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The Canadian Junior National Team are now in China, primed and anxious to get down to business at the 10th FINA Junior Synchro Swimming World Championships. The actions gets underway tomorrow with Duet and Team Preliminaries. Memoirs of a Synchro Coach
Hello Junior Team Fans and Supporters!

>> Memoirs of a Synchro Coach

Hello Junior Team Fans and Supporters!

We have arrived comfortably here in Foshan city in China after our very important training camp in Hong Kong. We are so happy to have had the opportunity to train in Hong Kong before this event. It really helped the athletes to get used to the significant time change of 12 hours. It also allowed the athletes to really get used to all the wonderful and often challenging differences in culture, food and way of life.
The athletes trained about 6 hours per day during the camp and are feeling great now that they have arrived in China. They are really able to push themselves here on the world stage- that is a huge plus both for performance and for confidence!

The new facility is totally fantastic- two 50m pools and a diving pool, it was open for one day when they opened it up to competitors yesterday- it is grand, and spotless. We are all really impressed with the genuine hospitality of the Chinese and are really thankful for all of the volunteers help and efforts to make this a memorable event. The hotel is about a 25 min bus ride away from the pool, and everything is quite organized- right down to every pool time training that you receive. The Chinese are really wonderful hosts to us.

The girls had two excellent practices over the past three days and we where met with many compliments. The athletes look proud and are really working well together as a team to focus on the job they want to do to perform at their best. We are really excited for the duet and team prelim tomorrow-both routines had a great swim through today and are motivated to improve small key things for tomorrow. Our figures where drawn today (Kip and Subalina- to go with the compulsory's) and everyone is feeling really calm and prepared for Monday's figure event.

Thank you to all who have sent us their best wishes and support. We are very aware of how many people have worked very hard to support our team- we salute you! Canada is proud and ready to go tomorrow!!

Will update you soon, attached is a photo of the athletes outside the pool after practice tonight! (It’s really hot!!! Over 33!)

Julia
Julia Warren
Head Coach Synchro Canada National Junior Team
Head Coach Team Ontario Senior and Junior
Olympium Synchronized Swimming Club Junior/ Senior Coach