Vancouver Island LC Regional Championships

The 2011 Vancouver Island Region Long Course Championships took place this past weekend at Saanich Commonwealth Place. UVPCS sent 71 swimmers to the meet! Congratulations to everybody on records, best times, second swims, medals and new qualifying swims. Particular congratulations to the following swimmers and their coaches:

Gold medalists>: Ryan Howe (200 Backstroke, 100 Fly, 400IM), Kea Koerner (100/400 Freestyle), Evan Letkeman (200 Butterfly), Ian Mattock (50/1500 Freestyle), Lauren McMillan (400 Freestyle, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Butterfly, 400 IM), Victoria Mock (1500 Freestyle), Kristopher Neilson (200 Breaststroke), Nicholas Nolt (50/100/200 Freestyle, 50 Backstroke, 100 Butterfly, 200IM), Michael Schmidt (50/100 Breaststroke), Stefanie Schmidt (400 IM), and Sophie Tarrant (400 Freestyle).

Silver and Bronze medalists: Ewan Barker, Finn Barker, Leah Biberdorf, Ciaran Breen, Hanna Carter, Chloe Chapman, Lauren Crisp, Shaun Gill, Rory Hills, Alexandra Kierstead, Lia Lancaster, Anna Letkeman, Jessica Luo, Annie MacIntosh, Jon McKay, Fionnuala McKenna, Shannon McMillan, Rosie Moulton, Stephen Olmos, Jackson Sinclair, Allison Wood and Tabitha Zammit.

Top-8 finalists: Nival Bissoon, Sophia Borchers, Achintya Chaudhari, Eric Christiansen, Michael de Clare, Emily Ding, Evan Guildford, David Hiebert, Justin Howe, Nathan Howe, Katherine Krause, Edward Liang, Rachel Newman, Riley Tesch, Christian Turpin, and Heidi Ullrich.

Congratulations as well to those who achieved new time standards:
Lia Lancaster – BC AAA
David Hiebert – BC AAA
Annie MacIntosh – Age Group National and Western
Victoria Mock - Age Group National and Western

And congratulations as well to those swimmers who achieved new records including:

UVPCS Club LC records:
Nicholas Nolt (10 & Under) 50 & 100 Freestyle
Stefanie Schmidt (15-17) 400 IM
Fionnuala McKenna, Leah Biberdorf, Shannon McMillan, Jessica Luo (10 & Under) 200 Freestyle Relay

VIR Meet records:
Kea Koerner (15 & Over) 100 Freestyle
Nicholas Sinclair (15 & Over) 200 Freestyle

Finally, thanks to the families and friends from UVPCS and other clubs (IS, RAC, NRST) who helped to make this meet a rewarding and enjoyable experience for their swimmers by volunteering their time and talents.

As always, complete results for all our swimmers' meets are posted on our results page.