2014-2015

The final day of VIR wrapped up with some exciting swims and many best times. The swim of the day goes to Erin Jennings who dropped 3 seconds in her 200 backstroke and made her third Age Group National time, qualifying her for the meet at the end of July. Another notable swim was Anthony Gutierrez's 400 Free where he knocked 4 seconds off and made his second AGN time. Next stop for PCS swimmers is the AA Championships in Kamloops, and the AAA Championships the week after.

400 Free

Day 2 wrapped up today with PCS still in second even with many top point scorers away. It was an exciting morning for Laura Rincon who spent no time wasted after qualifying for AAA yesterday to earn her first AGN in the 50 breast. She went on to be .07 off the 200 breast AGN in finals tonight with a huge best time. Anthony Gutierrez also had a big time drop, went under his first AGN cut. Finally re-writing the last Fly club record on the 11-12 boys side was Keir Ogilvie, taking nearly two seconds off the record from 2003 in the 100 Butterfly.

Day two dawned golden fo Team BC. Molly Gowans ran away with the 400 FR (4:17.7) to take her second gold for the team.

100 Freestyle
Finals began with 100 FR, MacKenzie Paddington finished 5th (59.7) and Rachel Sawchuk 8th (1:00.2), Jordyn Ryan came 23rd (1:01.1) in her best. Lauren Crisp had a best in the D Final (1:01.4). Allison Ballantyne also had a best for PCS( 1:01.1).

Great first day of racing finished and PCS is going strong in second place even with many of our top swimmers away at the Tucson Ford Classic. There were many great swims in the 1500s this morning including Erin Lawrance (15) racing her way to her first Senior National time. Emma Murdoch (15) earned her first Age Group National time in the 50 Fly. After several months of trying to earn her second AAA time to qualify for the meet, Laura Rincon (12) finally made her time in the 100 Breast, and shortly followed up with a 3rd AAA time in the 50 Fly.

VIR Champs start tomorrow! Good luck to all of our coaches and athletes - GO PCS!

Tucson would normally be smokin’ hot but today the heat turned down for us white northerners…it even rained a little(first rain in years??) but the pool was hot for PCS and Team BC. BC Girls went 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th, 3 of 6 in personal bests. Boys 5th and 6th.

For PCS Eden Kormendy was just over her best for 12th. Haley Bennett had a best finishing 13th.

Racing begins at 8:30AM PST tomorrow.