Rapids Swim Club Host LMR Swimming Championships

February 29, 2012

                The Richmond Rapids Swim Club hosted the LMR swimming championships over the weekend at Watermania Aquatics Centre.  With over 400 swimmers in attendance there was lots of fierce competition in the pool.

                                The meet, geared as a stepping stone to provincial level competitions allows swimmers to compete at a championship level.  The hope is to acquire enough racing experience to move to the provincial arena.  The club had 4 new BC AA championship qualifiers.   The AA standard allows swimmers to compete at the BC AA Championships in Victoria, BC this June.  Rapids swimmers who advanced levels  were Eunice Park (11), Isabelle Sy (15), Mark Liu (10), Dimitri Volchkov (10) and Ali Sayedain (12).

The Rapids had a great weekend with 1 new club record set by 10 year old Amanda McCallum in the 50 backstroke as well as over 75% personal best times throughout the meet.    Swimmers achieving 100% Personal bests this weekend with no disqualifications were:  Alyssa Azote (11), Liam Brusse (12), Anthony Chan (10), Tiger Chang (14), Adam Dobrer (12), Angela Gu (12),  Michael Guo (15), Leah Hillman (11), Capri Horstmann (11), Michael Lau (12), Crystal Lui (13), Mark Liu (10), Kevin Ouyang (14), Eunice Park (11), Jerry Tao (14).

“Having 75 percent personal bests over the course of a swim meet is a great feat. Having had so many swimmers achieve 100 percent personal bests really speaks well to how the kids have bought into their own training and their coaches programs,” says Head Age Group Coach Dennis Silva.  “So far the short course season’s championship meets have been very successful.  Medals at Western Canadian Championships, BC AA champs in Chilliwack and now medals at the LMR champs is a nice reward for the effort and emotion invested by these kids.”

Medalists at this weekend’s meet were:
Anthony Chan (10) bronze 200 back/200 IM/50 free/100 fly/200 free
Adam Dobrer (12) silver 200 back
Samantha Gosel (13) gold 1500 free, silver  50 back
Angela Gu (12) silver 200 fly/400 free
Michael Guo (15) gold 800 free/50 free/100 back/200 free
Nicholas Huen (13) bronze 400 free
Thomas Huen (10) gold 1500 free/200 IM/200 fly/200 breast/100 fly/400 IM, silver 100 breaststroke
Jessica Jones (13) silver 50 breaststroke
Brian Leung (15) gold 1500 free, silver 200 back/400 free/400 IM, bronze 200 IM
Nathan Liminsang (13) bronze 200 free
Mark Liu (10) gold 200 back/100 back, silver 100 free/200 free, bronze 200 breaststroke
Amanda McCallum (9) gold 100 free/200 free
Austen Orr (12) silver 100 back, bronze 200 IM
Eunice Park (11) silver 200 back/200 breast, bronze 100 back
Joshua Quon (9) silver 200 IM
Melissa Quon (13) gold 50 fly, silver 800 free, bronze 200 back
Ali Sayedain (12) gold 200 free, silver 50 free/100 fly
Kelsey Shaw (15) bronze 800 free/400 free/200 free
Isabelle Sy (15) gold 100 back, silver 200 back
Jerry Tao (14) gold 200 fly, silver 100 fly
Dimitri Volchkov (9) silver 100 back
William Weng (14) gold 400 free/400 IM, silver 200 fly, bronze 100 fly
Delbert Yip (15) silver 200 IM/100 back, bronze 200 back/200 free
Artur Yushko (10) silver 1500 free/200 back/100 fly/400 IM, bronze 50 breaststroke
Selina Zhou (13) silver 1500 free/50 fly, bronze 50 back
Benjamin Zhou (11) gold 100 free

The BC AAA Championships is coming up the weekend of March 1-4 in Surrey.  The Rapids will be bringing a team of 41 qualifiers to the meet.  As well, Olympic Trials will be in Montreal in mid-March.  Rapids’ Nicolaas Dekker (16) will be in attendance.

For more information on the Richmond Rapids Swim Club or the Rapids Swim School (out of Minoru Pool) please click on www.richmondrapids.com or call 604-275-7946.  The Rapids have on-going assessments throughout the year for new swimmers and competitive swimmers wishing to join.