Olympic Way Winter Registration Info

December 3, 2024

Hi Olympic Way families,

IMPORTANT NEW REQUIREMENTS IN PLACE. Please read full info

Here is some info in regard to the next swim session running from Monday, January 6th to Saturday, March 15th. (Winter Session)

Pre-registration for returning families will be opening online on Monday, December 9th at 12 pm (noon).The registration system will recognize swimmers as returning for one full year from their last registration date. This fills very fast, if the group is full when registering, please DO NOT CALL but email admin@nanaimoriptides.com with the days and times that your swimmer is available. We will be placing swimmers on wait lists in order of the emails received. Phone Calls are reserved for technical difficulties only. Please be patient as this is an extremely busy time for the administrators. We will get back to you as soon as we can.

New Family registration opens online for wait lists only on Monday, December 16th @ noon. Here is the link for the wait list form: **link to be provided on December 16th**

There are still a handful of families that did not complete an Assumption of Risk form for their swimmer. This form only needs to be completed once and is a registration requirement. If your swimmer swam with us last session and have not completed a form, your account will be suspended from future registrations. Please contact admin@nanaimoriptides.com if you have any questions.

**Over the last few months our lead coaches have been reviewing the swim programs and have implemented some changes to the group structuring and skill sets. Accordingly, the age limit for our Olympic Way Learn to Swim Program has been lowered in order to streamline the Learn to Swim to the Competitive program more efficiently. To be fair to everyone affected, there will be NO EXCEPTIONS to this age limit requirement. If your swimmer is over the age limit in place, other options are City lessons, Charke Swim, and AquaStar lessons. Once your swimmer is has the skill sets in place for their group age, we certainly welcome them to be re assessed at that time.

Olympic Way Level 1 (age 5 - 7yrs)
Olympic Way Level 2 (age 5 - 8yrs)
Olympic Way Level 3 (age 5 - 9yrs)

Do not try to register in a higher level than their assessment The registration system will only allow swimmers to be registered in their last assessed level. If your swimmer has completed further lessons eg. with the City or Mini Rapids, please contact Sidney at sidney@nanaimoriptides.com in order to be reassessed.

Here is the Training Schedule link (scroll down to Olympic Way)

**Note the pool venue in place for the swim lessons.

All Olympic Way Levels 1 & 2 swimming will be held at Beban Pool with the exception of Saturday mornings, which will be held at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre (NAC).

Level 3 swimming will be held at Beban Pool on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and the NAC on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

We look forward to another successful swim session!