Dec 2014
CANA Zone IV
CANA Zone IV
Southern African Swimmer
THE LAST 4 YEARS – FROM A VISION TO REALITY
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CANA Zone 4 Championships Success
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Strategy bears results
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New Facilities Built
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New Strategy to Consolidate Progress
The CANA Zone IV 2014 AGM
was held in Johannesburg, South
Africa on 21-22 June 2014. The
General Assembly reviewed the
four year strategy that was adopted
at the inaugural AGM in 2010.
Significant progress was made on
the plan and the meeting noted the
successes and challenges over the
last few years. The Vision that was
agreed in 2010 has indeed become
a reality with the Zone IV becoming the most active and competitive on the African continent.
We have seen most of the Zone IV
countries now participating in
regional, continental and FINA
events. The growth of the CANA
Zone ¾ championship has now
become one of the most successful
swimming events in Africa with
more than 200 athletes participating.
The quality of performance of our
swimmers have also continued to
grow with most of the countries
now achieving podium performances. The recent African Youth
Games in Botswana was the pinna-
cle of the last four years with all
14 countries of our Zone participating, with 70% of the participants coming from Zone IV and 10
of the countries achieving podium
finishes.
Podium Performance Programme
Inside this issue:
Plan for More Medals in next 4 years
Podium Performances 1
The new CANA Zone IV strategy
as placed athlete development at
the core of its plans for the next 4
years. The measure of the success
of this intervention will be to get
more countries winning more medals at the major regional, continental and world events.
4 Year Plan Adopted
New Bureau Elected
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CANA Zone 3/4 Ugan- 3
da 2014
AUSC Region 5
Games Zim 2014
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Angola 2015 CANA
Zone 4
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Education and Training
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The CANA Zone IV Podium Performance Programme has been
aligned to the regional African
Union Sports Council Region 5
PPP in ensuring that the Zone
achieves Podium finishes across a
range of sports between now and
the 2020 Olympics.
The key elements of the CANA
Zone IV strategy will focus on a
Long Term Participant Development Programme; Selection of
regional squads of talented swimmers; support for athletes to competitions and camps and coach
development.
Standardised programmes will be
developed and implemented across
the region.
Medal winners from Seychelles,
Botswana and Mauritius at the AYG
n Botswana
Southern African Swimmer
2014—2018 CANA Zone IV Bureau
The CANA Zone IV AGM in
Johannesburg elected a new
Bureau for the next cycle.
Jace Naidoo (RSA) and Shaun
Adriaanse (RSA) were unanimously re-elected as President
and General Secretary/Treasurer.
The other persons elected were:
Vice Presidents: Dr . Mar io
Fernandes (ANG);Mr. James
Kamuyka (BOT); Mr. David
Thompson (ZAM)
Newly elected members of the CANA Zone IV Bureau
Additional Members: Ms. Ana
Lima (ANG); Ms. Sibongile
Ruele (BOT); Mr. Dean Pinto
(MAW); Ms. Odete Semiao
(MOZ); Mr. Harold Lai Chuck
Choo (MRI); Ms. Mary Kloppers (ZIM)
The new Bureau consists of the
key experienced leadership of
the national federations from
across the region. It also reflects
gender equity policy of the Zone
with 5 of the new members being women.
The elected members played a
key role in developing the new 4
year plan. They have taken the
challenges and strengths in each
of their countries to build a robust regional strategy to ensure
that aquatics continues to remain
one of the most successful sporting codes in Africa.
Honorary Member
Ms. Doreen Tiborcz (MRI )
To become a world
class regional aquatic
confederation
developing aquatics and
nurturing world class
athletes to achieve
podium performances at
major continental and
international events.
2014—2018 Strategy to deliver more athletes & more medals
The CANA Zone IV AGM undertook a detailed review of the
first regional strategy. Following
an engaging and fruitful weekend session the General Assembly adopted a new strategy that
will focus on key areas that will
grow aquatics in the region to
deliver world class athletes at
international events,
 Strengthen the Capacity of Zone
IV and National Federations
 Implement Grassroots development Programmes to Grow the
Sport
 Increase country participation
& improve athlete performance
 Facilitate Capital Infrastructure investment in Aquatic facilities
 Improve Financial SustainabilSix strategic priorities were iden- ity
 Build the CANA Zone IV Brand
tified. These are:
The purpose of the strategy is to
both strengthen the capacity of
the National Federation and the
Zone to deliver programmes that
will grow the sport of aquatics in
the Zone as well as improve the
quality of performance of all
member countries.
The strategy has been aligned to
the objectives of CANA, FINA
and the AUSC Region 5.
The AUSC Region 5 - Developing Youth
Caption describing picture or
graphic.
New Aquatic facility in Mozambique
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The partnership created in
2008 with the AUSC R5
(formally SCSA Zone VI)
has grown from strength to
strength. In the past cycle we
hosted events in Swaziland
(2010) and Zambia (2012).
The regional governments
have begun to send teams to
the event and are investing in
infrastructure. This has assist-
ed in the growth of swimming in all countries.
In 2014 the AUSC Region 5
Youth Games was successfully hosted in Bulawayo
Zimbabwe. This will be followed by Angola (2016) and
Botswana (2018).
