16 UVic swimmers headed to Edmonton yesterday morning to take part in the 2012 Canada West University Championships, and with a few flight delays, arrived just in time for warm-ups. 

The distance events were up first: despite battling an illness this week, Zac Parkes was able to swim a strong back end in his 1500, placing 3^rd in his heat, only to be edged out of the bronze medal by a swimmer in a separate heat.    

With the FINA World Cup coming up this weekend in Brazil, Swimming Canada featured the following article highlighting UVPCS talent Richard Weinberger:

Seven Canadian swimmers will be taking part in the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup this Sunday in Santos, Brazil with hopes of getting closer to an Olympic berth.

Competition in Austin wound down today, with our UVPCS swimmers both competing in the 200 Butterfly as their last event. Both Rachael Newman and Nicholas Sinclair made the consolation final, and set personal best times.

Newman placed 14^th overall with a time of 2:18.23, while Sinclair finished in 11^th place with a time of 2:04.87.

The Austin Grand Prix continued today, with both Nicholas Sinclair and Rachael Newman delivering strong swims on day 2.

The Austin Grand Prix meet began today, with UVPCS swimmers Nicholas Sinclair and Rachael Newman representing the team, fresh off the UVic and Pacific Coast Senior training camp in San Diego.  The two posted 100 percent best times across five individual swims on the first day of competition.

The first day of racing at SwimBC All Star Meet in Langley saw Lauren Crisp and her TeamBC team-mates take 6th place in both the Girls 11-12yo 200m freestyle relay and 400m medley relay.

Lauren also took 8th place in the Girls 11-12yo 100m backstroke.

The full story on day one racing can be found on the SwimBC website.