Photos from 2011 Conference

You can view photos from the conference by clicking here.

Many thanks to Sarah Alice Lee of Waterbubs for the excellent photos.

If you want a high resolution version of any particular photograph then send me an email with the photo number.

2011 NZSCTA Awards

The award winners announced at the 2011 LMS Awards Dinner are:

• Swim Teacher of the Year
• Rianne Brazier
• Rookie Swim Teacher of the Year
• Rachel Cochran
• Outstanding Swim School
• Millennium Swim School
• Master Teacher (Nan Nevin Award)
• Auriol Rooke
• Open Water Coach of the Year
• Judith Wright
• Provincial Coach of the Year
• Carl Gordon
• SWD Coach of the Year
• Roly Crichton
• Swim School Promotion Award
• Northern Arena
• Coach of the Year
• Gary Hurring
• Swim Club of the Year
• North Shore Swimming

2012 Events

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Conference Web Site
or Contact: info@nzscat.org.nz
or phone (03) 488 6332
 

About Us

The organization is involved in initiatives and projects that support members in developing best practice and professional excellence in the aquatic industry.

Vacancies

We have a range of vacancies for coaches and teachers throughout New Zealand.

 

2012 NZSCTA Conference

The 2012 NZSCTA Conference will be held at the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor in Wellington from the 10th to the 12th May 2012.

The full conference in 2012 will last 3 days. The main conference will be on Friday and Saturday with the Awards Dinner being held on Friday night. This will mean most attendees will be able to save at least one night's accommodation.

The first day (Thursday) will be the increasingly popular Swim School Management Day. The presentations on this day are aimed principally for an audience of swim school owners and managers. The main conference will start on the Friday.

We have managed to reduce the cost this year with an excellent saving for those who register early.

2012 NZSCTA Annual Conference Registration Fee

The registration form for the Conference can be downloaded here.

2012 NZSCTA Swim School Management Day Fee

The registration form for the Management Day can be downloaded here.

Note the big savings to be made by registering early and by attending the whole 3 days. It would also be advantageous to become a member of NZSCTA as the cost of membership is less than the extra cost to attend the conference as a non-member.

Saturday 28 January 2012

FINA posts update to Olympics qualifying procedure

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND--FINA has updated the Swimming qualifying procedures for 2012 Olympics. The qualifying system now posted on the FINA website is dated from November 2011 (updated from February 2011). The majority of the changes between the two posts deal with specifying how swimmers will be ranked for invitations to the Games, for those entering the Olympics either via the Universality spots or via an OST qualification.
Changes to the qualifying system for Swimming posted with this November 2011 update are:
-900 swimmers will now be competition in Swimming. This is up from 850 (the 50 swimmers for the 10K events are no longer part of the pool total).
-Universality: Times will be ranked by the 2012 FINA points. The 150 spots open for Universality will be split evenly between males and females (75 males, 75 females); if there are not 75 of one gender, spots may be allocated to the other gender.
-Swimmers with an Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT, "A" standard), may also swim other events in which they have achieved the Olympic Selection Time (OST, the "B" standard) or faster. [Note: For a country to enter 2 swimmers in an event, both swimmers still need to have both swum an OQT in the event.]
-Relays: Nations must include the swimmer names for their relays when they confirm their intent to the swim relays. For relays that qualified via the 2011 Worlds (top-12), the confirmation due date is May 31, 2012. For those relays qualifying by time outside of the 2011 Worlds, the confirmation deadline is June 11, 2012.
-OST ordering for invitations: Swimmers qualified with OSTs will invited by event rank, with the top-ranked person in each individual event being invited in rounds (so 26 at a time, one from each individual event). When adding 26 exceeds the 900 total spots for Swimming, the group of 26 that includes those that goes over 900 will be ordered by their FINA points and invited up to the point of the 900th swimmers.
-The qualifying period for swimming OQTs or OSTs now ends on June 18, 2012. For OQTs this is a change from July 3, 2012 (i.e. 2 weeks less); for OSTs this is a change from June 1, 2012. Relay qualifying and Universality qualification remains at June 1, 2012.
The November-2011 update to the qualifying system for the 2012 Olympics can be found on the FINA website here: More

