Team BC and PCS firing great on Day 4

In spite of long days and late nights Team BC was full of spirit and ready to go again this morning. Michael Schmidt, Keir Ogilvie Hana Edwards and Jessica Luo all had very strong prelim performances to put themselves through to the top 8 for tonight. 

Jessica Luo swam a personal best relay leg and anchored Team BC to silver second night in a row on 4x100Fr relay. She also had a PB in 50 Fly B final earlier in the evening.

Michael Schmidt also saw action in the finals taking fifth place in the men's 200Br in a PB. 

Racing continues tomorrow in Winnipeg at 9:30 Central time.

PCS had five swimmers competing at the Olympic Pool in Montreal over the weekend - Sophie Tarrant, Erin Lawrance and Emma Murdock on the women's side, and Jon McKay and Cale Murdock representing the PCS men.  Out of 80 clubs that scored points, UVPCS placed 25th with 108 points.

Jon McKay wasn't at his best on the weekend but raced hard to gain some decent results.  Jon Finished 4th in the 1500 Fr, 7th in the 800, 13th in the 400 and 25th in the 200 freestyle.

Team BC had a very good first day in Winnipeg. Out of four able bodied and two Para events, BC struck gold in men's 800Fr, and both 4x200 Fr Relays. Jessica Luo(PCS)anchored the women's team with a two second PB to steal gold from Team Ontario. Sophie Lorette(PCS) came 'oh so close' to the hardware with a fourth in women's 1500Fr. Aimee Brennan took silver in Para 400Fr. Congratulaions to all.

Racing continues tomorrow with action for Team BC in 50Br, 200Fly, 400IM, 100Fr and 4x50Fr relay.

Pacific Coast Swimming traveled to California this summer to compete against some of the best swimmers from the Western U.S. 1600 of them in fact!

The meet is called Far Western Championships and is an outdoor meet located in the San Fransisco region of California.

Our group of 18 swimmers did a fabulous job of taking care of themselves over the 5 day meet in the hot California sunshine. Our hottest day had temperatures rising to 38 Degrees!

The Mid Summer madness went off without a hitch again this year. This small meet gives the swimmers a chance to swim short course after the long course season and often turns out some fast swims. Young swimmers who choose to take part often make a few surprising finals and pick up a cup of jelly beans by winning an event.

Calgary Cascade and Wayland Swim Club from Richmond joined us this year and a good time was had by all the swimmers. Relays at the beginning of each nights finals allowed lots of swimmers to be involved in the fun atmosphere.

Yesterday at the celebration leading up to the Lac St. Jean Open Water World Cup race, Justin Trudeau made an appearance and talked to our swimmers!  Here are a couple pictures that were snapped.

Live stream the Lac St. Jean 10km race right now here: https://livestream.com/accounts/1178214/events/7615701

Former 2 time Olympic triathlete and current professional Ironman athlete Brent McMahon trains on and off with PCS coaches Ron Jacks and Ryan Clouston when training in Victoria.  Brent has been training towards his swim portion with PCS since 2011.  On the weekend at Ironman Lake Placid, a hilly professional-only Ironman race in the US and Ironman Hawaii qualifier, Brent won handily in course-record time.  The following story is originally from slowtwitch.com:

*From original story from cbc.ca

Canada's Richard Weinberger, Stephanie Horner, Eric Hedlin and Breanne Siwicki completed FINA's first ever team relay in 11th place at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Hungary, on Thursday.

The new mixed relay format was a first at the world championships level and saw teams use a variety of strategies and swimmer orders to compete.