2008-2009

Results from the SFU Invitational are now posted on our results page. Highlights included top-3 finishes from Whitney Buczkowski, David Creel, Derek Doersken, MacKenzie Downing and Jeff Saganski.

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OTTAWA, ON – The Coaching Association of Canada today announced the names of the 50 coaches who are the 2008 recipients of the Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards.

This year, these prestigious awards recognize coaches whose athletes won medals at the 2008 Olympic Games, the 2008 Paralympic Games, the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and at various world championships.

UVPCS swimmers and coaches were at the pool in both Nanaimo and Victoria this weekend. Our younger swimmers and their coaches travelled over the Malahat this weekend for the Nanaimo Fall Invitational, while our senior groups competed at the TAS Senior Circuit at Saanich Commonwealth Place.

UVPCS hosted the TAS Senior Circuit again this year for Swim BC. Thanks to everybody who helped, including several families with swimmers in the Nanaimo meet. Thanks to all!

Our Annual General Meeting will take place this evening - October 21, 2008 - at 745pm in the PacificSport Board Room at Saanich Commonwealth Place. The main business of the meeting is to elect the Board for the 2008-2009 season. We encourage all PCS member families to attend!

The Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame is holding an Open House for Families on October 18, 2008 at the Save-On Foods Memorial Centre. PCS will be there - click for the event poster for more information.

On Tuesday September 30th, the Rick Mercer Report starts a new season and features our own Stephanie Dixon in Beijing. Don't miss it - 8 pm on CBC Television!

UVPCS swimmer Nicholas Sinclair has been named to the 2009 National Junior Team, and will compete for Canada at the January 2009 Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Guam.

Congratulations to Nick and coaches Ron Jacks and Peter Vizsolyi!

Swim BC announced its annual awards at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting in Whistler, BC this past weekend. Coaches Ron Jacks, Peter Vizsolyi, Mark Lancaster, John Stamhuis and Meghan Griffiths attended, as did Board Members Margaret Penning and Barb McKee.

Paralympian Stephanie Dixon arrived home in Victoria and was greeted by 35+ UVPCS swimmers, coaches, parents and friends, and A-Channel television cameras. Stephanie set six Canadian records and one World record at the Beijing Paralympics and came home with four medals (Gold, 2 Silver & Bronze). Stephanie's Gold marked the third time she won the 100 Backstroke at the Paralympics - in 2000, 2004 and now 2008.

Welcome home, Stephanie!

The 7th Annual Welcome Back & Registration BBQ took place on a warm summer evening in Elk-Beaver Lake Park, and it was the biggest and best bbq ever! Grown-ups chatted, kids threw frisbees, dogs wagged their tails, the BBQ crew ... bbq-ed ... We all had a delicious dinner and caught up with old and new friends and the summer news.

Welcome back and thanks to everybody who helped! If you forgot your registration forms for the BBQ, please bring them to your coach at your next practise.

Take your marks and let the 2008-2009 season begin!