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Victoria Synchro had athletes, parents and

board members representing the club at

this year’s summit Oct 12-14 in Burnaby.

There were sessions and seminars for all

and a banquet to attend where Synchro BC

handed out it’s annual awards.

Congratulations to Victoria

Synchro’s Award Winners:

Synchro BC National

Stream Team of the Year:

our 2017-18 Junior Technical

Team consisting of Mara

Lambert-Wilson, Kaitlyn

Aylesworth, Olivia Strickland,

Hannah McDonagh-Proud

and alternate Jessica de Ver-

teuil

Synchro BC Coach Development Award awarded to Victoria

Synchro

Synchro BC Go For It Award (formerly the Harry Jerome

Comeback Award): 2017-18 National Stream athlete Olivia Strickland.

Synchro BC’s

4th Annual Summit

2017-18 Junior Tech Team, L-R: Mara, Kaitlyn, Olivia & Hannah

Olivia on right

Some of the dance training our competitive athletes did in September!

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The 2018 BC Summer Games Zone 6 (Vancouver Island-

Central Coast) team consisted of 5 athletes from Victoria Syn-

chro: Maia Bell-McLenan, Zala Partlow, Sydney Girling, Avery

Dix, Anna Akhurst and 3 athletes from Nanaimo & Parksville

(Kiana, Pascha and Sydney W). The team was coached by Head Coach Brenda Scott and Assistant

Coach Sam Lankmayr from Victoria Synchro.

The team trained hard with excellent results:

13-15 Team Silver

13-15 duet Anna & Avery bronze

Zala & Kiana 5th

13-15 solo Maia gold

13-15 figures Maia bronze

Maia, Brenda, Zala

Maia

Zone 6 Team with coaches

Zala & Kiana

Anna & Avery

Photos from BC Summer Games website

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Nov 11th & 12th No classes or training due to Remembrance Day

Dec 1-2, Coquitlam Training Meet #2

National Stream and some Provincial Stream athletes attend

Figures & Elements feedback

Canada Winter Games & Synchro BC Talent ID Camps

Christmas Break: Recreational Classes:

Last day of classes before Christmas Break: Thurs Dec 20th

Competitive Groups:

Your coach will advise you of your schedule over Christmas

Jan 13th (Sunday)

10am

Winter Water Show—Mark your calendars!

All classes and groups participate, more details closer to the event.

Jan 18-20th Lower Mainland

Synchro BC National Stream Provincial Qualifiers

All National Stream athletes in BC compete in figures, ele-ments and routines.

Feb 15-23 Red Deer, AB Canada Winter Games

Team BC will be competing in this National Event!

victoriasynchro.com Besides our programs it has a calendar, photo gallery and all newsletters going back to Oct 2013!

synchro.bc.ca Check out our Provincial Synchro Organization, Synchro BC’s competition calendar is here!

artisticswimming.ca Lots of news and information here!

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All our National Stream and Provincial Stream

athletes attended. This was a training meet for

athletes from across BC. Athletes received

feedback in figures and junior elements and par-

ticipated in trials for Synchro BC Talent ID and

Canada Winter Games.

Figures Age Group 10&U Provincial Stream 2. WILLIAMS, Kyla ................................ 48.4168 5. WIDDIFIELD, Bailee ......................... 46.5000 13. VASIUTA, Kateryna ........................ 40.3333 15. TREBERG, Evie .............................. 33.6668 Figures Age 11/12 Novice Provincial Stream 1. SHAW, Avery .................................... 48.8332 3. MILLER, Allison ................................ 44.8333 5. JENKINS, Devon .............................. 43.5833 7. FRIZON DE LAMOTTE, Margaux. ... 42.6668 Figures Age Group 11/12 Provincial Stream 4. TREBERG, Clare .............................. 55.9165 4. CHEW, Fung-Ei ................................ 55.9165 10. JOHNS, Amelia ............................... 53.7295 12. HURST, Krista ............................... 53.2915 15. GAUTHIER, Lili-Mai ........................ 51.7918 16. HUNT, Avy ...................................... 50.5625 19. WOLSKI, Sadie ............................... 50.0208 33. SAFRANYIK, Natalie ...................... 43.0628 Figures Age 13-15 Novice Provincial Stream 1. RONG, Cathy .................................... 52.5208 2. PLAMONDON, Grace ....................... 51.3125 Figures Age Group 13-15 Provincial Stream 4. TSANG, Shantay .............................. 54.0000 6. LI, Anke ............................................. 53.3333 8. COWAN, Haley ................................. 50.9168 12. MARKO, Lili..................................... 48.3333 Figures Age Group 16-20 Provincial Stream 13. FRACY, Nadia ................................ 53.8333 15. HENRY, Alanna .............................. 51.9168

