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Congratulations to this year's BC Pacific Coast All Star Team. The team of provincially selected swimmers will compete at Walnut Grove, in Langley for this face off against other west coast teams. Two California all-star teams, an all-star team from Oregon, and a team from Washington round out the competition. The team was selected based on FINA scores. Fastest swimmers in Sprint freestyle, distance freestyle, medley and the individual strokes plus 2 wildcard selections. Congratulations Hau-Li Fan (Medley), Michael Jakac-Sinclair (WildCard #1) and Kevin Ye (sprint freestyle). As well, congratulations...
Richmond Swimmers Cracker at Xmas Cracker December 12, 2011 The Pacific Coast Swim Club has been running its annual Christmas Cracker swim meet for the past 10 years. The meet was hosted at the Saanich Commonwealth Place and over 500 swimmers attended. This Christmas themed swim meet offered more than the usual incentives to go fast; medals or ribbons, meet records and recognition. It offered prizes. Some of those prizes rivaled the items in Santa’s sleigh; underwater digital cameras, ipods, speaker docking systems and gift cards to all the...
Thank you so much to all the people who helped make this year's Richmond Rapids Swim Club FASTSWIM swim meet such a great success. We hosted almost 400 swimmers from across BC over 3 days of competition! The swimmers and coaching staff are most appreciative of all the parents and family members who came out to help setup and take down, time, officiate and serve food. A special thank you to Carrie Murray for her help as the meet secretary, the entry process went very smoothly. To Mike Crawford who...
FASTSWIM a huge Success for Rapids Swimmers December 7, 2011 This year’s Richmond Rapids Swim Club hosted FASTSWIM was a huge success for the local club. With almost 400 swimmers in attendance from across British Columbia Watermania Aquatics Centre was a venue for fast swimming. The three day weekend event brought swimmers together from ages 8-25 to compete for prize money and recognition. For Rapids swimmers it was the peak of three months of training, an opportunity to see how far their training had progressed since their last...
December 1, 2011 Last weekend, the Richmond Rapids competed in the Delta Sungod Lower Mainland Regional Competition, held in Richmond, BC. The Rapids regional-level athletes raced for their invitational qualifying times that would allow them to compete in larger meets. The Delta LMR also worked as a practice racing opportunity for this weekend's FastSwim Classic, hosted by the Rapids. As an introductory meet for many of the young Rapids athletes, nerves over previously unraced or otherwise intimidating events were necessarily conquered, a skill required by any swimmer. When "No Time"s...
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Rapids Swimmers Final in Langley November 21, 2011 It was a tough weekend of racing in Langley for Richmond Rapids swimmers but also a great learning experience for all the athletes involved. The two day heats and finals meet was great experience for novice and veteran competitors alike. For the veterans it was a chance to train through a meet, endure some fatigue and gauge where they were in training. For Head Coach Robert Pettifer it was an opportunity to see just how tough his athletes were. “It’s not easy...
Rapids Swimmers Get Opportunity to Compete Against World’s Best November 16, 2011 There was a plethora of swimming talent at this year’s Island Cup in Victoria as some of the big guns from Canadian swimming and upcoming Canadian Olympic team hopefuls dove into the pools for some intense racing. The Richmond Rapids Swim Club sent representatives to the meet in the hopes of seeing and racing some of these talents. Kyle Bower (16), Brandon De Costa (15), Nicolaas Dekker (15), Hau-Li Fan (14), Michael Jakac-Sinclair (14), Keegan Smith (16) and...
Due to a power outage Watermania is closed and we will not have practice or the time trial. Regular practice on Saturday is scheduled until further notice.
