2014-2015

Edmonton:

Day Three 

Preliminaries were very strong. The group showed great strength and diversification. After Prelims today all 10 of the athletes representing the team in the meet have made second swims after today. The morning was capped by the girls 4x50 F.R.(Sawchuk, Ballantyne, Gowans, Crisp broke the club 15-17 and Senior record and well as the regional record(1:50.4) and concluded just off the podium in fourth. The session resulted in 9 individual swims getting through to the finals.

CIS University Championships delivered another great day at the pool including some great swims from the Vikes.

Ryan Howe started off the night in the 100 Backstroke, finishing in 4th in the B-Final, 12th overall in a time of 58.61 Long Course after qualifying in a time of 55.57 Short Course.

In the 400 Fr, Kaity Gervais came from behind to win the B-Final of the 400 Free in a time of 4:23.68 Long Course.

Jon McKay also came from behind in the Men's 400 Free but couldn't quite earn a medal, placing 4th overall in a time of 3:57.93 Long Course.

Edmonton:

Day Two Finals: Another strong night for PCS.

Allison Ballantyne lead the scoring in the first event taking 15th spot in 100m Freestyle in her best time(1:00.79). Teammate Molly Gowans tucked away the first medal of the night with a silver, a PB(57.70) and a club 15-17 record, tying the existing mark. Rachel Sawchuk moved to 17th(1:00.12).

Eden Kormendy finished 20th in 100m Breast. But came back a short while later moving up in 400IM(5:14) to 13th.

Edmonton:

Day Two prelim results:

The second morning dawned warm for Edmonton and hot in the pool for PCS. The crew finished the session with 11 individual finals for tonight and one relay.

Allison Ballantyne cruised into the B final in 100m Freestyle(1:01.3) and added 400IM(18th) an hour later in her best.(5:22)

Eden Kormendy 18th in 100Br and 12th in 400IM

Rachel Sawchuk got herself through in 100Fr at 1:00.2 for 16th.

Lauren Crisp 16th in 400IM and 7th in 50 Bk

It was a great heats session for the Vikes, as most swims resulted in Best Time performances.  In general, it was the weakest of the three days for the vikes in terms of events, but seeing so many best times go down is a great way to start the meet.

Jon McKay and Ryan Howe swam lifetime bests in the prelims of the 200 Freestyle (1:50.18 and 1:50.59 Short Course) to earn spots in the B-Final, and in the Long Course final finished 12th and 15th overall in 1:53.60 and 1:55.58.

Edmonton:

Day one finals: The first evening of finals was a very good one for PCS with 2 Gold, 2 Silver amd 1 Bronze.

Molly Gowans had another very strong session taking Gold in 200 Freestyle (2:01.64), tying with teammate Lauren Crisp for Silver in 100Bk(1:05.23), a second Gold in 800 Fr(8:50.76) and swimming 3rd in the 4x100F.R to help the team take Bronze. Gowans 200Fr clipped 2 seconds off the Senior Club record and 12 seconds off the 15-17 club record.

Edmonton:

Day One of the Western Canadian Champs began well for the group of 10 from PCS.

200 Fr Molly Gowans(15) qualified in top spot 2:03.51, just over her best and followed up taking top spot in 100m Backstroke as well. On top of this she will race from number one in the 800 Fr and anchor the 4x100F.R. for the team. That is all in a day's work for this youngster.

Allison Ballantyne(15) in her first Westerns qualifed 13th in the 200Fr in 2:13.25 also just over her best. Ballantyne will swim for the club's relay  tonight.

Day Two of the SC AA Championships started off with a bang.   Ortansa Somosan earned her second AAA time, qualifiying to go to Surrey March 5-7, in her 200 breast with a time of 3:16.17. Emily Laidman followed suit and also qualified her second AAA in 200 breast several minutes later in a time of 2:58.18.