VIR

Pacific Coast Swimming started off with a bang in Duncan at the 2022 Vancouver Island Regionals! Friday morning started off with distance events, and had 13 year old Alex Camaraire go a personal best and place 3rd overall for the 13-14 category. In the 1500m freestyle, 14 year old Lucy Hallett came 1st her 1500m freestyle with a substantial personal best and Jessica Hier (13) came 2nd both in the 13-14 girl's category. On the boy's side, twelve year old Sebastian Damian placed 2nd in 1500m freestlye, and in the 15& over category Simon de Rosnay came 3rd. 

The 2021 Virtual Vancouver Island Regional Championships were a big success! The VIRs looked a little different this year, having been held virtually all across the Island over the past month. PCS came away as the top club over the Island once again with an incredible 116 athletes participating. Athletes representing PCS won a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal in 98 out of 124 events and won gold in 14 out of 24 relay events.  Despite the difficult training circumstances this season, nearly every single PCS swimmer came away with a best time from last season. 

Friday at VIR’s started off with a bang, PCS placing first with 2177 points, ahead of Island Swimming at 1497.5 and Comox Valley Aquatic Club at 937.5 points.

In the morning, some notable swims where Naeva Scott Bouris dropping 23 seconds off her 200FL to 2:33.88, and Nolan Crisp breaking his own VIR record in the 50BK at 31.07. 10&U swam timed finals for their 50BK and 200IM. Boys 50BK saw Noah Hicks coming in 2nd, while Ethan Woo swam into 2nd on his 200IM.

Highlights from the last session of the VIR championships included Pacific Coast Swimming winning the meet for a 5th straight time scoring an overall combined 4834.5 points, well ahead of the next team, Island Swimming, with 2692 points.

PCS increased the points lead today thanks to a boost from the B National group. On the girls side, Naeva Scott Bouris is leading the charge with 116 points, followed closely by Sydney Meldrum, 92, and Kali Lancaster, 81. Griffin Arnatt still held onto his lead from yesterday with 138 points, followed by Daniel Damian, 85, and Taiki Hiraoka, 73 points.

In the 11-12 Boys 200 IM Griffin Arnatt broke 2:40 for the first time to take second place.

Pacific Coast Swimming leads the meet after two days.

Our top scoring boy so far for the VIR championships is lead by Griffin Arnatt after 2 days of fast swimming, he is currently holding 69 points for the team. Arnatt had a speedy race in the 200 freestyle last night breaking a long time club record set back in 2003 by Craig Dagnall, in a time of 2:16.85. Way to go Griffin!

After a long and tough 4 days of racing, the Vancouver Island Regional Championships came to a close Sunday night, and PCS went out with a bang. Both prelim and morning sessions on the last day of the meet only boosted our clubs golden performances over the weekend.  In the morning prelims we had a club record in the 100 freestyle for the 10&U boys by Nolan Crisp with a time of 1:08.26.

Day 3 of VIR’s came to a close, and while the wear and tear of the meet takes a toll on all the athletes, our Pacific Coast Swimmers pulled ahead with some huge stand out swims and best times. The night started with a swim-off for girls 13-14 200 Free as Teagan Hunt (13) came from behind and reeled in her competitor on the last 25 meters to win in a best time of 2:20.60. Hunt really set the tone for the duration of the evening.

UVic Pacific Coast Swimming pulled ahead on Day 2 at the Vancouver Island Regional Championships, finishing the day in first with 1965 points, ahead of Cross Town Island swimming in second place with 1005 points.

The Pacific Coast Swimming Distance squad traveled to Comox this afternoon to compete in the Vancouver Island Regional Championships. Tonight we had 12 women swimmers do the 800 Free, and 6 boys doing the 1500 Free.

Anastasia Trudel (12) led out the PCS crew coming in 2nd place in the Women’s 11-12 age group with a time of 10:31.50, along with her other teammates Maia Denis 6th with a 11:01.11 dropping 3 seconds, Naeva Scott Bouris 8th with her best time of 11:25.14 dropping 10.85 seconds.