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Emma Hesterman

WESTERN TRANSMOUNTAIN FESTIVAL Hosted by Cascade Swim Club and held at Seton pool, Calgary. 21ST & 22ND FEBRUARY 2025 Congratulations to all our qualified swimmers on a fast weekend of swimming albeit swimmers suffering quite a bit of sickness and also swimmers are under hard training for the Provincial meets coming up in March. There was a lot of fast provincial and out of province swimmers attending the competition and the format was A-D finals with the fastest 40 swimmers qualifying for Finals regardless of age, so we had many...

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MAVERICK MADNESS 7TH – 9TH FEBRUARY 2025 Congratulations to the 105 swimmers from all 10 groups who participated at our 3rd and biggest home-hosted competition. Thank you to Meet Manager(s) Kylie Jones and Lindsay Johnston, Official’s Director Adrien Sikora as well as all our parent volunteers. We had an amazing weekend of fun, fast swimming, new races swum, new swimmers racing for the very 1st time and lots of new qualifying times achieved including many, many medals awarded. See our Mavs Facebook page for all the podium and deck photographs....

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2025 SWIM ALBERTA WINTER FESTIVAL 24th – 26th January 2025 Congratulations to Jerome Ling and Lauren Macdonald for their successful racing and multiple best times achieved at the fastest 12 and under competition in Alberta! Festival qualification standards achieved. Jerome (200 Fly, 100 Fly, 100 Back, 50 Back, 50 Fly) Lauren (200 back, 100 back, 50 Back Provincial Trials qualification standards Jerome (100 Back, 50 Back, 200 IM) TOP 8 Jerome (200 Fly, 100 Back, 50 Back, 200 IM) Lauren (200 Back)

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PUGSLEY PLUNGE 17TH – 19TH JANUARY 2025 Congratulations to the 80 swimmers that competed at the 1st competition of 2025. With only 10 days back to practice after the holiday season, the swimmers stepped up and gave their all in their races. With a strong emphasis on the technical component rather than time, the swimmers showcased all their hard work with great success. FESTIVAL QUALIFICATION STANDARDS Jerome Ling, Lauren Macdonald PROVINCIAL TRIALS QUALIFICATION STANDARDS Oscar Bednarz, Slade Diakiw, Tanner Donnelly, Ayden Gautier, Mary Giuffre, Declan Harrison, Cora Hunter, Leah Hunter,...

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2024 OSC JP FISET INVITATIONAL 13th -15th DECEMBER 2024 Congratulations swimmers on an exceptionally, successful competition last weekend. We had 3 club records broken, 3 medals awarded and many Top 8 and Top 16 Final swims including many qualification standards achieved and lots of best times and of course lots of fun had by all. Thank you to our wonderful chaperones Kevin Harrison and Lindsay Johnston. On behalf of the coaches, I would like to wish all our swimmers and families a wonderful Happy Holiday Season. CLUB RECORDS BROKEN Lucy...

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UCSC HOLIDAY CLASSIC 14th and 15th December 2024 Congratulations to the swimmers who competed at the weekend at the UCSC Holiday Classic. We had many new best times, 8 medals awarded for Top 3 as well as many Top 8 Final swims. On behalf of the coaching staff, we would like to wish all our swimmers and families a very Happy Holiday Season. FESTIVAL QUALIFICATION STANDARDS Lauren Macdonald PROVINCIAL QUALIFICATION STANDARDS Brynna Hurd, Claire Macdonald SILVER Simon Freeland (50 Back) Brynna Hurd (100 Back) BRONZE Blakley Dahl (50 Fly) Pia...

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WINTER PHOTOS FUNDAMENTAL CIRCUIT MEET SATURDAY 7TH DECEMBER 2024 Congratulations to all the little swimmers from Waves, Breakers, Rogues and Jaws on a successful swim meet at Seton hosted by MAVS. We have many, many Top 3 placings aswell as Top 8 placings plus a club record broken and many new swims swum for the very first time. CLUB RECORD BROKEN Congratulations to Georgia Baldwin who broke her own club record in the 8 & under 50 Backstroke in 44.55 1st Place Ella Anderson (7) 25 Back, 25 Free Georgia...

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KILLARNEY SC INVITATIONAL 22ND – 24TH NOVEMBER, 2024\ Congratulations to all the swimmers on a successful weekend of racing. We had many best times and some new qualification times achieved. Many Top 3 and Top 8 swims. An extra big hand to Jerome Ling who medalled in all his events with 6 Gold medals and 1 Silver medal. FESTIVAL QUALIFICATION STANDARDS Jerome Ling (200 Back, 50 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Free, 100 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Free) PROVINCIAL QUALIFICATION STANDARDS Oscar Bednarz, Slade Diakiw, Tanner Donnelly, Ayden Gautier, Declan Harrison,...

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WACKY T-SHIRT FUNDAMENTAL CIRCUIT MEET SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2024 Congratulations to all the little swimmers from Breakers, Rogues and Jaws on successful swim meet at the University of Calgary. Coaches were pleased to see all the technical hard work of the swimmers coming through in their races and gaining some racing experience. We had many Top 3 finishes and Top 8 finishes. 1st Place Kateri Beaton (9) – 50 Fly, 50 Free Kai Matsubara (9) 25 Free Nora Penniket (11) 50 Free 2nd Place Kai Matsubara (9) 25 Back 3rd...

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CASCADE SPEED MEET 9-10 November 2024 Congratulations to the 16 swimmers that qualified and competed at this fast competition. We had many new best times, qualification in 46 Finals and many Top 8 & Top 16 swims. We also had new qualifying times achieved and 4 new club records broken. CLUB RECORDS BROKEN Congratulations to Lucy Wiens (16) who broke 4 club records over the weekend (both records were over 8 and 11 years old) 50 Back in the 15 & over age group and overall club record in 29.27...