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| 103 | Jan. 25, 2012 | Wednesday | GIRLS UNDER 10 RELAY DOMINATE AT BLUE BEARS | The under 10 girls relay team dominated at the Blue Bears meet held recently. | 103.jpg | inline |
| 102 | Jan. 21, 2012 | Saturday | Congratulations to New A Swimmer - Alicia Nash | This past weekend saw FMSC get a new "A" swimmer. Alicia Nash got her first ever A time at the Blue Bears meet, with an incredible performance in the 800 free. Way to go Alicia! | 102.jpg | inline |
| 100 | Jan. 17, 2012 | Tuesday | Meet Summary - Blue Bears | The first meet of 2012 was the Blue Bears in Edmonton and this year we had 24 swimmers take part.
Yet again we had some excellent swimming times despite the fact that this meet is very much a ‘working meet’ and the swimmers are usually swimming tired at this part of the season a | 100 | none |
| 99 | Jan. 08, 2012 | Sunday | Congratulations to New B Swimmer - Mathieu Cyr | Mathieu Cyr was presented his well earned B bag, by Coach Susan, last Monday at practice. Mathieu broke the threshold at the December 17th House League Meet - Way to go Mathieu! | 99.jpg | inline |
| 97 | Dec. 31, 2011 | Saturday | House League Meet Report - New National Swimmer Daniel Joyce, New A Swimmer Lochlan Weavers and New B Swimmers Robert Cornea and Mathieu Cyr | Our December house-league meet saw swimmers from Lac LaBiche join us this year and it was great to see so many kids taking part. | 97.jpg | inline |
| 98 | Dec. 31, 2011 | Saturday | FMSC Swimmers Make Alberta Top 5 Rankings | Six FMSC swimmers crack the Alberta Top 5 rankings published on the Swim Alberta site this past December 13th. | 98 | none |
| 96 | Dec. 09, 2011 | Friday | Meet Summary - JP Fiset International | Last weekend 21 FMSC swimmers along with Coach Damian and Coach Alex, boarded the faithful Diversified bus to take part in the JP Fiset International meet in Edmonton. | 96 | none |
| 95 | Dec. 05, 2011 | Monday | Nine FMSC Swimmers Listed in Swim AB top 5 | Wow! Nine FMSC swimmers made it to the list of Alberta's current top 5 swimmers. Way to go to Emily Cyr, Hannah Bergman, Joelle Young, Josh Dow, Evan Symons, Angus Bagnall, Chris Thorne, Daniel Joyce, and Dominic Cachia. | 95 | none |
| 93 | Nov. 29, 2011 | Tuesday | Cogratulations to New A and B Swimmers! | New A times for Madison Foy and Evan Symons and a provincial B time for Hollie Symons - way to go guys ! | 93.jpg | inline |
| 94 | Nov. 29, 2011 | Tuesday | Alberta 50m "Kick for Time" Event | This past Saturday we ran the 50 m virtual ‘kick for time’ event during our regular workout. | 94 | none |
| 92 | Nov. 22, 2011 | Tuesday | Meet Summary - Poppy Meet | Each and every one of the swimmers stepped up to the plate for the team as Fort McMurray claimed the 4th overall spot in the team rankings out of the 19 clubs taking part. Excellent job everyone ! | 92 | none |
| 90 | Oct. 30, 2011 | Sunday | Meet Summary - House League no. 1 | The first in our series of House-league meets took place at MacDonald Island on Saturday 29th October. This meet had a bit of Halloween theme to it and the kids were in very high ‘spirits’! | 90 | none |
| 89 | Oct. 06, 2011 | Thursday | JOSH DOW BREAKS PROVINCIAL RECORD! | Recently Josh Dow (14) was presented with his Provincial Certificate for breaking the Alberta Provincial Record in the 50 backstroke at Age Group Nationals, Montreal this past summer. | 89.jpg | inline |
| 88 | Aug. 09, 2011 | Tuesday | FMSC Swimmers Make Alberta Top 5 Rankings | The updated Alberta Top 5 Provincial placings have been posted on the Swim Alberta website and we are excited to announce that we now have 11 FMSC swimmers make the list! The numbers keep growing! | 88 | none |
