Swim takes third, fourth at Canada West Championships - University of Victoria Athletics
Alexis Chevalier, Vikes Sports Information
Orginally posted on Vikes website HERE. 

Congratulations to Evan Eide, Alex Camaraire, Mila Chernenkoff & Maelle Sanborn on qualifying for the Swimming Canada National ID Team!

We had 8 athletes travel to Toronto this past weekend for the 2024 Canadian Junior Championships. PCS came home with 4 medals, and placed 4th out of all the BC teams attending, and 12th overall in points out of 140+ teams.

2024 Alberta Provincial proved sucessful for all of our swimmers who attended. 

Congratulations to the 10 athletes who have been selected to represent Zone 6 at the 2024 BC Summer Games for swimming taking place in Maple Ridge, BC alongside coach Grace Macdonald.  

Female Swimmers: Eden Blaind, Ada Chen, Averie Hill, Zoe Leong, & Katie McLaren 

Male Swimmers: Evan Eide, Xavier Huculak-Payne, Ewan Ross, Ethan Zhang & Noah Zhang 

Our 15th year at the Moses Lake Summer Sizzler was a blast for our 25 swimmers aged 7 to 14 in the 38 degree weather in the outdoor, long course pool. Our swimmers sang the Canadian National Anthem throughout the entire meet alongside the Duncan Stingrays, Pacific Sea Wolves and Canadian Dolphins teams. 

Highlights include: 

Lukas Schroeder placed 1st in 7 events, 2nd in one place 

Owen Schroeder placed 1st in 3 events, 2nd in 4 events, 1 3rd place

PCS is racing hard this weekend in Richmond, BC for BC's 2024 Summer Divisionals!

Swimming distance and distance events can offer significant benefits to competitive swimmer’s stroke development, endurance, as well as overall improvement in swimming abilities.

Young swimmers engaging in distance swimming helps to refine stroke technique. Swimming for extended periods develops efficient stroke mechanics to maintain speed and conserve energy. Swimmers who regularly train for distance events often develop better stroke precision and consistency, leading to smoother and more effective distance per stroke.

Pacific Coast Swimming took 90 swimmers up to Vancouver Island Regionals in Nanaimo this past weekend where we had new qualifiers and new club record. PCS won the swim meet with 5040 points with the next club over a thousand points behind. 14 year old Nolan Greenwood qualified for his first Canadian Junior Championship standard in the 1500m freestyle by 6 seconds. Derek Francois set a new 10&under 100m freestyle club record with a time of 1:08.80, breaking the previous record by half a second which was set in 2018.