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Rapids Swimmers Have Great Weekend of Racing November 7, 2011 Going to the Vancouver Pacific Dolphins Swim Club’s annual Decathlon Invitational is not like going to the average meet. In this case awards are given for swimmers cumulative time across ten different events with the fastest times winning awards and prize packages. For Richmond Rapids swimmers the event was a chance to test increased fitness, new skills learned and tactics that were just introduced. The coaching staff was extremely pleased with some of the results. For...
Great First Weekend of Racing for 12 & Under Rapids Swimmers October 31, 2011 The Richmond Rapids Swim Club had great showings at three of their developmental meets over the past weekend. Swimmers from the Rapids Swim School competed in their first RSS Mini Meet, the 10 & under squad competed at their first PASS meet and the 12 & unders competed at the SFU/Gators LMR meet at Simon Fraser University. The Rapids Swim School Mini Meet is for learn to swim participants. Children get a chance...
On Thursday, October 20, 2011 the Richmond Rapids gathered for dinner, lots of prizes and to award excellence throughout the swim club. Thank you to our parent volunteers who helped make this evening possible, to our sponsors and Walter Woo at WirelessWave who donated prizes. Congratulations to all our awards winners! Top Swimmer Award (Highest FINA Point Scoring Swim) Nicolaas Dekker - 200 fly LC - 663 pts Most Improved: 10 & under Girl - Amanda McCallum 10 & under Boy - Matthew Crawford 11 & 12 Girl - Jaylene...
Great Weekend in Annacortes October 5, 2011 The purpose this past weekend in Annacortes: to get some experience racing new swimmers in a new pool in a new part of North America. Twenty-five Richmond Rapids attended the annual ThunderBird Invitational in Annacortes, Washington. The result: some great finishes and times. Rapids swimmers achieved top 3 placings in most events, a higher than expected level of fitness, and participated in an amazing meet finishing relay. Medalists for the Rapids were: Brandon Crawford (13) silvers 100IM/200 IM, bronzes...
29th Annual Fall Thunderbird Day 1 report After a short trip across the boarder and little side trip to the local farmers market the Rapids got to work showing our American neighbors what fast swimming looks like. hear is a quick run down of our top 3 performances on day 1 200m-IM Gold Jerry Lui Michael Jakac-Sinclair Nicolass Dekker Silver Brandon Crawford Nathan Muszynski Bronze Tiffany Orr Brandon DeCosta 12 & Over Medley Relay Girls --Bronze Boys --Gold 50m Breaststroke Gold Serena Xue Michael Jakac-Sinclair...
Letter from Bob Jackson Kidsport-Richmond Chapter For the Kidsport Application click here Community Sport Colleagues: Social and economic obstacles can prevent some young people in Richmond from participating in organized sport. The Richmond Chapter of KidSport™ was established in 2007, to serve the community of Richmond, and to help families over come the financial obstacles, such as sport registration fees. We believe that the primary goal of any sport program for youth is for the child to have the to participate in a safe and fun...
Rapids' swimmers Nicholas Huen, Arvin Chua, Matthew Crawford, Steven Zhou, Ryan Murray, Kyle Chan and Richard Rakchtis were selected to the SwimBC 12 & under Regional camp. The camp takes the top 12 & under swimmers (male and female) based on their combined 200 IM and 200 free FINA points scores. The swimmers come together at Watermania for a 2 day regional training camp where they are swam in a variety of swim workouts and dryland training sessions. Top National level swimmers will be in attendance to act as leaders...
Congratulations to Hau-Li Fan, Mike Zhang, Maximillian Schaffler and Mike Jakac-Sinclair who have been selected for this year's BC Provincial Prospects swim camp. Fan was chosen as the IM specialist for 14 year old boys based off his performance at the Canadian Age Group Championships and Jakac-Sinclair was the wildcard. He had the next highest FINA point score in his specialty event. Zhang was chosen as the backstroker for 13 year old boys based on his BC AAA champs races while Maximillian Schaffler was the wildcard spot in his specialty....
This Sunday from 10am to 4pm our team will be running a booth at the Steveston Outdoor Market. Our booth will be near the public parking lot behind the Buck and Ear Pub. We'll have hot dogs and BBQ'd salmon on hand.For our returning members, come out in your Rapids gear an say hi to some of your team mates and coaches. For our new members it will be a great opportunity to meet the coaches and some of our "veteran" parents that will be helping out. See you there,...