| 87 | Aug. 08, 2011 | Monday | Meet Summary - Canadian Age Group Nationals | This season the Canadian Age Group National Championships were held at Parc Jean Drapeau, Ile Sainte-Helene Aquatic Complex in Montreal during the last week of July. Our swim club was very well represented with 5 of the 8 qualified swimmers taking part. | 87.jpg | inline |
| 86 | Jul. 06, 2011 | Wednesday | Meet Summary - Alberta AGSR LC Provinicials | The first weekend in July saw the much awaited Alberta Age Group Provincials and Senior Championships take place at the Syncrude Aquatic Centre right here at home in Fort McMurray. | 86.jpg | inline |
| 85 | Jun. 26, 2011 | Sunday | MEET SUMMARY - ALBERTA AGE GROUP TRIALS LC (B's) | This year we had 11 swimmers travel down to Medicine Hat to take part in the Alberta Age Group Trials ( aka B’s). See below for the DANCING MANTAS!! | 85 | none |
| 84 | Jun. 14, 2011 | Tuesday | Congratulations to our two new B swimmers Kareem Sadek and Dominic Cachia! | Congratulations to our two new B swimmers Kareem Sadek and Dominic Cachia! | 84.JPG | inline |
| 83 | Jun. 13, 2011 | Monday | Meet Summary - Freeze or Fry | This year we had 20 swimmers sign up to take part in the Red Deer FREEZE OR FRY meet. We were all hopeful that this year we would get more of a fry than a freeze but gold old Mother Nature had a bit of a mixed bag of surprises in store for us this time. | 83.JPG | inline |
| 82 | Jun. 07, 2011 | Tuesday | Meet Summary - Silver Cup | Our Team came 4th overall out of 19 teams behind Edmonton Keyano; Olympian Swim Club and Silver tide Swim Club almost every single swimmer won points towards this team total! | 82 | none |
| 80 | May. 23, 2011 | Monday | FMSC Swimmers Make Alberta Top 5 Updated List | The updated Alberta Top 5 Provincial placings have been posted on the Swim Alberta website and we are excited to announce that we now have 10 FMSC swimmers make the list! The numbers keep growing! | 80 | none |
| 76 | May. 12, 2011 | Thursday | Meet Summary - Spring Fling | On 30th April FMSC held our very first ever long course swim meet in our new pool at Mac Island. | 76 | none |
| 77 | May. 12, 2011 | Thursday | Meet Summary - EKI | We had an awesome weekend with some very good time drops from our swimmers. | 77 | none |
| 79 | May. 12, 2011 | Thursday | World Champ Canadian Swimmers Swim with FMSC | Many thanks go out to Howie Ewashko and Barb Henning and Northlands Forest Products for making this amazing opportunity happen! Thank you :). | 79.jpg | inline |
| 75 | Apr. 29, 2011 | Friday | FMSC SPRING FLING LIVE RESULTS | Please click the following link to accesss FMSC SPRING FLING LIVE RESULTS. Please note that this is a test in preparation for hosting the 2011 LC Provincial Championships - results shown within may not be final or complete. | 75 | none |
| 74 | Apr. 26, 2011 | Tuesday | CORONADO SWIM CAMP WIND UP | During the April Spring break, FMSC took a group of 13 swimmers down to the gorgeous island of Coronado, just across the bridge from San Diego, California for a much deserved team training camp. | 74 | none |
| 73 | Apr. 20, 2011 | Wednesday | CORONADO SWIM CAMP UPDATE - WEDNESDAY | A little excitement yesterday. Coronado is a military island and when the tsunami warning went off at 10:20 yesterday, I was a little (ok a lot) panicked, especially when the housekeepers actually freaked out. But false alarm it was the military’s once a year training siren. | 73 | none |
| 71 | Apr. 18, 2011 | Monday | FMSC Swimmers Make Alberta Top 5 Updated List | The updated Alberta Top 5 Provincial placings have been posted on the Swim Alberta website and we are excited to announce that we have 7 FMSC swimmers make the list! | 71 | none |
| 72 | Apr. 18, 2011 | Monday | CORONADO SWIM CAMP UPDATE - MONDAY | As I write this the swimmer’s are currently at their first 2 hour morning swim! I thought it was time for an update :) | 72.jpg | inline |
