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Rapids Welcome Back BBQ Friday, Sept 11th, 4pm -7pm (Rain or Shine) Steveston pool Everyone Is Welcome To come! The Rapids will provided The Burgers or hotdog , veggies, chips & juice (please RSVP the office with your preference) Cost $5 Water Polo Kick ball Games Face painting Call Wendy Berry if you have a grill we can use 778-808-9305
The final Swim News Magazine's Tiny Olympic Prospects results for the 2008-2010 season are now posted. Many of our youngest swimmers took part and performed very well. Swimmers times were taken from time trials done in practice back in June as well as the final mini meet of the season. Leading the way for the Rapids was Matthew Crawford, Kevin Ye, & Aleckxeis Aficionado! Matthew placed 1st in the the 200 FR & 100 IM events for 7 & under boys! Kevin was 2nd in the 200 Im & 800 FR events...
UPDATE September & October Steveston & Minoru pool schedule for all Watermania groups Watermania Aquatic Centre will be shut down for regular maintenance from September 14th to October 4th. Accordingly, the Richmond Rapids Swim groups that normally train out of the Watermania facility will begin training at the Steveston Outdoor Pool located at 4151 Moncton Street, Richmond, BC V7E 3A8 & Minoru pool located at 7560 Minoru Gate Richmond, B.C. V6Y 1R9 Age Group Development Monday to Friday from the 8th to...
Two more world records for Canada at British Grand Prix August, 09, 2009 LEEDS England – Canada broke the world record in both the men’s and women’s 4X100 medley relays on Sunday to conclude the British Grand Prix swimming competition. Overall this week Canadian swimmers broke four world records and set seven Commonwealth marks. In the women’s 4X100 medley relay, Canada clocked three minutes and 49.45 seconds to break the world record of 3:51.36 set by the U.S., last year. Swimming for Canada was Katie Murdoch of Calgary, Audrey Lacroix...
Annamay Pierse and men’s 4X200 freestyle relay break World Records LEEDS, England – Annamay Pierse of Vancouver and Canada’s men’s 4X200 freestyle relay broke world short course records on Friday at the British Grand Prix swimming competition. In the men’s 4X200 freestyle relay, the Canadians clocked 6:51.05 to smash the previous mark of 6:52.66 set by Australia in 2007. The Canadian relay team swimmers were Colin Russell of Oakville, Ont., Stefan Hirniak of Victoria, Brent Hayden of Vancouver and Joel Greenshields of Airdrie, Alta. ‘’We had our sight sets on...
For Swim Parents; “The Big Deal About SwimSuits ” by John Leonard, Executive Director, American Swimming Coaches Association. Over the past 18 months, the swimming world has been a frenzy of controversy over the emergence of technology in swimsuits. At the recent World Championships in Rome, the constant and overwhelming refrain about suits, echoed the volume and intensity of the last time we were in Rome for a World Championships, when the topic was doping....drugs distorting our sport...in 1994. Fifteen years later, the emotional topic was the new high tech...
On Tuesday, the FINA Bureau released the following decisions regarding the use of high-tech suits in FINA competitions. FINA RULING: July 28, 2009 (From a FINA press release) Rome (ITA), July 28, 2009 – On its first meeting held today in Rome (ITA), the 2009-2013 FINA Bureau fully complied with the decision of the FINA Congress, held on July 24, 2009 related with the procedure concerning swimwear approval. As it was also decided by the Congress, these rules are now By-Laws rules, which allow the Bureau to...
