2014-2015

At the conclusion of the third day of Age Group Nationals, the women held on to their 100 point lead to Edmonton Keyano swim club. With two more days of racing, PCS is looking strong, holding steady at 5th position on the overal team side.  Highlights from tonight included a gold medal performance from 15 year old Molly Gowans in the 800 free, knocking 5 seconds off her best time and club record in a new time of 8:45.44. Lucas Tyler also swam to a commanding victory in the mens 16 year old 200 Butterfly, taking the gold in 2:05.40.

PCS women lead the way by nearly 100 points to Edmonton's Keyano Swim Club at the end of finals Day 2, while the team overall sits in 5th place.  
The first event of the night started off with Jessica Luo taking a silver medal right on her best time (58.8), followed shortly by Molly Gowans in lane 2 also taking a silver as well as breaking the club (Kea Koerner, 2011) and VIR record (Nikki Dryden, 1992) in a time of 57.31.

Day one in Quebec City at Canadian Age Group Nationals went very well for Victoria's Pacific Coast Swimming. At the conclusion PCS sits 1st on the girls side and 4th overall. Records fell and Gowans/Crisp went 1-3 in 200 Back as a highlight in a exciting night of racing.

Aurelie Muller, an Open Water swimmer from France, came to train and compete with coach Ron Jacks and Pacific Coast Swimming from September through February this season.  Before arriving, she was a promising international open water swimmer, and came to Canada to really focus on Open Water with an eye on the Olympics and an Olympic Medal.  

Today in Kazan, Aurelie won Gold in the 10km event, thus winning her first World Championship and qualifying for the Olympics next summer in Rio!

Way to go Aurelie!

Jon McKay bettered his 1500 best time today in the 1500 Freestyle finals in Korea, dropping from 15:19.17 set in prelims to 15:18.69.  Even though he dropped time, the rest of the heat also improved from prelims, and Jon finished in 8th place overall.

Stephanie Horner will be swimming the 10km Open Water race in a few days, so stay tuned!

Jon McKay took 2 seconds off his personal Best Time/Club Record in the 1500 LC Freestyle prelims at FISU Games today in Korea, in a time of 15:19.17.  He qualified 6th for the final, which will be swum tomorrow at 3:00 AM Pacific.  Cheer Jon on, in your sleep or awake, as he looks to move up the field and take even more time off.

A live stream seems to be available with free registration at http://www.livefisu.tv/ if you'd like to try and watch.

One day after UVPCS won its third consecutive AAA Provincial Team Title, the swimmers were at it again at Thetis Lake.  The event saw nearly 150 swimmers hit the lake at around 9:30 in the morning.  The 11-12 year olds swam a 1km race, the 13-14 year olds swam 2km, and the 15 and Over swimmers swam the 5km race (although some of our 14 year old swimmers swum in the 5km race as well)!

UVic-Pacific Coast Swimming won their third consecutive SwimBC AAA Championship over the weekend.

While it was a close two-way battle between them and Richmond Rapids after Day 1 (less than a five-point differential), UVPCS took a commanding lead on Day 2 and never looked back, ending with a margin of victory of over 400 points, having accumulated 2890 points.

Richmond Rapids retained their second-place finish with 2419 points, while a resurgent Island Swimming Club was third with 1965 team points.

After a terrific weekend of racing for Uvic - Pacific Coast Swimming, it was only fitting to finish it off with a bang. Near the start of the night, the Girls 15-16 400 IM A Final with no less than 6 swimmers, finishing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th! Not only that, we even had 2 more swimmers in the B Final of the same event! After some more great swimming from across the board, the 12 and Under Boys Relay again struck gold in another National Age Group Record, this time in the 4x50 Medley Relay in a time of 2:05.34!