Like everyone else, the Moose Jaw Kinsmen Flying Fins swim club won't be in the public pool in a while.

Effective Tuesday morning, indoor recreation facilities in the city of Moose Jaw - like their home at the Kinsmen Indoor Pool, are closed until further notice

Kinsmen Flying Fins head coach Gord Shields said their events over the next while are postponed.

“All the major competitions have been cancelled,” he said. “Olympic trials was supposed to happen in Toronto in two weeks, that’s been cancelled. Western Canadian Championships in Saskatoon in April were cancelled. It was not unexpected, that’s for sure, that the recreation facilities would be closing down as they have been doing across the country. So that’s not unexpected And everyone’s being pro-active and safe, and that’s totally understandable.”

Only ten days before, the swim club hosted junior provincials at the Kinsmen Pool. 

Shields said the team's members will continue to do some individual dryland training over the coming weeks, even with their team's dryland training location, The Attic, postponing the group's training for two weeks.

“What I’ll be doing as the coach is putting together a dryland training program for the swimmers to do at home that they can do three to four times a week that they can do for maintenance until they get back into the pool,” he said. Shields said there are very sports-specific exercises for swimming.

“There’s a lot they can do to maintain their conditioning,” he said. “The way swimmers train, the high level swimmers... they’re in excellent condition. So we just need to maintain that by doing that dryland three or four times a week. Once we get back in the pool, it’s just kind of starting slow and building our training and being progressive in how we develop and build our volumes.”