The 20^th annual Thetis Lake Swim of MS took place this Sunday, with a few of our young PCS swimmers (all girls!) trying their hand at open water racing.

Lia Lancaster, Fionnuala McKenna, and Kennedy Aragon-Scriven were all first in their age groups, with the latter two competing in the 1500m event, and Lancaster in the 800m.

Layma & Laura Maslova and Sara Pap also competed in the 800m event, marking their first-ever open water swims.

Age Group Nationals began on Wednesday of this week.  For those of you that haven't been following our Twitter feed, several of our UVPCS competitors have put in remarkable performances in the meet thus far.

With less than three weeks until he competes in the London Olympics, Richard Weinberger added yet another gold medal swim to his resume today in Quebec.

Competing in the Roberval 10km, Weinberger was able to control the field for the back 3.5km and captured the win by two seconds over Arthur Frayler of the USA.   

We had 22 athletes represent Vancouver Island for swimming in the 2012 BC Summer Games in Surrey. Of those athletes, fellow PCS teammates Anna Letkeman and Justin Howe were chosen to represent “Team 6.”

Day 1: Friday, July 20
It was a close day at the pool with Vancouver Island and Vancouver-Squamish neck and neck for first place. Team 6 concludes the preliminaries session with 13 finalists and 18 finals swims. We finish the day with 4 golds, 3 silvers, and 3 bronzes.

Nationals took place last week in Edmonton with three UVPCS swimmers taking part in the competition.  Rachael Newman was joined by first-time National attendees Jon McKay and Ryan Howe.

The Globe and Mail wrote a story on Open Water Swimmer Richard Weinberger, who is heading to London in the upcoming weeks.

Read the article here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/canadas-best-marathon-swi...

15 swimmers made the annual trek to the Moses Lake Sizzling Summer Invitational this past weekend. When we arrived on Friday afternoon the temperature was already 34 degrees and hotter on the pavement! Swimmers were excited to hit the cold pool and swam a number of personal best times over the weekend and some strong results against the American and Canadian teams participating. Most of the PCS swimmers in attendance had never been to an outdoor meet before so it was a great learning experience to have to perform in the heat and sun.

The 2012 BC AAA Long Course Championships took place in Richmond this past weekend.  PCS was well represented and made a strong showing.

Congratulations to all our swimmers and coaches for a great meet.

Full results will be posted on our Results page when they become available.

Below is a list of our medalist and top 8 finishers.