Cheque made out to: Pacific Wave Artistic Swim Club

Address to send cheque: 
734, 186-8120 No 2 Road, 
Richmond, BC
V7C 5J8

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name, Our athletes are very grateful for your kindness and we thank you from the bottom of our heart. Your donation directly benefits our girls and boys to minimize competition and travel expenses. Every dollar raised supports girls continuing in sport, and to train and compete at any level they desire. In recent years boys have entered the sport and our club has 3 boys training this season. If you would like to learn more about us follow along on social media.  We also offer sponsorship opportunities - let us know if you'd like to learn more! Please help spread the word about our fundraiser and or talk to your friends about our cause. Thank you very much for your generosity! Pacific Wave Artistic Swim Club For more information, please contact us: Debora Broadhurst, Fundraising Coordinator <a href="mailto:fundraising@pwasc.ca">fundraising@pwasc.ca</a>orPresident@pwasc.cawww.pwasc.ca 604-216-7444

Thank you for fundraising with us this year again! Here is more information.

Thank you for visiting our donation page! The athletes of Pacific Wave Artistic Swimming are grateful for your donation as every penny raised will directly support them.  <div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Established in 2007, we are a non-profit organization supporting female athletes and in recent years have welcomed male athletes to learn and compete too. Pacific Wave is one of two Artistic Swim Club's in BC's Lower Mainland this season to train and compete at the National Stream level.  <p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1701386800/di4uks2dqcfujgpk0uux.jpg" style="width:416px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /> </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Any donations received will be allocated to athlete competition and travel expenses, above and beyond training and facility program fees. These include the following forecasted costs for the 23/24 season: </div><div><ul><li>$8,200 Provincial Championships in Kamloops  </li></ul></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">This season, our 29 Provincial Stream and 8 Limited Competitive athletes (ages 8-17) will compete in Kamloops for their Provincial Championships. Funds raised will help to subsidize competition fees and travel expenses to travel from the Lower Mainland to Kamloops <p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1701711305/wpofwsaggui21yqw9c8h.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;max-width:100%" /></div><div><ul><li>$6,200 to subsidize custom competition suits  </li></ul></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Artistic Swimming competition includes an Artistic Impression judge panel scoring a routine for Choreography and Musicality, Performance and Transitions.  Each athlete requires a special competition swimsuit that is designed to express the music and choreography.  Funds raised will subsidize custom suits made for our 31 National Stream and High-Performance Development Provincial Stream athletes.  <p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1701386825/qw5rdwidjmbu0fbkpg5x.jpg" style="width:408px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" />Our 2022-23 Junior Acrobatic Team <p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Wins Bronze National Championships in Calgary, May 2023 &amp; BC Artistic Swimming National Stream Team of the Year<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1709073529/n35sc2szex1agdjisraa.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;max-width:100%" /><img style="box-sizing:inherit;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:397px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;max-width:100%" /></div><div><ul><li>$36,000 travel subsidies for our National Stream team for National Competitions in Winnipeg and Montreal </li></ul></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Our 19 National Stream athletes (from age 13 to 20's) will travel to Winnipeg for National Qualifiers March 10-17, and Montreal May 5-12 for Canadian Artistic Swimming Championships. For the National competition events, athletes will train and compete for a week in each of these cities. Funds raised will help to offset travel expenses such as airline flights, car rental, food, hotel, and competition fees.  </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">To learn a bit more about us, this is our Medal Count and top 10 placements from last season: <p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1701385815/o67rsp3xen8d1otidxe2.png" style="width:779px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px"> Your support goes beyond just helping our athletes travel and compete this season - it helps to keep girls in sport!   </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Our programs start as early as age 6 in the beginner / recreational AquaGo lessons, and can continue through adolescence in Limited Competition, National and Provincial levels, then as young adults in Senior categories. Athletes in the competitive levels might also be eligible to try-out for BC Summer Games, Canada Summer Games representing Team BC, and to audition for Canada on the National Team competing around the world including the Olympics. There are also opportunities to bid through Canada Artistic Swimming to compete internationally through our club.<div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Training for competition performances requires our athletes to develop multiple skills, including flexibility, strength and conditioning, speed swimming, dance, choreography to music, and overall athleticism.</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Canadian Women &amp; Sport report that "girls are underrepresented in the Canadian sport system, as participants and as leaders, due to pervasive systemic barriers that limit their engagement .." Many studies indicate "girls and women drop out of sport at a significantly higher rate than boys.  As girls enter adolescence, 1 in 3 drop out of sport compared to just 1 in 10 boys. Beyond adolescence, women 19-31 years old participate in sport at just half the rate of men." </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">"Sport teaches leadership and challenges gender norms. Participating in sport helps build resiliency, confidence, self-esteem, and a sense of belonging. Sport offers support networks and prevents isolation, and these benefits are sustained long after childhood and adolescence (Canadian Women &amp; Sport, 2020). </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">For girls facing additional barriers related to other aspects of their social identities (such as race, religion, ethnicity, and others), the opportunity to engage in sport participation is even more important. For example, girls from lower income households report that cost, access, confidence, lack of feelings of belongingness and safety are barriers to their sport participation (Canadian Women &amp; Sport, 2020)." </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Please visit our website to learn more about us, Try-It dates, or follow us on social media to learn about our competition results. <p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1718500896/yrcvjnwy1mexavlmeceb.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;max-width:100%" />  </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:center;text-indent:0px"><a>www.pwasc.ca</a>      Instagram: pacific.wave.artistic.swim          Facebook: pacific.wave.synchro </div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.6667px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;overflow-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">         </div>

