Provincial Long Course & Open Water Championships

Thanks to everybody who helped at these Long Course and Open Water Provincial Championships - as always, to all our parents, friends, sponsors, supporters and swimmers and coaches who worked so hard before, during and after the event (and between sessions, and &tc...) to make this happen from start to finish; thanks also to Barracudas, Chena, Glacier Bears, Island, Kokanee, Liquid Lightning, Ravensong and Sharks parents, as well as master officials from Comox, Kelowna and Williams Lake, for their time spent pitching in on the pool deck and the lake dock. We had a terrific time!!

Congratulations to all on fast swimming, personal bests and medals! In the pool, our swimmers and coaches placed 24 people in the medals through top-8, with ten relays in the same range, to finish fifth in the province. In the lake, UVPCS took six medals with nine top-8 swims. Well done, UVPCS!

Our LC top finishers included:
Gold medalists - Salin Bol, Caileigh Filmer, Lauren McMillan, Zac Parkes & Aidan Thirkell
Silver medalists - Ryan Clouston, Remy Mock & Stefanie Schmidt
Bronze medalists - Katelyn Hayward, Ryan Howe, Ian Mattock, Rosie Moulton & Rachael Newman
Top-8 - Sophia Borchers, Hanna Carter, Emily Ding, Cody Flegel, Evan Letkeman, Victoria Mock, Akila Sato-Gaudreau, Julia Schmidt, Jade Simpas, David Vizsolyi & Allison Wood

Relay medalists were:
Salin Bol, Sophia Borchers, Emily Ding, Katelyn Hayward (Silver, 14 & under 200 Medley)
Ian Mattock, Ryan Clouston, David Vizsolyi, Zac Parkes (Silver, Open 200 Medley)
Caileigh Filmer, Abby Irving, Victoria Mock, Lauren McMillan (Bronze, 12 & under 800 Freestyle Relay)
Salin Bol, Katelyn Hayward, Stefanie Schmidt, Sophia Borchers (Bronze, 14 & under 800 Freestyle Relay)

The Open Water event at Elk Lake featured three distances: 1.5, 3 km and 5 km for age groups 12 & under, 14 & under and Open, respectively. UVPCS dominated, winning four of six possible Gold medals. Our medalists were:
Gold - Caileigh Filmer, Stefanie Schmidt, Evan Letkeman & Rachael Newman
Silver - Lauren McMillan & Ryan Howe
Top-8 performances also featured Victoria Mock, Katelyn Hayward & Michael de Clare.

Swimmers also achieved new qualifying standards at these Championships, and congratulations to Hanna Carter and Rosie Moulton for their new Age Group National qualifications.

And what would a fast meet be without team records? Congratulations to following on new UVPCS records -
Lauren McMillan (11-12) 100 & 200 Breaststroke
Aidan Thirkell (13-14) 100 & 200 Breaststroke
Zac Parkes (15-17) 50 Freestyle
Caileigh Filmer, Abby Irving, Victoria Mock, Lauren McMillan (12 & under) 800 Freestyle Relay
Austin Nolt, Stephen Olmos, Akila Sato-Gaudreau, Ryley Woodland (12 & under) 800 Freestyle Relay)
Ryan Howe, Aidan Thirkell, Nival Bissoon, Eric Christiansen (14 & under) 200 Medley Relay
Evan Letkeman, Ryan Howe, Aidan Thirkell, Michael de Clare (14 & under) 800 Freestyle Relay

Finally, congratulations to the following swimmers on new time standard achievements:
Westerns - Lauren McMillan and Rosie Moulton
Age Group National - Hanna Carter

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