On March 13 & 14, the Richmond Rapids competed at the Lower Mainland Championships held in Tsawwassen. The Rapids took as large contingent of swimmers from their Age Group & Regional Development programs .  The swimmers competed against a number of teams from across the lower mainland and won the competition by over 1000 points over the second place team. 

Leading the way for the Rapids with some very strong performances were 13 year olds Brian Leung & Ali Abbasi, 11 year old Melissa Quon, 10 year old Kevin Ye and the youngest member of the team , 8 year old Matthew Crawford.  Brian & Ali dominated the 13 year boys category placing 1^st or 2^nd in most of their events.  Melissa performed very well winning the 100 & 200 Butterfly, 200 Backstroke and 400 IM.  Kevin Ye, also had a strong meet placing 1^st in 5 events and 3^rd in one other event. Kevin swam personal best times in all his events and set a new Rapids 9-10 year old boys club record in the 200 Butterfly!  Matthew Crawford raced exceptionally well in the 10 & under age group placing first in the 200 Backstroke and second in 3 other events.  Matthew broke six 8 & under boys club records and achieved 2 new BC AA Provincial qualifying times in the 200 Backstroke and 400 Individual Medley. Not to be outdone, Selina Zhou  showed a tonne of heart and guts in the final race of the weekend!  After winning the 200 Freestyle, and  in the very next heat (with only about 45 seconds of rest!) stepped and battled teammate Melissa Quon in the 400 IM  just to be outouched for the gold! Definiteley the race of the meet! Congratulations to all the swimmers on a job well done!!

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New Club Records

8 & Under Boys (all set by Matthew Crawford)

50 Free : 37.79              

200 Back : 3:11.15        

200 Breast: 3:57.12

100 IM: 1:34.72      

200 IM: 3:21.11

400 IM: 6:56.92        

 9-10 Year Old Boys

200 Butterfly                        

Kevin Ye3:19.18      

TOP 3 PERFORMANCES

Abbasi, Ali (13) – 1^st 50 FR, 400 IM, 100 FR, 2^nd 100 BK, 100 BR, 1500 FR, 3^rd 50 FLY

Ahmadian-Yazdi, Delaram  (13) –   3^rd 400 FR

Arcese, Hunter  (13) – 2^nd 400 FR

Balen, Kate  (12) – 1^st 400 IM, 2^nd 200 BK, 100 FR, 3^rd 100 BK

Bassi, Pratik  (12)  - 1^st 200 BK, 2^nd 400 FR, 100 FLY, 3^rd 100 FR

Berry, Austin  (10) – 3^rd 50 FR

Berry, Jaylene  (11)  - 1^st 400 FR, 2^nd 200 IM, 3^rd 800 FR

Crawford, Matthew  (8)  - 1^st 200 BK, 2^nd 100 IM, 200 BR, 400 IM

Huen, Nicholas  (11)  - 2^nd 100 BR, 3^rd 100 FLY

Iddins, Alex  (12) – 2^nd 200 IM, 3^rd 400 FR, 200 BR

Kell, Patrick  (12) – 1^st 1500 FR, 50 BR, 400 IM, 3^rd 50 Fly

 Kloot, Jarrod  (9) – 2^nd 50 BK

Leung, Brian  (13) – 1^st 50 BK, 100 BR, 200 BR, 2^nd 50 BR, 400 IM, 200 FLY, 3^rd 1500 FR

Man, Lawrence  (10) – 1^st 100 IM, 3^rd 400 FR, 100 FLY

 Murray, Marissa  (13)   - 1^st 800 FR, 50 FR

Quon, Melissa  (11)  - 1^st 200 BK, 200 FLY, 100 FLY, 400 IM, 2^nd 50 BR

Schroeder, Kaelyn  (13) – 1^st 200 FR, 2^nd 100 BK, 100 BR, 200 IM, 3^rd 100 FR

Shaw, Kelsey  (13)  - 1^st 400 FR, 200 FR, 2^nd 800 FR, 200 FLY, 3^rd 100 & 200 BK

Tao, Jerry  (12)  - 2^nd 50 FLY, 3^rd 100 BK & 100 FLY

Vinarskaia, Ekaterina  (14)  - 3^rd 200 IM & 100 BR

Welsh, Nicole  (12) – 1^st 50 FLY, 50 BK, 2^nd 100 IM, 50 FR, 200 FR, 3^rd 800 FR

Ye, Kevin  (10) – 1^st 800 FR, 50 BK, 200 FLY, 50 FR, 400 IM, 3^rd 100 BK

Zhang, Ada  (11)  - 3^rd 400 FR & 100 FLY

Zhou, Selina  (11)  - 1^st 800 FR, 200 FR, 2^nd 200 FLY, 100 BR, 50 FR, 400 IM