Third Monday of January is commonly known as Blue Monday. Coming down from the highs of the holidays, back to school/work, and weather changes, add the continuing COVID pandemic, the middle of January can make you feel a little down. Here is a list of 101 Positive Affirmations to help lift your spirits. Positive Self-Talk help you to build confidence and self-esteem, reduce stress, feel more in control of events in your life, and achieve your goals. It says for kids, but coaches and parents can also benefit from these!...

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Hello SKSC Families. We are excited to share with you a new fundraising opportunity for the 2021/2022 season! This program is designed to allow families to fundraise money both directly into their child’s (family) account and help the club fundraise for additional expenses, without having to spend extra money or sell anything! By changing your spending habits and using the “Flipgive Platform”. Flipgive is an online platform that gives a percentage back on all online purchases, including gift cards. Full details of this program, please see SKSC FlipGive Policy and...

Happy New Year!! We wish you all a great start to the new year and to help set you off on the right foot, please see a list of reminders and tips for this time of year. Just a reminder, Practices All groups are running as regularly scheduled starting Monday, January 3rd as youth sport practices remain unaffected by the current PHO. For any future PHO orders, we will email out in the event of any changes that do affect workouts and we appreciate parents' patience around notification as we...

To All SKSC Swimmers, While the Guildford facility is undergoing some minor repairs, for the safety of all swimmers, please use the following procedure to access Guildford pool over the next several weeks. AM Workouts: Drop off at bottom (pool) parking lot and swimmers walk to back door (usual AM entry door) Note there is no access to the pool parking lot itself Swimmers are dropped off at the chain gate and walk across the parking lot to the back door. Please allow extra time at drop off to make...

Our Knights attended the Richmond Fastswim for the last meet of 2021. This meet gave our provincial and divisional qualifiers in Youth Performance, Junior Performance and High Performance Red the opportunity to race heats and finals to finish out the year. A big congratulations to all the swimmers and a huge thank you to all the families that stuck around for finals, especially our alternates. Your actions showed a dedication to your commitment and performance and will help you be better athletes in the future. Congratulations to Channiel Lai and...

We had over 60 swimmers participate in our last day of swimming development race night! Both sessions ran successfully with the help of our parent volunteers. The coaches were pleasantly surprised with the amount of progress the swimmers have made from our November race night. The Mini-knights and Bronze groups kicked off the night with some speedy 50m races. Many brave swimmers even started the race with a dive off the big blocks! Diving off the blocks is a huge advantage to starting a race to be as fast as...

This year's OJI swim meet was smaller in numbers (due to covid) from previous years, however lots of great performance were obtained from the swimmers in attendance. With 64 teams and approx 220 swimmers participating, the meet was a great test run for SKSC swimmers that attended for travel and hotel protocols during covid. While difficult to travel at this time of year, it is important for all SKSC swimmers, to attend the right swim meet in December and get the opportunity to rehearse both mentally and physically skills obtained...

Spartan LMR Meet A small contingent of Knights made the trek out to Chilliwack for the Spartan LMR this past weekend. The coaches were pleased overall with the performances of those swimmers who committed to the meet. A big thank you to the parents and families for supporting their swimmers to attend this event! Swimmers who have been committing to the work and skills in workout really stood out to all the coaches! Congratulations to Vincent O for reaching his LMR Championship standard in the 200IM for 11-12 year olds....

Congratulations to the 8 swimmers that attended the VPSC Winter Invitational swim meet this past weekend. This event, which took place at the UBC Aquatic Centre, featured some of the top age group swimmers in Western Canada. Our own swimmers achieved a great many best times throughout the weekend and each of them participated in at least one finals swim. A special shout out to Izzy Seneviratne for achieving her Western Standard in 1500 Freestyle with a time of 18:08.03, and narrowly missing in the 200 Fly with a time...