Nelson Neptunes

Please speak to your club president to sign up!!

2024 COACHES CONFERENCE
The 2024 BCSSA Coaches Conference will be held at RockRidge Canyon, Princeton, from
April 26 to 28, 2024. Please note dinner will not be served on Friday evening. Please
ensure participants have eaten prior to arriving at the facility. A bagged lunch will be
provided to all participants on Sunday, April 28.
Check in begins: 6:30pm
Friday, April 26, 2024
Start time: 7:00pm
Friday, April 26, 2024
Check out: 1:00pm
Sunday, April 28, 2024
• Registration will be at Club/ Regional level
• Regions will be billed post event for all Registrants
• Early Bird Registration cost is $125 (sign up prior to April 1)
• Late Registration cost is $150 (sign up after April 1)
• Limit of 130 Coaches
• All participants must be 14 years of age or older as of April 26, 2024
• Transportation to the event will not be organized by BCSSA

If you are interested, please speak to your CLUB PRESIDENT and they will send you the link to the spreadsheet for registration.

The KO Region had a great showing at the BCSS High School Provincial Championships November 17-18th in Nanaimo.
Congratulations to all our swimmers! A big shout out to the following swimmers on their podium finishes…Callum Ziefflie from Creston, Kallie Badry from Nelson and the Grand Forks Relay Team of Andrew Friesen, Brett Friesen, Natalie Sjoden and Emma Lewis!

Time to get excited about next Summer! Here is the KO Region Meet Schedule for Summer 2024!

 May 25/26 – Creston
 June 1/2 – Kimberly
 June 9 – Grand Forks
 June 15/16 – Off (Please note CHANGE OF DATE)
 June 22/23 -Off
 June 29/30 – Nelson, Heats & Finals (Please note CHANGE OF DATE)
 July 6/7 -Colville
 July 13/14 – Castlegar, Heats & Finals
 July 20/21 – Trail, Heats & Finals
 July 27/28 Off, last weekend before regionals
 August 3/4 Regionals, Colville

NEW FOR 2023. We have a new Regional Facebook Page up and running. Please search “Kootenay Region” to join. We will be using this page as our new SUIT SWAP page – people can list/sell/buy training or tech suits!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091492642534&mibextid=LQQJ4d

Happy New Year KO Region Families,

We would like to welcome Erica Brindza from Colville as our new Director of Competition. Erica is replacing Ashlea Lutz-Miller (Trail) who held the position over the past couple of years. Thank you, Ashlea for all your hard work!

KO Regional Director – Leanne Douglas (NEL)
KO Regional Registrar – Breanne Lipinski (CAS)
KO Regional Treasurer – Laura Lewis (GFA)
KO Regional Secretary – Michelle Armstrong (GFA)
KO Director of Competition – Erica Brindza (COL)
KO Director of Officials – Chad Badry (NEL)
KO Director of Electronics – Alan LeRoy (GFA)
KO Director of Equipment – Brad Ziefflie (CRE)

Club Presidents – CAS – Jen Waldie; COL Erica Brindza; CRE Brad Ziefflie; GFA -Michelle Armstrong; KIM – Joanna Sleik; NEL – Chad Badry; TRA – Paul Fricke