Archive for 2009

Canadian Age Group Championships – July 15-19, 2009

The Kenora Swimming Sharks would like to thank the Kenora Daily Miner and News for their recent articles on our swimmers’ successes at the Canadian Age Group Championships and Senior Nationals. For more information on the team’s results, please see our SUMMER SOGGY LOG below.

The FINAL Soggy Log for the 2009-2010 Season

The KSS Spring Session is scheduled to conclude on Saturday June 20/09. I would just like to state that from a coaching point of view 2008 – 2009 has been a long but tremendously successful swim season. And we still have our most exciting “Championship” swim meets remaining ~ Manitoba-Saskatchewan Championships in Winnipeg; Canadian Senior [...]

The Soggy Log ~ May 25-30, 2009

The paper version of the Soggy Log distributed on Monday included coaches comments on the Thunder Bay meet. Please see that post for all the good news on our swimmers! Schedule Changes ~ Schedule Changes ~ Schedule Changes ~ Schedule Changes Because both Edie [attending the annual NWO Regional coaches meeting] and I will be [...]

Black and Red Meet ~ June 6

On Saturday June 6, 2009 the 1st Annual KSS Team Day was held and it was a great success! The Intraclub Black and Red meet saw some evenly matched teams go head to head in some exciting and fun races including a family relay. Thanks to all the parents who hopped in the pool at [...]

The Soggy Log ~ May 4-9, 2009

Golden Plains Invitational Swim Meet ~ April 30, May 1, 2, 3/09 ~ Pan Am Pool, Winnipeg: A really good swim meet for the thirteen participating KSS swimmers. All swimmers swam quite well, with many recording 100% Personal Best Times. All our swimmers earned second swims in either A Finals or B Finals, and our [...]

Canadian Senior National Championships

Kenora swimmer Laura Stasiuk earned a spot in four events at this very exciting meet that served as the Canadian Team trials for the World Championships in Rome. Laura had a solid meet against the fastest swimmer in the country in very challenging conditions which included lots of rain and many Canadian records broken. Congratulations Laura!

The Soggy Log ~ April 20 – 25, 2009

KSS 2009 Swim-a-thon ~ PLEASE get your sponsors lined up. $’s earned by our swimmers can be used to pay for a certain percentage of each swimmers swim fees, and to offset travel and meet fees. Swim-a-thon $’s are the easiest and best way to build your Excess Fundraising Account. I would really encourage all [...]

KSS Time Trial

Title: KSS Time Trial Location: Kenora Rec Centre Description: Date: 2009-04-24 Sanctioned KSS Time Trial ~ Friday April 24/09 ~ 4:30 – 5:30 PM ~ The KSS will run a sanctioned Time Trial on Friday April 24/09 so that swimmers in CG3 and CG4 can achieve the NWO Regional pre-requisite times in the 200 Free [...]

The Soggy Log ~ April 6 – 11, 2009

NWO Open Swim Meet ~ A job well done by all Swimmers and Parents and volunteer Officials!!!!!! The final Team scores (for the top 3 teams) were as follows: 1st - KSS with 1262 points; 2nd - TBT with 549.5 points; 3rd - FFAST with 259 points. We will hopefully be able to hang our [...]

NWO Open Swim Meet ~ April 3, 4 &amp;amp; 5

The KSS hosted the 4th Annual NWO Open Swim Meet April 3, 4, 5/09. Ten teams in total participated with some great results. Congratulations to the Kenora Swimming Sharks for coming in first place in the team rankings! Some notable accomplishments for our swimmers: Achieving Personal Best times in all their individual events: Angele McDonald, [...]