Toronto Synchronized Swimming Club

At Toronto Synchro Club every season we award athletes of distinction in our competitive program in the following 5 categories:

• Rookie of the Year
• Most Improved
• Burrows Award
• Coaches Award
• Kathryn J. Edwards Award

Check out the descriptions along with previous Toronto Synchro recipients of these awards and runner ups. The 2011-2012 season athlete recipients will be awarded at the TSSC Year End BBQ on June 13th 2012.

New this year was the awarding of an Athlete of the Year from Synchro Ontario to each club. Toronto Synchro Swimming Club nominated Mali Tse as the recipient of this award for the 2011-2012 season. It was awarded to her at the OOAGSSC banquet. Congrats!

Rookie of the Year To be awarded to a swimmer who is new to the competitive program. This swimmer displayed outstanding strength, determination, and commitment throughout the year. She has shown initiative and great personal achievement.

2011 Winner: Alexandra-Philp Reeves

2011 Runner Up: Kali Karos

Toronto Synchronized Swimming Club - 2012-12013 Try Outs and Team Placement

Please register by emailing torontosynchro@gmail.com by June 10th 2012 with the following information: Athletes Full Name, Complete Birthdate (D/M/Y), Parents Name, Parents Email

Where: University of Toronto – 50 Metre Pool 55 Harbord Street Toronto, ON M5S 2W6

When:

Tuesday June 12, 2012 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Thursday June 14,2012 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Friday June 15,2012 6:30pm – 9:00pm

What to Bring:

Land – T-shirt, shorts and running shoes

Water – Swimsuit, cap, goggles, noseplugs, towel

Assessing:

Flexibility | Strength | Cardio Endurance | Speed | Basic Swimming Skills

Synchro Figure Skills | Synchro Routine Skills

Why: We are looking to assess all athletes who want to be a part of our competitive programs in the 2012-2013 season.

Inquiries: Please contact Head Coach Paisley McNair torontosynchro@gmail.com

* No assessment fees to try out, placements will be sent out in July 2012

** Because this is a busy time of the year we do know that there are conflicts. Ideally athletes will be able to attend all 3 assessment dates. If you have a known conflict and are planning to attend please email torontosynchro@gmail.com

This past weekend synchro athletes from across the province of Ontario came out to compete at the Ontario Open Age Group Synchronized Swimming Championships at the Etobicoke Olympium Pool. Toronto Synchro Club sent 31 athletes to this competition to compete with 6 outstanding routines and brought home 2 silvers, a Fourth and Fifth place, and a lot of personal bests.

Starting the weekend off with spacing on Thursday morning everyone took to Etobicoke early in their TSSC blue for a full dress rehearsal. In the evening athletes gathered for the annual banquet where the girls along with their coaches had a great time dancing, dining and enjoying the chance to celebrate the past season with each other.

Mali Tse from the Green Team was awarded Athlete of the Year and nominations for Coach of the Year went to Amanda Cira of the Blue Team and Volunteer of the Year to Kirstin Sixt for her efforts in pulling off the TSSC Rec Meet back in February along with numerous other projects in previous years for the club. Congratulations!

Friday was filled with figures from 7am – 9:30pm at night! Our athletes took to the pool in their respective age group categories to compete and leave it all in the pool. So many set personal bests in the pool and it was great to see so many of our athletes really own up to their training this season and making every figure count. A special note to Erin O’Neil who took home silver in AWD figures.

Saturday morning the entire club had one final practice at UofT. A pump up practice and an opportunity for some last-minute camaraderie amongst our athletes. This practice helped work out a lot of nerves and set us up for success in the afternoon at the Olypium.

Off to gelling parties the two 11-12 age group teams arrived at the pool first to compete. Competing against 23 teams across Ontario the Gold Team coached by Kim Davis finished in 18th place and Blue Team coached by Amanda Cira finished right behind them in 19th place. Both teams had phenomenal swims and set our older girls up for a successful evening at the pool. With both teams being some of the youngest registered in the age group category it is amazing to see how close the competition was for all of the teams with only a couple of points separating them all.

