Our fourth and final evening at UBC started off with Lucy Hallett in the 1500m freestyle. Hallett finished 6th overall in the 1500m swims to finish off her 2021-22 season. Following the distance races, 100m butterfly had Chernenkoff off again with a fantastic finals swim. Mila dropped 1.4 seconds off her best time to come 5th overall, moving up four places from 9th. Bridget was up next in the 15-16 age category, placing 9th in the final just over her best.
The third night of racing for UVPCS started off with 200m IM. Bridger Rupert placed 10th overall. Rupert dropped over 2 seconds during her prelims swim. Following Rupert was Jessic Hier. Jess was originally an alternate andf got slotted in to move up to 7th, dropping 2 seocnds off her already 3 second best time from prelims! Chernenkoff was up next in 50m butterfly placing 2nd to snag the silver in the 11-12 category. Mila went a best time of 30.99, her first time under 31 dropping 1.4 seconds overall. On the boys side, Noah Hicks placed 10th just over his best time.
Friday at the UBC aquatic centre was a sea of best times, qualifiers and podium swims for our Uvic-Pacific Coast Swimming team. Our night started off with Mila Chernenkoff sneaking in to the girl's 100m freestyle final. Mila placed 9th overall, with a 1.3 second time improvement from her entry time. The boys followed next, with Kieran Feenstra moving up from 11th to finish 5th in finals. Feenstra handly broke 58 seconds for the first time in his swim career for a time of 57.36. In the next age group up, Alonso placed 6th in his age group just over his best.
Our team of 30 swimmers started off at provincials today with 19 finals this evening at a our morning sessions. We started off the night with Mila Chernenkoff placing 5th in the girl's 11-12, dropping 2.5 seconds from her already best time in the morning, moving up from seeded 13th, to 5th in the finals. In the 13-14 categroy Riley Greenfield placed 8th in finals just over her best. Finally in the 15-17 category Bridget Rupert moved up a spot at finals to place 9th overall in the 100m backstroke just over her best time.
Saturday at Moses Lake started at 6:30am and finished at 9:30pm for a full day of racing, farmers market, waterparks & a team dinner to finish off the night!
The Moses lake meet kicked off today after a fun night at the Mariners game last night in Seattle. We had about 30 swimmers with families come out for a Blue Jays vs Mariners game with the swimmers dancing their patns off to get on the big screen! Friday morning was a travel day with a three hour drive down to Moses Lake for day 1 of the 2022 Summer Sizzler.
Our third & final day at the 2022 Fraser & Island Divisonals was an estatic day. Even in 35 degree weather, our swimmers put their best foot forward to finish off the competition with a PCS ZAP! In prelims, Sebastian Damian placed 1st in the 1500m freestyle with a massive time improvement of a minute and a half!
Our third & final day at the 2022 Fraser & Island Divisonals was an estatic day. Even in 35 degree weather, our swimmers put their best foot forward to finish off the competition with a PCS ZAP! In prelims, Sebastian Damian placed 1st in the 1500m freestyle with a massive time improvement of a minute and a half!
Our athletes at Fraser and Island Divisionals are going strong with another fantastic day of best times, finals, podiums, and qualifers! We had just over 20 individual finals Saturday at finals. In our timed finals, Nolan Greenwood placed 3rd for a bronze in the 400m IM! Maelle Sanborn dropped over 10 seconds off her her 400m IM to place 4th in the event. We started the night off with 200m freestyle where Adrina & June kicked off the night for us. Adrina placed 5th, moving up from being seeded 13th and going over a six-second best time. June was right behind her placing 6th overall.
