Olivier Risk and Coach Nico Make a Splash at Best Fest in Mallorca On Wednesday Olivier Risk and Coach Nico made their way to the picturesque island of Mallorca to participate in the highly anticipated Best Fest competition. Best Fest is known for being Europe’s number one open water swimming festival which offers seven different events including an open water 4 x 500m relay. Olivier and Coach Nico were selected as part of the Pan-Canada Provincial Distance and Open Water Camp. The first few days in Mallorca have included camp...

ROCS Defends Home Turf Twice in May The month of May was very busy for the ROCS swimmers! Our team hosted local clubs for the first time in four years at our 8th Annual Go the Distance Night & Long Course Pentathlon and then hit the pavement biking and running at the Somersault Early Bird triathlon. Both events were held at Carleton University on back-to-back weekends. The ROCS meet was designed to encourage our swimmers to develop their aerobic freestyle skills (distance 800m/1500m events) as well as strengthen their individual...

ROCS at 2023 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials Two members of our Senior White group are in Toronto this week to compete at the 2023 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials hosted at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre March 28th to April 2nd. There will be over 600 swimmers and 148 clubs from across the country at this competition. Logan Milne and Olivier Risk along with Coach Nico are representing ROCS at this competition. ROCS alumni William Risk is attending and representing University of Victoria Vikes. Several national team members are attending...

Success at Provincials We want to tell you of the success that four of our swimmers had this past weekend in Scarborough at the Ontario Swimming Championships. This event featured some of the top swimmers from across the province from more than 100 participating clubs. Over the weekend our athletes: Louis, Logan, and Olivier from Senior White, and Arthur from Senior Red, combined to go best times in 17 of 21 eligible individual swims! This is a fantastic rate for a provincial level competition, where there are over 100 entrants...

Big Time Drops in Kingston We had some great competition the weekend of February 24-26th featuring 45 of our swimmers that we wanted to highlight for all of you. Coaches Amanda, Hanna, and Bruce, descended to Queen’s University pool for the Kingston Blue Marlins Heats & Finals Finale. This invitational offered one day of preliminaries and finals for our 13 & over swimmers. For many of our 12 & under swimmers this was the first invitational with travel. Everyone did an awesome job representing ROCS! The atmosphere on deck was...

Provincial Championships Circuit Final Stop Four members of our Senior White group are heading west this weekend to compete at the Ontario Swimming Championships being hosted at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre March 2-5, 2023. Arthur Galiano, Logan Milne, Louis Lalonde, and Olivier Risk along with Coach Nico are representing ROCS at this competition that is hosting over 500 swimmers from across the province. At this meet, swimmers will be vying for a position in the A final which is based on the top 10 results from the morning...

Bar Set High at Youth-Junior Champs ROCS had five swimmers competing at the Winter Ontario Youth-Junior Championships this past weekend at the Etobicoke Olympium. It was the first time for Ben, Isabella, Nolan, Ryan and Tyler at this provincial level competition and they did a fantastic job representing the team. The group had 100% best times including relay performances. Coach Nico said that he was “very proud of how they stepped up and raced against some of the best swimmers in the province.” (Left to right: Coach Nico, Ben, Nolan,...

Provincial Championships Kick off With Youth-Junior Champs Five members of our Senior White group are heading west this weekend to compete at the Ontario Youth Junior Championships being hosted at the Etobicoke Olympium February 16-19th. Isabella Dean, Tyler Laliberté, and Nolan Oma achieved their first-ever qualification for this meet at the Regional Championships in Belleville. They are joined by other first-time qualifier Ben Thomson and Ryan Ait mamar, both who qualified earlier in the season. At this meet, swimmers will be vying for a position in the A final which...

Many Firsts at the ROCS Time Trial This past Saturday ROCS held a time trial for all swimmers in the club. Time trials are a great opportunity to try new events. The environment and crowd are friendly and the home pool advantage is strong. In addition, to motivate swimmers to finish strong to the wall, we had a prize table for swimmers who won a “bell” or “gong” prize - though in this case the noisemaker was a cowbell! The coaches were very pleased with how well our swimmers approached...

ROCS Heats up the Pool on Frigid Weekend This past weekend ROCS sent 28 swimmers to the Eastern Ontario Regional Championships in Belleville and 6 swimmers to the Performance Camp and Race Weekend in Nepean. The cold temperatures did not deter our swimmers from bringing the heat to their competitors all weekend long! Our 6 swimmers (Olivier, Logan, Ryan, Louis, Ben and Arthur) who stayed in Ottawa, participated in two long course racing opportunities as well as a mental training session with Olympian Brittany MacLean. During her mental training session,...