Shortly after our 13-15 year old teams hit the water to compete. First up was the Purple Team coached by Emily Hamilton and Danielle LoPresti. Competing in the same category the Green Team coached by Nicole Lowden and Julia Thornton swam near the end of the age group. With both teams having clean, strong swims with tons of great facial expressions and charisma the teams walked away finishing in 20th and 22nd respectively in their age group. The Purple Team was the youngest registered team in the category and can look forward to several more years in this age group category. Many athletes on the Green Team have a couple more years in this category as well to and we look forward to seeing the great momentum they picked up near the end of this season continue on into next!

Finals on Sunday closed off with a lot of touching moments. Erin O’Neil competed her Athletes with Disability Solo coached by Ellen Wakarchuk and Melinda Jacobs. To put it simply her swim was phenomenal. Faced with a lot of personal adversity this past season Erin’s swim was inspiring and also brought home a silver medal! It was presented to her by members of the Canadian Olympic Team headed to the London 2012 Olympics! Check it out!

Closing off the competition in the final team event with the last draw of the day was our resident White Team coached by Laura Mouck and Valarie Hould-Marchand. Swimming their snake routine to crowd roaring applause the team took home a fifth in routine and fourth in championship out of 9 teams.

Congratulations to all of our competitive athletes, coaches and parents at TSSC! We hope that you continue to enjoy the company of each other for the remaining few weeks of this season and we’re looking forward to seeing some final great swims at the Watershow from everyone and Trilliums for our youngest swimmers before the seasons done. For full results click here!

At the Ontario Age Group Championships Sunday May 20th 2012 Jo-Annie Fortin, Karine Thomas, Tracy Little and Erin Wilson from the Canadian national team will spend the afternoon signing autographs at the Etobicoke Olympium Pool.

Be sure to come & get a picture with them, and wish them luck in London at the 2012 Olympic Games!

Check out more info in the Synchro On Newsplash Volume 1 No. 6 (1)

Hey TSSC Parents!

Whether you’re looking to master your gell job skills, or just starting to wrap your head around what it is – click below to find the TSSC guide to gelling!

TSSC Gelling

All recreational, pre-competitive and competitive programs will be gelling for the June 3rd 2012 Toronto Synchro Club watershow!

Here is a great link to a helpful article as well.

This past weekend our two Toronto Synchro Club pre-competitive teams went to their first ever routine meet in Oshawa, ON. This was an exciting competition and the girls swam hard and performed extremely well.

Our 9-10 year old team coached by Ellen Wakarchuk ended up 10^th with a score of 42.5833 and our 11-12 year old team coached by Laura Mouck came 3^rd with a score of 50.6667.

Congratulations to both of these teams and keep up the great work!

Toronto Synchro club is hosting our annual TRY SYNCHRO NIGHTS! We encourage everyone – boys, girls, men & women aged 6+ to come out and give it a try. These nights are all FREE instruction based swims provided by our awesome TSSC coaches. There will be fun lessons and games on land and in the water to get more familiar with what is synchro. See below the dates, times and locations for the 5 FREE days to Try Synchro dates. Everyone who participates will walk away with a TSSC bracelet.

If you are interested come join! We ask that you email torontosynchro@gmail.com with the following information to let us know you’re coming.

Your full name

Your child’s full name

Your child’s birth date

Your child’s current earned swimming level

TSSC TRY SYNCHRO 2012 DATES

• Sunday May 27^th 2012 – Holland Bloorview from 6:30-8pm
• Monday May 28^th 2012 – Central Tech from 6:30pm – 8:00pm
• Monday June 4^th 2012 – Central Tech from 6:30-8pm
• Tuesday June 12^th 2012 – UofT 50 M Pool 6:30-8pm
• Thursday June 14^th 2012 – Leaside Pool 6:30-8pm