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Published by the American Swimming Coaches Association Smile When it Hurts by LisaDiane Mercado Etheredge Several weeks ago Billy and I began attending Body Pump classes at Gold's Gym. A couple of our teachers mentioned that they enjoyed having me in class because I smiled all the time. One of the teachers even noted that I seemed to smile more during the harder parts of the workout. After hearing these observations, I began thinking about why I smiled during Body Pump classes. The most obvious reason is that I enjoy...
The Live results section of the Website has been updated to include links for the following competitions where the Rapids are racing: Paul Bergen International PCS Christmas Cracker
Did you know that you can earn BC school credits for achieving certain performance Swim BC Provincial and SNC National Standards? Well you can! The BC High School External Sports Credit program began in 1997. Swimmers can earn credits for Athlete 10 just by achieving a BC 15 & over AAA time. For Athlete 11 & 12, swimmers must achieve a National standard. For more information on this program and how to get the Athlete 10, 11, or 12 credit, go to http://swimbc.ca/high-school-credit/. This is a great incentive for all...
Last weekend, the Richmond Rapids travel to Victoria to compete in the Island Cup, a meet that regularly attracts fast mid-season swimming. This year was no different. A small but strong Rapids age group team was up against some of the best in the province, including a large and competitive team from Oregon and some local Olympians. As a part of their training regimen, 1500m Olympic Silver Medalist Ryan Cochrane and Canadian Olympian Julia Wilkinson raced in Friday and Saturday prelim sessions, and due to the magic of circle...
This last weekend at UBC, the Richmond Rapids competed at the VPSC Decathalon. Though the 200 Freestyle was struck from the event list, the Rapids were able to compress their racing ferocity into only 9 events. "The main focus here was to race as hard as we could with the best skills we have," said Head Age Group Coach Dennis Silva. "We haven't been on a full schedule since we've been at Steveston. We were underdogs, but we weren't going to let little setbacks like that affect our racing." And...
From Dave McBride (aquatic and arena services manager) A quick update Major meeting with consultants and project manager took place earlier today. Air and water testing has been completed, and we are hoping to receive results back tomorrow. We started draining the competition pool early this morning. Draining to be complete overnight. The company that applied the new coating will be pressure washing and scrubbing the pool basin tomorrow, under the supervision of project manager. When the cleaning is complete, the basin will then be inspected by an...
Please click here to download the Steveston practice schedule for all groups. This schedule will be in effect from Wednesday, Oct. 17 to Friday, Oct. 19. The schedule for the week of Oct 22 will be posted on Saturday. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
**as posted on the Swim BC Web site** The new 2012-2013 national standards have now been posted on the Swimming Canada website. A link listed at the bottom of the page includes both a copy of the new times, as well as an overview of how Swimming Canada establishes the times. This year there is a "process/rationale" document that is included as well - there is some important information there on entry and qualification limits which are significant changes from past years. The new standards are a reflection of...
