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Day 2 at the BC AA provincial Championship was another impressive day for our athletes! After a slow start in the 100 freestyle our swimmers stepped up and got on a roll in the following events performing very well by acheiving many life time personal bests and qualifying for finals. Ada Zhang and Mackenzie McCord and Lawrence Man started in it off in the 200 Breaststroke's by getting into finals.Their success lead to even more of our swimmers earning second swim oppurtuniites in the 100 Butterfly and 400 FR. Stepping up large in...
It was another exciting day for the Rapids down in Washington State. Here are some of our highlight swims Entry time New PB Yasuda, Marisa 50m Fly 30.27 30.06 (new Club record) Yasuda, Marisa 200m IM 2:39.29 2:37.12 Hong, Jack 200m IM 2:23.68 2:20.90 Yeh, Patrick 200m IM 2:33.86 2:32.63...
The First Day of the West Coast Aquatics invitational was a huge success for the first wave of the Rapids crew. With 4 swimmers at Day 1 of the meet we had 8 PB’s, 3 swims moving onto the Semi’s of the 50m Stroke eliminator’s, a new Age Group National time and one new Club Record. Day 1 Itinerary: 5:30AM: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, finish packing 6:15AM: Drive to Watermania 6:30AM: pile in Rob’s Car and head down to Federal Way 1 pit...
Surrey, BC - Day 1 of the BC AA Long Course Provincial Championships began today and our team got off to a great start. At the conclusion of prelimainaries, Selina Zhuo dominated the girls 11 & under 800 Freestyle by winning the gold by 26 seconds! It was also a personal best time by 50 seconds! With numerous personal best time performances in the morning session by our swimmers lead to the majority of them qualifying for finals this evening Getting us started tonight in the first event of finals and earning the Silver medal in...
Congratulations to Magnus Batara for qualifying for the BC Summer Games team. Magnus in his first full season competing as a Rapid, has performed extremely well. Magnus will be joining 6 other Rapids to represent Zone 4 this summer in Langley. Magnus will also be competing in the BC AAA Championships July 8-11th in Kamloops. Way to go Magnus!
6 Rapids Swimmers have qualified to represent Zone 4 at the 2010 BC Summer Games! The Rapids swimmers who are all in our Provincial Age Group Program, will be competing in Langley July 23-25th. The Zone 4 team is based on 12 -14 year olds that reside in Richmond, The City of Burnaby and the District of Delta. 10 Boys and 10 Girls were selected from the Hyack Swim Club and Delta Sungods, Wayland, & Winskill Dolphins to make up the Zone 4 team. The swimmers were selected based on...
This morning at the Mel Zajac International swim meet at UBC, Rapids swimmers set a new 13-14 year old boys provincial and National Age Group Record in the 800 Freestyle Relay! The team of Bill Li, Nicolaas Dekker, Keegan Smith and Brandon DeCosta swam their way to a time of 8:24.58. Our boys were able to hold off the UBC Dolphins team comprised of swimmers from Winskill Dolphins and Vancouver Pacific Doplphins to earn the record. Their time smashed the previous BC & Canadian record of 8:32.82 held by the Vancouver Pacific...
The Richmond Rapids are proud to annouce that we will once again be running a summer program. In the past few years the Rapids Summer program has been responsible for helping young athletes improve their swimming skills and be able to progress to higher levels in the Richmond Rapids as well as the local community swim programs. It has also introduced new swimmers to the sport and some of these swimmers have even gone on to break some of our club records and medal at BC AA & AAA Provincial...
On May 22nd, the Hyack Swim Club will be hosting a "Stroke & Turn" Officials Clinic. Any parents that would like to take this clinic please email our officials director, Jennifer McCord at [email protected] to sign up. Parents must have taken the "timers" clinic first. Parents may earn 2 Parent Participation Points for attending the clinic. For more details click here. Date: Saturday May 22, 2010 Time: 2:30 PM to approx 3:45 pm Where: Centennial Community Centre ( next to the Canada Games Pool ) 65 East 6th...
This weekend will be a busy & exciting weekend for the Rapids Provincial and National swimmers. Competing at UBC in the Mies Schootman Invitational is the enire PAG and National programs. This is the first long course meet of the year for many of the kids and they look to be in fine form already with many personal best times after this afternoon's racing. The rest of the weekend looks very promising for our team. Click here for live results. In Kamloops, Brandon DeCosta (13) and Nicolaas Dekker (14) are taking part...
