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Synchronized swimming is a relatively small sport when comparing it to sports like hockey, soccer, speed swimming, and gymnastics. Synchro’s numbers in Ontario, in Canada and in the world are a mere fraction of those of the larger, more popular sports. So how does a small club, in such a small sport get noticed? For the Waterloo Regional Synchronized Swim Club, located in Elmira, Ontario, the answer came to them this past summer. While most club’s take a break from everything for a few months in the summer, the Waterloo Synchro Club aimed to increase the club’s profile not only in the Waterloo Region, but across all 7 continents. Erika Lindner, president of the local club, noted that at the beginning of summer 2016 “our follower numbers on Instagram and Facebook were low, and limited to current and past swimmers and their families”. In the pool, the local club is top dog, having earned the Provincial title of top club in the Province for 7 of the last 10 years. “We’ve always been trend setters and now that our club was on social media we wanted to set ourselves apart from others in this arena too”.