Help our athletes compete this year in Kamloops, Winnipeg and Montreal

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Pacific Wave Artistic Swim Club

### Context Profile for Pacific Wave Artistic Swim Club

1. **Organization Mission & Cause**:
   - **Mission**: The Pacific Wave Artistic Swim Club is dedicated to supporting female athletes in artistic swimming, with a recent initiative to include male athletes as well. The organization aims to foster a love for the sport while promoting inclusivity and competition at various levels, including National Stream competitions.
   - **Cause**: The club emphasizes the importance of keeping girls in sports, addressing systemic barriers that lead to higher dropout rates among female athletes, and providing opportunities for personal growth, leadership, and community.

2. **Type of Activities**:
   - **Training Programs**: Offers programs starting from beginner AquaGo lessons for ages 6 and up, progressing through Limited Competition, Provincial, and National levels.
   - **Competitions**: Athletes compete at various levels, including Provincial Championships in Kamloops and National Championships in Winnipeg and Montreal.
   - **Fundraising Campaigns**: Recent campaigns focus on raising funds for competition fees, travel expenses, and custom competition suits.
   - **Community Engagement**: The organization promotes community involvement and awareness of the importance of sports for youth, particularly girls.

3. **Tone of Voice**:
   - The tone is **friendly**, **supportive**, and **inspiring**, with a focus on gratitude and community. The language used is accessible and encourages participation and support from the community. Phrases such as "Thank you for visiting our donation page!" and "Your support goes beyond just helping our athletes travel and compete this season - it helps to keep girls in sport!" reflect this tone.

4. **Emoji Usage**:
   - The website does not prominently feature emojis in its communications. The tone remains professional and warm without relying on emojis for expression.

5. **Key Facts**:
   - **Founded**: Established in 2007.
   - **Scale**: The club has 29 Provincial Stream and 8 Limited Competitive athletes, aged 8-17, and 19 National Stream athletes aged 13 to 20.
   - **Impact Metrics**: The club has achieved notable success, including winning bronze at the National Championships and being recognized as the BC Artistic Swimming National Stream Team of the Year.
   - **Volunteer Information**: Specific volunteer opportunities are not detailed on the website, but community involvement is encouraged.

6. **Writing Guidelines**:
   - **Style**: Use a friendly and supportive tone that emphasizes community, gratitude, and inclusivity. 
   - **Language**: Keep language simple and accessible, avoiding jargon. Use clear calls to action, such as "Join us in supporting our athletes!" or "Help us keep girls in sport!".
   - **Content Structure**: Use engaging headlines and subheadings to break up text. Incorporate personal stories or testimonials from athletes when possible to create a connection with the audience.
   - **Visuals**: Include images of athletes in action, team events, and community engagement activities to enhance emotional appeal.

This context profile serves as a comprehensive guide for creating personalized and effective content for the Pacific Wave Artistic Swim Club, ensuring alignment with their mission, tone, and community engagement strategies.

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Pacific Wave Artistic Swim Club

Help our athletes compete this year in Kamloops, Winnipeg and Montreal

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