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High Performance
The recent long weekend provided no time off for twelve of our young up and coming swim stars as they began their preparations for the Junior Pan Pacific Championships and Youth Olympic Games in August this year.
Two international guest speakers highlighted the 2014 New Zealand Swim Coaches and Teachers Association (NZSCTA) conference held this week in Wellington.
The Junior Pan Pacific Championships comprises full strength teams from the Pacific Rim including USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
The FINA World Championships are contested in a long course (50-meter) pool. The event was first held in 1973 and is now held every two years. From 1978-1998, the World Championships were held every four years, in the even years between Summer Olympic years. From 2001 on, the Championships have been held every two years, in the odd years. A total of 2,158 athletes from 167 nations will participate in the 2007 Worlds.
The Festival will feature some of the best young male and female athletes from 18 nations including Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and United States of America. There are 1,172 athletes competing in 173 events in 14 sports.
The 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships will feature 134 swimmers from 11 countries, and the USA State of Hawaii. This is the fifth edition of the Championships, and features competitions in: swimming, open water swimming and synchronized swimming (synchro). The synchro competition will mark the first time the sport has been swum in Fiji.
The Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) is an international multi-sport competition. It is the third edition of the Australian Youth Olympic Festival with 25 nations attending, with Oceania comprising an additional seven countries. Over 1,200 athletes will compete across 14 sports at venues throughout Sydney.
Swimming New Zealand is pleased to announce the appointment of Donna Bouzaid as the Elite Development coach and Philip Rush as the National Open Water Programme Manager.
The Japan Junior Olympic Cup is a famous aquatics event organised by the Japanese Olympic Committee.
Hard on the heels of their senior colleagues, New Zealand’s leading teenage swimming talent compete in the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii starting on Wednesday.
The Junior Pan Pacific Championships comprises full strength teams from the Pacific Rim including USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Olympic swimmer and successful business executive Nick Tongue has joined the Board of Swimming New Zealand.
The 2014 Swimming New Zealand Service and Honours Awards were announced at the recent Annual General Meeting, recognising those who have made outstanding contributions to the sport.
Donna has been involved with swimming for over 35 years. Initially she was a competitor and subsequently she has been a very successful coach.
Over the past month High Performance Development Coach Donna Bouzaid has travelled the country completing three camps for junior swimmers and their coaches.
More than 140 age group swimmers and their coaches have attended camps around the country this month as part of the Swimming New Zealand (SNZ) High Performance Development Programme.
Coaches from the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki and Hawkes Bay Poverty Bay Regions gathered in Taupo last weekend for a Coaches Summit.
The 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships are being held from 7-16 July at three locations in Queensland, Australia. This is the sixth edition of the Championships, and features competitions in swimming, open water swimming and synchronized swimming (synchro).
The FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships, or more commonly "Open Water Worlds", is a bi-annual FINA championship for open water swimming. Race distances are 5, 10 and 25 kilometers.
The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships is a long course swimming event first held in 1985. The tenth edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, is being held in 2006 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from August 17–20.
Olympic and Commonwealth Games swim coach Gary Hurring will take up a new role as Swimming New Zealand’s talent identification and development coach.
Swimming New Zealand is pleased to announce the support staff and coaches for the 16th FINA World Championships and the 2015 World University Games.
Swimming: Swim Rotorua's head coach now elite 8:26 AM Tuesday May 26, 2015
Age group teams were selected for the 2015 SAL State Teams Age Short Course in Canberra, Australia at the 2015 New Zealand Short Course Championships. The SAL State Teams Age Short Course will take place from 23-28 September, 2015.
Alexander Jane Donna Bouzaid Email: alex@swimmingnz.org.nz Email: donna@swimmingnz.org.nz
The Universiade is an international sporting and cultural festival, staged every two years in a different city around the world, representing both winter and summer competitions. The 2015 summer edition will be held in Gwangju City, Korea from July 3-14. An estimated 12,200 athletes are expected to participate.
Rising 15 year old swimmers Bobbi Gichard and Gabrielle Fa’amausili have both qualified for their first finals on the opening day of the FINA World Junior Championships in Singapore.
The FINA World Junior Championships is a swimming championship event organized by FINA for swimmers under the age of 18 years old. Every two years, about 500 swimmers aged between 14 and 18 years old gather together to test their skills among an up-and-coming field. In 2015, the international rendezvous will take place in Asia for the first time with Singapore (SIN) as host of the Championships, from August 25-30.
Gabrielle Fa’amausili has successfully defended her title in a superb swim at the FINA World Junior Championships in Singapore.
The five-strong New Zealand team completed an encouraging performance at the fifth FINA World Junior Championships in Singapore.
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More than 150 age group swimmers and their coaches have attended camps around the country over September and October as part of the Swimming New Zealand (SNZ) High Performance Development Programme.
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The Youth and Age Group Development Programme is led by Donna Bouzaid. If you have any questions please
The 2016 national age group championships last month marked the end of an era for Hawkes Bay’s Noel Hardgrave-Booth.
High Performance Development Coach, Donna Bouzaid, spent the last seven weeks travelling around New Zealand visiting 32 swimming programmes that have qualified for the SNZ development programme.
American Jerry Olszewski will become Swimming New Zealand’s new national head coach, taking up the role in September.
An Olympic theme took hold at the recent National Talent Identification Squad Camp at the AUT Millennium in Auckland.
New Zealand’s leading teenage swimming talent compete in the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii starting Wednesday (local time).
World Junior Champion Gabrielle Fa’amausili will lead a 39-strong Kiwi swim team across the Tasman to take on Australia’s best in the 2015 State Teams Age competition in Canberra this weekend.
'Next Generation Coaches will work with the SNZ Coaching Director, Donna Bouzaid to focus on professional development and developing them as...
Swimming New Zealand’s new national head coach Jerry Olszewski wants to build a new culture, new habits and new competition cycle for the sport in this country.
A Silver Accredited coach has demonstrated the ability to train swimmers who have achieved National Age Group or National Open qualifying times.
A Bronze Accredited coach will be able to plan and supervise training for multiple squad units to best prepare swimmers of different ages, abilities, and competition goals to achieve their potential.
SNZ Gold Accredited coaches are leaders in swim coaching; they are able to structure a performance environment that allows progression from NZ Open to international level competitions and they consistently produce ‘performing’ swimmers at an open level.
The 2nd FINA World Youth Swimming Championships, or 2008 Youth Worlds, are from July 8–13 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. The Championships will be held at the Aquatics Center of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Centro Acuático Olímpico Universitario). Male participants have to be 18 years or younger on the 31 December 2008 and female participants have to be 17 years or younger on the 31 December 2008.
The 2008 Oceania Swimming Championships are being held in New Zealand and feature competition in swimming, open water swimming and synchronized swimming. It is the 7th Oceania Swimming Championships and second time that New Zealand will host the event after playing host to the 2000 Championships.
The 2007 Summer Universiade, also known as the XXIV Summer Universiade, will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. The swimming competition will be from August 9-14 and will consist of 40 long course (50m) events (20 male, 20 female).
Organised in even years, the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) gather the world's fastest swimmers for a five-day, top-level showdown in 25-metre pool.
Defending world junior champion Gabrielle Fa’amausili will head a team of five swimmers to compete in Singapore after qualifying for the FINA World Junior Championships in Wellington this week.
A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) will compete in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games) at the 2008 Olympic Games. China is the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games.
Congratulations & thank you to all members who have received recognition for their services to swimming. Here are the recipients of Service and Honour Awards of Swimming New Zealand.