Another great session for PCS swimmers in Chilliwack this Saturday evening. Congratulations to Anthony Gutierrez (12), Taiki Hiraoka (11), and Lia Lancaster (14) who all earned their second AAA qualifying time, securing their way to Surrey next month. This brings the total number of PCS swimmers at the meet who have newly qualified for AAAs up to FIVE.
Day Two of the SC AA Championships started off with a bang. Ortansa Somosan earned her second AAA time, qualifiying to go to Surrey March 5-7, in her 200 breast with a time of 3:16.17. Emily Laidman followed suit and also qualified her second AAA in 200 breast several minutes later in a time of 2:58.18.
UVPCS won VIR’s this year with a score of 9174.5 more than doubling second place Island Swimming’s point total of 4564.5. There were a number of standards achieved, records broken, and events won by UVPCS swimmers over the weekend. Some of the highlights from the weekend are listed below.
Provincial Records
- 11-12 Girls Provincial/Club/VIR Record 200 M.R. 207.0 Hana Edwards, Laura Rincon, Jessica Luo and Sophie Lorette
Final day of racing wraped up at the BC AA SC Championships, with PCS brining home two gold, two silvers, and a bronze. On top of that Mikyla Bunting earned her second AAA time in the heats of 100 breast (1:32.49), qualifiying herself for the meet. Overall PCS has SIX new qualifiers headed to Surrey in two weeks from this weekend. Congratulations swimmers and coaches on a great weekend.
Another great session for PCS swimmers in Chilliwack this Saturday evening. Congratulations to Anthony Gutierrez (12), Taiki Hiraoka (11), and Lia Lancaster (14) who all earned their second AAA qualifying time, securing their way to Surrey next month. This brings the total number of PCS swimmers at the meet who have newly qualified for AAAs up to FIVE.
Pacific Coast Swimming leads the point score 2300+ to 900+ for the next team.
New Provincial(Club and VIR) Record for 11-12 Girls in the 4x50 Medley Relay. Congratulations to Hana Edwards, Laura Rincon, Sophie Lorette and Jessica Luo 207.06. And to their coaches Ian Mattock and Cody Flegel.
The 11-12 Boys (Kormendy, Schmidt, Ogilvie and Guitierrez) lopped a second off the club record in 2:12.28
Tomorrow (January 11, 2015) there will be a Sunday Stroke Series training camp from 8:00-11:00am at UVic. McKinnon Pool. The focus of the camp with be on Backstroke.
The camp will cost $25 for PCS club members and $30 for non-members.
200m Breaststroke 14 year old Eden Kormendy came to life and brought it hard in the 14-15 final moving from fourth in the morning to take gold in the evening in 2:43.
50m Freestyle Rachel Sawchuk was just out of the medals in fourth at 27.6