EVENTS THIS WEEKEND

Belarus Championships 2012--Brest Monday-Saturday (January 24-28)

Slovenia Winter Championships 2012 [25m]--Maribor Thursday-Sunday (January 26-29) More

Chile Nationals 2012--Santiago Thursday-Sunday (January 26-29)

Sweden 25m Junior Championships 2012--Väsby Thursday-Sunday (January 26-29) More

18th Spain Masters Championships--Castellón Thursday-Sunday (January 26-29)
results: More
meet: More

South Australia Championships 2012--Oaklands Parks, SA Friday-Sunday (January 27-29) More

14th Euro Meet (Luxembourg) Friday-Sunday (January 27-29) More -live video from the meet is available through the meet site

Netherlands 25m Masters Championships 2012--Terneuzen Friday-Sunday (January 27-29)
results: More
info: More

South Africa International 2012--Durban Saturday & Sunday (January 28+29)

6th Portugal Winter Masters Open--Tomar Saturday & Sunday (January 28+29)

FINA 10K series 2012-01: Santos 10K (Brazil) Sunday, January 29 -first of 8 races on the 2012 10K circuit

FINA Open Water Grand Prix 2012-02: Sante Fe-Coronda 57K (Argentina) Sunday, January 29 More -second race of 8 on the FINA's 2012 circuit of Open Water races over 10K

BRIEFS

BRAZIL--From yesterday through tomorrow (January 26-28), the Brazilian Aquatic Sports Confederation, Confederação Brasileira de Desportos Aquáticos (CBDA), is hosting a meeting regarding the direction of Swimming in the country. The meeting is happening in Rio de Janeiro and features over 50 participants. Among those present are CBDA's technical staff related to swimming, representatives from clubs throughout the country, and representatives from the Brazilian Olympic Committee. More

Friday 27 January 2012

BRIEFS

MARIBOR, SLOVENIA--The 2012 Slovenia Winter Championships [25m] began today and continues through Sunday (January 26-29) in Maribor. Results from the meet are available online here: More

SANTIAGO, CHILE--The 2012 Chile Nationals began today and continues through Sunday (January 26-29) in Santiago. Information on the meet is available [in Spanish] here: More

JYVASKYLASSA, FINLAND--Swimming Jyväskylässä will host its second Spring Coaching Seminar on March 18, 2012 in Jyväskylässä. Speaking at the seminar are Matti Alpola and Marko Malvela. Further information, including for registration, can be found online [in Finnish] here: More

TUNISIA--National rankings from Tunisia can be found online [in French] at the link below. The most recent rankings appear to be for their 2010-11 season. More

SWITZERLAND--National rankings for Switzerland for can be found online [in German or French] here: More

NORWAY--National rankings for Norway can be found online [in Norwegian] here: More

Thursday 26 January 2012

FINA posts 2012 Coaches clinics

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND--FINA has begun posting the dates and locations for its coach's clinics in 2012. Listed below are the dates for the Swimming and Open Water coaches clinics that will be held. These dates, along with further information on the clinics as well as clinics being offered to officials and in the other Aquatics disciplines, can be found on the FINA site here: More
Note: no Swimming or Open Water clinics are currently listed for Europe.
----Swimming Coaches clinics----
January 29-February 12 - Doha, Qatar
February 16-26 - Blantyre, Malawi
February 20-26 - Castries, Saint Lucia
February 27-March 4 - Lilongwe, Malawi
March 6-10 - Maputo, Mozambique (officials also)
April 21-26 - Tehran, Iran
April 27-May 2 - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
May 29-June 3 - San Salvador, El Salvador
June 4-13 - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
June 9-15 - Lima, Peru
November 5-11 - Islamabad, Pakistan
to be confirmed:
-first half of 2012 - American Samoa
-first half of 2012 - Brazzaville, Congo
-first half of 2012 - Kuwait
-first half of 2012 - Marshall Islands
-first half of 2012 - Palau
-first half of 2012 - Papua New Guinea
-first half of 2012 - Samoa
-first half of 2012 - Tahiti
-first half of 2012 - Thailand
-first half of 2012 - Tonga
-second half of 2012 - Guam
-second half of 2012 - Kenya
-second half of 2012 - Kampala, Uganda
-Iran (second clinic)
-Pakistan (second clinic)
-Damascus, Syria
----Open Water clinics----
February 15-19 - San Salvador, El Salvador
August 15 - Welland, Canada
to be confirmed:
-first half of 2012 - Dakar, Senegal - Indonesia
Individuals interested in attending a clinic should contact the national federation hosting the clinic.

