Vancouver Island Regional LC Championships

Vancouver Island Region Long Course Championships took place this past weekend at Saanich Commonwealth Place. UVPCS sent 83 swimmers to the meet – our largest team to date! Congratulations to everybody on best times, best placings, second swims, medals and new qualifying swims. Particular congratulations to the following swimmers and their coaches:

Gold medalists: Nival Bissoon (50 Free), Salin Bol (100/200 Backstroke), Lauren Crisp (50/100 Backstroke), Derek Doerksen (100/200 Backstroke), Caileigh Filmer (400 Freestyle, 400 IM), Ryan Howe (100/200 Backstroke, 100 Fly, 400IM), Lauren McMillan (100/200 Breaststroke), Remy Mock (1500 Freestyle, 200 Fly, 200 IM), Rosie Moulton (100 Freestyle, 200 IM), Kristopher Neilson (50/100 Breaststroke), Rachel Newman (200 Fly), Stefanie Schmidt (1500 Freestyle), and Allison Wood (50 Freestyle).

Silver and Bronze medalists: Finn Barker, Sophia Borchers, Hanna Carter, Alexandra Kierstead, Evan Letkeman, Edward Liang, Ian Mattock, Zac Parkes, Michael Schmidt, Heidi Ullrich, and Alice Wang.

Top-8 finalists: Cole Barratt, Kim Bryan, Emma Carter, Michael de Clare, Emily Ding, Abby Fraser, Shaun Gill, Katelyn Hayward, Rory Hills, Justin Howe, Nathan Howe, Victoria Mock, Savannah Moneo, Nicholas Nolt, Stephen Olmos, Jade Simpas, Jackson Sinclair, Tyler Smith, Eric Stein, Sophie Tarrant, Riley Tesch, Aidan Thirkell, Victoria von Sacken Nash, Katelyn Woo, and Tabitha Zammit.

Congratulations as well to swimmers with new club LC records:
Finn Barker (10 & Under) 400 Freestyle
Kristopher Neilson (10 & Under) 100 Backstroke & 200 IM
Lauren McMillan (13-14) 100 Breaststroke & 200 Breaststroke
Lauren Crisp, Victoria von Sacken Nash, Allison Ballantyne & Emma Carter (10 & Under) 200 Medley Relay
Nicholas Nolt, Nathan Howe, Finn Barker & Kristopher Neilson (10 & Under) 200 Freestyle Relay
Rachel Newman, Xin Wang, Stefanie Schmidt, Katelyn Hayward (15-17) 200 Freestyle Relay
Stefanie Schmidt, Sophia Borchers, Rachel Newman, Katelyn Hayward (15-17) 200 Medley Relay
Michael de Clare, Jade Simpas, Evan Letkeman, Cole Barratt (15-17) 200 Medley Relay

And to swimmers with new VIR Meet records:
Emma Carter (10 & Under) 100 Freestyle
Ryan Howe (13-14) 100 Backstroke & 100 Fly
Stefanie Schmidt (15 & Over) 1500 Freestyle
Remy Mock (15 & Over) 200 Freestyle

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