The membership year is from September 1 to August 31

Yes, all coaches must meet the requirements from the CAS Coach Registration and Certification Policy and have an ‘issued’ status on the AAS H20REG before they are eligible to participate in any club sanctioned training or activities.

Please read through the CAS Coach Registration and Certification Policy to find all requirements, including non-NCCP and NCCP requirements. For NCCP requirements you can review the Coach Development Pathway found on the Artistic Swimming Coach website or through your NCCP profile. Click on the ‘I’ to find missing requirements.

All coaches must be trained in the context in which they are intending to coach in. To coach the AquaGo! program or other recreational programs coaches must be minimally trained as an AquaGo! Coach. To coach competitive programs, including competitive masters, coaches must be minimally trained as an Introduction to Competition Coach.

The H2OREG system has checks to ensure you meet the requirements. If you do not meet the requirements you will not receive an ‘issue’ status. Please review the links above. You will be directed to these links if you contact AAS.

• Competitive – coaching in the provincial stream and/or national stream. This coach can also coach in the recreational stream.
• Recreational – coaching only in the recreational stream, either an AquaGo! program and or instructional type programs.

Background checks: If you are not 18 at the time of registration you will not be able to complete a background check. Please contact AAS to have this information updated. AAS will set an expiry date to that of your 18^th birthday at which time your status will change to ‘pending’, meaning you no longer meet the registration requirements and you are no longer insured to coach. It is your responsibility to complete a background check when required.

CAS Screening form: this form is to be filled out and submitted to AAS.

NCCP Requirements: AAS will manually confirm this information from the CAC database and update your registration accordingly. If your status on the CAC database is not ‘trained’ (it will say ‘not yet certified’ – see the above diagram) then you will not be eligible to coach. Please review the requirements through your NCCP profile or through the Coach Development Pathway on the Artistic Swimming Coach Website.

Yes, you have to take the MED course. Course dates and registration information can be found on the Alberta Governments website. Once completed your NCCP profile will be updated, this may take several days to do so.

If you completed the evaluation prior to September 1, 2021 you do not need to take the course. If you have completed or complete your evaluation after September 1, 2021 you will still need to take the MED course as per the Coach Development Pathway.

AAS offers coach courses in the late summer to early fall and in the spring. Information for AAS coach courses can be found on the AAS website. Registration for courses is through the Artistic Swimming Coach website. There are pre-course materials that will have to be completed through the Artistic Swimming Coach website in order for the registration link to be available. You may register for any available courses across the country. Please keep in mind that not all courses will be offered online and all pool-portions will have to be done in-person.

Yes. Coaches must be certified within two years of completing the Competition Introduction Coach course to attend any PTSO hosted competition. The CAS Coach Registration and Certification Policy, Section VIII B outlines the requirements. Coaches must have met these requirements prior to the event they intend to participate at. Certification information, including a registration link, can be found on the AAS website.

All forms and information required by policies or needed for participation in artistic swimming by AAS and Canada Artistic Swimming (CAS) will be collected within the database with the exception of the CAS Screening disclosure form.

No, the donation question is a default part of the system from the developer. As such a donation to AAS is optional so you can skip by selecting “proceed to cart” or select a $0.00 amount. If you choose to donate, these funds would be tracked as donations and allocated to athlete development initiatives such and development camps, talent identification programs and/or provincial teams.

No, if you have been a member of Alberta Artistic Swimming (AAS) in the past, AAS will access your CAS number on the former database and add it to your profile.

Once you’ve purchased your membership online you can access all the detail information from your account.

1. Log in, go to your name (on the top right corner from a computer, on the top left from a tablet or phone), and go to the “My memberships” menu.
2. If you have more than one membership, they are grouped by profile. Find the profile (person) who’s membership you want to view and open the section if it is minimized.
3. Click Manage, then View/Edit membership or licence.
4. You’ll have access to all the details of your membership, as applicable, as well as the options listed above except of a digital membership card which is still being finalized. 

No, the membership fees for 2021-22 are the same as last season with a 2.9% + $.50/transaction processing fee added at time of checkout.

Yes. You may add more than one role to your shopping cart and you will pay the highest fee of the roles chosen. The cart and your receipt will itemize the applicable fees.

No. You can always come back to the landing page to add additional roles. The system will determine if the additional role has a higher fee. If not then there will be no fee to pay. If the additional role has a higher fee you will be required to pay the difference.

If you have a child that needs to register, you can complete both your registrations at once in the H2OREG database.. If you have more than one athlete and/or are registering yourself in a different role you may add multiple registrants to your cart and checkout when done. The cart and your receipt will itemize the applicable fees.

Yes. You must choose a club to affiliate with so your club registrar can confirm you are a member of the club and so that your information will be transferred to the CAS database accordingly. If you missed adding a club you will have to contact AAS to have it added to the profile.

No. This is something we hope to have available for the 2022-2023 season.