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HIGH SCHOOL/VARSITY TEAM NOW FORMING
Canyons Aquatic Club is now registering for our Varsity program. High School aged swimmers looking to take their swim skills to the next level are invited to join our squad. The Varsity program begins May 19th but you don't have to wait that long. Start now at no extra cost. Varsity fees are $90 a month with no additional fees. Swimmer's signing up now will receive an additional month free! For more details and registration information, click HERE.
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CANYONS SWIMMERS MAKE WAVES AT CIF PRELIMS AND FINALS
Danny Colvin won the CIF Divison IV CIF titles in both the 100 and 50 frees with personal best swims. Danny is the first Canyons swimmer to a CIF title this year, but with swimmers in Divsion II waiting for finals and Divsion III yet to swim, expect more gold from the Canyons kids. 20 Canyons Aquatic swimmers entered the CIF Division II championships preliminaries and 18 will be coming back for finals. Swimming for all six Santa Clarita high schools, Canyons swimmers showed speed and stamina...
To see more details and results click HERE.
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CANYONS SWIMMERS INVADE BUENAVENTURA
Summer isn't even here yet but Canyons kids are making their plans to attend the Summer Age Group Championships and Junior Olympics. To acheive that goal a large group of seasoned and new swimmers hit the water at Bueanventura this week and turned the water blue and gold... READ ABOUT IT HERE.
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COC TO TICKET CARS IN LOT #5
College Of The Canyons has started to ticket cars parked in lot #5. Lot #5 is the parking lot behind the theater. Please be sure to park in lot #8 located near the football field. Remember at no time should you park in a staff parking lot. Click HERE for a parking map
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MEMORIAL DAY SWIM MEET CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
Canyons annual Red White and Blue Memorial Day meet is coming fast. As always we'll need our volunteer army to help us make this another great Canyons event. Please sign-up to volunteer for as many hours as possible. Remember, this is a great way to earn back your Family Commitment funds. To find a job and get the shift you want click:
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Questions? Contact our volunteer coordinator, Debbie Morrison at:debbiem@canyons.org.
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SUMMER SWIM SCHOOL NOW ENROLLING
Canyons Aquatics Swim School, the best place to teach your non-swimmer or beginner how to be water safe and learn to swim, is now accepting erollment for our summer programs. This year Canyons will offer over 65 different classes at a variety of times and dates. Club membership is not required. For more information please contact our swim school instructors at: swimschool@canyons.org. To learn more, see where your swimmer fits into our program and to register, click HERE.
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CANYONS REFERRAL INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Looking for a way to save a few dollars while helping Canyons grow? Just talk about us! Tell your friends about our award swimming program. Tell them about our outstanding swim school. For every person you bring into our swim school program, Canyons will credit your account $5. For every swimmer you bring into our club program (Dolphin and above) we'll credit you 10% of one session's tuition. To make things better, there's no limit (but there are a few rules). To learn more click HERE.
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JORDAN DANNY PICKS UP ANOTHER OLYMPICS TRIALS EVENT!
Jordan Danny earned her second Olympic Trials cut, this time in the 100 Breaststroke as she stroked her way to a 6th place finish at the Swim Meet of Champions at Mission Viejo. Jordan's time of 1:12.34. was just enough to extend her stay this July in Omaha as she competes with the best of the best for a chance to join the US Olympic team.
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NEW PARENT INFO SESSION 5/14
New to Canyons? New to swimming? Bring your questions and get some answers at our new parent information sessions. Our next session will be Wednesday, May 14, at 5:00 on the COC pool deck. Please contact Alice Smith at: alices@canyons.org with questions.
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MOTHERS DAY BLUE GOLD MEET 5/10
A day before you show mom how proud you are of her, let her be proud of you at Canyons first ever Blue and Gold Mother's Day Meet on Saturday, May 10. Canyons invites all Dolphin, Bronze & Silver swimmers to attend the 1/2 day short course meet at our COC Pool. The meet fee is a flat $12. Swimmers can compete in 3 events. Meet time is 10:00. Warm-ups are at 9:00. Please discuss your entries with your coach. Questions? Contact Debbie Morrison at: debbiem@canyons.org. To register, please click HERE.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MOTHERS DAY MEET
Please sign up to help at the Mothers Day BLue Gold meet. As always, volunteering to help at a swim meet earns you hours toward your Family Commitment refund. To take on one of our volunteer jobs click
HERE
In addition, we will need people to time (no Family Commitment for that, just good Karma). To sign up to time click
HERE
Questions? Contact Debbie Morrison at: debbiem@canyons.org.
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OFFICIALS CLINIC 5/10
Are you willing to wear white after Labor Day? Are you looking to take your swimming IQ to the next level? Are you interested in keeping swimming strong in our community? If the answers were "yes", then maybe it's time you became a swim official. On May 10th Canyons will be hosting an officials clinic prior to our Mothers Day Blue Gold Meet. Questions? Contact Coach Jay at: jaya@canyons.org.
