The University of Calgary Swim Club: Welcome

Awesome swimming at AG Provincials!!

It was an outstanding four days of racing for all UCSC swimmers….not only as individuals, but also as a team…All relays were supported with plenty of cheering from the whole team… The meet concluded with tremendous performances by all…

2 Provincial Records - Oliver Bidrman (50 Breast) and Carter Shaul (50 Fly)

5 Club Records - Haley Strange (50 Fly), Leah Wookey (1500 Free),Carter Shaul (100Fly)

5 New AG National Qualifiers: Leah Wookey, An Trinh, Nigel MacNeill, Bradley Crocker, and Anthony Mak.

Congratulations to all swimmers making second swims and contributing to this successful meet!!! For those who have completed their season.. Have a great summer… and for those carrying on to Nationals.. BEST OF LUCK!!!

Matt Kostka-New Head Coach of Trex 4!

Former Dino, Matt Kostka has accepted the position as Head Coach of our new Trex 4 group. Matt has been working extensively with Jeff Welechuk over the years and knows the Trex program inside and out. Matt was a CIS level 200 butterflier in his swimming days and brings an outstanding positive attitude to the pool deck and experience working with 10 and under swimmers..

CONGRATULATIONS TO EMIL AND ELI !

As is typically the case, the University of Calgary Swim Club continues to develop and strengthen Canadian coaching. Emil Dimitrov has been offered a great chance to Head Coach in the Okanogan and will take over the Liquid Lightning Swim Team. UCSC has managed to place many coaches into Head Coaching positions from coast to coast and we wish Emil and Eli all the best.

UCSC has posted the vacancy and we will close the competition for this position on July 15. We are confident that we will attract an outstanding coach who will continue to build and strengthen our age group program and have already started to receive resumes. We will have an offer out to the successful candidate shortly after the competition closes

   CONGRATULATIONS TO JEFF WELECHUCK!!!

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     A DINOS WELCOME TO LAURA MOLETTIERE

The 2009-2010 season will see long time Dinos Coach Jeff Welechuk take over the reigns of the Junior Age Group Squad! This is a great move for Jeff and for UCSC as Jeff brings some great skills to that age group. Jeff has earned a great deal of respect from his UCSC peers and the parents of our great team and his promotion is well deserved.

Laura Molettiere will take over the reigns of the TREX 5 squad and become our new Head Coach of Club Development. This will place this position directly above our development squads and provide Laura with a more seamless evaluation ability of our Development swimmers and program. Laura has a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Masters in Education. Laura has been coaching since 1994 and has been both an Assistant Coach and Head Coach. She swam for the NCAA Division 1 Penn State University team from 1995-1999 and was a Big Ten All Academic recipient for 3 years. We look forward to having Laura’s experience and expertise on our coaching staff.

World Universiade Games - FISU

Alberta swimmers in Belgrade

Follow our swimmers.. and the rest of Team Canada... with day to day news reports and videos from Belgrade... Swimming runs from 5-11 July. Follow the action..Here

UCSC COACHING OPPORTUNITIES

We are presently looking for enthusiastic coaches for our Development Programs at Churchill and Shouldice pools. If you know of anyone having competitive swimming, teaching or coaching experience, please ask them to contact Kevin Anderson, our Assistant Head Coach at k.d.anderson@ucalgary.ca or Randi Willisko, our Head Coach of Club Development, at
r_willisko@calgaryswimming.com. .

DINOS TO HOST 2011 CIS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS!

OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Thursday that the University of Calgary has been awarded the right to host the 2011 CIS Swimming Championships.

The national university championships return to Calgary for the first time since 1973 and are slated for Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 23-25, 2011 at the University of Calgary Aquatic Centre.

“I’ve been here more than 20 years and we’ve never hosted the national championships here, so I’m pretty excited about it,” said swim coach Mike Blondal. “I’m most excited for the city of Calgary, which gets to host a premiere swimming event, one of the best swimming events in North America.

“Coming a year and a half before the London 2012 Olympics, I would expect we’ll have the full slate of top Canadian swimmers competing here, and it’s going to be a very exciting opportunity for us.”

The Dinos men are 13-time national champions, while the women ended an 11-year streak for UBC last February with a dominating performance en route to their first-ever national championship. Erica Morningstar, who won all seven events she entered in her first crack at the CIS championships, will be in her third year of eligibility when the event comes home to Calgary.

Fast Swimming at Age Group Trials!!!

The following UCSC swimmers qualified for Age Group Champs over the weekend:
Madeline Gough, Ravi Patel, Rachel Thibeault, Madeline Blondal, Taeya Jones, Olivia Jensen and Ghyslaine Deere Vester...... Congratulations and Good Luck at Provincials!!!

