RICHMOND RAPIDS SWIM CLUB

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  To members of the Richmond Rapid Swim club:     In the spirit of the holiday season, the Richmond Rapids Swim Club will be taking part in a canned food drive in conjunction with our annual FastSwim Classic. As a member of the Waves of Giving Project, the swim club is dedicated to assisting the people, and especially families of Richmond who are lacking the basic necessities of life. We are requesting that each Member of the Richmond Rapids Swim Club bring in one can (or more). A collection box...

Dennis Silva

At the LOSC meet this morning Kevin Zheng dropped 15 seconds in the 200 BR in prelims to qualify for age group nationals this summer. Kevin's time: 2:50.4! Way to go Kevin!

  November 11th  Practices are as regularly scheduled   November 20th     All Rapids practices at Watermania are cancelled because of the High School Swimming championships being hosted at Watermania    November 21st     All AGD 1 & 2 and RD 1-3 practices at Watermania are cancelled because of the High School Swimming championships being hosted at Watermania       

Robert Pettifer

  Jack Hong and Nathan Muszynski got off to a flying start on day two of the BC Sr. Circuit going 1 & 2 in the first heat.      Jack Hong  2:19.95 ** New club Record** Nathan Muszynski  2:21.30      

   With the recent publicity surrounding the spread and health risks associated with the H1N1 virus, the BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport has released a fact sheet for sporting organizations.    Click Here for the H1N1 fact sheet   

Robert Pettifer

Marisa got things started early with a personal best in the 200m fly by almost 2 seconds. live results are available at the pacific coast swimming website

      Hi everyone We have revised the gift card fundraiser this year to optimize the benefits derived by the swim club with the amount of effort to order and administer the process. In doing so we have reduced the number of orders to be processed this year to the order that has always been the most popular being the Nov/Dec order cycle. Also please note the following: Orders are due to on or before Nov 14, they will be complied and submitted on Nov 15 & 16. Gift...

Robert Pettifer

Serena Xue had a great 100m breast to qualify for her first AAA champs

  The first issue of the Rapids official newsletter, The Undercurrent is now availble in the Groups and Notices section.  Also availble is Streamline, the Lower Mainland Region’s newsletter.  Streamline is created by parent volunteers that are on the LMR board.    Please take a look as there is great information about swimming in the LMR and BC.

Robert Pettifer

lots of team spirit and fast swimming on the third day of the kisu iron sprint