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About
Us
UCSC is a year-round competitive swim
team offering high quality professional coaching and technique
instruction for all ages and abilities. The goal of our team is to
provide every member an opportunity to improve swimming skills and
achieve success at his or her level of ability, from novice to
international competitor.
All of our coaches, as members of the
Canadian Swim Teacher and Coaches Association, have access to the
most comprehensive training and certification program for youth
coaches of any sport in Canada. They provide assurance that the
time children spend in swimming will be quality
time.
UCSC is constantly growing and
training young swimmers to maintain a well-rounded competitive swim
team. Thank you for joining us. We are looking forward to meeting
you. Please feel free to contact us for any question you may
have.
We provide high quality
swimming programs for the youth of our community as well as deliver
world class training opportunities to those who choose to pursue a
high performance path in swimming.
UCSC is a nonprofit organization whose vision is to be recognized
as the premier swim club in Canada and to be a world leader in
swimming programs at all levels.
Our Swimmers
UCSC supports close to
400 swimmers from six years of age in our development program to
national and international swimmers in our competitive program.
Skills taught in our programs allow swimmers to reach their full
potential both in the water and out.
UCSC swimmers
develop:
• Strong technical swimming and racing skills
• A belief in themselves and what they are capable of
doing
• An ability to set goals and commit to goals while also
overcoming obstacles that they may encounter along the way
• A strong work ethic and time management skills.....Contact us
Our Achievements
UCSC has placed 29
swimmers on seven Olympic Teams since 1980, which means we have
sent swimmers to each and every Summer Olympics since the club was
formed in 1979. Our swimmers have won 11 Olympic medals. We have
placed eight swimmers on five Paralympic Teams since
1980.
Other achievements
include:
• 2003 Canadian Record 100m Breaststroke SC – Lauren
Van Oosten
• 2003 Canadian Record 11/12 Boys 200m Breaststroke LC
– Curtis Lutsch
• 2003 Canadian Record 11/12 Boys 200m IM LC – Curtis
Lutsch
• 2004 CIS Varsity Women’s Coach of the Year –
Mike Blondal
• 2004 CIS Male Athlete of the Year – Chad Murray
• 2004 CIS Female Swimmer of the Year – Erin Gammel
• 2005 Canadian Club Nationals Champions for Men, Women and
Combined
• 2005 Swim Alberta 14 and under Male Swimmer – Curtis
Lutsch
• 2005 Swim Alberta 14 and under Female Swimmer –
Jessie Olson-Heisler
• 2005 FINA World Championships Silver Medal in 200m
Breaststroke and 4 x 100 Medley Relay – Mike Brown
• 2005 FINA World Championships Trials - Erin Gammel - First
Canadian woman under 1:02.00 in 100m Backstroke
• 2006 Commonwealth Games Gold Medal in 200m Breaststroke
– Mike Brown
• 2006 Commonwealth Games Bronze Medal in 400 Medley Relay
– Lauren Van Oosten
• 2006 Summer Nationals - Men’s National Champions
A Club of Firsts
In 1979, the UCSC became
the first community-based swim club in Canada to enter into
partnership with a university. This allowed us to maintain a club
program with high level coaching and management and also be able to
offer sports science and excellent training facilities. In 1994, we
partnered with the National Sport Centre to bring their swim
program to Calgary. In 2006, the club took another unprecedented
move to establish the first ever Academy for Swimming Excellence.
This latest move will allow us to continue the strong work we have
done in our developmental and age group programs and move forward
toward excellence in international competitive high performance
swimming.
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