UCSC Medalists:

Madeleine Gough – GOLD 400 Free, 50 Back, 100 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Fly, 50 Free, 100 Back
Madeline Blondal – GOLD 200 Breast, SILVER 200 IM, 50 Breast, , BRONZE 100 Breast
Gyhslaine Deere Vester – GOLD 1500 Free, SILVER 200 IM, 800 Free, BRONZE 400 IM
Paul Latkovic – BRONZE 200 IM, 100 Free
Emma Hoblak – SILVER 100 Breast, 50 Free
Taeya Jones – SILVER 50 Back, 50 Fly, BRONZE 100 Fly
Ravi Patel – GOLD 50 Free, SILVER 50 Back, BRONZE 100 Fly
Stefana Hasegan – SILVER 200 Fly,
Rachel Thibeault – BRONZE 100 Free,
Daniel Yang – SILVER 200 Back,
Ishan Montenegro – BRONZE 200 Back, 100 Back
Aidan Ostrom – BRONZE 800 Free, 400 IM
Olivia Jensen – GOLD 100 Fly
Emelia Neufeld – SILVER 50 Free
Tatyana Qafaiti – BRONZE 200 Breast

UCSC Gold Medal Relays:

10&Under Girls Medley – Rachel Thibeault, Madeline Blondal, Taeya Jones, Madeleine Gough
10&Under Girls Free – Madeleine Gough, Rachel Thibeault, Emelia Neufeld
10&Under Boys Free – Ravi Patel, Paul Latkovic, Ishan Montenegro, Jeremy Bilic

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY SWIM CLUB

Four Day Intro to Competitive Swimming

Hello Friends,

Are your children interested in the sport of swimming? Would you like to come and see what it is like? The University of Calgary Swim Club offers a four day introduction to competitive swimming for new swimmers... READ MORE....

DINOMYTE SWIM SCHOOL

University Pool - July 2009

The University of Calgary Swim Club is very pleased to present our DINOMYTE SWIM SCHOOL at the university pool this July.. Are your children interested in learning about the sport of competitive swimming? Would you like to come and see what it is like.... READ MORE...

Congratulations to Coach Willisko!

Ucsc's Head Coach of Club Development, Randi Willisko will be leaving UCSC to take over the reigns of the Cochrane Comets as their new HEAD COACH for next season! This will be Randi's first head coaching position and we wish her the best in her future endeavor. Randi has been instrumental in our program and a long standing hard working coach. She has developed a 10 and under program that now boasts 170 members and has been instrumental in the staffing and development of coaches for that program. This is a fantastic step for Randi's coaching career and she will always have a home with UCSC. Good luck Randi, we wish you all the best, and you will be missed.

Randi will complete the year with UCSC and we will begin the process of finding a replacement.

MIKE BROWN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT

UCSC/Canada’s top 200M breaststroker Mike Brown announced his retirement from competitive swimming. Mike competed for UCSC on the world stage since 2004 having represented Canada on two Olympic Teams in both 2004 and 2008..... As a youngster at the 2004 Athens Olympics Mike placed 6^th in the 200 breaststroke, and at the Beijing 2008 Olympics Mike moved up the word rankings to an incredible 4^th place finish in the same event...

Outside of his Olympic accomplishments Mike has also swam to a Gold medal performance at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006 and silver at the World Championships in Montreal in 2005.

In preparation Mike exemplified great focus and tremendous work ethic giving him the confidence to be at his best when it mattered….

Mike is currently finishing his University degree at the University of Calgary and has recently started working as real-estate broker with Collier International, commercial real-estate firm. If Mike approaches his future endeavors with the same passion and drive as he approached swimming, he undoubtedly will reach great things his post swimming life READ FULL PRESS RELEASE..

Records Fall at Mel Zajac Meet

Over the Last weekend at the Canadian Grand Prix in Vancouver UCSC swimmers broke a number of records....

In the 400 Free Kevyn Peterson went 4:11.99 breaking a 10 year old Provincial record held by the great Joanne Malar. Hania Kubas broke her own record going a blistering 28.89 in the 50 Back. Katy Murdoch broke the Provincial record in the 100 Back going 1:01.82. Kelly Aspinall broke Adam Sioui's club record in the 50 fly going 24.55 and David Dimitrov broke Mike Meldrums's 23 year old provincial record in the 200 fly going 2:02.93

World Student Games July 6-12 Belgrade.

At the 2009 CIS and Canadian Swimming Championships the following swimmers competed and won a spot on Canada's 2009 FISU games team. Katy Murdoch, Hania Kubas, Seanna Mitchell, Breanna Hendricks, Jessica Johnson, Jessica Craig, Kevyn Peterson, Allison Long, David Demitrov, Chris Tobin, Kelly Aspinal, and Ray Betuzzi. Congratulations and GO Canada GO

As well our Head Coach Mike Blondal was named as the teams Head Coach and Kevin Anderson one of the 5 team coaches. This tour team leaves on June 28th and returns on July 12th.

Canada Games August Charlettown, P.E.I

At the 2009 CIS and Canadian Swimming Championships the following swimmers competed and won a spot on Alberta's Canada Games team. David Demitrov, David Woodman, Mike Lowenstien, Dan Blattler. Congratulations and GO Alberta GO

UCSC Olympians