Events
Competitive swimming events are a great way to challenge the swimmers in your club to reach for their best. Events are hosted by clubs and Swim Nova Scotia. The Schedule of Events for Summer, Year-Round and Masters swimming in Nova Scotia is set by Swim NS and must be sanctioned by Swim NS via the Swimming Canada webpage. Programming is developed following Swimming Canada’s Swimmer Development Matrix; Swim NS Event Descriptors can be found here.
2023-2024 Schedule of Events as of December 12th, 2023 (NT #3 North & NT #4 South updated)
Meet Information packages can be found on the Swimming Canada webpage once they have been sanctioned, and can be found here
Time Standards are reviewed each year and adjusted as necessary to ensure accuracy and balance between events and are available below with each respective program.
Program Information
Year-Round:
Swim NS Competition Program Information (information on the different levels of swim meets i.e. Nova Tech, Scotia Sprint, Age Group Development - talk to your Coach for more information)
2023-2024 Age Group Development Meet Templates as of November 28, 2023
2023-2024 Para Provincial Time Standards (these have not changed from 2020)
Summer Information:
Program Information is available on this page
Masters Information:
Meet Results can be accessed through Clubs.
Open Water Information:
Long Lake Open Water Course Map
2024 Open Water Events:
Open Water Event #1 - Thursday July 18th; 5:00pm check-in, racing begins at 6:00pm; course cutoff 8:00pm. Registration coming early May!
Open Water Event #2 - Thursday August 8th; 5:00pm check-in, racing begins at 6:00pm; course cutoff 8:00pm. Registration will be available in mid July.
Past Open Water Results:
2023 Open Water #2 Results as of August 17th
2023 Open Water #1 Results as of 07_21_23 (Non-Ken Dunn Participants)
2023 Ken Dunn Open Water Results as of 07_17_23
Open Water # 1 Results 07-13-22 v2 (Non-Ken Dunn Participants)