The swimmers competing at the Hyack Youth Festival had a successful first day. There are 452 swimmers in the meet.

The first morning session was very good to the Pacific Coast swimmers with all but four swims best times LC. 80% best times in the morning is very good practice in preparation for VIR, AAA, and Age Group nationals. These events require good morning swimming to make the finals.

The evening session started with 4x50 medley relay. Our one relay 13/14 girls placed 4th.

Approximately 400 swimmers from around British Columbia will be coming to Saanich Commonwealth Place on the Apil 25-27, 2014 weekend to compete in UVPCS's annual Wavemaker swim meet.

If you have never been to Wavemaker before, this is a very fun meet with a tropical theme for both the pool decorations and the attire of the officials.

Marty the Marmot paid a visit to C-group at UVic's McKinnon Pool earlier this week to check out the UVPCS Swim-a-Thon activities.  See some more photos on Marty's Facebook Page.

Swim-a-Thon activities wrap up today but the donations website will remain open until April 30th.

Aimeson King represented PCS and Canada this past Saturday at the Fran Crippen Cup open water swimming competition in Fort Myers, Florida, coming in 10th (4th Canadian) in a strong field of 30 swimmers. Alexander Meyer of the U.S. won the gold medal Saturday clocking one hour, 52 minutes and 47.39 seconds.

It was one of Aimeson's better races as he continues to show solid improvement.

Way to go Aimeson!

The following PCS Swimmers have been selected to represent Western Canada at this summer's National East West Dual meet. The event will take place two days after the Age Group Nationals in Winnipeg and will pit the best 14-15 year olds in Western Canada against their counter parts from the East. The swimmers were choosen off of times done in meets up to March 31st.

Comgratulations to Lauren Crisp, Molly Gowans and Jordan Andrusak and coach Rod Barratt.

UVPCS had a very successful Pan Pac/Commonwealth Games Trials. Jon McKay was selected to Represent Canada in Hawaii this summer at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships following his 5th place performance at the meet. His time in the 1500m Free put him on the team and broke the Senior club record formerly held by 2 time Olympian Rick Say, Jon Will also join Vicky Mock competing in Canada’s trials for the 10km Open Water Junior pac and Junior Worlds teams. The selection event will be held in the Cayman Islands in June.

*Story courtesy of www.swimming.ca

Saturday began with another strong morning for the group in Winnipeg. Allison Ballantyne qualified for the 100FR and 200BK A finals. Anya Pasemko qualified for the 200BK A final, and Victoria von Sacken Nash qualified for the 50BR B final with one of the only best times of the morning. The highlight of the morning session was Raymond Chou's 50 BR with a new personal best of of 31.91 dropping almost 2 seconds and securing a spot in the A final.