| 70 | Apr. 01, 2011 | Friday | THREE MANTAS MAKE PROVINCIAL TEAMS! | Congratulations go to Kendra Hobenshield and Joelle Young for being selected to the Alberta North Team. Congratulations also go to Josh Dow who made the Prospects West Swim team. | 70.jpg | inline |
| 69 | Mar. 24, 2011 | Thursday | Meet Summary - Man- Sask Provincial SC Championships | These three FMSC swimmers were chosen to represent the Alberta / Ontario Provincial Relay Team. They are Jeff Aloook; Breena Rusnell and Chris Thorne - way to go ! | 69.jpg | inline |
| 68 | Mar. 20, 2011 | Sunday | MEET SUMMARY - ALBERTA AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS | After a long drive from the North we arrived in Calgary pumped an ready to go! All the swimmers Josh, Kendra, Angus, Breena and Joelle showed up on the deck ready to swim Friday morning. | 68 | none |
| 67 | Mar. 08, 2011 | Tuesday | FMSC Swimmers Make Alberta Top 5 Rankings - AGAIN! | The updated Alberta Top 5 Provincial placings have been posted on the Swim Alberta website and we are excited to announce that we have 6 FMSC swimmers make the list ! | 67 | none |
| 66 | Mar. 03, 2011 | Thursday | MEET SUMMARY - ALBERTA AGE GROUP TRIALS | This past weekend saw 14 of the 15 qualified FMSC swimmers travel down to Sherwood Park for the Alberta Age Group Trials and didn’t they all do great ! Once again these swimmers took to the water and had some fantastic new times right across the board. | 66.JPG | inline |
| 64 | Feb. 16, 2011 | Wednesday | Meet Summary - 10 & Under Meet Number 3 | Sunday 13th February signalled the 3rd in the Ten and Under meet series in St Albert. | 64 | none |
| 65 | Feb. 16, 2011 | Wednesday | JOSH DOW AT WESTERN CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS | Best of luck to Josh Dow as he leaves with Coach Andro tomorrow to take part in the Western Canadian Championships in Kamloops, BC. Please read fully to link to live results! | 65.JPG | inline |
| 62 | Feb. 11, 2011 | Friday | Last Chance to Qualify for B's Time Trial - New B swimmers Lindsey Bince and Madison Foy | The ‘last chance to qualify for B’s’ time trial was held tonight and we had 10 hopeful swimmers take their marks on the blocks as they endeavoured to make a “meet qualifying time (MQT)” in either the 400 free or the 200 IM which would put them on the bus to Sherwood Park on 24th February. | 62 | none |
| 61 | Feb. 08, 2011 | Tuesday | House League Meet Report - New B Swimmers Madison, Declan and Hannah, New A swimmer Mitchell | Saturday saw the third in our series of House-league meets down at Mac Island. We had lots of swimmers who were close to qualifying times from MQT and B times, to A times, to Age Group National and Western times and this was another opportunity for them to swim fast and try to me | 61.jpg | inline |
| 60 | Feb. 05, 2011 | Saturday | FMSC Swimmers Make Alberta Top 5 Rankings | The updated Alberta Top 5 Provincial placings have been posted on the Swim Alberta website and we are excited to announce that we have 6 FMSC swimmers make the list ! | 60 | none |
| 59 | Feb. 04, 2011 | Friday | MEET REPORT – ALBERTA SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS | This year the Alberta Senior Provincial Championships was held down in Medicine Hat. We only had one of our senior swimmers, Jeff Alook, make the journey down South to take part in this meet. | 59 | none |
| 58 | Jan. 21, 2011 | Friday | Blue Bear Meet & RODS Invitation Meet, and New A Swimmer Harleigh Puga | One of our big team meets of the short course season is the Blue Bears Invitational in Edmonton and this year we once again had a very good turn-out for this event. | 58.jpg | inline |
| 57 | Dec. 07, 2010 | Tuesday | MEET REPORT FOR J.P. FISET, EDMONTON DECEMBER 2 – 5, 2010 AND NEW B SWIMMER, SYDNEY WILSON | On Thursday 2nd December we took a group of 16 qualified swimmers down to the JP Fiset Meet in Edmonton.
