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Funding & Initiatives

Swim Ontario provides performance based financial support to Ontario registered current and future high performance and world class swimmers in order to facilitate their continued improvement towards international podium success.

ATHLETE PERFORMANCE FUNDING

Senior

To provide financial support to world class swimmers who are either registered with an Ontario based program or have had a performance history as part of an Ontario based program in order to facilitate their continued improvement towards international podium success.

Olympic Stream

  • Priority 1: Maximum of $12,000.00 for expenses, for a World Ranking of 1st to 10th place inclusive.
  • Priority 2: Maximum of $8000.00, for expenses, for a World Ranking of 11th & 25th place inclusive.
  • Priority 3: Maximum of $6000.00, for expenses, for a World Ranking of 26th & 50th place inclusive.
  • Confirmed athletes will be funded based on their World Rank as of August 31, 2025.

Paralympic Stream

  • Priority 1: Maximum of $12,000.00 for expenses, for a World Ranking of 1st to 3rd place inclusive.
  • Priority 2: Maximum of $8000.00, for expenses, for a World Ranking of 4th-7th place inclusive.
  • Priority 3: Maximum of $6000.00, for expenses, for a World Ranking of 8th-12th place inclusive.
  • Confirmed athletes will be funded based on their World Rank as of October 31, 2025.

Junior

A total of $40,000.00 (to a MAX of $4000.00 per swimmer) has been allocated by Swim Ontario for up to a MAX of 10 Ontario registered swimmers 18 and under as of December 31, 2025 in the performance development stream to facilitate their continued improvement towards world class status.

Para

Individual athlete funding for up to 6 Swimmers in the amount of $3000.00 per swimmer has been allocated by Swim Ontario for Ontario athletes in the Para Performance Development stream to facilitate their continued improvement towards world class performance.

CLUB PERFORMANCE FUND

Swim Ontario is pleased to announce the 2025/2026 Club Performance Grant.

Clubs who had a swimmer or swimmers make an international team, who trained with them full time in preparation for their performance will receive funding to to support enhancement of their clubs daily training environment or support a performance based coach training or mentorship opportunities.

Clubs will only be eligible one time to receive the highest level of performance funding regardless of the number of swimmers and performances that achieve the criteria.

Eligible clubs will be notified by Swim Ontario. Clubs must then submit their plans for use of the funds to support enhancement to their club daily training environment or support a performance based coach training or mentorship opportunity by March 1, 2026

Program Details

Funding Levels

  • Senior Team Initiatives: $5000.00
  • Junior Team Initiatives: $3000.00
  • Clubs will only be eligible one time to receive the highest level of performance funding regardless of the number of swimmers and performances that achieve the criteria.

Club Eligibility

  • Club must be fully affiliated with Swimming Canada and Swim Ontario
  • Club must be in good standing with Swimming Canada and Swim Ontario
  • Performances from swimmers who trained full time at the High Performance Centre-Ontario and Ontario Swimming Academy are not eligible for consideration.

Performance Eligibility

  • Only performances from the “Eligible Competitions” list will be considered
  • Athletes must compete in one of the listed “Eligible Competitions” for the club to be eligible for funding

Eligible Competitions

Senior Teams

  • 2025 World Aquatics Swimming Championships: Singapore
  • 2025 Para World Swimming Championships: Singapore

Junior Teams

  • 2025 World Junior Swimming Championships: Romania

Funded Initiatives

  • Improvements to the training standard of the daily training environment
  • Mentoring opportunities for the Coach/Swimmer tandems that provide exposure to performance based daily training environments or racing opportunities
  • Coach mentorship opportunity that aims in improve a home clubs daily training environment

Confirmation of Acceptance

  • Eligible clubs will be asked to submit a detailed plan for use of the funds.
  • Plans must include rationale for use of funds including impact on the club, budget and timeline for use of the funds.

Swim Ontario Authority for Decisions

  • All matters relating to selection are the sole authority of the Swim Ontario Chief Technical Officer.
  • Final decisions relating to performance funding selection on the basis of the approved selection criteria and subsequent requirements are at the discretion of the Chief Technical Officer.
  • All decisions made by Swim Ontario staff or its Technical Committee are final and not subject to review or appeal

DAN TAYLOR REGIONAL STUDENT ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIP

Twelve scholarships valued at $500.00 each. These scholarships will be awarded to the top qualifying male and female high school students from each of the six Swim Ontario regions who combine both swimming excellence and academic achievement. 2024-2025 applications are now closed.

Ontario High Performance Sport Initiative (OHPSI)

Supporting Ontario athletes who are best capable of achieving future international success on senior national teams in targeted winter and summer Olympic/Paralympic and Pan/Para Pan Am Games sports.

The OHPSI was designed to support a comprehensive provincial high performance sport system that allows for sustained success of athletes at the very highest levels of international sport.

OHPSI athletes are identified by Swim Ontario upon achieving a Swimming Canada On Track performance pathway time as follows:

  1. Based on athletes age - 18 & under based on Year of Birth.
  2. Performances done in an approved competition, in an Olympic event, in LCM.

    Tier 1: Athletes are swimmers who achieve either a Gold medal or Podium Pathway On-Track time
    Tier 2: Athletes are athletes who have been identified after achieving an On-Track Podium Pathway time

Services, and programming vary for Tier 1 and Tier 2 identified athletes and are consultative within the coach/athlete tandem. For further information regarding your specific athlete(s) please contact Darin Muma