Age Group National Update

Swimmers, coaches and parents:
As part of the ongoing effort to improve our National program Swimming Canada introduced pre-qualifying times to the Age Group Nationals last week. This decision, while in accordance with our Long Term Athlete Development Policy and research, was certainly late in being announced and caused disruption with athletes goals and coaches planning. Given your feedback and with discussion with several coaches and Provincial Executive Directors, we have decided to delay the introduction of these standards until September 2009 (please keep this in mind for next year's competition). We truly appreciate your feedback and wish all of you great performances the rest of the year. Many thanks for your thoughts.

Ken Radford, Technical DirectorSwimming Canada

The standards can be found at https://www.swimming.ca/Default.aspx under Events and Age Group Nationals.