Hey Junior Whites, 

Congratulations to everyone who participated in hell week! Everyone was working super hard and putting over 100% effort in, I was very impressed. 

For the next two weeks we will focus a lot more on technique and doing much shorter sprinting sets. Our dives and turns needs some work, so we will be spending time almost every practice perfecting them as we get closer to regionals!

Great job for the swimmers who competed in WRASA this weekend, even though we were tired lots of us still got best times! 

See you on the pool deck. 

Coach Sophia

Hello Wizards!

Congratulations on completing your first week of wizardry lessons at Hogwarts. Many of you came to all the practices and qualified for the club prize, amazing job! I know it was a very difficult week but I also hope that it was lots of fun while you were working hard.

To those who came to WRASA……outstanding job pushing through the pain of this week! We are exactly where we want to be in the season plan right now based on times and I am even more excited for the next two weeks because of your awesome swims. 

This week is Hogwarts 2.0. We will be tackling many challenges like finding the Philosopher’s Stone, defeating the Basilisk, saving an innocent man from Dementors, and finding the remaining horcruxes we need to defeat Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Attendance at all but one practice is mandatory for an invitation to the Hogwarts Pizza Party. Come ready with runners and water bottles (even at morning practices) and ready to work hard for another week. 

I am also beyond excited for Heroes and Villains on Wednesday! Remember that this is MANDATORY for the prize and can not be your one skipped practice. Wear your costumes and cheer hard for some House Points for your team!

I am incredibly proud of everyone’s work so far and know that we will be ready for Regionals when it comes in two weeks. One more thing, the secret word is “lumos.” Keep up the awesome work Senior Reds.

See you on the pool deck, 

Coach Alexis

Attention: Intermediate Red Agents 

You have been selected to attend the Top Secret Steveston Spy Academy Training Centre. Over the course of one intensive week, you will be trained and tested on a number of physical and intellectual skills. If you are deemed fit, you will be chosen to complete a top secret mission on 07/19/19. If you accept this mission please meet your squad and academy trainer at Steveston pool on 07/15/19 at 18 30 hours. 

Your training will begin immediately, will be intense and will commence everyday. Only the toughest, smartest, most swift agents will be successful. 

Destroy all evidence of this letter immediately.

Hey Intermediate Whites,

I am so impressed with everyone’s swimming so far this season, we are all working really hard in practice and getting lots of best times at the meets! 

Hell Week is coming up next week and this year our theme is Olympics!! Over the next two weeks, we will be in teams and competing in 14 different Olympic events to find the 2019 Olympic Champions of Intermediate White. I hope all of you try your best to come to as many practices as possible because there will be a club-wide prize at the end of the week. If you want to win this prize you must attend every practice in the first week (July 15 to 19), including the Grouse Grind and the triathlon. Attendance in the second week (July 22-26) and the Heroes vs Villains event is not mandatory to receive the club prize but is still part of Hell Week and will count for points that will help your team win!

Extra points will be awarded during Hell Week if you bring a water bottle and runners to practice so don’t forget them!

If you have any questions come and see me at the pool and I will be happy to answer them.

Coach Hailey

Hey Senior Whites,

Great work this weekend at Hootenanny! Our breakouts looked so much better and lots of us got best times. This week we have been reviewing proper technique for all four strokes. Our attendance these past few weeks has been amazing, keep it up!

Hell week starts Monday July 15^th, and our theme is monopoly. Over the next 2 weeks we will be playing a swimming version of monopoly. Your goal is to have the most meters at the end of both weeks. Here are the basic rules you need to know in order to complete hell week, and win the club prize:

1. Must attend all practices from July 15^th to July 19^th (8 practices)
2. Must attend minimum 6 practices from July 22^nd to July 26^th, can miss one practice this week
3. Must attend grouse grind (July 16^th), triathlon (July 18^th), and heroes vs, villains (July 24^th)
4. Must be on time, and stay for entire practice in order for it to count
5. Must bring a water bottle and runners to every practice
6. Come to all afternoon practices 15 minutes early. Not attending the extra 15 minutes will count as being late to practice.

If you have any questions regarding hell week feel free to email me at erika@kigoos.com.

See you at the pool,

Coach Erika

Hey JD Reds!

Great job on Wednesday at the Kigoos JD meet, we had awesome attendance so many best times!

Next week is the JD Fun Week and our theme for this years fun week is Toy Story 4. Attendance will be taken on one big attendance sheet for all the JDs and at the end of the week we will have a scoops party as the reward for attending practices. We will be giving one ice cream scoop per practice and after you receive two scoops, each additional practice you come to you will earn one extra topping for your ice cream!

