The August 3-4 weekend saw teams from Calgary, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, as well as our own PCS club compete in the 2013 Midsummer Madness meet at Saanich Commonwealth Place. PCS had a total of 36 swimmers in the meet competing for "Ceramic and Sugar" glory...first place swimmers received official "Midsummer Madness" ceramic mugs filled with jelly beans (along with the more traditional ribbons).
Aimeson King has been busy in the lakes of Quebec swimming open water swims in the past week. After finishing 6th in the Lac St. Jean open water FINA World Cup 10km race, Aimeson competed in the Traversee de Lac St-Jean, a 32km FINA Grand Prix race in frigid waters, ~15 degrees Celcius near the start, ~18-19 degrees for most of the race. It was Aimeson's first race over 15km in race, and Aimeson finished in 9th place among men in a time of 7 hours and 10 minutes. Great Job Aimeson!
Jon McKay today started off the medal haul for BC in the pool today at Canada Summer Games. He won the bronze medal in the 800 Freestyle in a club record time of 8:14.49. Way to go Jon!
In addition to today's 800 freestyle, Jon will be swimming the 1500 Free, 50, 100 and 200 Fly, before finishing off the meet with a 5km open water race! Follow Jon's progress here,
Only 2 days left before the 2013 Midsummer Madness meet! This is our last meet of year and a chance for swimmers to get the jump on achieving some fast short-course times for next year!
As the regular season practice schedules wind down, for those swimmers in A-D groups and LF5, maintenance swim practices will be availabe for the first half of August.
The maintenance swim schedule will be: August 1 to August 16 - Monday / Wednesday / Friday at UVic, McKinnon Pool from 5:30-7:00pm. There will be a $5.00 drop in fee for the swims.
*Please note: there will be no swim on August 5th because of the holiday.
**Also note the last swim will be August 16 as McKinnon Pool will close for maintenance for the rest of August.
A small group of 8 PCS swimmers attended the 21st Annual H2O-MS Swim at Thetis Lake. This was also the inaugural year of the Provincial Masters Open Water Swim.
The weather was sunny and beautiful, and although the water was a little murky, swimmers were reporting that it was fairly warm.
Montreal: The final day at the Age Group National Championships was a very wet one with torrential rain sweeping the deck during parts of the evening but it was no less successful for the club.
Blair McDowell led out the evening for Pacific Coast Swimming with a come from behind bronze in the 12 year girls 200IM in her p
In Montreal the fourth day of competition began with the 200 BR. Blair McDowell held back on the first 100 but roared back for a best time, a regional and club record and the bronze medal in 12 and under girls. Minutes later Jordan Andrusak swam from the front to lead thru the 100 but could not quite manage to hold off a fast charging field in the second half finishing in her second best time in 5th spot.