In addition to the successful
Youth Games, the region has
also developed a strategy to
improve the quality of performance of our athletes. A Performance
Podium
Programme has been adopted to
ensure that more medals are
won by our athletes from our
Zone.
Uganda CANA Zone 3/4 Championship
The Zone 3/4 countries gathered in Uganda in April this
year for the 11th addition of
championship.
USF trained a number of
young volunteers to assist in
the organization of the event
as well as technical officials.
Uganda Swimming Federation (USF) put together a
remarkable event. This was
the first continental competition held in Uganda.
The event was well supported
by the local community, enjoying the feast of swimming
by the future stars of the region.
9 countries participated in
Kamala and their were some
exceptional performances
displayed by the teams.
Dr Donald Rukare the President of Ugandan Swimming
was very exited by the success of the event and the
number of countries that par-
ticipated. The event has the
full support of the National
Olympic Committee and
Government.
Despite the challenges of
securing sponsors the hosts
were not deterred from organizing an event that all
participants thoroughly enjoyed.
The event brought to an end
the joint competition as the
growth in the Zones will result in each Zone now host-
Uganda April 2014
African Union Youth Games—Botswana May 2014
The first African Union Youth
Games were held in Botswana in
May 2014. Swimming was one
of the highlights of the multisport programme.
Over 30 countries participated at
the event. All 14 member countries of CANA Zone IV competed with 10 of them ensuring
podium finishes.
mous young talent of the continent and also the fast improving
performances of the swimmers
from Zone IV.
South Africa and Egypt dominated the competition with South
Africa resulting in overall log
leaders with Egypt a close second.
The event displayed the enorSwimmers off the blocks at the first AYG in Botswana
Long Term Planning – Competition Calendar
The Bureau had an intensive
discussion on the need for a
long term calendar of our
competition programme. Numerous challenges were identified and it was decided to
approve a scheduled aligned
with the AUSC R5 calendar
as this will assist in better
planning and co-ordination.
The long term competition
calendar has been approved
by the Zone for events bePage 3
tween 2015-2032. This will
allow for improved engagement with our national governments in providing support
for the hosting Zone IV
Championships and investment in infrastructure.
The next 4 CANA Zone IV
championships will be held in:
2015 Angola
2016 Mauritius
2017 Zimbabwe
2018 Malawi
The AUSC Region 5 Youth
Games will be held in:
2016 Angola
2018 Botswana
2020 Lesotho
2022 Malawi
CANA Zone IV
Champs
2015 Angola
2016 Mauritius
2017 Zimbabwe
2018 Malawi
Southern African Swimmer
Swimming success at AUSC Region 5 Youth Games in Zimbabwe
131 swimmers from the AUSC
Region 5 gathered in Bulawayo
for the 2014 edition of the under
20 Youth Games. Nine countries
participated in the newly refurbished pool for some fast racing
with over 24 records broken over
the 4 days of racing.
This was the 4th time swimming
was included in the multi-coded
event and it was encouraging to
see the increasing number of
athletes coming from all member
countries.
24 championship records tumbled in four days of competition
Angola prepare to host CANA Zone IV 2015
4 new aquatic
facilities developed as
a result of hosting
swimming events in
member countries in
the last 4 years
The CANA Zone IV Championship will be held in Angola in
2015. An enthusiastic Angolan
team in Malawi pledged to build
on the successes of the previous
events to host a memorable 12th
edition of the event.
Plans are well under way for the
event with a facility being renovated in Luanda to host the
premier swimming event in
Southern Africa. .
Facility in Angola under renovation
Junior Water Polo—Zimbabwe 2015
Following the success of the
Junior Water Polo African Qualifier in Johannesburg, South
Africa n 2014, the Inaugural
CANA Zone IV Junior Water
Polo Championship will take
place in Zimbabwe at the end of
January 2015.
Both a men and women's section
will be scheduled at the event.
The countries will be preparing
their teams to compete in the
FINA Junior events in the coming years.
Water Polo Players in action
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CANA Zone IV
CONTACT
CANA Zone IV (Southern African
Swimming Confederation) can be
contacted at
Phone: +27 11 4042480
Email: [email protected];
[email protected]
Vision
To become a world class regional aquatic
confederation developing aquatics and nurturing world class athletes to achieve podium performances at major continental and
international events.
Mission
To promote, support and monitor the development and organisation of aquatics within
and amongst the National Federations of
Zone IV.
CANA Zone IV
National Federation News: You can submit stories or photos on activities in your National Federation to the CANA
Secretariat at [email protected]
Education and Training Critical to Raising Standards
The CANA Zone IV Bureau identified the
need for a standardized training in the region
as a critical element of raising the performance of coaches, technical officials and
administrators.
The level 1 Swimming Coaching Course and
an Administrators course has been adopted
and will be utilized in the region.
The intention is to develop the capacity of
each of the National Federation to present the
courses in their countries.
The initial presentation of the course will be
centralized in the short term.
The first Swim
Coaches Level 1
course will be held
in Johannesburg,
South Africa from
the 10-12 February
2015. Interested
coaches can contact
Swimming South
Africa for further
info at [email protected].
Zone IV General Assembly in Session Jo’burg 2014