Date and Time

Saturday, July 19th, 2025, at 07:30
In the event of unforeseen circumstance, the meet will take place on Sunday, July 20th, 2025.

Registration and Scratches

Registration must be completed before Sunday, Jul. 20th, 2025, via the standardized NAA Swimmer List.

To be eligible for the Summer Swim Meet, a swimmer must meet the following conditions:

1. The swimmer is 14 years of age or younger; and
2. The swimmer has not participated in any winter aquatic program in the previous 24 months. This includes “winter” swimming, synchronized swimming, waterpolo or triathlon. Taking swimming lessons during the winter season, or partaking in school-run swimming competitions are not activities considered to be a winter aquatic program.

Per convention, “recreational” swimmers are considered as winter swimmers.

The number of entries and authorized events per swimmer is as follows:

1. Swimmers may swim in a maximum of 3 events. These events may be in either their own age category, or one older than theirs.
2. Teams are permitted 3 entries per individual event.

The Vice-President of Competitive Swimming can accept or refuse substitutes or deck entries.

Substituting entries may be accepted on the day of the meet. Such requests must be made with the Clerk of the Course, at the latest, 30 minutes before the start of the meet.

Deck entries may be accepted on the day of the meet. Such requests must be made, at the latest, 30 minutes before the start of the meet. The conditions above must be met.

Thorndale Pool
14921 rue Oakwood, Pierrefonds (Québec) H9H 1Y1

Pool

Five-lane, 25m bassin.

Amenities

Men’s and Women’s bathrooms are available. No changing rooms or lockers are available on site.

Personal effects are the responsibility of individuals. Briarwood Pool and the NAA is not responsible for any broken, lost or stolen items. Items should not be left unattended. It is highly discouraged to bring unnecessary valuable items.

A table will be provided to each team. Visitors and teams are highly encouraged to bring additional shading, such as tents and umbrellas.

Swimmers, coaches, officials and spectators should bring sunscreen, a hat and a refillable water bottle.

Cleanliness

The collaboration of all visitors is required to keep the pool and surrounding areas clean. Garbage bins and recycling bins will be available throughout the venue.

Available Food for Purchase

A barbecue and canteen will sell food, snacks and beverages throughout the competition.

Upon arrival, spectators must park in on nearby streets. Certain volunteers may direct spectators to specific parking zones—please follow the instructions of volunteers.

Spectators enter the pool area through the gate located to the right of the main building. There will be bleachers, seats, and benches available to spectators watching the races.

Portable chairs, or camping chairs, are not permitted in certain designated zones.

Swimmers enter through the gate located to the right of the main building.

Marshalling

A marshalling area will organize swimmers into heats. It is the responsibility of coaches and swimmers to arrive at the marshalling area on time. Swimmers should arrive to the marshalling area at least 15 minutes before their race.

To prevent crowding, only competing swimmers and one (1) coach shall be permitted from the marshalling area onwards. All other individuals must remain behind the marked delimitations.

The collaboration of all visitors is required to keep the pool and surrounding areas safe. Unsafe and disrespectful behaviours are not tolerated. Official NAA regulations, policies and codes will be enforced.

Warm-Up Period

Swimmers must enter into the water feet first, from a seated position. Diving and block starts are only authorized when one-way swimming, in the direction away from the starting block, is enforced. This includes backstroke starts. Coaches can designate any assigned lane to them for one-way swimming.

Swimmers must keep right when in a lane where swimming is observed in both directions.

Flutter boards and pull buoys are permitted during warm-up periods. Hand paddles, flippers (fins), snorkels and ankle bands are proscribed. All swimmers must wear a decent bathing suit adapted for swimming.

Notwithstanding the paragraph above, Meet Management and the referee reserves the right to prohibit any equipment that is susceptible to cause harm to an individual.

Individuals may not swim during the warm up period without the presence of an assigned coach on deck. Swimmers who cannot swim 25m without assistance, or without a flotation device, must be accompanied in the water by a responsible adult. For the purposes of this document, a responsible adult is defined as any person above the age of 14.

Responsible adults must be able to see all swimmers under their care, and be sufficiently in reach of swimmers to intervene when necessary. Coaches are responsible of determining the number of responsible adults in the water necessary to ensure the safety of swimmers.

It is the responsibility of each Para Swimmer’s coach to provide the necessary assistance and/or equipment to each of their athletes.

Coaches must attempt to give priority to athletes swimming backstroke.

Prevention of Crowding

Coaches, swimmers and spectators must remain clear of certain designated areas. In particular, individuals must not block the movement within the deck area, nor block the main entry/exit.

To prevent crowding, participants must remain attentive to the instructions of volunteers and officials.

Traffic and Parking

Drivers must collaborate with the instructions of on-site staff. To prevent incidents, visitors are asked not leave children unattended in areas with car traffic.

Prerogative of Meet Management

Meet management reserves the right to expel any individual in violation of applicable health and safety regulations.

A Coaches’ Meeting will take place at 08:10 am at the main building. A minimum of one coach per team must attend the meeting. 

Races begin at 9 a.m.  

Officials and volunteers are asked to arrive at 07:30 a.m. and register at the officials’ table. Safety marshalls must arrive by 7:15 in order to supervise warm-up periods.

An Officials’ Meeting will take place at 8:20. 

Officials will be provided with lunch and water throughout the meet. Officials are asked to bring a reusable water bottle to be refilled as needed.  

Stopwatches

All pools must bring stopwatches for the timers provided. 

Decorum

Officials and volunteers are asked to wear a white shirt.

An open warm-up period shall also take place at the lunch break.

Meet results will be published live on the NAA Competitive Swimming site.

The status of the meet will be also published on the NAA Competitive Swimming site.