BC swimmers continued to light up the water; however this time at Canoe Beach in Salmon Arm. The Columbia Shuswap Selkirks Swimming Club (CSSSC) hosted the 2017 BC Open Water Swimming Championships. It was an excellent day for open water swimming, with good weather and visibility at this "Florida north oasis".
Jon McKay and coach Ryan left for a competition in Seattle as many PCS swimmers headed on a mission to Kamloops for AAA's. Jon was looking to get in some more competition before the upcoming National Championships in August, and is using this weekend as that preparation. The meet is at the beautiful Colman Pool, located in Lincoln Park in South Seattle. The pool is a 10 minute walk from the park's parking lot, and is located mere feet from the scenic beach. An outdoor meet is rare for Canadian swimmers, and venues don't get much more beautiful than this one.
After Day 1 Pacific Coast Swimming leads the team scoring by109 points.
In the 12-13 girls 50 Breaststroke: Kali Lancaster tied for 1st Place in a time of 35.59 Trinity Aragon Scriven took the Bronze medal in a time of 36.82 Sydney Meldrum came in 4th 37.97
14-15 girls 50 Breaststroke had: Hana Edwards win a silver medal in 35.89 Laura Rincon 6th 36.87
On our final day of AA Championships in Richmond, PCS had 10 finals swims. First up was the 11 and under 200 m breaststroke, which featured Adelina Benn, who earned herself a bronze medal, and Julia Hajash who finished in 7th place. Next up was the 400 m freestyle. Evelyn Li was up first for the 11 and under girls starting out with a nice lead, but was caught in the end finishing 4th. Next up was Maia Denis who swam in the 12-13 girls category. She went out strong, but was also caught up around the middle finally finishing 6th.
On our 2nd day of AA's, our night started off with Maya Stevens who won a bronze medal in the 200m butterfly, showing off with some really nice technique and dropping 10 seconds off her best time. The next swimmer up in the finals was Mattias Melvie in the 100 backstroke who also made a personal best dropping 0.8 seconds coming in 6th and barely missing the AAA standard by half a second. Next up was the 50 m freestyle in which featured Fionnuala McKenna winning a silver medal with a best time narrowly missing out on first place.
20 Pacific Coast Swimming athletes are at Provincial AA Championships in Richmond this weekend where our distance swimmers started the weekend off with some hardware in the first morning session. Jane Maycock won herself the gold medal for a strong 14& Over girls 800 Freestyle performance clocking a new personal best of 9:49.12 while Maia Denis earned her first AAA standard and a silver medal in the 12-13 girls 800fr in a new personal best 10:28.92.
Congratulating to our 2017 Coach and Athlete Graduates on your successes, and good luck on your future endeavours! David Hiebert, Erin Lawrance, Jordan Andrusak and Lauren Crisp, all long time members of the PCS family, are graduating this year.