2015-2016

VICTORIA, B.C.

VICTORIA, BC – Second-year Vike Kaitlin Gervais grabbed the only medal of the day for the University of Victoria Vikes men and women's swimming teams alongside many positive performances from the Vikes in day two of the Canada West Swimming Championships in Vancouver, B.C.

VICTORIA, B.C. – The University of Victoria Vikes men and women's swimming teams sit in fifth and fourth place, respectively, after day one of the Canada West Swimming Championships in Vancouver, B.C. at the UBC Aquatic Centre.

2015 Bennett Cup was pretty generous for B group swimmers. Generous in solid swims and lots of experience.

We started Saturday finals with some great 4 x 50 IM relays. Our 12-13 boys (Dylan Kormendy, Tom Chapman, Jacob Rambo and Anthony Gutierrez) placed second, although they had to race the clock in the first heat. We won 14-15 girls category (Lily Chen, Emma Carter, Jessica Luo, Allison Ballantyne) and placed 3^rd in girls 16 & over (Anna Letkeman, Haley Bennett, Erin Lawrance, Rachel Sawchuk).

Our 2nd day of Langley was successful in many ways.

Our first swimmer Asia Trudel won her 4th event 400 IM with a time of 6:08.61 dropping over 10 sec from the morning swim followed by Nathan Chow placing 6th with a time of 6:44.07 dropping over 11sec.

Our next event of the night was 200 FR Asia won the 11&U and Maia Denis (10) placed 5th. Taiki Hiraoka swam to a 7th place finish in 12&U category.

We had a pretty good first day in Langley.. coming over on the first ferry and swimming “Shoes Off”: Joining into the meet without in-water warm-ups to add a little challenge.

Our first event up was 100 BK, Asia Trudel took on the competition and was the fastest qualifier going into finals. A good accomplishment, taking her own responsibility for her swimming as the coaches still had not arrived yet.

The University of Victoria Vikes swim team bring their list of qualified athletes for the CIS Championship next February to five after Richard Bourgeois and