On Friday, July 26th (Friday) we will be having the JD triathlon so be sure to bring your bike and a helmet as well as running shoes and of course a swimsuit.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions!

Coach Lucy

Hi Kigoos!

Great job at the Hootenanny! It was exciting to see so many Kigoos in the finals and on the podium at the second biggest meet of the year.

Here is a reminder around relays:  Relays are intended to be a fun, team building experience for swimmers of all groups. The coaches work very hard, often spending hours in advance of the meet building the relays in an attempt to give everyone an opportunity to participate. The relays cards are submitted before the meet begins, and once they are handed in they cannot be edited. If you wish to have your child not participate in a relay, this needs to be indicated in the comment section of the meet sign up and communicated to the coaches in advance of the meet. Thanks everyone for your cooperation in keeping the relays fun for everyone!

This week, the Intermediate Red swimmers will be training hard while polishing our technique and race tactics in preparation for Hell Week which begins on Monday. Our main technique focus of the week will be on underwaters and we will work on utilizing the dolphin kick we have been practicing everyday. The fastest swimmers almost always have the longest underwaters, as fast dolphin kick is generally faster than swimming, so we will work on the rate and duration of our dolphin kick off the wall as the focal point of our training this week. Here you can watch how Michael Phelps blows everyone out of the water with his underwaters, winning the race by over a full body length and smashing the world record. With only four weeks left until Regionals, I hope to see the pool full during the Intermediate Red practices. The season is flying by and every practice counts. The best way for the swimmers to swim fast and reach their goals at the end of the season, is attending practice every day.

Finally, congratulations to the most recent swimmers of the week, Yasmine and Maddy. Yasmine has one of the best attendance in the group and trains smart and very hard everyday. Yasmine constantly challenges herself in practice by choosing difficult intervals, pushing herself through injury and always striving to meet the goals of the set. She asks smart questions and works on applying feedback immediately, and these habits have paid off as she recently took 2 full seconds off her 50 freestyle time in addition to improvements in other strokes.  Maddy has recently shown improvements in her training. She attends practices often and takes ownership for her own improvement by demonstrating an understanding between hard work and results. She thinks critically about the movements she makes in the water, often asking questions to better understand technique and aid in her development.  She has been working hard on her breaststroke and took almost 5 seconds off this weekend. Way to go girls!

Looking forward to a fun weekend in Surrey.

See you at the pool!

Emmy

Hey Junior Reds!

Hey Junior Reds!

Great swims at Hootenanny this weekend, lots of best times and technique improvements.  This is our final week of practice before we head into Hell Week followed by IM Tough Week. It is important to come to practice this week so that we are in good shape to be able to swim hard. (We have had very low attendance lately for morning practice…I know it’s early but please try to come out)

Our main focus this week is High Intensity/ Race Strategy which means being able to hold that top speed through out a race using breathe control, strong kick through out and not losing the water in our catch. It is easy to let our technique fly out the window when we get tired so we must practice good technique and push through when we get tired. Please listen carefully during practice and work hard on your technique corrections as we are approaching Regionals very soon!

Excited to see you guys race at the Surrey meet this weekend!

Coach Kaylyn

Hello Senior Reds!

Incredible job at Hootenanny this weekend! It was our first meet with finals so many of us had to swim all three events twice in a day which took a lot of mental and physical determination – amazing work. 

There are only four weeks left of practices before Regionals, two of which are Hell Week. I HIGHLY encourage everyone to attend as many practices as they can since the biggest area of improvement needed is our physical endurance which can only increase through consistent swimming. Please make an effort to get to the pool this week. This week will be focussed heavily on technique and race tactics (dives, turns, relay takeovers, etc) with some longer sets to increase our endurance and breathing patterns. 

A few reminders:

• Sign up for “Heroes and Villains” when registration opens, it is a mandatory part of our Hell Weeks.
• Sign up for the North Delta swim meet if you can as it is the last one before Regionals!
• The secret word is Shacklebolt.
• Start packing and preparing for the Saltspring meet if you are attending it – double check everything and come to me with any questions!
• Wear runners and bring a water bottle to every practice. 
• Hell Week: start planning rides to the Grouse Grind on Tuesday, July 16th

I’m so proud of all of you and I hope you are proud of yourselves too! We will be looking back at our Goal Sheets from May at sometime this week to review our progress over the season and create a final goal for ourselves. 

See you on the pool deck, 

Coach Alexis