On May 1st eleven Waterloo Synchro swimmers and their coach boarded a plane for Victoria, B.C. for the 2012 Canadian Open National Synchronized Swimming Championships and 6 days later they flew home as National Champions, twice over. Members of the Senior Technical and Free teams have had a perfect season to date, winning Gold at both Provincial Trials and Provincial Championships, as well as the Eastern Canadian Divisional Championships earlier this season. However, it wasn’t until the Canadian Open that …
This past weekend Waterloo Synchro sent 3 routines to the Variety Village Invitational and had tremendous success! Just 2 short weeks ago, the 10U duet (Cassidi Clairmont & Jadyn Brooks) swam their way to a fabulous 4th place finish at the Hilton Worldwide Invitational. Very proud of their performance, but looking to improve, the swimmers and their coach came back to practice, re-evaluated their routine and made a few changes. Their hard work paid off! Up against the all the …
This past weekend Waterloo Synchro swimmers competed at the Hilton Worldwide Invitational Championships held at York University and once again came home with more gold medals than any other club in attendance! Taking a total of 10 podium placing, 5 of those gold, put Waterloo Synchro on top again this weekend. Gold medal performance were swum by: 11-12 yr Team: Anna Guenther, Isabelle Ly, Syndey Maresse, Avery Noll, Leeah Toner and Jessica Wormald 11-12 Duet: Jasmine Myers & Maggie Steinbach …
Two weeks ago, 12U swimmers from across 3 teams in our club came together to learn a routine for the National Espoir Pilot Qualifier. This year, as part of a pilot test, two 12U teams from each province will be attending the Espoir National Championships. Our Waterloo swimmers worked very hard for just a few practices and had an amazing and clean swim at the qualifying event. Unfortunately they were up against teams that have been together for 8 months …
On April 14th, the top swimmers from across the Province came to our pool in Elmira for the 2nd, and final phase, in the 2012 Provincial Team Trials. Waterloo Synchro proudly had 7 swimmers taking part in the event. It was a long and gruelling day that started at 7am and didn’t end until 7pm (special thanks to the officials who donated their time to help select the teams). At the end of the day, WRSSC placed 4 swimmer on …
The Western Ontario region, which includes 6 clubs from Burlington, Brantford, Guelph, London, and KW, was painted purple and gold this weekend! The Waterloo Synchro Club, who’s identifying colour is purple, brought home 11 gold medals from the Western Ontario Regional Championships held in Elmira on March 24-25. That’s double the gold medals than any other club in the region, proving once again that Waterloo Synchro is the place to be. Swimmers travel from as far away as Guelph, Brantford, …
On March 8-11, three teams (22 athletes) headed to Base Borden for the 2012 Ontario Winter Games and came home with 2 golds! Ontario Winter Games is a bi-annual event held for over 2200 athletes in 25 different sports and one that only the top athletes in the each sport qualify to attend. Waterloo Synchro is very proud to say that we had two (2) of the 7 participating teams in the 13-15 events and one (1) of the 8 …
Nineteen Waterloo Synchro swimmers were in Quebec City for the Eastern Canadian Divisional Championships March 6-11. The swimmers were among close to 400 athletes from across Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces who attended the Championships in hopes of qualifying for Nationals in May. The WRSSC Senior Tech and Senior Free routines both captured Gold and are headed to Canadian Open Nationals in BC in May along with the Junior Fina team who narrowly missed the podium with a …
It was a fantastic weekend at Ontario Provincial Championships in Etobicoke for our National level teams this weekend! Waterloo Synchro teams competed in 4 separate routine events over the weekend and not only did all 4 qualify for Eastern Canadian Divisional Championships in March, but the Sr. Tech team and the Sr, Free team also brought home Provincial Gold in their respective events! The Junior Fina team captured a 4th place finish and the 13-15 Fina team narrowly missed the podium and …
“It doesn’t get better than this”. That’s what everyone at the Waterloo Regional Synchro Club is saying after this past weekend! January 29th was a day like no other! Hosting their first competition in their new facility in Elmira, the Waterloo Regional Synchro Club felt the rush of excitement! Not only were they host to the West region qualifier, both the Central and East regions competed in their qualification round at the home of Waterloo Regional Synchro as well! As …