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SESSION V REGISTRATION DUE
All Canyons swimmers are reminded that Session V tuition is due at this time. The easiest way to register is via an an e-mail invitation sent out last week. If you did not receive an re-registration e-mail, please send us a note at office@canyons.org and we'll send you a new re-registration link.
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BAJA THANKS!
Thank you to all our swim families and friends for attending our Baja Fresh fundraiser last week. We raised over $300 for the club and everyone ate well! Canyons uses these funds to help the operation of our swim meets. Thanks to Carolyn Johnson and Lisa Cogswell for coordinating our fundraiser dinners!
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CANYONS SWIMMERS PREP FOR LONG COURSE AT CSA
A contingent of Canyons swimmers attended the CSA Long Course opener and came away with impressive results. Aside from three team records broken by Tanner Olson (see below) the club saw numerous time drops and new standards achieved. To read more click HERE.
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TANNER OLSON BREAKS 3 RECORDS
8 year old Tanner Olson continued to make his mark on the 8 & under record books recording 3 records this weekend at the CSA Long Course meet. Tanner captured the 50 Breaststroke record with a 44.91 swim breaking Alex Ngan's 2002 record of 46.08. Tanner then took out the 100 fly record with a 1:32.63 swim eclipsing Riley Mita's 2002 record of 1:36.59. Tanner's final victim was himself as he broke his own team record in the 100 breaststroke (set at last summer's JO meet) with a 1:32.63 effort.
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CANYONSVISION SHORT COURSE VIDEO
With the swim season at the half way point, Canyons Studios brings you the short course highlight reel! Viewable in both quicktime or Windows Media Player. Click HERE to see it in glorious Canyonsvision.
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CANYONS EARNS SILVER MEDAL STATUS
Once again, Canyons Aquatic Club has been awarded Silver Medal status from USA Swimming and their Club Excellence Program. Canyons was one of only four teams in the Southern California Swimming to earn this silver medal honor. The focus of this program is to identify and reward USA Swimming clubs that have attained a high level of athlete performance as well as organizational success. For more information and to see what other teams were honored, click HERE.
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TEAM RECORDS FALL AT SECTIONALS
The California/Nevada Sectionals came to a conclusion, Sunday at Mission Viejo with several impressive Canyons swims including 3 team records. Due to the Olympic year, the meet was a long course event (this is normally the end of the short course season) and several Canyons swimmers resumed right where they left off in August. Breaking records at this meet where Jordan Danny who took out Renee Viveros's 2004, 15 & older, 200 IM record (2:26.48) with her 2:24.61 effort. KT Livingstone also took out a Viveros record as she flew to the 100 butterfly record of 1:04.78 breaking Renee's record 2003 of 1:04.87 set in 2003. Riley Mita broke his own 13-14 800 free record with an 8:52.95 effort.
Read all the meet details HERE.
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CANYONS SWIMMERS TAKE BRONZE AT BAKERSFIELD
Several Canyons swimmers headed north to Bakersfield to compete in the Central California Junior Olympics at the beginning of the March. The results were impressive as always. Swimming with less than 50% of our qualified swimmers, Canyons placed 3rd with 3275.5 points, behind only Bakersfield (4016) and Clovis (3803).
Read all the meet details HERE.
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POOL ACCESS AND SAFTEY CONCERNS
Canyons Aquatic Club has enjoyed a successful 30-year relationship with The College Of The Canyons. Contrary to popular belief, we are not associated with the college beyond our rental of their aquatic facility. As a tenant of the college, Canyons Aquatics strives to be the best tenant we can be. To achieve that goal we need help from all our swimmers and their parents.
Lately, our staff has noticed an increase in unattended children, children wandering out of the pool facility, parents and children cutting through the construction site and a general lack of respect for the premises...
Read all the details HERE.
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57 CANYONS SWIMMERS MAKE A SPLASH FOR THEIR HIGH SCHOOLS
Canyons Aquatic Club is proud to be training 57 high school swimmers competing on 13 different CIF High School programs in 4 different communities. Locally, all six Santa Clarita high schools have Canyons swimmers. Beyond our valley, Canyons swimmers are competing in the San Fernando Valley, Thousand Oaks and The Antelope Valley.
The 57 swimmers are all current choosing to train with Canyons and their high school programs to reap the benefits of intensive club workouts and less crowded lanes. Historically, Canyons swimmers have led their teams and this year we expect no less.
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CANYONS FINISHES SECOND AT JUNIOR OLYMPICS!
Canyons Aquatic Club's combined team finished in second place at the short course Junior Olympics in Belmont Plaza outscoring every Southern California team except Irvine Novaquatics. With gold medal performances in nearly every age group as well as numerous team records broken, Canyons once again has shown the rest of the swimming community what we do here in Santa Clarita...swim fast.
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NOLAN KOON TAKES OUT 200IM RECORD
In reviewing results from the Toyota Grand Prix a few weeks ago, we noticed that Nolan Koon broke the team record in the short course 200IM. Nolan's time of 1:51.42 broke Ryan Parmenter's 1995 team record of 1:52.08. This brings a total of 21 records broken by 9 different swimmers since the start of this season in September
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