Otago Swimming

By infonews.co.nz
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Queenstown — Learn to swim or brush up your existing swimming skills with the Aqualand Swim School in Queenstown or the Wanaka Community Swim School in Wanaka.

By Lakes Leisure Media
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Cromwell — A recent Central Otago Water Safety Forum has highlighted the need for development opportunities for those charged with delivering water safety education.

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Queenstown — Lakes Leisure have offered all Christchurch residents the opportunity to use the facilities at Alpine Aqualand, Alpine Health & Fitness and the Wanaka Community Pool at significantly discounted rates, with Christchurch children, seniors and beneficiaries being welcomed to the pools for free during the month of March.

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Queenstown — Alpine Aqualand has kicked off ‘Challenge Canada’ in conjunction with the Hyde Creek Recreation Centre in British Columbia, Canada who will swim ‘Challenge New Zealand’.

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Dunedin — The achievements of Dunedin swimming greats – double Olympic gold medal-winner Danyon Loader and his coach, the late Duncan Laing – will be marked by the naming of two Dunedin pools this week.

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Wanaka — Start the school holidays with a splash and celebrate the reopening of the Wanaka Community Pool with a FREE pool party this Saturday 25 September from 12:00pm to 2:00pm.

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Queenstown — Numbers of Lakes District children learning to be safe around water through Alpine Aqualand programmes are increasing at an average rate of 60 per cent each term, on a year on year basis.

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Alexandra — The Vincent Community Board and Alexandra Aquatics announced today that the Community Board had agreed to purchase the swimming school business operated by Alexandra Aquatics.

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Milton — A major rebuild of the Milton Swimming Pool changing rooms will be completed before the start of the 2011/12 swimming season, subject to consultation with the community.

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Wanaka — Discovery of a bigger problem than expected at the Wanaka Community Swimming Pool has resulted in a delay to re-opening the pool this week, Queenstown Lakes District Council community services general manager Paul Wilson said.

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Queenstown — An independent report on the Alpine Aqualand ‘fast’ hydroslide has found that the slide should not be operated without alteration to a portion of the slide.

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Queenstown — Increasing accessibility to Alpine Aqualand pool facilities for less affluent members of the community is the reason behind a price reduction for Community Services and SuperGold card holders.

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Oamaru — The Waitaki Aquatic Centre, due to re-open next week after extensive renovations, will now be closed until 25 May because some of the components have not arrived from Australia.

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Omarama — On Wednesday 17 December pupils at Omarama School held a sports day to celebrate the recent installation of a new solar heating system at its school pool.

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Wanaka — The management of the Wanaka Pool is to be transferred to council-controlled ‘not-for-profit’ organisation Lakes Leisure Limited, marking a new era for the pool, Wanaka Community Pool chairperson Jude Battson said.

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Roxburgh — At about 3.15pm on 11/11/08 police were advised of a swimmer in the Clutha River near Roxburgh who had gone missing.

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Wanaka — The Wanaka Community Board is asking the Upper Clutha community to reconsider the Wanaka Aquatic Centre Facility Mix to help advance the design process once a site is confirmed, WCB chairman Lyal Cocks said.

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Dunedin — Moana Pool’s Swimsation School has been announced ‘Swimschool of the Year’ at the latest franchise awards evening held in Auckland recently.

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Queenstown — Saturday’s public open day held at the Queenstown Events Centre for the new aquatic facility Alpine Aqualand is being hailed as a huge success.

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Queenstown — Queenstown’s new aquatic centre was officially named today in a joint announcement by Queenstown Lakes District Council and Lakes Leisure Limited.

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Queenstown — The community is being encouraged to have a close-up inspection of the new Queenstown Aquatic Centre this weekend,” Queenstown Lakes District Council communications manager Meaghan Miller said.

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Queenstown — The price structure for the new Queenstown Aquatic Centre, announced today, will enable locals to swim for less than a dollar a day, Lakes Leisure aquatic general manager Cam Sheppard said.

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