Swim Alberta Travel Grant

In order to assist the swimmers of Alberta to participate at the major national level competitions Swim Alberta will provide travel assistance to the 2012 Olympic Trials and the 2012 Summer Nationals for the 2011-2012 swim season.

• $25,000 divided amongst the attending swimmers
• $17,500 Olympic Trials
• $7,500 Summer Nationals (swimmer must reside 50+ km away from Edmonton to be eligible)

The creation of the High Performance Development has been done to help encourage and provide support to swimmers that are within the FINA A + 2% standard.

Program:
Swimmers who meet the FINA ‘A’ time plus 2 % (LC) will be eligible to access funds for enhanced preparations from Sept 1, 2011 – August 31, 2012. Each swimmer who attains the standard in an Olympic eligible event will have access to and equal share of $10,000.00. Times for eligibility to this program will be based on performances from March 31, 2011 – Sept 5, 2011. The outline of the money’s use must be submitted to the General Manager of Swim Alberta by the coach and athlete for the funds to be released.

Swimmers and coaches will be targeted for development and provided visitations to Centre, Academies or selected clubs.

For more information see the Coaches Funding Page.

Swim Alberta recognises that university swimming is an important step in providing a complete continuum for swimmers in the province. A strong and healthy varsity program provides opportunities for university age swimmer to continue to develop and become players on the national and international scene, while still getting an education. Canadian Universities can provide scholarships to swimmers in the Canadian Inter-University Sport structure. Additionally, external bursaries can be accepted by swimmers in CIS programs., to support this and to support the university institutions in Alberta Swim Alberta sponsors 30 post secondary bursaries per year.

Post Secondary Bursaries will be available to both University and College athletes in the Province of Alberta that participate in the national championships or are partnered with a high performance program. The post secondary institution must have monies to match the $1000.00 put forward by Swim Alberta. These monies can come from either a corporate partner or a 3rd party funding agency. Third party funding partners may include the provincial Jimmy Condon Scholarships or other third party scholarships.

• $2000.00 per year for 5 years (SA $1000.00 & $1000.00 matched by post secondary partner);
• to be eligible for nomination swimmers must be minimally a national qualifier and entering their first year of post secondary education;
• to retain the bursary swimmers must be academically eligible to represent the institution, qualify for SNC national championships & compete at summer national championships;
• 6 bursaries per year are available (currently they are divided as 3 for the top placing school, 2 for the second placing and 1 for the third placing school at CIS);
• Should a student athlete choose to attend a College, applications can be made to the General Manager of Swim Alberta for consideration.

Swim Alberta believes that universities play a large role in the development of high performance and senior swimmers in the province.  With this in mind Swim Alberta offers a funding programme to support the universities in the province that provide varsity swimming. To support the programs Swim Alberta will provide $10,000.00 in funding.

• Funds for this program are divided amongst the universities that participate at the CIS Championships;
• Points are allocated for both performance and number of swimmers that attend per institution;
• 50% of fund distribution is based on swimmers in attendance;
• 25% of funds are based on the rank of the varsity program;
• 25% of funds are based on the individual performances of swimmers. 

Open Water Elite Program – Swim Alberta                                               

The Swim Alberta as part of their mandate recognises the importance of financial support to swimmers and as a result of created a funding program that is to provide financial assistance to the swimmers of Alberta. The funds are intended to allow for enhanced programming to aid the swimmers in achieving their goals in the sport.  To support these goals Swim Alberta will provide $3000.00 in funding to support open water swimming.

 Each swimmer who attains the standard will have access to and equal share of $3000.00. Times for eligibility to this program will be based on the April 1, 2011 – August 31, 2011. The outline of the money’s use must be submitted and accepted by the General Manager, by the coach and athlete for the funds to be released.

• Swimmers meeting the standards will share the $3,000.00 of funding support;
• Swimmers who meet the FINA ‘A’ time plus 2 % (LC) in the women’s 800 or the men’s 1500 will be eligible to access funds;
• Women’s 800 Free  8:44.12
• Men’s 1500 Free 15:30.07
• The open water program for activities from Sept 1, 2011 – August 31, 2012
• Swimmers must be registered with and representing a Swim Alberta registered year round program;
• Swimmers must be a landed immigrant or Canadian citizen;
• Swimmers must be registered by October 15, 2011;
• The outline of the money’s use must be submitted and accepted by the General Manager, by the coach and athlete for the funds to be released. 

Swim Alberta recognizes the importance and the opportunities that are created for athletes when they make a national team at any level. As there are some national team programs that have a participation fee attached Swim Alberta has allocated $6,000.00 that will be used to help offset the participation fee.

In order to recognize the achievement and the commitments of the swimmers and coaches who medal at the Olympic Games Swim Alberta will be providing financial awards.

Program:

Swimmers winning a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games will received $5000.00 per medal earned whether the performance be on a relay or an individual event. The coach of record of the medal earning, swimmer will earn $2500.00 per medal.

Excellence is one of the core values of Swim Alberta and the mission of Swim Alberta is to “provide world class high performance and athlete development programmes ultimately placing athletes on the Olympic and Paralympic podiums.” As such our quadrennial Success will be evaluated on placing “an increased number of swimmers on both the Canadian Olympic and Canadian Paralympic teams in 2012.”  (Excerpt from 2009-2012 Strategic Plan)

As such the recommendation from the HPAC and the ACC for the Alberta First Funding program will be that it is based on the provisions funds to develop high performance athletes who are on the continuum of senior national teams with the ultimate goal to reach the Olympic Team.

Alberta First Top 24 Funding
Based on the philosophy of the HPAC and ACC, it is recommended that the funding programs of the Regions will provide funding to athletes to progress in the system and represent Alberta at the international level.

Funding
SC/LC Block 1 - 40% Sept 1 – April 15
LC Block 2 - 60% April 16 – to August 31 (For the 2011-2012 funding block 2; only long course times will be considered.)

World record eligible events will be considered for the rankings to receive funding.

Task - HPAC and ACC to review each February/March the major meets for the following season and determine if there are meets of a different course that need to be included for consideration for the funding periods.

The Northern and Southern Regions of Swim Alberta as part of their mandate recognise the importance of financial support to swimmers and as a result have created a funding program that provides assistance the swimmers of Alberta. The funds are intended to allow for enhanced programming to aid the swimmers in achieving their goals in the sport.  To support these goals the Northern and Southern Regions of Swim Alberta will provide $75,000 ($30,030.00/$44,970.00) to be divided amongst the top 24 swimmers in the province who meet the eligibility guidelines.

• Top 24 swimmers in Alberta from Sept 1 2011 to April 15, 2012/April 16, 2021 to August 31, 2012;
• Rankings are based on the FINA points chart for performances both long course and short course during funding block 1 and long course only during funding block 2;
• Swimmers must be registered with and representing a Swim Alberta registered year round program;
• Swimmers must be a landed immigrant or Canadian citizen;
• Swimmers must be registered by December 1, 2011 for funding block 1 and registered by June 1, 2012 for funding block 2, to be considered in the rankings;
• World Championships events are eligible for scoring.
• Payout for this program will be done no later than May 15, 2012 for funding block 1 and no later than November 15, 2012 for funding block 2. and swimmers must be re-registered by October 15, 2012 to be included in the payout;
• To receive block 1 funding the swimmer must represent an Alberta program at the Senior National Championship or on a National/Provincial tour team
• To receive block 2 funding the swimmer the swimmer must represent an Alberta program at the Senior National Summer Championship or on a National/Provincial summer tour team.
• Should swimmers not participate at the above stated events, they will be required to return the funds.

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