Promoting Excellence by Providing Resources to Support and Empower the North Carolina Swimming Community.
Three NCS officials have been invited to serve at the 2020 Olympic Trials for Swimming. These officials, who are being offered positions on the assigned team of officials, were chosen after an extensive selection process that included recommendations from their peers, officiating history at the local and national level, and commitment to the sport.
Congratulations to Lisa Olack, Trish Martin, and Wayne Shulby.
Below is the link for the application to serve as an official during the 2020 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. The deadline is 5 p.m. Eastern time Monday, October 14 for submitting the application and passing the rules test (swimming officials only). Please share this information with anyone else who may be interested in serving as a swimming or diving official for the 2020 NCAA championships. Rules questions and/or interpretations should be directed to Greg Lockard, secretary-rules editor at greg@swimdiverules.com. If you have questions regarding the NCAA official’s application, feel free to contact me at rhale@ncaa.org. Thank you.
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REMINDER:
If you would like to propose legislation for the NCS Fall HOD meeting on September 22, 2019 in Greensboro, please mark up the existing Rule or By-Law with the proposed wording and submit your proposal to Wayne Shulby wayne.shulby@gmail.com using the HOD Legislation Template below. The deadline for submitting legislation is August 3, 2019.
Send in your nomination for the 2019 Phillips 66 Outstanding Service Award!
Below is the form for submitting your nomination for the 2019 Phillips 66 Outstanding Service Award. Each year North Carolina Swimming has the opportunity to select a recipient for this Award. The award, sponsored by Phillips 66, is presented to a volunteer in each LSC in recognition of service to swimming. Recipients of the Outstanding Service Award are selected by the LSC and receive the award and an Outstanding Service Award pin. Please email your completed nomination form to pfrith@mac.com by August 15, 2019. The winner of the Phillips 66 Service Award will be selected by the Awards committee and announced during the NCS Awards Banquet and at the HOD meeting the weekend of September 21-22.
2019 NCS Phillips 66 Outstanding Service Award Nomination Form
Help recognize those who go above and beyond in their service to the sport of swimming.
So what is YOUR CLUB waiting for?
A little more than a year ago, a group of NCS athletes took the initiative to produce a video on the importance of Safe Sport in their world of swimming. Fast forward to today and Safe Sport has to be the most talked about subject on the pool deck and for good reason. Nothing is more important than creating and maintaining a safe, healthy, and positive environment for our athletes and all members of USA Swimming. To that end, an important step is to become a Safe Sport Recognized Club.
Following on the heels of the Cape Fear Aquatic Club, High Point Swim Club recently received their badge of honor as a USA Swimming Safe Sport Recognized Club. According to HPSC CEO/Head Coach Aaron Reeves, “most clubs have many of the required elements already in place and it only takes a minimal effort to complete the process.”
I want to thank both clubs for taking the initiative to upgrade their policies and procedures, and enhance the Safe Sport education of their athletes and all of their members on this very important program.
If you have questions, please contact the NCS Safe Sport and Safety Coordinator – Rebecca Landre (safetychair@ncswim.org) or visit the Safe Sport page on the NCS website.
For additional information on the Safe Sport Recognition Program click the following link:
USA Swimming Safe Sport Recognized Club Program
Dave Olack: General Chair, North Carolina Swimming
IMPORTANT NEWS for your ATHLETES:
All USA Swimming athlete members 18 years of age or older MUST take the free online Athlete Protection Training certification by JUNE 23rd to retain their USA Swimming membership and be eligible to participate in USA Swimming sanctioned meets, club practices, and other activities.
Athletes can access training here: www.USASwimming.org/APT
From now on, athletes must take the APT training within 30 days of their 18th birthday. All Adult Athletes must take the APT every twelve months to retain their USA Swimming membership.
Click here to view a Q&A with additional information or go to
www.ncswim.org/maapp.
Contact Safetychair@ncswim.org or Registrar@ncswim.org with other questions.
Elizabeth McDevitt (YBAC) and Harley Van Luvender (RSA) represented Team USA at the 13th International School Federation World Swimming Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 20-22. YBAC Coach David McDevitt served as Head of the Delegation for Team USA.
High School Students from 18 different countries participated in the 13th edition of the meet. Both girls were part of Team USA’s five-member Girl’s Select team. Countries represented at the meet included: Belgium Flanders, Brazil, Chile, China, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
Harley took 15th in the 100 Back, 13th in the 100 Breaststroke, 12th in the 50 Backstroke, and 17th in the 100 Free.
Elizabeth placed 8th in the 100 Fly, 7th in the 50 Butterfly and 13th in the 50 free, as well as part of Team USA 400 Free and 400 Medley Relay Teams that placed 5th. She also placed 15th in prelims of the 200 IM but was not allowed to swim in finals since only two swimmers per country were permitted to swim in finals.
The girls finished the meet with the Friendship Relay where four 62-person teams were made up of all participants from all the countries.
USA Swimming Member clubs are required to implement the USA Swimming Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy (MAAPP) in full by June 23, 2019. MAAPP contains five sections: one-on-one interactions, travel, social media and electronic communications, locker rooms and changing areas and massage, rubdowns and athletic training modalities. Click the link below for the Policy and other education materials.
July
Can Ams cancelled as Para-swimming program evolves
Swimming Canada and U.S.
Paralympics Swimming have cancelled the upcoming Can Am Para-swimming
Championships in light of the rescheduling of the World Para Swimming
Championships.
The Can Ams were originally set for July 12-14 in Vancouver, just before the
previously scheduled world championships. Malaysia was stripped of the world
championships hosting rights after the Malaysian government failed to provide
the International Paralympic Committee with the necessary guarantees that
Israeli Para-swimmers could participate safely and free from discrimination.
World Para Swimming announced last week that London would host, with the dates
pushed back to Sept. 9-15.
“With the worlds being stripped from Malaysia, moved to London, and rescheduled
for September, the July Can Ams were no longer a fit for our athletes’ training
schedules,” said Wayne Lomas, Swimming Canada’s Associate High Performance
Director. “This significant change in the international calendar necessitated a
change in our domestic programming for Team Canada and our partners with U.S.
Paralympics.”
Canada’s teams for worlds, as well as the Parapan Am Games set for Aug.
23-Sept. 1 in Lima, Peru, will now target the Canadian Swimming Championships
as a tune-up opportunity. That fully integrated championship meet is set for
Aug. 8-11 in Winnipeg.
“Having a major domestic championships meet in close proximity to both the
Parapan Ams and world championships means that all 31 of Canada’s swimmers who
will represent us this summer will compete at the last meet of the domestic
year, offering swimmers and their coaches an important practice run before the
major events,” Lomas said.
Swimming Canada will continue to evaluate the role of the Can Ams, a series of
meets for Para-swimmers hosted in partnership with U.S. Paralympics Swimming.
These meets have provided high-level competition opportunities for Canadian and
American Para-swimmers, and attracted other international competitors. One of
the Can Am meets formerly served as the main selection meet for that year’s
major international competition, but Swimming Canada replaced this function in
2016 with full integrated Trials for its Olympic and Paralympic program teams.
