Last night Keir Ogilvie and Daniel Greer finished 18th and 19th respectively with Greer slightly faster than his prelim time and Ogilvie just over his.
Acacia Benn (representing KISU but training with PCS) lead off the session with a PB by .7 seconds in 100 Backstroke. Known more for her 200m event, she was excited to see the progress in her 100m outcome. Hana Edwards, representing PCS, qualified 8th in the B Final in a PB 1:02.75.
Also in 100m Backstroke, Jake Rambo competed well, moving up in his heat with a best prelim outcome that was .2 over his best.
*See original story here* VICTORIA - Growing up playing cricket and Australian football, Christopher Deegan would have never thought to be ranked within Australia's top 10 open water swimmers, consecutively for five years.
At the age of nine, after participating in a school carnival race with little to no experience in the water, Deegan decided to take on the sport by joining a competitive swimming club.
Day 1:UVPCS’s Naeva Scott Bouris started off the Swim BC Winter Provincial Championships with a gold medal performance in the Women’s 14&U 1500FR, while her teammates Teagan Hunt and Jane Maycock placed 7th and 11th respectively in the Women’s 15&O 1500FR. The night concluded with a 2nd place finish for Jacob Rambo, Henrique Ballarin, Sydney Meldrum and Lily Chen in the Mixed Medley Relay which are comprised of 2 female and 2 male swimmers.
On the 2nd day of Spring Break Invitational, PCS swimmers continued to show great performances. The day started off 200 FR, in which 4 11 & U boys under 3 minutes for the first time; Isacc Liu, Ethan Woo, Kieran Feenstra, and Noah Hicks. Simon DeRosnay kept up his stellar performance from day 1 with his first ever 200 FL, finishing first with the time of 3:14. In 100 BR, Ethan Woo took off 5 seconds to go 1:40 for the first time, Elliot Pierce dropped 13 seconds.
PCS had 40 swimmers take part in the Duncan meet today. The meet started off with the 200 IM, where Ethan Woo swam to within a second off of the Age Group Provincial standard, and Sara Ponce de Leon dropped 13 seconds off her entry time closing to within 1 second of her AGP standard as well. Elliott Pierce also dropped 33 seconds in the 200 IM having swam early morning practice prior to heading up to the meet.
*See original story here* VICTORIA – The University of Victoria Vikes swimming teams earned two gold medals on Day 3 of the Odlum Brown U SPORTS Swimming Championships hosted at the UBC Aquatic Centre in Vancouver from Feb. 21-23. Third-year Vike Danielle Hanusearned her fourth medal to finish with one gold, two silver and one bronze, while fourth year Eric Hedlin won gold in the 1500-m freestyle for the second time in his university career.
*See original story here* VANCOUVER – The University of Victoria Vikes wrapped up Day 2 of the 2019 Odlum Brown U SPORTS Swimming National Championship with four more school records broken, while third-year Vike Danielle Hanus earned her third medal of the championship.
*See original story here* VANCOUVER – The University of Victoria Vikes swimming teams had a successful Day 1 of the 2019 U SPORTS Odlum Brown Swimming Championships, hosted Feb. 21-23 at the UBC Aquatics Centre in Vancouver. Three short course and three long course school records were broken, while Vikes Danielle Hanus and Josh Zakala medalled in their individual events.
The final points totals from VIR Champions have come in, and UVPCS won as a team on both the Women's and Men's side of the competition. Our Women earned 3589.5 points to Island's 3193.5, and our Men earned 4333 points to Island's 3095.5. Congratulations to the whole UVPCS family!
