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The Ignite Provincial Program is BCAS's high performance program. Ignite identifies and trains BC athletes with the greatest potential to be members of the BCAS Provincial Team and Canada Artistic Swimming's National Teams.
The Ignite Program provides a positive, enriching and focused sport academy environment geared towards training athletes. Ignite camps focus on improving individual and routine skills, as well as club development programs.
The vision of the BC Artistic Swimming High Performance Program has shifted to focus on club-supported programming that includes Junior and Senior athlete development and BC Coach collaboration in preparation for the 2025 Canada Summer Games. BCAS will rely on clubs to develop and monitor their high-performance athletes in alignment with provincial program goals. The Provincial Program will consist of assessment camps, choreography camps, athlete monitoring within the club setting and other activities as outlined herein. The goal of this three-year plan is to foster the development of strong club programs that nurture and develop artistic swimming excellence in BC.
Building on BC Artistic Swimming’s strategic priority to Aspire to Excellence, the program delivery model has been developed in collaboration with HP Consultant Biz Price and BC’s National Stream Head Coaches (referred to as “BC Coaching Group”).
After a 2 year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ignite Assessment Camp in June 2022 kicks off the new BC Artistic Swimming High Performance Plan that sets the stage for the selection of Team BC to represent the province at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Registration is now closed for the 2022 Ignite Assessment Camp that will run from June 24-26, 2022 at the Surrey Sport & Leisure Complex.
BCAS staff and BC’s National Stream Club Head Coaches will lead the assessment camp in consultation with Canada Artistic Swimming, judges and an Integrated Support Team. Participating athletes will be grouped by age allowing age- and stage-development focus.
Participants must be age eligible for the 2025 Canada Summer Games (i.e., 15-21 in 2025 - birth years 2004-2010) and registered and in good standing for the current 2021-2022 season.
Registration for the 2022 Ignite Choreography Camp is now open! The 2022 Ignite Choreography Camp will run from August 29 - September 3, 2022 and will be led by world renown choreographer, Stephan Miermont, and expert choreographer, Biz Price. This camp is a unique opportunity to be part of something special and to choreograph like never before!
The camp will focus on developing provincial technical routines for team and duet events. During the camp, BC athletes and coaches will learn how to effectively choreograph a routine and develop their routine skills!
For more information, check out our Ignite Choreography Camp flyer.
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Questions? Contact Tanya Magee, BCAS High Performance Coordinator.
From time to time, athletes are unable to participate in a provincial program as planned. This may include, but is not limited to, a provincial program selection camp or a qualifying competition. To ensure consistency and fairness for all participants, BC Artistic Swimming has developed standard policies and procedures to guide its decision-making during such times.
Provincial Program Procedures
Provincial Program Age Eligibility Exemption
Canadian Sport Institute Pacific, through a partnership with the Province of BC, viaSport, the network of PacificSport centres, and BC Artistic Swimming, collaborates to deliver programs and services to place BC athletes onto National Teams, and ensure athletes and coaches have every advantage to win medals for Canada. The partners work jointly to encourage sport excellence and increase podium performances in communities throughout BC.
Through these partnerships and with this purpose in mind, BC Artistic Swimming may annually nominate athletes and their coaches, who meet specific criteria, for the Canadian Sport Institute - PacificSport Athlete Support Program. Upon registering with CSI-Pacific, these targeted athletes and coaches can engage in enhanced programs, benefits, and selected support services through CSI-Pacific and the network of PacificSport regional centres.
CSI-Pacific and PacificSport athlete support is tiered across four levels based on performance, each with a slate of designated benefits.
BC Artistic Swimming has developed a set of criteria for selection to the Targeted Athlete Nomination List. There is no application process but coaches of targeted athletes and prospective targeted athletes are required to submit some criteria and monitoring data to support athlete consideration. Once the Targeted Athlete Nomination List is compiled, it is submitted to an Athlete Coaches Services Technical Expert at CSI-Pacific for approval. Once approved, BCAS will receive a notification of their nomination via email.
Personal coaches can also receive access to benefits if they currently coach an athlete selected to the Targeted Athlete Nomination List. Like the athletes, coaches will receive a notification via email. For more information about services for coaches, please visit the Canadian Sport Institute - Pacific website.
2022 BC Artistic Swimming Athlete and Coach Nomination Criteria
I am an athlete. How do I know if I can get access? Upon approval of the BCAS Targeted Athlete Nomination List, BCAS will notify athletes and coaches of their nomination via email and provided with the information to complete registration at one of the eight campuses/centres across the province. Athletes and their coaches can make an appointment at their corresponding centre to complete their intake meeting.
Why am I not on the list? If an athlete is not selected to the Targeted Athlete Nomination List, and they believe they should be, they and their personal coach are advised to contact sdd@bcartisticswimming.ca. Athlete will need to demonstrate that they have acquired to minimum points required for consideration in the Target Athlete Profile. BCAS can make application to CSI-Pacific to add athletes who demonstrate achievement of the criteria at any point in the cycle.
What is the BCAS Targeted Athlete Program cycle? Starting in 2022, the BCAS Targeted Athlete Program runs on a one-year cycle from October 1 to September 30 annually. Prior to this, the cycle was from February 1 to January 31. This new cycle aligns with our sport's training and competition schedule ensuring that athletes and coaches receive support at the start of the season rather than at the mid-point. It also ensures that the most recent competition results and program participation is considered in the Target Athlete Profile.
Are there any expectations of Targeted Athletes and Coaches? Yes, targeted athletes and coaches are expected to follow up with their CSI-P registration as outlined in the email notifying them of their status. With the support of their coach, targeted athletes are also expected to fulfill all monitoring requirements outlined in the BCAS Athlete and Coach Nomination Criteria.
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