Additional 2011 national rankings sites

FORT LAUDERDALE, USA--Yesterday we began a listing of places where 2011 national rankings can be found online. Listed yesterday (and not repeated today) were: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Spain, and the USA. Additional countries are below.
Austria (searchable, and by category) More
Belarus More
Belgium More
Czech Republic (by age category) More
Denmark More
Estonia
50m-male: More
50m-female: More
25m-male: More
25m-female: More
Hungary More
Morocco (for 2010-11) More
Netherlands More
Poland More
Sweden More

BRIEFS

SWEDEN--For the second year in a row, Johan Wallberg was named Coach of the Year by the Swedish Swimming Federation, Svenska Simförbundet, at their 2011 awards earlier this month. Coach Wallberg's work with 2011 Female Swimmer of the Year Therese Alshammar was cited in the awarding. Male swimmer honors went to Lars Frölander. A full list of award recipients, which includes junior swimmers, divers, water polo players and synchro swimmers of the year, can be found online here: More

MUSCAT, OMAN--The Asia Swimming Federation (AASF) has posted that the 9th Asian Swimming Championships will be held November 15-21, 2012 in Dubai, UAE. The 5th Asian Open Water Championships are also to be held in 2012, in Bahrain, however, the dates for the completion have not yet been set. More

Wednesday 25 January 2012

2011 national rankings posted

FORT LAUDERDALE, USA--Several national federations now post annual national rankings on their websites. Some of these (for 2011) can be found online here:
-Australia (top-25s for Men/Women and Boys/Girls) More
-Brazil (top-25s by age category, including an "open" listing) More
-Canada (top-10s by age category, including an "open" listing)
 Males: More
 Females: More
-France (searchable) More
-Germany
 --one list (top-25):
  50m: More
  25m: More
 --searchable: More
-Great Britain (searchable) More
-Italy (searchable) More
-Russia
 -50m women: More
 -50m men: More
 -50m girls: More
 -50m boys: More
 -25m women: More
 -25m men: More
-South Africa (top-100 rankings for 2010-11 and 2011-12 (May-April)) More
-Spain (searchable) More
-USA (searchable) More
Also, European rankings are available online here: More

BRIEFS

NETHERLANDS--FINA honorary member Klaas van de Pol died yesterday; he was 87 years old. Van de Pol served as FINA's Treasurer from 1980-1992; is a past-president of the European Swimming League (LEN), and was chair of the Royal Dutch Swimming Federation, Koninklijke Nederlandse Zwembond (KNZB), from 1978-1991. More and More

BONN, GERMANY--IPC Swimming has announced that it will hold its 2012 courses for Educators and Classifiers in May in Troisdorf, Germany. The Educators course will be held May 7-9 and will be opened to invited classifiers. The Classifiers course will be May 10-12 and is open to all classifiers. Application deadline for the courses is March 3. Further information can be found on the IPC Swimming website here: More

MONTREAL, CANADA--The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) last week announced the suspension of accreditation for isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) testing at the accredited lab in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The suspension is effective for 6 months, beginning January 18, 2012. The Rio lab remains accredited to do other types of doping tests More

HUNGARY--Earlier this month Dávid Verrasztó was issued a suspended ban by the Hungary Swimming Association, Magyar Úszó Szövetség (MÚSZ). Verrasztó is banned for 9 months; however the ban is suspended for 2 years, and he can still compete prior to that ban starting. More

Tuesday 24 January 2012

FINA Anti-Doping Report More

Doping Offence - Abdul Rehaman Al Bader (KUW)
On October 19, 2011, a swimmer Abdul Rehaman Al Bader (KUW) was tested positive to the substance Methylhexaneamine (Class S.6 Stimulants) following a doping control test conducted with the occasion of the 1st GCC Games-Bahrain 11.
The Kuwait Anti-Doping Disciplinary Commission (KADDC) imposed a sanction of 6 months’ ineligibility on the athlete starting on October 19, 2011.

