2019-2020 Sponsorship Package The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of the International Olympic Committee

2 Our Club History The Scarborough Swim Club is a non-profit, parent run organization that was established in 1954. Our alumni include a long list of provincial, national and international-caliber competitors.

Some of our most distinguished alumni include:

• Cindy Nicholas (1968-72), Champion Marathon Swimmer: "Queen of the Channel" with 19 crossings of the English Channel

• Angela Coughlan (1971-72), National Team Member - Olympian - World Record Holder

• Carol Klimpel (1978-84), National Champion - National Record Holder 100m Freestyle - Olympian - 4 gold medals at Commonwealth Games

• Liz Warden 2004 Canadian Olympic Team Member

• Bob Hayes former Canadian National Team Member

Our Competitive Membership

The Club has over 250 members and is affiliated with Swim Ontario and Swimming . Swimming is Canada’s most successful Olympic sport.

Chris Ellul, Head Coach of the Scarborough Swim Club, has been involved in competitive swimming for 20 years, spending the last 13 coaching swimmers of all levels. Chris has been instrumental in the growth of the Club's swim school and development programs. His philosophy has always been to swim well first, then swim well fast. The goal is to create accountable and reliable student-athletes for long term success in both swimming and in life.

Our athletes are Leaders, Valedictorians, Honour Roll Students, recipients of Academic Awards and volunteers within their community. Competitive Swimming forges today’s youth into disciplined and determined individuals who are well equipped to enter the adult world.

Competitive Swimmers frequent the pool up to 8x/week, averaging 50 kilometres per week training. They wake as early as 4:15 am to train before attending school. Our Athletes are dedicated, determined, and hard working individuals. Our Training Facility The Scarborough Swim Club trains out of the world-class Pan Am Sports Centre, alongside many Olympians and Para-Olympians. In 2017, the facility drew 1.2 million visitors and staged over 100 local, national and international events.

The Pan Am Sports Centre is also home to many high performance organizations such as Dive Ontario, Diving Canada, Ontario, Synchro Ontario, Synchro Canada, Gymnastics Canada, WheelChair Basketball Canada and WheelChair . In addition to these groups, many other sport organizations also train regularly at TPASC. The facility is the largest infrastructure investment in Canadian amateur sport history. World swimming records at this facility have been set by Penny Oleksiak and Javier Acevedo and Canadian World Records have been set by Russell Wood, Zack Chetrat, Kylie Masse, Brittany Maclean, Canadian Para swimmer Daniel Murphy and more.

The Canadian Sport Institute of Ontario (CSIO), located at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, provides world-leading sport science and sport performance services to identified high-performance athletes.

5 Our Club's Challenge

The Scarborough Swim Club is thrilled to be training out of the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre but this privilege comes with an expense of approximately $200,000 per annum to secure adequate pool time and the cost is increasing every year.

The Club is a non-profit organization with an annual budget of approximately $800,000 with 55% of revenue coming from membership and training fees. We rely heavily on fundraising to maintain our high program standards while keeping our fees affordable.

Thousands of volunteer hours are spent running our Club. Parents take courses to be trained and certified in roles such as timers, referees and stroke judges in order to properly supervise and run our swim meets.

We are seeking partnerships with businesses, foundations and individuals within our community. Our Hosted Meets

The Club hosts three swim meets per season:

• Cindy Nicholas Memorial Swim Classic

• Scarborough Winter Classic

• Scarborough Pan Am Invitational

These meets attract over 2,500 competitors and their families from across Ontario, Canada and even the United States. An average of 3,000 people are in attendance during the course of a weekend swim meet. Our Partnership Opportunities

There are many ways to help support our Club to defray facility costs and maintain affordable membership fees.

• Advertise in meet programs: full page $350; half page $250; business card size $50

• Sponsor a specific swimmer's event for $25 in the meet program which is announced prior to the swimmer's race

• Donate to our annual silent auction, sponsor awards, cater a lunch for our Officials

• Sponsor a swimmer or multiple swimmers for our annual Swim-a-thon to help us reach our Club goal of $30,000

• Purchase cases of chocolates for your place of business

• Donate services and/or sponsor Club functions and events such as our Awards Banquet, Summer BBQ, Social Events and Parent Nights e.g. music, decor, food, etc. Title Sponsorship - $15,000 2 Swim Meets September 1st, 2019 - August 31st, 2020

• 3 full page ads in all meet programs for all 3 swim meets • Partner website link on homepage of SCAR website • Branded free-standing banner displayed in pool area • Branded decals on pool starting blocks (Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre meets only) • Company logo and partnership write up on website • Company logo featured on Jumbo-Tron during meet warm-up • Social media mentions • Swim badges for swimmers with company logo for 1200 Swimmers (Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre meets only) • Partnership announcement emailed out to Club membership • Media wall with company logo (Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre meets only) • Branded table cloth at coach’s desk (Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre meets only) • Company logo medals & ribbons presented at swim meets (Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre meets only) • Logo on t-shirt for annual team travel meet • Opportunity to submit up to 5 minute commercial for live streaming during Toronto Pan Am Invitational Finals

9 Platinum Sponsorship - $5,000 September 1st, 2019 - August 31st, 2020

• 2 full page ads in meet programs for 2 swim meets • 1 half page ad in meet program for 1 swim meet • Partner link and logo on home page of SCAR website • Branded decals on pool starting blocks at Cindy Nicholas meet • Branded free standing banner at 2 swim meets • Company logo featured on Jumbo-Tron during meet warm-up • Partnership announcement emailed out to Club membership • Social media mentions • Sponsor the catering for the meal for the officials for one session day with signage in room, announcement during event and ad in meet program • Logo on t-shirt for annual team travel meet • Opportunity to submit to submit short commercial to be played during Live Streaming at the Toronto Pan Am Invitational Finals

10 Gold Sponsorship - $2,500

• 1 full page ad in meet programs for 2 swim meets • 1 half page ad in meet program for 1 swim meet • Branded banner at 1 swim meet • Partner link and logo on homepage of SCAR website • Partnership announcement emailed out to Club membership • Company logo featured on Jumbo-Tron during swim meet warm-ups • Social media mentions

Silver Sponsorship - $1,500

• 1 full page ad in meet programs for 1 swim meet • 1 half page ad in meet program for 1 swim meet • Partner link and logo on homepage of SCAR website • Partnership announcement emailed out to Club membership • Company logo featured on Jumbo-Tron during swim meet warm-ups • Social media mentions

Bronze Sponsorship - $500

• 2 half page ads in meet program for 1 swim meet • Social media mentions THANK YOU