Dale Robinson, Vice President

I am always happiest when I am swimming. I stumbled somewhat accidentally onto the sport at the age of 14 when I was convinced by some of my swimmer friends in high school to try out for my school team. “It will be fun,” they said. Well, they were they right! Not long after, I joined the local age-group club--Port Hope Aquatic Club in Ontario (now Northumberland Aquatic Club)--then moved on to the London (Ontario) YMCA Masters while I was attending and later worked at Western University (sadly, varsity was just never in cards for me during school). I’ve been a Masters swimmer ever since, joining the UBC Masters Swim Club after moving to Vancouver to study and work at UBC, and now with the Victoria Masters Swim Club since 2015. Altogether, I’ve been swimming for more than 35 years and the goal is certainly to continue for at least another 35 to come.

Pool swimming is great and opens the door to the many Masters meets around BC, Canada, and the world by keeping me swimming fit throughout the year. My real passion though, my true happy place, is open water--mostly lakes for me, occasionally the ocean. Once the warmer weather arrives in the spring and summer, I’ll opt for a lake swim over a pool swim any day. 

I’ve also spent 10 years, give or take, on deck as a swim coach for a variety of both age-group and Masters clubs. Some of my most rewarding experiences in the sport of swimming were as a coach. I’ve now retired from coaching to give me more time to be just a swimmer, and to provide more time to give back to the sport in other ways. I’m currently sitting as president on the board of directors for the Victoria Masters Swim Club, and of course, I joined the board at MSABC in 2017, first serving as an at-large director, then treasurer, then registrar, and now as vice president. I’m also serving as the chair of the MSABC Open Water Committee.