Please Note: Due to an electrical problem, Saanich Commonwealth Place will be closed all day today, Monday January 23, 2012.
All of our SCP programs (including: School Teams, LFSS, B-Prov Group, and D-Group) are cancelled for tonight and will resume tomorrow. Programs at UVic are on as usual.
SCP plans to be open tomorrow, but we will update the website if that changes.
Competition in Austin wound down today, with our UVPCS swimmers both competing in the 200 Butterfly as their last event. Both Rachael Newman and Nicholas Sinclair made the consolation final, and set personal best times.
Newman placed 14th overall with a time of 2:18.23, while Sinclair finished in 11th place with a time of 2:04.87.
Richard Weinberger is competing in the Olympic openwater qualifier in Portugal, Saturday June 10th, approximately 8:00AM BC time. A webcast link has been posted for this event. Watch Richard swim and cheer him on.
The Austin Grand Prix meet began today, with UVPCS swimmers Nicholas Sinclair and Rachael Newman representing the team, fresh off the UVic and Pacific Coast Senior training camp in San Diego. The two posted 100 percent best times across five individual swims on the first day of competition.
The second day of racing saw 7th place finishes for Lauren and TeamBC in both the Girls 11-12 200m Medley Relay and Girls 11-12 400m Freestyle Relay. Lauren also had a 7th place finish in the Girls 11-12 50m Backstroke.
Full results will be available on the our Results page.
The first day of racing at SwimBC All Star Meet in Langley saw Lauren Crisp and her TeamBC team-mates take 6th place in both the Girls 11-12yo 200m freestyle relay and 400m medley relay.
Lauren also took 8th place in the Girls 11-12yo 100m backstroke.
The full story on day one racing can be found on the SwimBC website.
Congratulations (and perhaps a virtual mug of hot chocolate) to all the C-group kids that swam in the New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim at Elk Lake. (Photo credit to Scott Ballantyne).
Congratulations to Finn Barker, Lauren Crisp, Emma Carter, Patricia Horwood, Allison Ballantyne, Nick Nolt, Michael Schmidt, Nathan Howe, David Hiebert and Kris Neilson for selection to the SwimBC 12 and Under camp taking place in February.
