High Performance (National Stream) Program – 2025–2026 Season

 

 

 📅 Registration Opens: Now closed

🔗 Link for 2026-2027 coming in the spring/summer

📬 Questions? Email [email protected]

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What is the Provincial Competitive Program?

GO Capital’s High Performance Program is designed for athletes aiming to train and compete at the National level, bringing their performance to the next level.

  • Includes 5 practices per week focused on technical development and performance refinement
  • Athletes must have prior experience in Provincial Competitive or National stream
  • Season runs from September to June
  • Optional summer training prepares athletes for High Performance and Provincial team camps or competitions

 

Team Categories 

 

Depending on their age, a high performance athlete swims in one of 3 categories:

  • Youth (13-15)
  • Junior (15-19)
  • Senior (18+)

Athletes may compete in provincial, national, and international level competitions.

 

 

Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD)

GO Capital’s High Performance Program is based on the Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Framework to help swimmers reach the greatest heights of sport achievement.

  • Focuses on the ‘Train to Train’, ‘Train to Compete’, and ‘Train to Win’ stages
  • Athletes develop stamina (endurance), strength, speed, and suppleness (flexibility) while gaining more advanced artistic swimming skills
  • Mental training is introduced and developed, including goal setting and evaluation, visualization, and competition preparation
  • Athletes train together in a high quality training environment where coaches encourage teamwork and excellence
  • Program systematically teaches the foundations of technically sound and artistically innovative artistic swimming while also developing important life skills that will benefit all athletes 
  • Ages 11 to 15 – ‘Train to Train’ – continued artistic swimming skill development and competing more seriously
  • Junior (ages 15-19) and FINA Senior (ages 18 & over) - ‘Train to Compete’ – Optimizing physical preparation, higher intensity training, more individualized training, and ‘Train to Win’ – Elite competitors competing at the highest level of competition

 

🕒 Tentative Practice Schedule (2025–2026)

*University pools close mid-April for maintenance. Reroutes will be shared in advance.

Holiday and pool closures - Regular schedules will be modified as required due to pool closures, special events, and holidays. In order to accommodate these, practice times, days, and locations may be rescheduled or canceled. These dates will be shared as soon as they become available.

 

Youth (13–15) and Junior (15-19)

Number of practices per week: 5
Total hours per week: 19 hours (15 hours pool + 4 hours land)

 

Practice times & locations:

  • Tuesday 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. @ Lowertown Pool (includes 1 hour land @ Le Patro)
  • Wednesday 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. @ Bob MacQuarrie Pool (includes 1 hour land)
  • Thursday 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. @ Splash Wave Pool
  • Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. @ *Carleton University Pool, plus 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. @ Iron North Gym 
  • Sunday 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. @ *Ottawa University Pool (includes 1 hour land)

Senior (18+) 

Interested in senior-age programming options?
Contact us at [email protected]

 

 

Performances & Competitions

  • Watershows: Possible participation in Winter + End-of-Season (depending on national competition schedule; dates and locations TBC)
  • Competitions: Competitions dates and locations for the 2025-2026 season have not yet been confirmed by Ontario Artistic Swimming (OAS) and Canadian Artistic Swimming (CAS). These will be shared as soon as they are finalized.

 

Start of Season

  • Conditioning Camp (Optional): August 25-30, pending pool availability. Dates, times, and locations will be confirmed as soon as possible.
  • Team Placements (Mandatory): September 2–6. Please note: these practice times and locations may differ from your regular age group’s schedule above. Times and locations will be communicated once confirmed.
  • Team selection shared via email before full team practices begin.

Important Note About Start of Season Schedule: The Club does not have access to all regular pools and times at the beginning of the season. Athletes should expect a slightly modified schedule during the first few weeks.

 

Extra Routines – Solos & Duets

  • Solos and/or duets will be offered this season

  • Athletes will train 2 additional hours per routine per week (late September to May/June)

  • Extra routine selection and coach assignments are at the discretion of the Lead Technical Coach
  • Extra routine assessments will take place during team practices the week of September 8–14 during team practices

 

Required Equipment

Please note that these items are NOT included in the fees and swimmer accounts will be invoiced separately for these items based on specific merchandise needs. The following items will be mandatory unless indicated as optional:

  • Routine suit (included in fees)
  • GO Capital Artistic Swimming Club cap*
  • Club jacket*
  • Club T-shirts* (one black and one red)
  • Club tank top*
  • Club swim bag (back pack)*
  • Club spacing suit* 
  • Plain white swim cap
  • Plain black swimsuit
  • Nose clips
  • Goggles (including black goggles for competition)
  • Practice swim cap
  • Yoga mat
  • Yoga block
  • Thera Band (elastic band)
  • Plain black leggings
  • Optional: Plain black shorts

*To be purchased through the Club

 

 

Fees

  • Deposit: $250 (non-refundable) due at registration
  • Club Fee: As per the fee schedule available during registration (*NEW* includes end-of-season banquet ticket for athlete)
  • Ontario Artistic Swimming (OAS) / Canada Artistic Swimming (CAS) Fee: $175. Note: These fees will be paid directly by families through a separate online registration system - more information on the process for payment will be shared once available.

Club fees can be paid in full or in installments based on the fee schedule available during the registration process. Please refer to the GO Capital Artistic Swimming Payment Policy for information related to refunds and withdrawals.

Fees do NOT include travel costs (hotel, food, transportation), competition costs (registration fees, and coach per diem and travel), or additional merchandise. These expenses will be invoiced separately as incurred. 

 

 

Fundraising

As part of season registration fees, all families are required to pay a fundraising amount set annually by the Board of Directors (outlined in the fee schedule available during registration). Funds raised per family are credited back to your account. Fundraising may directly benefit the Club or the athlete.

  • Club-directed: Supports Club-wide needs (e.g. equipment, coaches uniforms, off-set operational costs) Examples: Watershows, Swim-a-thon
  • Athlete-directed: Helps offset personal costs Examples: Purdy’s Chocolate, FlipGive, Fundscrip

Volunteering

As part of the registration fees, all families are required to pay a volunteer levy identified annually by the Board of Directors (outlined in the fee schedule available during registration).

Credited back to your family account at season’s end if volunteer hours are completed.

  • Meet roles: Scoring, hospitality, audio/video, etc.
  • Non-meet roles: Board of Directors position, fundraising and other event coordination or support, event setup

Full details in the Volunteer Policy.

 

📩 Still have questions? Email us at [email protected]