Mia Bottrill started the meet with a great 1500 free dropping over 25 seconds going 17.34.20 to finish 12th overall. Leading her heat start to finish she also just missed her 800 senior national cut at the 800 split by .08. Well done Stella Jin raced her 50 fly to her best time in the morning just off her entry time. She was 3rd in her heat. You can watch all the races on swim Canada website under watch live.

Stella Jin swam to 4th in the 100 free with her BT. May Li had a strong day qualifying both her 100 free and 50 back into B finals. She raced to BT in both races. Chris Baker raced 100 Free to a BT in the B final. Zoe Froh with her first second swim at Westerns improved her 400 IM. The girls 800 FR R finished 7th overall with solid efforts from Octavia Mia May and Elaine. Hard hat went to May Li for her double best time day...

Stella Jin claims gold and a club record in the 15&u 50 Fly. Stella's time of 28.24 was second fastest in the country as well. Chris Baker had a solid day with two finals in 50 fly and 200 free both with his best times. Octavia Lau in her first appearance at Westerns had a successful debut with a great 200 free b final placing second and a bt of 211.59. Mia Bottrill in her 800 finished 10th overall In a bt with a solid win in her heat swim....

Chris Baker had a great morning swim in is 200 fly posting the second over all seed for finals. The race opened up fast and Chris was there in the mix and it came down to the last 25 and a few 1/10s difference saw him just miss the podium. Chris managed his summer senior national time in the effort. 200 fly for Mia Bottrill had a similar 4th place outcome. Mia raced to her bt as well, a second off the club record. Stella had a B final in...

Stella continued to take aim at the record board resetting the 50 fly for 13-14 girls and the women's Open record with her 27.81bronze medal performance. Another good evening for the thunderbolt squad as Chris Baker wins the 50 fly B final in 26.01. He had a great morning 200 free as well with a 156.87 Mia Bottrill and May Li stepped up in the B finals of the 50 fly with May coming in second. Both girls swam bt efforts. The evening started in an exciting fashion as Elaine...

Stella Jin' 57.64 smashed Pam Rai's 1981 club record for 13-14 girls in the B final of the 100 free at the Thunderbolt Jnr International. The whole group swam well with May Li gettng into the club record action breaking Kristine Lawson's 2009 50 Back record. May also won the b final in the 100 IM. Chris Baker had a great day posting a bt in 100 free in prelims and swimming to 5th in the A final with a great 56.24 100 fly. Mia Bottrill swam to bt in...

Team Orange pulled away in the eliminator rounds and left Teams White and Black in their wake. Good job perserveering over the entire meet Team Orange! Score: 1. Orange 262 2. White 248 3. Black 201 The 100 IM results are posted for the swimmers as well on their accounts.

Coaches Frici Laszlo and Andrew Lennstrom were awarded the BC Swim Coaches Association 13&U coaches of the year at the annual Swim BC awards banquet. Congratulations to the two of you for outstanding work!

Mia Bottrill raced her way to Gold in the 1500 freestyle and the 200 fly while adding silver and bronze in the 100 fly and 800 freestyle. Mia was the runner up in the girls 17-18 aggregate award. Well done Mia!

Sehajvir Singh qualified 8th for the 200 IM and moved up to 6th in a very close race for the bronze. Wendy Yang went into the 50 Fly final having set the club record in prelimaries. She improved on that time lowering it to 28.20 finishing with the bronze medal. This was also the Open record as well as the 15-17 girls. Preliminary BT went to: 50 Fly: Chris Bakerr, Elaine Lam, May Li