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Sherry Liu easily won the 800 Free with a long course personal best swim of 8:57.57. Abi Sayer in the A final of the 200 Fly went 2:22.57 to come in second. Stefan Milosevic was 3rd in the B final of the 200 Fly. Sherry Liu was back up for the 200 Free B Final where she went 2:08.09 for second. Emily Gerson in the 100 back raced to 5th and Stefan was the final swimmer with 4th place in the C final.
Hyack 2nd! Holding off a furious last day charge by vpsc and psw we held our ground. Way to go team! Igor first individual medal of the meet; 3rd in 100 Fly Haydn Pak gold in 200 IM and new club record beating Andrew Cho's 2:25.15 from 1991 by going 2:23.76. $75 for him under the new Club Records program Wendy Yang 2nd in 50 Free, 1st in 100 Fly, Matthew Hua 3rd in 200 IM Chris Baker 1st in 100 Fly Abigail Sayer 3rd in 100 Fly Sara Whelan...
Provincial record for Haydn Pak! 1:04.93 (100 Back, Boys 12 y.o.). 1st by over 3 seconds! Picture on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150780751626163&v=wall Jasmine Whelan Age Nats in 200 Breast. Chris Baker gold 200 Fly with a great race. Special note for all the tough 200 fly/100 back doubles May Li, Stefan Milosevic, Igor Gasovic Varga, who swam their races back to back, Stefan earned silver and gold respectively. Matt Hua bronze 200 Breast Hyack remains second after the day! Add-on: 1998 Boys 12-under 4 x 50 Free Relay club record broken by...
Hyack still 2nd after day 2. More strong racing across the board for the team. Two more club records in 12 under boys relay and Stefan Milosovic 50 back lead off on the 15 and over relay. Age Nats for Victoria Montgomery as well. Hayden Pak hard hat for 2 gold 1 silver. Facebook pics here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150780751626163
Hyack second after first day. Some really solid swimming from the 800/1500/4*200 fr relays. 3 club records in the relays, 3 gold 3 bronze and some great personal bests. Fantastic! Still lots of racing to go. Check out pictures on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150780751626163 Add on: Sherry Liu broke Shannon Smith's 1978 200 Free record (girls 15-17) of 2:02.10 by going 2:01.93 in the first leg of the 4 x 200 Free Relay. This earns her $125 from Hyack Swim Club under our brand new Club Record's program. Add on: Sherry Liu...
Solid meet for all swimmers that went to LMR Champs and Langley Novice. 4 new AA qualifiers on Sunday and 6 new Regional qualifiers from Langley. New AA Swimmers: Jakob Garricks in the 100 Back, Connor Toomey in the 200 Fly, Gabriella Sali in the 100 Breast, and Brodie Young also in the 100 Breast. New Regional Swimmers (first time under 4:00 in 200 IM): Adrianna Lara-Yunes, Emily Lovell, Pierse Roddick, Sehajivir Singh, Rebecca Szakacs, and Daniel Young Congrats to all !!
Matt Hua 4th B final 100 (then turned round and a few minutes after swims to 5th in 200 iM B final. Good double. Emily Gerson second in B final 50 Back. Sherry Liu 800 Fr silver with 84650.
Sherry Liu swam to 2:05.05 in the 200 fr qualified 9th (B) final but as she has 800 Fr at night we will take her out and get ready for the 800. Matt's 100 Br earned him 13th and a B final as well as a Bt in 200 Im with a 3 second drop and a B final. Abi Sayer bt 100 Fly and Wendy Yang debuted her Westerns with a solid fly effort. Sarra Leung went bt by 3 seconds in her 800.
Abi Sayer started the evening with a 6th place 200 final swim, just shy of the club record. Next Emily Gerson who moved up a spot to 7th and dropped a second off the morning swim. 50 Br next and Matt Hua in the B final finishing 3rd. Sherry Liu in 400 Fr came 5th Bt 41905 which is also Senior Nat time. Last swim belonged to Stefan who finished 8th.
Emily Gerson improved on her morning time and her place by racing to second in the B final with 104,70 100 back. Matt Hua in 200 Br racing to Bt and 6th with 22410. Abi Sayer came 8th 400 IM B final. Above: Sherry Liu with the "hard hat" award; awarded for the best swim. (Real hard hat was unavailable so ergo the make-shift hard hat) Above: More hard hats....and gang signs....