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Mark Bottrill

Octavia Lau crushed her B final in the 100 Free and re-set her club record by posting a huge best time at 57.59. 200 Fly up next and Mia Bottrill in the B final improved her prelim time to finish second. Chris Baker followed in his first ever A final as he qualified10th and moved up a spot to 9th. Brodie Young in prelims swam a smart 800 free to get to a best time. Zoe Froh ended up second alternate for the 200 fly from her preliminary swim. We...

Mark Bottrill

A busy night for Hyack starts with Chris Baker's swim off win in the 100 fly. Also in the 100 fly Stella Jin was our first A finalist of the meet and it was her first ever A final. She handled the ready room pressure well though and set a personal best finishing 8th. Chris returned for his now full fledged B final 100 and he climbed a spot to finish 9th. Octavia Lau appearing in her third straight night of B finals finished 5th in 400 Free. Our girls...

Mark Bottrill

Hyack added to their total swims at night and again for the second night in a row we have a B final win. Stella Jin swam a fabulous 50 Fly on two breaths to take the victory. Octavia Lau had her second B final appearance and again in lane 0 for the 200 Free where she had a tight race for second with 4 others who came all within 1/100's of each other. She settled for 4th in the race. Brodie Young had his first second swim as he snuck...

Mark Bottrill

Octavia Lau wins the B final of the 50 Free from lane 0! Octavia led from start to finish from the outside lane in her first second swim appearance at the senior national level. Stella Jin also qualified for her first second swim at the national level also in the B final of the 50 free finishing 4th in her best time. Great job from our girls. On the boys side Sehajvir Singh swam a solid 200 back prelims heat as did Brodie Young in the 200 Breast neither advancing...

Mark Bottrill

The last day of age group nationals is the open water races. Our group are the Canadian Open Water Team Champions! A fantastic way to end the meet for us. 2.5 K Eric Su 10th 5.2 K Zoe Froh 5th Martin Dimitrov 5th Micah Lau Gold 16 yrs Chun Sing Leung Silver 17-18 Brodie Young Silver 15 yrs Jakob Garricks Silver 16 yrs Nice cool dip in the water!

Mark Bottrill

Two gold medals, three club record and a whole lot of 4ths tonight. Fifth day of racing and some strong swims. Brodie Young led off the night with a convincing 200 IM win in a best time. Our 50 flyers were next and both Stella Jin, who lowered her own club record for both 15-17 and Open) and Amar Fezjic were 4th in best times. 400 Free had Octavia Lau win a seesaw battle. Zoe Froh was 8th. Andy Cho up next and put himself in a great seesaw battle...

Mark Bottrill

Two more medals tonight, silver and bronze. Brodie Young had a strong 200 Br race to claim bronze in a best time. Octavia Lau earned silver with her 200 Fr race. Yedam Lee came 7th in the 200 Breast and Martin Dimitrov continues to improve with his 6th place in 200 Fr. The boys 15 year old relay from heats ended up 7th overall. Our overall placing as of today is 5th for the boys 7th as a team. We have strong events for us tomorrow the final day of...

Mark Bottrill

One gold one silver and two bronze medals were earned by our group today. Octavia Lau started our night with her silver medal race in the 100 free racing to a best time and dropping the 13-14 club record. Andy Cho was up next in the 400 IM and raced to a best time and 4th Brodie Young earned his first gold of the meet with his 400 IM win. Sehajvir Singh was 5th in the same 400 IM race. Both of our 800 FRR were bronze and in club...

Mark Bottrill

Octavia Lau won gold in the 1500 free in her best time and a new club record. Working her way through the first 500 she took the lead for good and handily finished first. Brodie Young earned silver in the 1500 in a tremendous battle as he dug in deep and refused to relinquish second place. It was his first national medal and also a Trials time in this event. Brodie also just missed a medal in the 50 Br by .01. Sehajvir Singh finished 4th just off a national...

Mark Bottrill

We weathered a so so preliminary session that saw some highlight swims from the previous night show the wear and tear of the meet. Finals tonight was again a great show and once again featured our swimmers in the winners circle. 200 FR: Zoe 4th Regina 10th. Sergey 5th Nikita 4th. Andy Gold (new club record) Brodie bronze. 200 BK: Dragos 7th Micah 9th Sehajvir silver 50 FR: Chun Sing 9th Amar 8th Xavier 5th 400 IM: Zoe Gold Yedam bronze Regina 9th. Andy Gold Nikita bronze Sergey 4th. Dragos...