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Dear Members of the Comox Valley Aquatic Club,

As promised for release June 1st, we are providing you with information about the 2013-2014 head coach for the Sharks.

We would like to introduce you to Kris Bell (photo attached).

Kris was born in Toronto, Ontario. After swimming with the York Swim Club for 9 years, he moved to Timmins to continue training for one more season. During his last three years of competitive swimming, Kris was proud to attend the Canadian National Championships. He then began his coaching career in Timmins with the Timmins Marlins Swim Club. He had many successes with his swimmers in the Marlins, and was also the founder of the Timmins Marlins Masters Swim Club. After two years, Kris moved back to Toronto and began coaching with the York Swim Club. He began his tenure with the Toronto club by coaching the novice group, and then quickly progressed to Head Age Group Coach. During his stay with York, he coached from entry level swimmers to Provincial Championship medalists. In 2002, he moved to Etobicoke, Ontario as a junior coach. He advanced to the Elite group for the 2003-4 season and then became the coach of the Junior National group and the Head Age Group Coach for two seasons. Most recently, he was the advanced age group coach with the Etobicoke Swim Club. Kris has been described to us by his references as knowledgeable, enthusiastic, energetic, fair, motivational, and a good communicator.

Kris will be moving to the Comox Valley this summer with his wife, Kathleen, and two children. We look forward to working with him and hope to have an early registration/get-together in August. Stay tuned for more information on an exciting new year!

“Come Swim with the Sharks!”

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or items you would like to discuss at .



Sincerely,

Tara Ryan, Sharks VP

On behalf of

The Comox Valley Aquatic Club Board of Directors

Sarah Rudolf will be working with the club for the remainder of the season in the position of Interim Head Coach. She will be focusing on getting all of our swimmers prepared and race ready for the upcoming VIR's, AA, AAA, and National Meets. Please feel free to contact her with any coaching related concerns at her email

Any other questions that you may have regarding the changes in our coaching team can be directed to Tara Ryan the clubs Vice President. She can be reached by email at

What a great meet yesterday. I hope you all had a good expereince and the kids enjoyed themselves. Can't wait to do it again next year.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered. We couldn't have and can't do it without you.
Special thanks to Shelly and Leah for keeping us fed so well. To Sabine for getting the volunteers in place, Rob and Mike for looking after the elelctronics, Rachelle for reveiwing the results, Cheryl for doing triple duty, selling heat sheets, selling 50/50 tickets and of course handing out the coveted sharks. Thanks to Paul, Tracy, Lindsey, Tara, Loretta and Heidi for doing Stroke and Turn. And kodos to the timers for getting the kids in the right lanes and heats: Genny, Pia, Todd, Gail, Angela, Steve, Mike, Garry, Michelle, Willie, Thanks to Mike, Todd, Garry, Rob and Steve for moving the heavy equipment between pools. And last but not least thank you to our senior swimmesr: Gabby for sitting at the chalk board all afternoon and Ben, Juliana and Michael for doing Stroke and Turn. You are all very much appreciated by the CVAC Board, and Swimmers and Coaches from all the clubs.

Special thanks to Kim, from Campbell River, our Referee and Leon from Victoria as our starter.

Thanks to all the parents on deck for respecting that the space was reseved for the swimmers, coaches and officials. It was hard to judge what 100+ swimmers would look like on deck with the hottub and sauna. It all worked.

Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make this meet a big success! Click here to be taken to our results page http://www.sharks.bc.ca/­page9/­page11/­page11.php?WEBYEP_EDIT=yes7228&WEBYEP_FIELDNAME=BlockLoop&WEBYEP_GLOBAL=0&WEBYEP_PAGEID=21&DOC_INST=0&WEBYEP_LOOP_ID=9&WEBYEP_ACTION=LOOP_ADD&WEBYEP_ACTION_ID=13#WEBYEP_CURRENT_LOOP_ITEM

Each year we work towards keeping our swim fees as low as possible through a variety of means including fund raising. One of the simple and easy ways to do this is through FunScript. They are a Canadian company that produces and sells "gift" cards to help clubs like ours, an average of 3% of your total purchases can be earned towards your fundraising commitment. Cards can be purchased for most of your everyday items such as groceries, gas, and many other household needs from many retailers in the Valley. Just think - if you already buy your groceries from Superstore why not get a credit towards your fundraising committment. Why not get your familiy and friends to do the same and get them to contribute towards your credit?

