Weekly Update (November 2nd - November 9th)

November 2, 2025

Hello FAST families,

Good luck to all the swimmers attending the Premier #1 meet in St Stephen on Sunday! If your swimmer(s) are attending and you are looking for more information, I sent out an info email yesterday. They still need a couple volunteers, so if you can help out, please use the link in the table below to sign up!

Next week's schedule is below.

November 2^nd - 9^th, 2025

Important Upcoming Dates:

Nov 2	Premier #1 “Sharknado” @ St Stephen	Cannot swim events with SC ‘A’ Standard Officiating Signup Genius Link
Nov 5	Deadline to register for the FAST Awards Banquet	More info below
Nov 5	Hotel cut off date – NB Open Cup	1. Campbelton Super 8 (506) 305-2312 2. Motel Interprovincial, Pointe à la Croix, Québec (418) 788-2070 3. Campbelton Quality Hotel (506) 753-4133
Nov 12	FAST Awards Banquet	Location: Fredericton Inn @ 5:30-7:30pm More info below
Nov 15-16	Invitational #1 @ Moncton	3 ‘B’ Standards
Nov 16	Holiday Wreath order deadline	More info below
Nov 19	Deadline to register for Devo Camp	More info below
Nov 20	Deadline to Decline – NB Open Cup @ Campbelton	1 ‘AA’ Standard
Nov 22	FAST Bottle Drive	More info below
Nov 23	Development Camp	More info below

2025 FAST Awards Banquet

Our annual FAST Awards Banquet is coming up on November 12th. This is always a fun night where we all get a chance to get together and celebrate our Team's previous season's achievements. Feel free to get dressed as fancy as you like! We have dinner together and then hand out awards for swimmers' various accomplishments.

It will be held at the Fredericton Inn from 5:30-7:30pm. All competitive practices and drylands will be canceled this evening.

All swimmers and family members wanting to attend, please register by November 5th using this link

2025 FAST / ASF Holiday Wreath Fundraiser

It’s almost that time of the year again! FAST will once again be selling Holiday Wreaths as a fundraiser in partnership with Artistic Swimming Fredericton.

There are 12” circular wreaths, 16” circular wreaths, and 24” Candy Cane shaped wreaths available.

The profit per wreath is $10. Profits from the first 5 wreaths go to FAST, profit from your 6th and up wreaths will be applied as a credit on your FAST account (see table below for examples of profit allocation for this fundraiser.

Submit orders using this link here.

Deadline to submit your orders is November 16^th.

FAST Bottle Drive

November 22^nd, 2025 @ 8:30-11:30am

Exhibition Grounds Parking Lot in front of Shur Gain Feeds'n Needs

Fundraising opportunity we do multiple times a year.

Here is the sign-up genius link to sing up for the bottle drive!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0B4AA8AE22A1F49-59903958-fast

Click here for more information

Swim NB Development Camp

Invitation list for the South region Devo Camp is attached. It can also be found here.

Swimmers are picked for the list based on:

Ages 11-13 years
Top 3 Male and Top 3 Female from each age category (11/12/13) in each of 200 IM, 400 IM, and 400 Free
Pre-season and current season results as of 1 month prior to the camp date - ages 11, 12 or 13 years as of Dec 31, 2024

The Camp will be held on Sunday, November 23^rd at the Pat Crossman Memorial Aquatic Centre in Riverview.

An email should be coming out to all invited participant's families with more info on registration.

The registration link can be found here. Registration deadline is November 19^th.

Tentative schedule as follows:

9:45 Registration

10:00-11:45 Classroom Sessions (Team Building and Goal Setting)

11:45-12:30 Lunch (lunch to be provided)

12:45-3:00 Pool session (Stroke focus)