Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Swimming Events on Aruba

Aruba's swimming competitions are organized during the year by the Swimming Federation AZB (Arubaanse Zwembond).
There are 3 teams that participate in these events which are; The Aruba Dolphins, Stingray swim team, and the Orca's.
There are more teams that give swim lessons but do not have competitive swimming in their program, there is also a government sponsored school swim program for kids in 3rd grade.
There is one (1) Synchronized swimming team; the Barracuda's, and actually there is no active Waterpolo team.
All events are sanctioned by the AZB and have to comply with the rules of the FINA (Federation Internationale de Natacion). To ensure this there has to be enough qualified officials to run these events, and Certified FINA referees and starters.
Aruba has 2 FINA Referees and 1 FINA Starter, this is where I come into the picture.
I am one the FINA Referees and am on List #12 of International Referees.
In other posts I will go into more detail of swimming in Aruba

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