News
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Congratulations to Coach Doug and his wife, Kara, who on Saturday April 3rd at 7:04am were proud to announce the birth of their second daughter weighing in at 8lbs 6 oz, Audrey Lucy Ann Thompson!! Congratulations to the Thompson family!!
This Saturday ( April 3rd ) CBC will be airing LIVE from 2-3pm the finals of the Pan Pacific Trials that are taking place in Montreal. Winners of each event will automatically get selected to be a part of Canada's team that will compete this August at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California. It will also serve as the qualifier for other summer international competitions. The Pan Pacific Championships take place every four years and in 2006 was in Victoria. The Pan Pacific charter nations include Canada, USA, Australia...
On March 13 & 14, the Richmond Rapids competed at the Lower Mainland Championships held in Tsawwassen. The Rapids took as large contingent of swimmers from their Age Group & Regional Development programs . The swimmers competed against a number of teams from across the lower mainland and won the competition by over 1000 points over the second place team. Leading the way for the Rapids with some very strong performances were 13 year olds Brian Leung & Ali Abbasi, 11 year old Melissa Quon, 10 year old Kevin...
The rapids 13-14 boys finished off the second night of finals by crushing the existing provincial record in the 4x50 IM relay. The old provincial record stood at 1:54.44 by UBCD, our boys posted a steller 1:52.86 to break the record by 1.58 seconds 1 RAPID 'A' 1) Brandon De Costa 13 2) Liam Kell 14 3) Jack Hong 14 4) Keegan Smith 14...
The first day of the 2010 SCM provincial championships got off to a flying start when the 13-14 boys smashed the provincial 4x100m freestyle record by over five seconds RAPID 'A' 1) Hong, Jack 14 2) Li, Bill 14 3) Dekker, Nicolaas 14 4) Smith, Keegan 14 1. 26.44 55.20 (55.20)—New Club record 2. 1:21.18 (25.98) 1:50.28 (55.08) 3. 2:16.75 (26.47) 2:46.49 (56.21) 4. 3:12.71 (26.22) 3:42.68 (56.19)
After a short flight to Saskatoon the rapids crew sits down to a late lunch. later in the day we'll head to the pool for a light training session (4000m or so) and then back to the hotel to catch some Olympic highlights and get to bed early.
Torch relay Update: Walter Wu (Rapids Alumni) will be carrying the Olympic Flame from River Rd at the Olympic Oval Sign to: 180-5200 Hollybridge Way at approximately 7:06 pm. If you can make it to the Oval then we encourage everyone to wear their Rapids gear and cheer on Walter for his 300 meter leg of the relay. Walter grew up in Richmond and swam in mutliple Para Olympics and World Championships and broke numerous records along the way. In 1996 in the Atlanta Summer Olympics Walter won 5...
Day 3 at AA's was a great success with Tony Ma and Serena Xue qualiying for AAA's and both winning gild in the 12 & under 200 BR! Serena dominated from start to finish to finish with a time of 3:05. Tony Ma was a stud and won from lane 1 improving 9 seconds for his first ever AAA! Also medaling this afternoon was Madison, liora, and Alex Tsui. A special thanks to our chaperones, John Welsh, Iris Zhou and Jim Jones for all their help and outstanding job! the...
Day 2 of racing at AA champs saw many exciting swims from our team. Whether it was one of our youngest swimmers, in Kevin Ye to our eldest in Sara Lau, our athletes performed very well this evening. Nicole Welsh began the evening with a gold medal performance in the 400 IM. Mackenzie McCord followed that up with a Silver medal in the 13-14 category. Then Mac's big sister Madison finished up the event with a Gold in the 15 & and over category. In the 100 Backstroke, Sara Lau...
