Day Three Report from the 2014 Western Canadian Championships

Another day of fast swimming dawned amid rain and wind in New Westminister. While it was cool and blustery outside it was definitely hot inside the pool.

400 Free was first on the docket. We enjoyed a roller coaster of success and disappointments. Jordan Andrusak set off the session by finishing 3rd in the Youth Consolation final right on her best. Molly Gowans had to settle for 7th taking her knocks along with her successes.

Vicky Mock stood strong in the Open event and accelerated at the end to claim fourth - right on her best ever at 4:20.

100 Butterfly followed with a strong showing from Ryan Howe cruising to 5th spot in 57.3.

The top swim for the PCS side came from Lauren Crisp in the 200Bk. Following on her lead up swims in 100 and 50m races she left nothing to chance. In a great sporting moment she charged to the lead after 25 m and stayed put in spite of strong challenges coming on both sides. Her hand shut off the clock a scant .03 ahead of Wilm from Alberta. In doing so she took away her first Championship win at Westerns and snipped over 2 seconds off the Provincial record last set in 1992! Interesting side note, the previous record holder was coached by the PCS coaches! Her time would have placed 2nd at the Eastern Championships. Teammates Gowans wins B Final and Sawchuk takes 8th in the consolation final.

Ryan Howe took 8th on the men's 200Bk

The 50 Br closed out the individual events.

Emma Carter snagged her first final of the competition and made good by improving upon her prelim swim to take 3rd spot in the Consolation final.  And Hanna Carter stroked to a PB for 8th spot in the Open category.

In the Men's 50 Br David Sikli came 11th 31.1 in the Youth division. Ian Williams made the grade to get into the final 8th and did well with the opportunity edging below :30 sec at 29.96.