Original story by Natalie Wise at vikes.uvic.ca

Original article by Natalie Wise at vikes.uvic.ca

VICTORIA, B.C. - After day two of the 2013 Canada West Swimming Championships hosted by the University of Victoria Vikes, both men's and women's teams sit in fourth place with the Vikes men tallying 475.5 points and the UVic women earning 224. Several Vikes pulled CIS qualifying times and will be competing in the CIS Swimming Championships in Calgary, Feb. 21-23.   

Original story by Natalie Wise at uvic.vikes.ca

VICTORIA, B.C. - At the end of day one of the 2013 Canada West Swimming Championships, hosted by the University of Victoria Vikes, the UVic men are sitting in second place with a points score of 172 after a stellar 1500-m freestyle performance by Alec Page (Cortes Island, BC), Eric Hedlin (San Diego, CA) and Will Brothers (Victoria, BC) as they earned first, second and third place.

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Swimming Canada announced today  the 2012-2013 National Open Water Team and has named Olympic bronze medalist, Richard Weinberger, as one of the team members.  Joining him is PCS teammate Aimeson King.

Also announced was the Junior Selects team, which included Zac Parkes.

Congratulations to both Richard, Aimeson and Zac, and their coach Ron Jacks.

Well Xmas Cracker is over for another year and it was a great weekend of swimming.  Many personal bests and meet records were set.  The detailed meet results have already been posted on the PCS Results page and the new club records have been posted as well.

Congratulations to all the swimmers and coaches!

Cracker is a huge meet and an event of this size is only possible through the efforts of our many volunteers.

Christmas Cracker is just 2 days away. For your browsing enjoyment we've included a little Christmas carol.
(Please sing to the tune of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town")

You better swim fast,
You better streamline,
Better flip turn,
I'm telling you why,
Christmas Cracker's coming to town.

We're making up heats,
And checking them twice,
We're gonna find out,
Who's got the best times,
Christmas Cracker's coming to town.

A small group of PCS swimmers braved illness and wet weather to compete this past weekend at the Rapids Fast Swim Meet in Richmond. Highlights of the meet included: Jordan setting meet records in almost all of her 1st place swims and Rachel making 3 of her 14yo AAA times in the 100FR, 400FR and 800FR.  See Coach Rod's twiiter feed for more race highlights.

Congratulations to all the swimmers!