Sixth Annual PCS Wavemaker!!

Eight teams and 183 swimmers from BC and Washington descended on Saanich Commonwealth Place for the Sixth Annual PCS 14 & under Wavemaker Invitational and we had a great time underneath the palm trees and bouncing beach balls. Officials set a fine standard for beach wear (even one grass skirt) and competitors enjoyed ice cream ... that is...carrots... on the final morning after heats. Fun and fast swimming!

Our event winners included Sophia Borchers, Emma Carter, Hanna Carter, Lauren Crisp, Emily Ding, Caileigh Filmer, Patricia Grace Horwood, Ryan Howe, Evan Letkeman, Lauren McMillan, Victoria Mock, Rosie Moulton, Rachael Newman, Austin Nolt, Stephen Olmos, Stefanie Schmidt, Brenden Ward, John Willcox, and Tabitha Zammit. Many of these swimmers were top-3 in multiple events; among these, Stephen Olmos took nine firsts in nine events – wow!

Further top-3 competitors were Michael de Clare, Abby Fraser, Daniel Hatenboer, Katelyn Hayward, Justin Howe, Nathan Howe, Abby Irving, Victoria Jetko, Alexandra Kierstead, Nazarly Kravchenko, Spencer Lee, Anna Letkeman, Edward Liang, Sofia Liang, Han Ting Lin, Rebecca MacKenzie, Callum Masterton, Heather McMillan, Akila Sato-Gaudreau, Victoria von Sacken Nash, and Leanna Woo.

Our top-8 finalists included Graham Atkinson, Shanae Atkinson, Finn Barker, Savannah Barratt, Ayaka Behro, Genna Bertrand, Russell Brown, Orieanna Hartley, Liam Hayden, Mohand Khouider, Katherine Krause, Eeh-Joe Kwon, Clara MacKenzie, Mackenzie Masterton, Lisa McQuarrie, Kristopher Neilson, Nicholas Nolt, Andre Prescott, Rachel Sawchuk, Joshua Stebeck, Luella Sun, Riley Tesch, Grace Thomas, Rebecca Thomson, Riley Woodland and Katelyn Woo.

New PCS Long Course Club Records
Tabitha Zammit (10 & Under Girls) 200 Breaststroke – 3:41.20
John Willcox (10 & Under Boys) 50 Breaststroke – 47.85; 200 Breaststroke – 3:52.40; 50 Butterfly – 42.44
Rachael Newman (13-14 Girls) 100 Butterfly – 1:07.61

New SNC Time Standard Qualifiers
Emily Ding (13) SNC Age Group National

New Swim BC Time Standard Qualifiers
Akila Sato-Gaudreau (11) – BC AAA
Ryan Gibson (13) – BC AA
Justin Howe (11) – BC A
Lisa McQuarrie (12) – BC A

New VIR Time Standard Qualifiers
10 & under VIR AAA
Emma Carter and Tabitha Zammit

10 & under VIR AA
Ayaka Behro, Abby Fraser, Nathan Howe, Spencer Lee and Victoria von Sacken Nash

10 & under VIR A
Allison Ballantyne, Finn Barker, Fionnuala McKenna, Nicholas Nolt and Patricia Ye

New Wavemaker Meet Records TBA…

Congratulations to all our swimmers and coaches for their many fine swims at this meet, from first competition to last 14 & under swim (oh, that 15th birthday...) and last but not least, thanks to everybody who volunteered to make this such a great meet for our younger swimmers, including …

Moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandparents and friends of swimmers in the meet …
Marlys Atkinson, Mike Atkinson, Jane Barclay, Penny Barratt, Shannon Baskerville, Debbie Bertrand, Ute Borchers, Christoph Borchers, Tristan Borchers, Mark Carter, Shirley Carter, Mia De Clare, Richard Ding, Helena Filmer, Elaine Forsyth, Wendy Franklin, Linda Gibson, Karen Griffiths, Alison Hatenboer, Chris Hatenboer, Heather Hayward, Tina Horwood , Alan Howe, Gord Irving, Mary Jetko, Ron Jetko, Mark Kierstead, Wayne Krause, Jennifer Lee, Loreen Letkeman, Dave Letkeman, Yilei Liang, Annie MacIntosh, Laurel MacIntosh, Marion MacIsaac, Elliott MacIsaac, Gary MacIsaac, Lindsay MacIsaac, Tammy MacKenzie, Peig Masterton, Graeme Masterton, Braonain Masterton, Liam McKenna, Kristine McMillan, Ian McMillan, Christine McQuarrie, Eric McQuarrie, Machiko Mock, Remy Mock, Holly Moulton, Georgene Nash, Rhonda Newman, Warwick Newman, Lori Nolt, Christian Prescott, Dan Sawchuk, Julia Schmidt, Patty Schmidt, Delaney Tesch, David Tesch, Fred Thomson, Fiona Whitten, Erin Willcox, Richard Willcox, Steve Zammit, and Gwen from Ravensong

Our senior swimmers, their parents, and other friends of PCS who came and helped out just because they know how important meets are to our swimmers and our club…
Pieter Bol, Moyra Brackley, David Clouston, Dean Crawford, Paul Jenkins, Jean Johnson, Michael Lawless, Dorothy Liedtke, Ian Mattock, Susan Mattock, Jim Mattock, Steve Mayall, Barb McKee, Terri Parkes, Jonathan Parkes, Zac Parkes, Jenny, Ting Ting, Jen, Emily and Yvonne Parkes, Margaret Penning, Benoit Pinchaud, Leon Politano, Leanne Poulin, Jaclyn Ruest, Nancy Ruest, Jade Simpas, Jackson Sinclair, Marion Smith, Kathella Stevenson, Trevor Streppel, Lynne Testemale, Matt Thirkell, Rob Traynor, Jayme Weimer, Colette Wood and Melanie Yu

Thank you all - We couldn’t have done it without you! (And please accept our apologies as well as our thanks if we missed anyone…)

Complete details for the meet are available, as always, on our results page.