BRIEFS

ROSARIO, ARGENTINA--Argentina's Cecilia Biagoli (2:24:28) and France's Julien Sauvage (2:23:59) were the top female and male finishers yesterday at the Rosario 15K: the first stop of the 201 FINA Open Water Grand Prix series. In total, 24 swimmers swam in the race; results are available on the FINA website here: More

Saturday 21 January 2012

ARG: 33 for South American Championships

ARGENTINA--The Argentina Aquatic Sports Confederation, Confederación Argentina de Deportes Acuáticos (CADDA), has named a 33-swimmer team for the 2012 South American Championships, which are in March in Belém, Brazil. Team members for Swimming and Open Water are:
-males (17): Marcos Barale, Guillermo Bertola, Martín Carrizo, Lucas Del Piccolo, Rodrigo Frutos, Federico Grabich, Diego Lupacchini, Facundo Miguelena, Martín Naidich, Gustavo Pascheta, Esteban Paz, Lucas Peralta, Juan Martín Pereyra, Maximiliano Rinaldi, Gastón Rodriguez, Luciano Sales Rubio, and Gabriel Villagoitz.
-females (16): Julia Arino, Mijal Asís, Georgina Bardach, Virginia Bardach, Cecilia Bertoncello, Cecilia Biagioli, Nadia Colovini, Malena Coschiza, Belén García Nuñez, Florencia Mazzei, Nazarena Metti, Julia Sebastián, Manuela Morano, Florencia Perotti, Lara Rodriguez Añido, and Aixa Triay.
-coaches (7): Alberto Santiago, Gustavo Langone, Claudio Biagioli, Federico Rossi, Hector Sosa, Raúl Strnad and Adrián Tur.

EVENTS THIS WEEKEND

FFN Winter International 2012--Nancy (France) Friday & Saturday (January 20+21) More

Panama Nationals 2012--Panama City Friday-Sunday (January 20-22)

45th Geneva International (Switzerland) Friday-Sunday (January 20-22) More

Catalan Championships 2012--Barcelona (Spain) Friday-Sunday (January 20-22) More

FINA Open Water Grand Prix 2012-01: Rosario 15K (Argentina) Sunday, January 22

BRIEFS

VANCOUVER, CANADA--The Canadian Swimming Coaches & Teachers Association (CSCTA) has honored over 100 coaches with Excellence awards for 2011. A list of recipients can be on the CSCTA website here: More

BEERWAH, AUSTRALIA--The Australian Swimming Coaches & Teachers Association (ascta) has launched online registration for the 2012 ascta Convention, which is April 24-May 1 in Broadbeach, Queensland. A copy of the convention program has also been posted. Links to both can be found on the ascta website here: More

AUSTRALIA--Two of Australia's 7 annual state championships are this week: Western Australia and Tasmania. The 2012 Western Australia Championships began on Monday and continue through tomorrow (January 17-21) in Perth, while the 2012 Tasmania Championships are tomorrow and Sunday (January 21+22) in Hobart. The meets follow on last week's Victoria Championships, and December's Queensland Championships. South Australia has its meet next weekend in Adelaide, New South Wales at the beginning of February, and the Northern Territories in early March. Results/further information from the meets this week are available here:
WA: More
TAS: More

PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS--FINA Bureau member Chief Olatokunbo Thomas is reportedly in the Indian Ocean island-nation of Mauritius this week, meeting with the country's Youth & Sport Ministry in an attempt to resolve issues facing the Mauritius Swimming Federation. Thomas is also there to observe the federation's annual meeting which is scheduled for today (Friday) and the officer election that is to be part of the meeting. More

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