*See Original Story Here* LETHBRIDGE – The University of Victoria Vikes held their ground with a series of strong performances during Day 2 of the Canada West Swim Championship and still sit comfortably in third in the team standings.
For the second-straight day, the Vikes saw one of their own records fall.
*See Original Story Here* LETHBRIDGE – Both University of Victoria Vikes swim programs have positioned themselves well following Day 1 of the Canada West Swim Championships.
In both men's and women's categories, the Vikes sit third, while the University of Calgary women's swim team and UBC Thunderbirds men's team taking early leads in the team standings.
A small but mighty group of PCS swimmers raced the Bennett Cup last weekend in preparation for both the Canada West University Championships next week and the PCS Xmas Cracker December 7-9th. The start of season emphasis on kick fitness and skills showed promising early results.
UVPCS went up to Nanaimo October 26th-27th for the first short course swim meet of the season, amongst all of the other Vancouver Island teams. Our 65 swimmers took up a good chunk of the 330 swimmers, and had some great swims all around. It served as an assessment for the early season, and showed some big improvements in our younger swimmers, with some great developments in skills and techniques being shown in the pool. Heats were swam mixed gender as a timed final, so there was some fast swimming in each heat.
Congratulations to PCS athletes Jacob Rambo, Naeva Scott Bouris, Keir Oglivie and Hana Edwards on their selection to the Swim BC ID team. The group represents the largest contingent from any team in BC on the squad which will take part in two preparation camps (Oct 04-6 and Nov 22-24) as well as the opportunity to compete for Canada in Luxembourg in January.
Congratulations to Nolan Crisp who broke two 11-12 Canadian Age Group Records during the Mid Summer Madness Meet.On Saturday August 3rd he smashed the 100BK record by 1.11 seconds which was set in 2012 and on Sunday August 4th he broke the 200BK record by .62 which had stood since 1998.
UVPCS Men stole the gold in 4x100 Medley Relay going away. After a great opening leg by Jake Rambo, Fitzpatrick came off winning the 100 Breast to move the team into first. Ogilvie and Murdock closed it out to finish over 2 seconds ahead of the next team. The time of 3:46 broke the senior club record by 2 seconds.
The men concluded the meet in second, and a scant 9 pts behind the winning University of Laval.
The team were sixth overall. The highest combined finish at nationals for UVPCS.
