Acerca de
WEBSITE PURPOSE
This website is intended to inform the public and our supporters about local clubs/teams/performance groups, upcoming artistic swimming competitions, related events, exhibitions, and artistic swim performances. Additional aquatic interests/info which benefits the local communities in each Region/Zone can be found on individual club websites. We are committed to maintaining our excellence for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our sport. We are also a website for the continuity of information about our sport and our commitment to inform about our sports inclusion progress and success.
This website is NOT directly affiliated with any clubs within the USA Artistic Swimming Zones. This website supports the West Zone Artistic Swimming & its Regions A, B, C, D, for the sole purpose of promoting Artistic Swim Inclusion (ASI) directly with our member clubs. The contents, language, views, opinions, or any other information contained in this website do not necessarily and/or directly reflect the views of any of the organizations/clubs listed, our governing federation, USA Artistic Swimming, or any other organization not affiliated with the sport of artistic swimming. DEI is an established strategic framework of our governing federation, USA Artistic Swimming, to ensure that member clubs and competitions reflect the diversity of every community our governing federation serves.
Artistic Swim Club information viewed within this website can be found on the individual club sites and/or throughout internet searches or by visiting the West Zone Website at:
https://www.wzartisticswim.com
WEST ZONE REGIONS:
This website is an alliance of over 50 Artistic Swim Clubs/Teams in the WEST ZONE of the USA by Regions:
Region A=Alaska, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, Pacific Northwest, Idaho
Region B=Northern California, Inland Empire
Region C=Southern California, San Diego/Imperial, Hawaii
Region D=New Mexico, Southern Nevada, Arizona
WEST ZONE DEI GOALS
1) To reach out and inform the community about DEI in our sport.
2) Active recruitment of swimmers from underrepresented populations for the clubs/teams/performance groups.
3) To encourage club/team swimmers to participate with coaching LTAD for underrepresented swimmers to ensure their success with our sport.
4) To continue to promote diversity, equity and inclusion within the sport of artistic swimming and to be a model representation for inclusion.
5) To work with our USAAS Federation to encourage and provide best practices with DEI and recruitment of swimmers
6) To reach out to generous sponsors and donors to assist us with our DEI initiatives in our sport and to encourage long term diversity development and inclusion for everyone
CLUBS/TEAMS:
While there are a diverse selection of clubs/teams throughout the regions and zone, there are many cities and areas which do not have individual artistic swim teams/clubs. Please reach out to the nearest club/team to your city/town.
OUR NATIONAL GOVERNING BODY (NGO)
The Governing sports body is the United States Artistic Swimming Federation USAAS (Colorado) and the clubs/teams in the WEST ZONES are represented within the FIVE West Regions of the USA= (A, B, C, D). The Clubs/Teams/Performance Groups listed offer a variety of programs from camps, performances, recreational, competitive, collegiate to masters. These clubs/teams serve anyone with any ability including athletes with disabilities (AWD) as well as athletes from our underserved populations.
If you have ANY personal swim questions or are interested in a particular club in your Region, please visit the clubs/team page. You will see the link to the West Zone Website which will list all the specific clubs in each Region by State (A, B, C, D).
If you are an interested Club/Team Member offering to contribute an article to our Blog, please contact us (using the website contact form) so we can chat with you about your interest/topic related to DEI initiatives/programs for our sport.
USAAS WEST ZONE DEI CHAIRPERSON
Tina Boales is the West Zone DEI Chairperson for the 2026-2028 Term. She is currently the Head Coach for a Region B (NorCal) club, Bay Area Artistic Swimming (primarily athletes with disabilities=AWD), in San Jose, California. She previously served two terms as the Region B DEI Chairperson and just completed a 2024-2026 term as the DEI Chair for the West Zone. She also served in Governance for the USA Artistic Swim Federation. Coach Tina is also the President of the Artistic Swim AWD organization-USA, which is a global educational and advocacy group for athletes with disabilities. Artistic Swim AWD-USA is in the process of organizing global groups under the same name representing many clubs in specific countries involved in the movement for our sport to ultimately become a future Paralympic sport.
Coach Tina has been involved in artistic swimming as a coach and advocate since 2009. Coach Tina's daughter, Raquel, is also a coach, advocate and an artistic swimmer (AWD) and swims in the Tier6 Category at high performance competitions around the world. Coach Tina and Coach Raquel started the global movement to include AWD globally in competitions and training all over the world. Coach Tina is a strong advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion and believes that everyone's quality of life in sports matter and there should be no barriers to success. Coach Tina is completing her Master's of Science program in Kinesiology (Sports/Facilities Mgmt. for people w/impairments).
Coach Tina is an aquatics therapy recreation assistant for the Veterans Administration. Her goal after achieving her MS Degree is to build an indoor, multigenerational aquatics facility in the San Jose South Bay Area (Northern California) for people with impairments and to have a 'home' pool for her artistic swim team as well as a training and competition facility for disabled swimmers.