The meet was extremely successful for us and we once again had mostly best times from all our swimmers. | 57.jpg | inline |
| 55 | Nov. 23, 2010 | Tuesday | Alberta Kick for Time Summary | We had 38 swimmers come out and take part in this fun event. Some of our little Manta Rays and Blue swimmers had never swam in the 50m pool configuration before and I know a few were surprised at how far one length had suddenly become !! | 55 | none |
| 56 | Nov. 23, 2010 | Tuesday | 10 & Under Meet No. 2, Summary | On Sunday 21st November 8 young swimmers and their families braved the cold weather and drove down to St Albert for the second in the Ten and under series swim meets. | 56 | none |
| 54 | Nov. 17, 2010 | Wednesday | Poppy Meet Summary and New B Swimmer, Alicia Nash | Great job done by all at recent Poppy Meet. FMSC placed 5th in team standings, out of 20 teams, behind the big boys, Silvertide, OSC, Keyano and Catalina. We also have a new B swimmer, Alicia Nash - Way to go Alicia! | 54.jpg | inline |
| 53 | Nov. 01, 2010 | Monday | House League No. 1 Summary and New B Swimmer, Katherine Wilson | This past weekend saw the completion of our first house league meet and the rise of a brand new B swimmer, Katherine Wilson! | 53.JPG | inline |
| 52 | Oct. 20, 2010 | Wednesday | 10 and Under Meet Summary, New B Swimmer, Spencer Dow! | 10 and Under Meet Summary, New B Swimmer, Spencer Dow! | 52.jpg | inline |
| 51 | Sep. 05, 2010 | Sunday | NEWS AND RESULTS FROM SUMMER GAMES AND AGE GROUP NATIONALS ! | Congratulations to all our swimmers who took part in the Alberta Summer Games in Peace River and the Age Group Nationals in Winnipeg recently. | 51 | none |
| 50 | Jul. 14, 2010 | Wednesday | AGE GROUP PROVINICIAL CHAMPS AND SEASON WRAP UP | Please read on to hear how our team did at A's this past Canada Day weekend! | 50.jpg | inline |
| 49 | Jun. 28, 2010 | Monday | Year End Trophy Winners | A fun time was had by all at the annual year end bbq last Wednesday. Many thanks to Kathi Oben for the fine job getting it all together. Below is a list of this season's trophy winners: | 49 | none |
| 48 | Jun. 23, 2010 | Wednesday | Alberta Age Group Trials LC | Want to know how our swimmers did at B's? Read on! | 48.jpg | inline |
| 47 | Jun. 09, 2010 | Wednesday | Summer Training Schedule for Qualifiers | Please see the training schedules given below which will come into effect after the Red Deer meet until the end of the season. | 47 | none |
| 46 | Jun. 08, 2010 | Tuesday | FMSC Swimmers Qualify for Alberta Summer Games | We have pleasure in announcing that at the recently held Alberta Summer Games trials, the following FMSC swimmers were selected to the Zone 7 Swimming team : | 46 | none |
| 43 | Jun. 02, 2010 | Wednesday | Cascade Swim Club Summer Camp | The Cascade Swim Club is once again pleased to be offering our week-long Dave Johnson Swim Camp! This camp is for current competitive swimmers, runs the week of July 12th-16th, and includes training, dryland, classroom and stroke video analysis sessions with some of our top coaches. This Camp is being run out of the Talisman Centre in Calgary. | 43 | none |
| 45 | Jun. 02, 2010 | Wednesday | FMSC ALUM TO BE INDUCTED INTO SPORTS HALL OF FAME | Jennifer Button - an ex-olympic swimmer who once upon a time swam here in Fort McMurray is being inducted into the WBSHoF | 45 | none |
