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It was an exciting weekend in Surrey for coaches Mark Lancaster and Rich Cole and their swimmers at the Provincial Long Course AA Championships.

Bringing home a good haul of top-8 performances were new BC AA medalists Daniel Hatenboer, Mackenzie Masterton and Austin Nolt with top-8 individual events finalists Katherine Krause, Nazariy Kravchenko and Rebecca Thomson. Top-8 relay finalists included Katherine Krause, Ana MacLeod, Mackenzie Masterton, Luella Sun and Rebecca Thomson.

And, Daniel Hatenboer emerged from the water as a new AAA qualifier!

Congratulations, all! Check out the complete results, available on our results page.

Coach Ron Jacks and swimmers David Creel, Mackenzie Downing, Nicholas Sinclair and Richard Weinberger were busy the past couple of weeks travelling between coasts in the United States.

David Creel and Richard Weinberger travelled east to the Fort Myers Open Water Festival and the US Open Water Championships, where David placed tenth and sixteenth in the 5 km and 10 km respectively, and Richard was thirteenth in the 10 km event.

The following weekend on the west coast in California, Mackenzie Downing and Nicholas Sinclair attended the Mission Viejo TYR Swim Meet of Champions. MacKenzie came home with two Silver medals in 100 & 200 Butterfly, and won the C-final for seventeenth overall in the 200 Freestyle, while Nick finished eighth in the 200 Backstroke event.

As always, complete details for the meet are available on our results page.

The Technical Swimming Committee of SNC has developed two documents to assist the swimming community in understanding how we will handle the new swimwear rules (SNC GR-5). The first document attends to the application of GR-5 at provincial level competitions while the second document deals with specific procedures that will be in place for the 2009 World Aquatic Championship Trials in Montreal.

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The Vancouver Island Region Long Course Championships was a great meet for UVPCS - well done to both swimmers and coaches for terrific swimming, best times and placings!

Congratulations to our medalists, who include -
Gold: Salin Bol, Hanna Carter, Caileigh Filmer, Cody Flegel, Katelyn Hayward, Ryan Howe, Evan Letkeman, Ian Mattock, Lauren McMillan, Zac Parkes, Stefanie Schmidt, Aidan Thirkell, David Vizsolyi, Brenden Ward and Tabitha Zammit
Silver: Sophia Borchers, Emma Carter, Ryan Clouston, Michael de more...

The annual NRST Spring Sprint yielded lots of best times and top-8 performances from UVPCS swimmers!

Earning first place ribbons were Hanna Carter, Caileigh Filmer, Ryan Howe, Evan Letkeman, Annie MacIntosh, Lauren McMillan, Victoria Mock, Rosie Moulton, Austin Nolt, Akila Sato-Gaudreau, Jade Simpas, Brenden Ward and Tabitha Zammit.

Top-3 finalists were Emma Carter, Samantha Gibson, Patricia Horwood, Victoria Jetko, Alexandra Kierstead, Josh Stebeck and Ariyan Suleman.

Rounding out the top-8 were Savannah Barratt, Russell more...

Strong international competition at the Mel Zajac Invitiational featured UVPCS swimmers placing in top-8 and top-16 positions. Leading the pack, MacKenzie Downing finished top-8 in all three Butterfly events with second, fourth and seventh places in the 200, 100 and 50 metres, respectively; while David Creel was fifth in the 1500 Freestyle event. In B-finals, Nicholas Sinclair placed in all three Backstroke events, at 13th, 14th and 15th for descending 200, 100 more...