Canada Guides
Swim club guides
Practical, plain-language guides for Canadian swim clubs. Written for the parents working out their first season and the volunteers keeping a club running, not for software people.
For parents
New to swimming? Start here. These two cover what happens before your child joins a club and what happens once they start racing.
Joining a swim club in Canada
How club swimming is structured, finding a club, registering through Swimming Canada and your provincial section, the season, costs, and gear.
How swim meets work
Events, heats and lanes, reading a heat sheet, seeding, officials, and timing, ahead of your child's first meet.
For boards, treasurers and coaches
Running a club is mostly admin nobody trained you for. These cover the governing body, the money, and the tools.
Swimming Canada and the provincial sections
What Swimming Canada is, how the provincial and territorial sections work, how clubs affiliate and register, and how Safe Sport applies.
A treasurer's guide to membership fees
Building membership fees, registration pass-through, CAD pricing and billing cadence, pre-authorized debit and card payments, and records.
Choosing swim club management software
How Canadian clubs choose software for registration, billing, attendance, and parent communication, without the jargon.