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Western Canadian Champs 2015

Edmonton: PCS Top 8 teams. Women 6th. More gold final Day.

The final day of competition at Western Canadian Champs was another strong one for the Bolts. In spite of fatigue the team continued to show spirit and speed. The group remained impressive in their leadship and vocal support for those on the blocks and it showed on the score board.

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Western Canadian Champs 2015

The longer a competition goes on with heats, finals, triumph and disappointment, early mornings, late evenings and thousands of meters done in preparation for a competition, the more competitors get weeded out. 4-5-6 day meets and multiple competitions in succession are part of top level swimming. Only teams that come in healthy and fit and who stick together can show perserverance and presence of mind in the finals sessions of a major competition. Today was such a day for the PCS athletes who showed up enthusiastic and competitive this morning.

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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.

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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.

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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

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4x100 Bronze

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.

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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.

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