Click her to take you to our fund raising page for all the details. http://www.sharks.bc.ca/­page19/­page32/­page32.php?WEBYEP_FIELDNAME=BlockLoop&WEBYEP_GLOBAL=0&WEBYEP_PAGEID=37&DOC_INST=0&WEBYEP_LOOP_ID=2&WEBYEP_ACTION=LOOP_ADD&WEBYEP_ACTION_ID=11#WEBYEP_CURRENT_LOOP_ITEM

Here is the 2012-2013 draft of our meets. You can you this this as guide of whats coming up. Remember that it is a draft and is subject to changes. You can download the PDF file below or follow the link to the list.

2012 - 2013 Masters Swimming starts Sept 10, 2012
6:15 to 7:30 am, Mon, Wed, Fri at the Aquatic Centre
Please be sure to bring: Registration Form, Masters Swimming Waiver, Registration and Swim Fees.
FMI email Heather at or call 250 218-1281

Follow this link to the Masters Webpage to download the registration and waiver http://www.sharks.bc.ca/­page20/­page29/­page29.php?WEBYEP_EDIT=no7420

In your parent handbooks you may have noted that the Comox Valley Aquatic Club has a "Code of Conduct" policy that is there to ensure that the club has fun, enjoyable ans safe environment for all its members. It has been updated this 2011-2012 year. The updated document is here for you to download. It outlines not only what is expected of our members but what what you can expect from club.

Small Contingent Big Results

Eight Comox Valley Aquatic Club Sharks travelled to Victoria for the Island Pacific Cup last weekend. The competition was tough with new Olympic Head Coach Randy Bennet swimming his "Academy" swimmers in the meet. "The swimmers were really inspired to be swimming with Olympic level swimmers such as Julia Wilkinson or Blake Worsley. It pushed them to bring on their "A" game." commented Sharks Head Coach Albert Burgund.

Three swimmers qualified for the Age Group Nationals which will be held in Calgary next summer: Brooke
Lamoureux (800 free,200 butterfly,400 IM), Emma Neufeld (50 back) and Ben Neufeld(200 back). The others did some impressive swimming too. Julianna Bartemucci , Gabrielle Wolfe and Mario Venegas all swam 100% best times and managed to make some new "AAA" (provincial standard) qualifying times in the process! The medal count ran up impressively - Brooke lead the pack with 7 gold and 1 silver while Ben followed up with 3 gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze. Congratulations to all the swimmers on a job well done.

The Sharks would like to thank the community and their sponsors for all their support. For complete results and information on the club please visit our
result page on our website.

Hello folks.Every Wednesday from now I will be running a test set - please down-load the attached sheets (explanation and first test set results) and go over them with your swimmer NOW PLEASE - Thank you!
I will require some assistance - timing and recording - so if you can spare some time (about 1.25 hours) I would appreciate it. Perhaps we can set up a schedule - I need about 4-5 volunteers each Wednesday - get back to me () and I can set up the schedule - give me your preferred date/time.Thanx-a-million!

The swimmers get points for being "the best at execution" - how they did compared to a formula NOT by how fast they were (although that's good too) I am trying to teach their bodies HOW to execute a specific strategy.

Click on the document below to download the sheet

Now you may not need equipment like this but swimming does requiring a few items beyond the obvious swim suit. Coach Albert has put together a list of the things that each squad should have. Please make sure your swimmer has these and brings them to practice each week. Most of these items can be purchased at the swim shop at the pool If you have any questions about this please take the time to talk with Coach Albert. You can download the list below.

Comox Valley Aquatic Club - Sharks is a swim club dedicated to the overall development of personal excellence.

Our long term vision is attract individuals of all ability levels and develop healthy champions in sport and life by providing a framework for success through progressive learning, personal growth and competition.