Hyack final day of hunting at EKI. Mia Bottrill started the final evening with a bronze medal swim in 200 fly. Followed by Chris Baker the bear hunter with his gold 200 fly. Continuing the medal trend in the 200 fly were Justin with a silver and Igor at bronze, both best time swims. Jasmine Whelan used her hunting skills to knock off another bear with her gold medal 200 breast win, just 2 seconds shy of the senior national standard. Finishing the meet in 100 free were Sara W...

Chris Baker won 100 fly today for a trophy bear. The older boys Igor (5) and Justin (6) raced to the fingernails for a close finish and bt in their 100 fly. Mia came 6th in her fly too again witha bt. The 200 IM started the night with Sara coming 4th. The 100 breast saw Jasmine come in a narrow 4th just off a medal and Sara claimed silver in the race. Sara had one more race for 8th in the 400 free while Mia was also 8th in...

Sara Whelan displays her trophy bear from the 50 Br win on Thursday. Justin won silver in the 50 fr final as well as posting a bt in 200 fr. Sara Whelan won bronze in 200 free with a bt swim. Igor came in 9th in 200 free with a nice swim at 202.82 and also swam in the 50 fr b final. Chris Baker was 6th in 200 fr with a bt and also a bt in the 50 fr where he was 8th. Last up was 400 IM...

The 1500 free started the meet with Sara Whelan posting a best time. The 50 flys were next and Justin and Igor both posted best times. 50 back followed and Justin came through with another best time. 50 breast finished the day with Jasmine adding a best time

Great results from the swimmers on Day 1. Sara Whelan new club record 1500 and Mia Bottrill Age Group Nats in 200 fly.

Stefan Milosevic races the last swim of Trials for Hyack in the 200 IM. Stefan posted a best time and attained his LC national time in the race where he finished 4th. Stefan did not advance. Stefan was selected to do the Team BC tour in Arizona in June. So Hyack finishes the 2012 Olympic Trials with two finals one B final. Best team results since 2004 trials.

Sherry Liu races to 6th in the Olympic Trials 800 final. In a race that set up very quickly and resulted in three swimmers under the FINA standard the front field proved to be very quick. Sherry fought hard to position herself in the race, and with a trip to the Olympics on the line the women proved to be very tough competitors. Great effort from Sherry as she represented herself and the club well.

Sherry conducted a cagey 800 race next to a veteran swimmer as they jostled for position in the preliminaries. Even splitting her race and shaking off her hard charging opponent Sherry won her heat with 8.49.19 to place 4th for Saturdays final. Our 200 flyers were also up today with Abi Sayer finishing 3rd in her heat and 22 overall moving up from her preliminary seed. Kathy Qu fought valiantly in the first heat to win from lane 8

This is the sassy blog of Abi and sherry...oh and that kid steffi. Writing to you from the pool deck of the 2012 Olympic trials. So far this meet has been completely flabbergasting, with a very captivating atmosphere during the finals. The commentators and presenters have been amazing in whipping the crowd into a frenzy. The races have been crazy with people in the outside lanes destroying everyone and making the Olympic team, and the younger generation of swimmers pushing through, creating a new face for team Canada. For us...

Only two swims this morning with Stefan going 2:10.56 for a best time LC in 200 fly and Abi went 512.81 for her 400IM. We watched a very inspirational finals tonight which showed all you ever need is a lane in finals. The men's 200fly was a great instance as the winner came out of lane 8 and he's off to the Olympics. I am sure our team bc swimmers Sara Wendy and Chris are enjoying some great races.