The final day of VIR wrapped up with some exciting swims and many best times. The swim of the day goes to Erin Jennings who dropped 3 seconds in her 200 backstroke and made her third Age Group National time, qualifying her for the meet at the end of July. Another notable swim was Anthony Gutierrez's 400 Free where he knocked 4 seconds off and made his second AGN time. Next stop for PCS swimmers is the AA Championships in Kamloops, and the AAA Championships the week after.
Day 2 wrapped up today with PCS still in second even with many top point scorers away. It was an exciting morning for Laura Rincon who spent no time wasted after qualifying for AAA yesterday to earn her first AGN in the 50 breast. She went on to be .07 off the 200 breast AGN in finals tonight with a huge best time. Anthony Gutierrez also had a big time drop, went under his first AGN cut. Finally re-writing the last Fly club record on the 11-12 boys side was Keir Ogilvie, taking nearly two seconds off the record from 2003 in the 100 Butterfly.
Day two dawned golden fo Team BC. Molly Gowans ran away with the 400 FR (4:17.7) to take her second gold for the team.
100 Freestyle Finals began with 100 FR, MacKenzie Paddington finished 5th (59.7) and Rachel Sawchuk 8th (1:00.2), Jordyn Ryan came 23rd (1:01.1) in her best. Lauren Crisp had a best in the D Final (1:01.4). Allison Ballantyne also had a best for PCS( 1:01.1).
Great first day of racing finished and PCS is going strong in second place even with many of our top swimmers away at the Tucson Ford Classic. There were many great swims in the 1500s this morning including Erin Lawrance (15) racing her way to her first Senior National time. Emma Murdoch (15) earned her first Age Group National time in the 50 Fly. After several months of trying to earn her second AAA time to qualify for the meet, Laura Rincon (12) finally made her time in the 100 Breast, and shortly followed up with a 3rd AAA time in the 50 Fly.
Tucson would normally be smokin’ hot but today the heat turned down for us white northerners…it even rained a little(first rain in years??) but the pool was hot for PCS and Team BC. BC Girls went 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th, 3 of 6 in personal bests. Boys 5th and 6th.
For PCS Eden Kormendy was just over her best for 12th. Haley Bennett had a best finishing 13th.
The UVPCS crew took three more trips to the podium on the final day of competition at UBC. Jon McKay lead the way with two bronze finishes in 200m Butterfly(2:05) and 1500m Freestyle(15:55). Molly Gowans earned silver for her 800m Freestyle (8:50) in a personal best. The team finished 6th of 49 scoring teams and was top Victoria team.
Molly Gowans, Jon McKay and Vicky Mock have all made trips to the podium so far at UBC's Mel Zajac Jr Invitational. Gowans took top spot tonight over 400m in Freestyle against stiff competition(4:18) and had a silver in 200Fr(2:04) yesterday as well as a top 8 finish in 200Back. Jon McKay, showed why he is on the FISU Games team this summer swimming to 3rd in 800m(8:18), and 5th in 400m(4:02) tonight. Victoria Mock also claimed a medal in the 1500 in 3rd(17:18).
OTTAWA (CIS) - Canadian Interuniversity Sport, in conjunction with Swimming Canada, announced Tuesday Canada's open water swimming roster for the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea (July 3-14).
It was an exciting final day at the Hyack Youth Cup with many more podium finishes and club records being broken. Michael Schmidt knocked off five tenths from the 11-12 boys 100 Breast VIR record, set in 1989 with a new time of 1:14.44. In a huge best time, Anthony Gutierrez beat former Vike swimmer Craig Dagnall's 400 Free club record (4:49.02, 2003) in a new time of 4:45.92.