Figures Age Group 13-15 National Stream 5. BELL-MCLENAN, Maia .................... 66.6665 9. GIRLING, Sydney ............................. 64.1668 16. AKHURST, Anna ............................ 61.2500 20. PARTLOW, Zala ............................. 60.9168 25. DIX, Avery ....................................... 58.4168 29. LIU, Alana ....................................... 41.5833 Elements (completed by athletes in Canada Win-ter Games trials and Synchro BC’s Talent Id Tri-als) 2. MCDONAGH-PROUD, Hannah ....... 72.7276 4. LAMBERT-WILSON, Mara .............. 70.9167 10. AYLESWORTH, Kaitlyn .................. 69.0955 12.BELL-MCLENAN, Maia .................. 65.9959 26.GIRLING, Sydney ........................... 61.9106 32.PARTLOW, Zala .............................. 61.0589 41.DIX, Avery ....................................... 58.2886

THANK YOU to all

our volunteers who

worked hard to

host and help run

this meet!

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August 21, 2018

Synchro Canada becomes Canada Artistic Swimming

From their website:

“New name. New brand. Renewed commitment to the vision to be a leading nation in artistic swimming that inspires Canadians through athletic performances. With the launch of its new name and brand, Cana-da Artistic Swimming is taking aim at the world’s best, and also nurturing basic aquatic literacy at clubs across the country at the same time.

The name change from Synchro Canada to Canada Artistic Swimming, reflects the direction of the sport internationally, where the discipline changed from Synchronized to Artistic Swimming at the FINA Con-gress in 2017. The name modification was approved by FINA to better align it with other artistic sports.”

(FINA is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for adminis-tering international competition in water sports)

Team Canada concludes 2018 FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships with 7th position in Free Program

Canada Artistic Swimming website Jul 21, 2018:

In the morning’s preliminary session, Canada secured its spot in the final by placing 7th with a score of 84.8333. Swimming 4th in the final held in the evening, the Canadians took to the pool with confidence for their last performance at these World Junior Championships and improved their score to 85.1333, securing their final 7th position.

Russia and Ukraine earned gold and silver, while Japan very narrowly edged China for bronze. Spain (5th)

and Italy (6th) rounded the top 6, followed by Canada who finished as the top country from the Americas.

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Team Canada wins High Point Trophy

2018 UANA Pan American Artistic Swimming Championships

Competing at this event were Canada’s 13-15 National Team, Ontario’s Provincial 13-15 and Junior teams, as well as a Senior team from Dollard Synchro (Montreal).

“Canada was awarded the Overall High Point Trophy as the most successful delegation at the 2018 UANA Pan American Artistic Swimming Championships in Riverside, CA, on Saturday. Can-ada capped off a tremendously successful week where it climbed on the podium in every event entered and was crowned high point winner in the 13-15, junior and senior age groups.

The 13-15 National Team, led by Head Coach Manny Wu and Assistant Laura Swift, had a partic-ularly impressive week, winning gold in solo (Claudia Janvier), duet (Marissa Enns & Claire Scheffel, alternate Chloe Massey) and team as well as the top 3 positions in figures.”

In Junior events Flynne Gossling (Ontario Provincial Team) won gold in solo free, and in the Jun-ior tech duet event Flynne Gossling and Madeline Whitten (Ontario Provincial Team) won bronze. In Junior Free Combination Team Ontario won bronze and in the Junior Team Tech and Free events won gold.

In Senior events Mikaëlle Gauthier (Dollar Synchro) won gold in solo free, and in Senior tech duet Andrée-Anne Côté and Claudia Holzner (Dollard Synchro) won gold, while wining silver in the Senior free duet event. The Senior Team Tech event saw the team from Dol-lard win bronze and in the Senior Team Free event they won silver.

Information from Canada Artistic Swimming website news articles and from Team USA 2018 UANA Pan American Artistic Swimming Championships results website