to Covid-19, Payton made the very generous decision to donate the funds from her bottle drives to our Club! Many thanks, Payton for your efforts. Your dedication and generosity are truly inspiring! Payton’s family is moving out of the province and we are sad to say...

Dear ROW members: In February, Canadian Tire Corporation announced an additional $12 million commitment to Jumpstart’s Sport Relief Fund to help sport and recreation organizations build back sport and play in Canada. Jumpstart conducted a State of Sport study via Ipsos which revealed the pandemic has not only impacted current access to sport and play but has real long-term effects as well. As you are aware, ROW and the communities it serves have experienced the impact of the pandemic first-hand. We recently received confirmation that we are amongst nearly 300...

Dear ROW families: Mark your calendars for this special event! On April 15th at 7:00 p.m. ROW welcomes guest speaker, Mack Darragh, Olympic Swimmer at the 2016 Rio Games. Mack also races for the ISL Toronto Titans as part of the International Swimming League. Mack will speak about perseverance towards goals, especially now as he prepares for Olympic Trials in May. Please send your questions early to Head Coach, Cathy and she will try to include as many as possible in the evening. Mack's Bio link: Mack Darragh - Team...

ROW is proud to announce that our Head Coach Cathy Pardy has been recently chosen by Swimming Canada to be on its Select Coaches development group, as one of only ten coaches selected from Ontario. Swimming Canada coaching groups are presented with several development opportunities throughout their tenure. “These groups are very important for the present and future of coaching in the current era of sport, not only in Canada, but in world swimming…” says High-Performance Director and National Coach John Atkinson. Read the entire Swimming Canada press release, available...

Dear ROW members: Thank you to those of you who made it to our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday night. If you were unable to attend but would like to have a look at what was discussed, the meeting minutes are now posted under Member Services/Annual General Meetings. Here is a direct link (please note that you may need to log in to access the page). We also had two $25 gift cards to give away to members in attendance. The draw took place after the meeting and the lucky...

Dear ROW members: As part of our efforts to give back to our community and get involved in more local events, we are proud to announce that ROW is taking part in the 40th anniversary (virtual) Terry Fox Run this year on September 20, 2020! Please join the ROW'd runners and help ROW have as large an impact as possible at this fun event and for a worthy cause! Many thanks to parent-volunteer Liz Akeroyd for putting together this awesome poster! Feel free to share!

Hello ROW Families: As we are opening registration for the new season, many of you may have questions about the safety protocols we have put in place in order to provide a safe environment for our swimmers and their families, and for our coaches. These are detailed in the Return to Train documents on our website. Recently, 519SportsOnline put together a short video highlighting some of these procedures, which you can watch here. (or copy and paste in your browser https://youtu.be/UbtOBR-zrks) Have a safe season everyone! ROW Swim Club

The Region of Waterloo Head Coach Cathy Pardy has just been confirmed as the new Head Coach for Team Ontario at the 2021 edition of the Canada Games in Niagara! Read the full announcement here. This is a great recognition of Cathy's experience and dedication to the sport of swimming in the province. We wish Cathy and Team Ontario the best of luck in training and with the Games! Congratulations, Cathy!

The Region of Waterloo Swim Club would like to recognize our ad-hoc Return to Play committee: Sara Jain, Shannon Newell, Jina Silva, Alex Johnson (AJ) and Cathy Pardy. On a short notice, they stepped forward and donated many hours of their time in the past several weeks to meetings, Swim Ontario and Swim Canada briefings and webinars in order to put together ROW’s Return to Train Plan. It consists of the documents and procedures outlined under Return to Train on our website. This plan was approved by Swim Ontario and...

Dear ROW Families: We hope that you are all keeping safe and healthy during this challenging time. The Board of Directors and the coaching staff have been discussing the rest of this season. Based on all the information we have at this time, our swim season is over for 2019-2020. We are currently making plans for what our start up will look like in September. These plans will be fluid as they may need to change based on requirements from Swim Ontario as well as WLU. It goes without saying...