On behalf of Fort St John Inconnu Swim Club I would like to express my thorough gratitude to the volunteers and staff for making the annual Inconnu Sadownik Memorial swim meet a resounding success! Held in honour of Steve Sadownik and his wife Nicole, the annual competition saw Inconnu welcome guests from Grande Prairie Piranhas and Peace River Wahoos swim clubs for two days of some excellent fast swimming over the weekend of November 29/30. Inconnu swimmers just a fortnight removed from excellent performances in Grande Prairie hit the water...

On behalf of Fort St John Inconnu Swim Club, I am delighted in joining others in congratulating the team on an outstanding opening competition of the season! Travelling to Grande Prairie with a team of 35 athletes, the Inconnu swimmers showed great resolve and determination in securing a Second place overall in team standings behind the hosts GPP who have had over 120 competing athletes! From top to bottom Inconnu swimmers seen massive Personal Bests achieved in virtually every event swam (competition rules limited each swimmer to 8 swims over...

Inconnu is delighted to call its trip to beautiful Kelowna for Summer BC Divisional Championships a resounding success! Travelling with a team of 10 athletes, Inconnu swimmers demonstrated great resilience and focus while achieving excellent results in their swims. Of special note were the performances of the two youngest members of the squad Avelyn Ross and Everleigh Stirling. Avelyn in particular has seen significant time drops in the biggest meet of her swimming career thus far, making the finals in 200m backstroke and becoming the fastest 11 year old in...

Fort St. John Inconnu Swim Club would like to congratulate its members on successful participation in the annual home Spring Splash 2025 meet! Through excellent performances from swimmers in all age categories the team firmly put itself on the right track heading off into the championship portion of the 2025 campaign. Of note, was the returning appearances of Julien Kemp and Nate Rogers, setting excellent personal marks in all of the events swam. Putting in some solid swims the boys undoubtedly set the tone for the rest of the squad...

Fort St. John Inconnu Swim Club is happy to announce the club’s successful participation at the annual Grande Prairie Northern Lights Invitational! Travelling with 31 swimmers the team has seen each of its athletes achieve at least one personal best time in an event and score points with most seeing serious drops in virtually every swim that was had. The meet held at the beautiful Eastlink Sports Complex is seen as the crucial stepping stone for the team that is gathering momentum heading into the championship phase of the gruelling...

Fort St. John Inconnu Swim Club is delighted in congratulating Leonardo Rossi on his success while making his debut in participating at British Columbia Winter Provincial Championships 2025 held at Victoria Saanich Commonwealth Pool from March 6 to 9 and hosted by Island Swimming Club! Leo participated in the Boys 12&U age category swimming the 800 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and the 400 freestyle events. Outside of impressive time drops, Leo’s resilience and calm focused mindset that belies his age led to a 4th place finish in...

This past weekend the Inconnu Swim club sent 9 swimmers to Edmonton, AB for the 50th anniversary of the J.P. Fiset Invitational. “Every one of our Inconnu swimmers saw solid improvements in their personal best times and raced strongly and fiercely against a large body of competition”, said Coach Anton Titov, "our swimmers had a wonderful showing throughout the 4-day swim meet.” The start of the marathon weekend saw Leo Rossi (12) in the first event; the 800 m freestyle. Not only did Rossi shave off a whopping 19 seconds...

Our hardworking Inconnu swimmers have returned home from their first swim meet of the 2024-2025 season. The Fast Track into Fall swim meet, hosted by the Grande Prairie Piranhas, hosted 5 other teams from AB and BC at the Eastlink Centre. Thirty six of our members made the snowy drive and placed 2nd overall. Coach Anton was pleased with the outstanding performances from our athletes, “I urge everyone to carry this positive momentum forward with enthusiasm and understanding that quite simply put, when you do things right day in and...

4 of our Inconnu Swimmers participated this past February 2-4 2024 in the Edmonton Open competition, which this year included former members of the Canadian Olympic team which brought the competition to a very high level. Ainsley Ross (14), Sienna Thorburn (13), Ryder Modde (14) and Kieran Rogers (14) together competed in a total of 24 events, improving 22 and making 3 finals! Edmonton Open is a senior level meet, which means, swimmers get to race everyone regardless of their age, which represented an incredible experience for our young swimmers,...

Inconnu Swim Club had a terrific kick off of the Long Course season, competing this past January 20-21st in Grande Prairie with 35 swimmers. An incredible 98% of personal Best were achieved, with plenty of the events resulting in amazing improvements, placing several races in the top 6. Overall our younger groups take the bigger shoutout of the weekend by presenting a much more solid learning of the turn and start skills, resulting in the lowest disqualified swims in over a year, with only 10 swims in the whole weekend....