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NAA Notifications

NAA Updates – August 9

Waterpolo: Week 2 playoffs

The second round of playoffs will be Tuesday, August 15th at Westminster pool. 541 Rue Westminster, Dollard-des Ormeaux, QC H9G 1E8.

Schedule: Download PDF

Swimming: Big Meet, Sat., Aug 12, 2023

Meet package: ecclestonepool.com/bigmeet/

Please find here the link for major officials, of which we are still missing some: www.timetosignup.com/bigmeet2023/sheet/1346429

Time Trials Results: www.naaswim.com/download/2023-time-trials-results/
Current swim rankings: www.naaswim.com/2023-swim-schedule-and-results/

NAA Executive

Declaration of Emergency General Assembly Meeting. All member pools are requested to attend the meeting.

Date: Friday, August 11 2023

 

Have a great end of season!
NAA

NAA Notifications

Week 3 Updates

Hello NAA,

Here are some updates from the past 3 weeks.

NAA Constitution updates (in yellow)

Waterpolo: Glenmore u12 Tournament Schedule. Sunday, July 16th
–Format, Divisions, Schedule

Swimming: The NAA kindly asks that member pools take all efforts to find volunteers willing to contribute to Summer Swim Meet. Please find the submission links below:

Congratulations to all the swimmers for a great start to the season! Let’s keep it up!
Diving, NAA Notifications

Diving Season

Next week the diving competitions are officially starting. Please be sure to have qualified head judges for your diving meets. For those of who completed the online training in the 2022 season, I have added a revision quiz to the page that you can complete. All new head judges are required to complete the entire program to be considered qualified. To complete the training:

  • Go to https://ghmacademy.com/
  • Sign up for free using your name an email address (please include the name of the pool in the registration name)
  • The classroom code is KENNEDY-YSV-VS3
  • Complete the 7 lessons in the NAA Diving Judges classroom and the quizzes

Thank you to everyone who will be volunteering this summer. Our programs could not run without the support of our volunteers!

Ashley

NAA Notifications, Swimming

Reminder: 2023 Swim Coaches’ Meeting

This is a reminder that the 2023 swim coaches’ meeting will take place next week.

Location: Walters Pool (1400 av. Dawson, Dorval, Québec, H9S 1Y4)

Date: June 28, 2023

Time: 19h00

Procedures, regulations and rules for the swim season will be discussed. It is asked that each NAA member pool have at least one coach in attendance.

Please address any questions regarding this meeting to the VP of Swimming. 

NAA Notifications

Event awards for 2023

With the last NAA meeting of the season now complete, we can share with you the awards of events for 2023.  These events are all listed on the 2023 Calendar page with the appropriate pool listed with them.  Congratulations to all the pools who will be hosting events next year.

Swimming 

  • Big Meet will be hosted by ECC 
  • A Time Trials will be hosted by WES 
  • B Time Trials will be hosted by SUR 
  • C Time Trials will be hosted by SUR 
  • Summer Swim Meet will be hosted by VYC

Synchro 

  • Junior Finals will be hosted by THO 
  • Senior Finals will be hosted by WPK 
  • Pre-Junior Finals will be hosted by ELM 
  • Junior Prelims will be hosted by WPK 
  • Senior Prelims will be hosted by ELM

Diving 

  • Diving Finals will be hosted by FVW

Waterpolo 

  • Finals will be hosted by ELM 
  • Playoffs #1 will be hosted by VYC 
  • Playoffs #2 will be hosted by WES 

 

NAA Notifications

It has come time for me to say goodbye

This will be my last post on the NAASwim.com website.

I started posting results on the web for the NAA in 2002 so it’s been 20 years.

Like many parents of swimmers I went through being an NAA member, having a swimmer who went through the whole gamut of swimming in summer, diving, doing synchro, waterpolo, joining winter swimming (Pointe Claire and then Beaconsfield in her case) then being on staff and finally managing Fairview pool.

I volunteered for our local Elm Park pool for a time then became the President there and after that the president of the NAA for 4 years.

But, time moves on for everyone.  My daughter has been out of college for years now and I don’t even live in Montreal or Canada for that matter anymore.   Yes, that’s me in the picture, boating in Florida where I live now.  I’m well and very busy with other things. They’re just not related to the NAA.

I’ve maintained the website over all that time and enjoyed posting on it literally tens of thousands of pictures I’d taken but it is time for someone local, directly involved with work at the NAA to take it over.

I’d like to thank everyone who I’ve been able to work with over these many years.  Parents, athletes, coaches, sponsors, the different city councilmembers and finally the countless volunteers.  It has enriched my life and my memories of my time with the NAA will remain among my favourites.

The website will become the responsibility of the current NAA president and whoever they decide should run it.  It wouldn’t surprise me if the look and feel changes.  I hope that all the history will be maintained.  I will be updating the 2023 calendar that is being decided at the August 29th 2022 meeting as well as any constitutional changes that are finalized at that meeting and that will likely be my last update on the website.  At some point before the end of calendar year my access to the site will be removed.

For those who might want to reach me, my email won’t change.  You can email me at chris.vandersluis@gmail.com.  My NAA email will be discontinued later this year.

The NAA has been a remarkable and unique fixture of aquatics in North America for decades and I very much hope it continues for a very, very long time.

Thanks to all of you.  It’s been quite a great ride.
Chris Vandersluis
chris.vandersluis@gmail.com