| 39 | May. 21, 2010 | Friday | YMCA of WOOD BUFFALO TEMPORARY POOL CLOSURE | Effective immediately, the YMCA of Wood Buffalo has closed the main pool, tot pool and the hot tub at the Westwood Family YMCA until further notice. | 39 | none |
| 41 | May. 21, 2010 | Friday | NEW PRACTICE SCHEDULE | NEW PRACTICE SCHEDULE TO WORK AROUND CLOSURE OF YMCA | 41 | none |
| 37 | May. 19, 2010 | Wednesday | SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR MAY AND JUNE | Schedule changes for May and June | 37 | none |
| 35 | Apr. 21, 2010 | Wednesday | SCHEDULE CHANGE | SCHEDULE CHANGE - Due to unexpected closure of Centennial Pool | 35 | none |
| 31 | Mar. 11, 2010 | Thursday | TEAM NORTH MEMBERS | Congrats to our 4 swimmers that made the Team North Training Select Camp!
Kendra, Joelle, Hannah & Jose!!!! | 31 | none |
| 33 | Mar. 11, 2010 | Thursday | AGE GROUP TRIALS REPORT | Wow what a spectacular weekend we had at Age Group Trials. We traveled down with 11 Swimmers that were eager to challenge their best times and other athletes they competed against! The spirits were so high and the kids were pumped! | 33 | none |
| 29 | Feb. 24, 2010 | Wednesday | Speedo Western Canadian Championships | Read how our Manta swimmers did at the Speedo Western Canadian Championships | 29 | none |
| 27 | Oct. 10, 2009 | Saturday | Motivational Speaker and AGM | TEAM FIRST & MOTIVATIONAL Guest Speaker(Olympic Coach for Synchro Canada)October 17th | 27 | none |
| 25 | Sep. 26, 2009 | Saturday | Fina Swimsuit rule to be implemented at the beginning of the Canadian swimming season | Fina Swimsuit rule to be implemented at the beginning of the Canadian swimming season | 25 | none |
| 23 | Jul. 03, 2009 | Friday | FMSC Swimmers Perform at SPEEDO Alberta Long Course Age Group and Senior Championships | FMSC Swimmers shine at SPEEDO Alberta Long Course Age Group and Senior Championships. Josh Dow breaks club records held by Olympian Mark Versfeld. | 23.JPG | inline |
| 21 | Jun. 25, 2009 | Thursday | CTV Interview with Katelyn Cachia | CFRN interview first aired during the evening news, June 18th, 2009. | 21 | none |
| 19 | Apr. 01, 2009 | Wednesday | Making the Grade | A look at at Taylor Beaudry - rising star. | 19 | none |
| 18 | Mar. 25, 2009 | Wednesday | FMSC Swimmer's Shine at Age Groups Meet | FMSC Swimmers selected for selected for Alberta North versus South camp/meet and selected to the Alberta Junior team for the Alberta versus BC dual Meet. | 18 | none |
| 16 | Dec. 04, 2008 | Thursday | The Process: The Steps to Success | Here is the highly requested Power Point presentation put forth by Coach Albert at last month's AGM. | 16 | none |
| 15 | Oct. 19, 2008 | Sunday | New Under Water Video System | Yes it's here! Swimmers stare in awe when they see themselves on TV! | 15 | none |
| 13 | Sep. 19, 2008 | Friday | Coaching Philosophy | It's important to know where the coach is coming from and where he'd like to take you. Read Albert's Coaching Philosophy now. | | none |
| 14 | Sep. 19, 2008 | Friday | In the Manta's Library | Want to learn more? A little light reading perhaps? Is a video more your style? | | none |
| 12 | Sep. 18, 2008 | Thursday | Goal Setting | Season starts with the end in mind - setting goals: planning for our future success. | | none |