Uvic-Pacific Coast Swimming started off with an exciting first day at 2022 Speedo Western Championships!
First off with 100m backstroke, Bridget R. & R. Greenfield both snagged personal bests in the morning to start us off. Rupert made the 15& under A final and moves up at night! Not only that, she rips 1.2 seconds off her morning best time, making her first Junior National cut with a time of 1:06.97.
Our Annual club picture night is taking place on Wednesdsay, April 27th 7pm at Centennial Stadium located at UVIC. Please come in your navy blue PCS shirt!
All practices cancelled Wednesday Evening in preparation for the event. All PCS swimmers are welcomed and encouraged to come out and be a part of our 2022 club photo!
Happy Spring! Read our Club's Spring Newsletter (attached down below) for information on upcoming events, group udates, Vikes Summer camp registration, pool updates, and more!
A big congratulations to Eric Hedlin (Uvic Alumni) for qualifying for the FINA World Championships this past weekend based off of his performance in the 1500m freestyle. Eric will represent Canada in the open water FINA championships taking place in Budapest, Hungary at the end of June. Coach Ryan Clouston will be representing UVPCS as Eric's coach during this event. Eric was one of seven swimmers chosen to represent Canada in the Open Water category.
Thank you to all the volunteers, officials, and helpers who were putting in time at the pool this week. The swim meet was made possible from all of you! It's so great to see everyone back on the pool deck as a swim community. See you at the next competition!
Commonwealth was a busy and exciting place this weekend with 2022 Bell Canadian Trials taking place, hosted by Swimming Canada & co-hosted by Island Swimming and yours truly. For the first time in almost three years, we had over 500 athletes filling Commonwealth Pool from 131 clubs all across Canada. Uvic - Pacific Coast Swimming had 19 swimmers competiting in various events over the course of the six day comeptition.
We have Masters group (18+) availability at Crystal Pool on Tuesday / Thursday mornings, 6:15- 7:30am. Come join us for a morning swim to start your day! All levels and skill abilities welcome. To register, click here.
The last and final day of 2022 U-Sport Championships proved sucessful for the Vikes Swimmers with 3 additional school records, to total of 12 new Vikes records set this competition and one bronze medal for Sophie Tarrant in 200m breaststroke. The Vikes finished the morning prelims with three bids to the A Finals, four to the B Finals, and two to the C Finals on the final day of racing.
Story from: Vikes Nation. Click here to read more.
Day 2 of 3 at U-Sport Championships we had four new vikes record set by Sophie Tarrant (200m breastroke), Jacob Rambo (100m backstroke), & A. Stull, R. Millns, J. Rambo, and W. Risk (Men's 4x200m freestyle relay).
Story from: Vikes Nation. Click here to read more.
