UVPCS swimmer Stephanie Dixon posted two Gold medals at the 2009 Spring Can-Am SWAD Championships in Gresham, Oregon over the weekend. Gold arrived in the 200 Freestyle & 50 Backstroke events. Congratulations Stephanie! (Steph also provided proof that even world record holders are DQ'd every now and then, here in the 50 Butterfly event...oops.)

Swimmers Ryan Clouston, David Creel, MacKenzie Downing, Cody Flegel, Nicholas Sinclair, David Vizsolyi and Richard Weinberger with coaches Ron Jacks and Peter Vizsolyi are representing UVic-PCS at the National Short Course Championships in Toronto this week. The competition runs from Wednesday March 11th through Sunday March 15th at the University of Toronto. Most races are preliminaries and finals; the distance events 800 & 1500 Freestyle are timed finals, as are relays.

Provincial Spring Championships take place over four days, February 26th – March 1st, in the 25m (short course) pool configuration. These are age-group championships featuring swimmers up to 18 years of age. Preliminary heats swim in two age categories (12 & under and 14-18 years) while finals are set in 11 & under, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16-18 year old categories. Distance events (women’s 800 and men’s 1500 Freestyle) and relays are timed finals. Relays swim in age categories 12 & under, 14 & under and 18 & under.

Well, that's a wrap!! The FAST Final Meet took place at Saanich Commonwealth Place on February 22nd and swimmers, parents, coaches and volunteers had a terrific time! Read the complete story on our PCS FAST page; details are available at our results page.

University of Victoria Vikes coach Peter Vizsolyi and team - Whitney Buczkowski, Ryan Clouston, Carlene Creyke, Eleanora Dalling, Derek Doerksen, MacKenzie Downing, Cody Flegel, David Killy, Danielle Newton, Ben Partridge, Jessica Pietrusiak, Jeff Saganski, Annika Schmuck, Liz Sissons and David Vizsolyi competed at UBC in Vancouver this weekend at the 2009 Canadian Inter-University Swimming Championships. CIS takes place in short course (25m) format and features Canada’s best University swimmers.

Coach Ron Jacks and a small crew of three swimmers – Ian Mattock, Jacob McKee and Kody Mitchell – travelled to Edmonton to compete at SNC Westerns this past weekend. Congratulations to Ian Mattock, who finished twelfth overall from the 17 & over B-final in both 100 & 200 Breaststroke. Also in the top-16, Kody Mitchell, competing in the 16 & under category, finished just outside A-finals at ninth in the 50 Breastroke in preliminaries; unfortunately there were no B-finals for the younger age group.

The two-day BC Senior Short Course Championships wrapped up Saturday at UBC in Vancouver. This meet includes a four-swimmer A-final with the usual 8-lane B-final for 12 final positions.

UVPCS University swimmers and coach Peter Vizsolyi had a successful weekend at the Canada West University Championships.

Congratulations to all our UVPCS swimmers and coaches on their fine performances in Comox at the Vancouver Island Region (VIR) Short Course Championships!! Highlights included lots of best times, top-8 and medal finishes and a new club record.

... story to come...

As always, complete details are available on our results page.