Competition wrapped up at the 2014 CIS Speedo Swimming Championships, Feb.

Stephanie Horner captured her first medal of this year's championships, swimming to a bronze medal finish in the women's 200-metre butterfly with a time of 2:11.98.  Teammate 

The University of Victoria Vikes swim teams completed their first day of competition at the 2014 CIS Speedo Swimming Championships, being held in Toronto, Ont., Feb. 20-22. For the second year in a row, Vikes swimmer Keegan Zanatta was the first Vike to reach the podium, swimming to a bronze medal finish in the men's 200-metre freestyle.  Nicholas Sinclair finished 16th in the same event.

The fourth day of competition at Westerns proved another great one for PCS. The evening began with 200 Fly. Jordan Andrusak was swimming her 22nd race of the weekend. She qualified 3rd in prelims and was just off her best. In the finals race her first 50 was blistering and she left he field behind setting a new PB at 100m and never looked back snapping 5 sec of her best to take the gold.

Vicky Mock swam an excellent technical race (her 15th) finishing 10th overall in the Open division.

Another day of fast swimming dawned amid rain and wind in New Westminister. While it was cool and blustery outside it was definitely hot inside the pool.

400 Free was first on the docket. We enjoyed a roller coaster of success and disappointments. Jordan Andrusak set off the session by finishing 3rd in the Youth Consolation final right on her best. Molly Gowans had to settle for 7th taking her knocks along with her successes.

Valentines Day marked the 2nd day of competition at the Canadian Western Championships in New West and it was a day of great heart for the PCS side.

Competition began with 100 Free.

The PCS girls contingent had strong representation with four girls in the mix.
In the Youth division Molly Gowans swam to fifth spot in a very respectable 57.6, Rachel Sawchuk 8th, Jordan Andrusak and Lauren Crisp 13th. Quite a showing.

Nick Beland completed the distance in 53.4 to come 14th.

It was a very exciting first day of competition for PCS in New Westminster at the Western Canadian Swimming Championships.

Hightlites:

50 Fly
Nick Beland snuck into the B final and although was not faster tonight he had a good drop in the morning. He finished 16th at night.

The final day of the 2014 SC AAA in Kamloops saw 3 gold medals and 2 silver for PCS swimmers.

Jessica Luo took home the gold and got an Age Group National time in the 11&U Girls 100 FL.  She also captured silver in the 11&U Girls 50FR.

Michael Schmidt won the gold medal in the 200BR and swam to the silver medal in the 50FR.

And finishing off the day, Kier Ogilvie won gold in the 100FL.

Other top 8 finishes:

More podium finishes for our 11&U swimmers at the 2014 SC AAA Provincial Meet taking place in Kamloops this weekend.

Michael Schmidt took the gold medal and set a new AAA meet record in his 100BR swim and brought home the bronze medals in both the 400IM and 100FR. Jessica Luo capped off her busy day with the silver medal in the 100FR event.

Here are the other  top 8 finishes on the day.

Top 8 Finishes:

Aimeson King swam to 10th place in strong field of 19 international swimmers at the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series 10KM Open Water Challenge.  Aimeson lost the lead pack at the 7km mark, subsequently lead the second pack.  He almost bridged the gap to the front pack at approximately 8.5 KM, but was unable to catch them and continued to swim ahead of the second pack.

Great race Aimeson!