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Kamloops, BC This past weekend at the Western Canada Games, the Rapids own Nicolaas Dekker capped off the summer with some outstanding perfomances. The competition provided some very fast swimming with a few competitors breaking provincial records and even a National age group record. Nic was one of 8 boys, 17 years old and younger to be selecetd to represent BC at the Games. Being one of the youngest competitors on the boys side, Nic was able to medal in each event he swam and also help his Team BC...
Results from day four of age group nationals in Quebec Day four was a very good day for our swimmers and while we didn’t have any medals we had a number of great performances We had six personal bests, two final swims and two club records 100m Backstroke Celine Hong 1:07.47 5th (PB, Club record) 50m Backstroke Celine Hong 32.76 (PB, Club record) 200m Breaststroke Hau-Li Fan 2:45.89 10th Nathan Muszynski 2:38.11 (PB by almost 9 seconds!) 200m Free Kyle Bower 2:08.71 (PB by...
Saving the best for last, day five of age group nationals was the best yet for the Richmond Rapids swim club. On our last day competing in Montreal we had thirteen personal bests, six final swims, three club records one Bronze medal and one Gold Medal. 200m IM Backstroke Celine Hong 2:26.07 Bronze medal (PB, Club record) Nicolaas Dekker 2:12.80 4th Hau-Li Fan 2:22.03 7th Nathan Muszynski 2:15.77 10th (PB by over 5 seconds) Brandon Crawford 2:36.00 (PB) Liam Kell 2:22.99 (PB) Patrick Kell 2:51.01 (PB) 50m...
Another day is over and another medal earned by the Rapids age group national squad. We had six personal bests, three final swims, two club records and one silver medal! 400m IM (Thursday) Nathan Muszynski 4:49.24 (PB by a mind boggling 12 seconds!!) 100m Breast Liam Kell 8th 1:09.95 (PB, Club Record) 200m Fly Hau-Li Fan 2:23.22 8th (|PB) Nicolaas Dekker SILVER 2:08.12 (PB, Senior National Time Standard) Kyle Bower 2:21.54 (PB) Cathy Ye 2:31.38 (PB, Club Record) 50m Free Brandon DeCosta 26.50 (PB)...
Results from day two to age group nationals It was another great day for the Rapids program Seven personal bests, three final swims, two club records and one bronze medals 100m Free Brandon de Costa 55.78 (PB) 400m IM Hau-Li Fan 4:54.09 BRONZE (|PB, club record) Nicolaas Dekker 4:44.26 4th Crawford Brandon 5:30.53 (PB) Leo Hong 5:48.52 (PB) 50m Back Jeanelle Mae Aldaba 33.42 (PB) Brandon de Costa 28.82 6th (PB, Club Record)
The Rapids started out the first day of Age Group Nationals in Montreal in fine form. We had 11 best times, 5 swims in Finals, two club records, and one Bronze medal 100m Fly: Nicolaas Dekker 7th 58.65 (PB) Liam Kell 1:02.50 (PB) Brandon Crawford 1:08.32 (PB) Patrick Kell 1:18.86 (PB) 200m Back: Celine Hong 5th 2:25.15 (PB, Club Record) Nathan Muszynski 8th 2:14.17 (PB) Brandon de Costa 2:19.59 (PB) 50m Breast: Kell Liam 8th 31.92 (PB, Club Record) Jakac-Sinclair Michael 35.43 (PB) Tiffany Orr 36.13...
From June 24th to 26th, 16 Rapids traveled to Kelowna for the BC AA Long Course Championships. " AA's" is the start of the the long course Championship season and what a start our team had! Leading the way for our team and also qualifying for the BC AAA Championships this week in Victoria were Austin Berry and Richard Rackchtis. These two young men stepped up and in a combined 13 events placed no worse than 6th overall in the 11 & under age group! The team faced some adversity...
In April and this past weekend the Rapids had a numer of swimmers chosen to participate in the Swim BC 12 & under regional camps. The swimmers were chosen amongst other swimmers 12 years old and younger from all over the lower mainland based on their performances this season in the 200 FR and 200 IM. In April, Max Schaffler, Kevin Ye, Tony Ma and Samantha Gosel were selected. This past weekend Austin Berry, Arvin Chua, Matthew Crawford, Ada Zhang, Melissa Quon, Selina Zhou, Steven Zhou, Ryan Murray, Kyle Chan, ...
Kyle Bower from the National Development group got the Rapids off to a great start at the hyack youth cup this weekend. Kyle dropped 3 seconds off his PB in the 200m fly (2:22.84) to qualify for this summers Age Group National Championships
Last weekend, 550 swimmers descended on Watermania to compete in what was the largest West Coast Open in Rapids history, making WCO the third largest meet in BC of the year and the largest in the LMR. With such a large stage to show off, the Rapids produced a lot of best times, top finishes, five of the 45 new meet records, and four new team records. Top Finishes: 1st Place Finishes – 10 2nd Place Finishes – 12 3rd Place Finishes - 19 Meet Records Jeanelle Aldaba (50 Fly), Celine...
