Age Group Trials this weekend!

Great weekend!

Jasmin and Brooklyn make Age Group Champs.
Lots of best times, finals being made, medals being won, and a club record or two from Olivia Anderson!

Results to be posted soon and a write up to follow.

Westerns

Stay tunned to my blog for the western updates or go to http://www.swimming.ca/liveresults/08SpeedoWest/ for the live results. I believe there is also a live video feed that is starting Friday that you can watch for some fast swimming. From http://www.swimming.ca/ you go to the Westerns link and you can access the video stream from there.

Day 3:
A number of great swims again especially the 200's. Erin and Sarah snuck into the finals with great swims and best times in the 200 Fly and 200 Breast. Sydney narrowly missed the finals in the 200 breast but had a great swim for another best time. In the 200 Back we had a big drop from Karlyn and best times from both Nadine and Sarah. Kyle was just under his best time in the 100 free as well this morning.

Erin was 24th tonight in the 20o Fly and Sarah took off another second to come 22nd.
The 4x 200 Free Relay of Karlyn, Nadine, Rachelle and Sydney.....

Day 2:
A big day for Silver Tide with two Olympic Trial Cuts. One for Rachelle in the 50 Free Swim off and another for Nadine in the 400 Free final.
From Finals:
Rachelle 50 Free 23rd, 50 Fly- Not up yet
Nadine 19th 400 Free 4:23.81

Also Best times from Julie in the 50 free, Karlyn and Sarah in the 200 Im in the heats.

Day 1 Results:
1500 Free: Nadine 8th in 17:24.13 a 4 second best time, Karlyn 31 in 18:12.93
The 50's: All best times!
Fly- Rachelle is going in 16th to tommorrows final with a time of 29.33
Back- Julie 49th with 31.86
Breast- Sydney 46th with 35.86

Also Mike Clark achieved his first National time in the 800 Free!

Freezing Cold, Fast Swimming and Card Games

Grande Prairie brought many different forms of excitement! Cards, the hotel pool and all sorts of naughty moves made going the wrong way on the waterslide, the car rides and lastly Silver Tides fast moves in the pool. You had to be there to understand! So for those of you who did not attend here is a short recap:

• 3 club records broken by the Schamber family, Rebecca broke the 50 and 200 free 8 and under club records and Ryan broke the 400 IM club record
• We tried to get Ryan to swim up ages but were just not aloud. She swam great with the big boys but his times were exhibition and more importantly he was most improved at speed by the end of the meet. Also he made the mature decision to swim up rather than win all the 10 and under events!
• Aggregates were won by Jenny (15 and over), Rebecca (10 and under), Brendan (11/12) with many others coming very close.
• There were many battles on the table throughout the weekend that put young versus old, and depending on whom you ask it went either way.
• 100% best times by Brendan and 3 new A Times.
• It was Brea's first meet of the season and she showed that she is on her way back and looked like she had a great time doing so.
• Halle was battling sickness throughout the weekend but pulled out some great swims in the 200 Im, 100 Back and 50 Fly and should be looking forward to more success at B's.
• Jenny may be wishing Ryan was a few years older. Too bad he is 10! She had a great meet with best times in the 200 Im, 100 free and 100 Breast. I think she made Ryans day with the bag she gave him from her aggregate win. Thanks!
• Megan started the meet off with a 25 second drop in her 400 free and ended it with a great 100 fly best time.
• Whatever Kevin says when he is behind the blocks works! 100% best times! A 100 fly A time! Jumping around and talking to himself gets him swimming fast. I think that he should teach this to the rest of the group who like to stand still before their races, but I think the addiction to pop though should stop soon!
• Nicole was the lone representative from Junior development, and she represented very well! 5 Best times and a lot of smiles. Flip turns and underwater pulls, Chelby should be proud.
• Robyn had a great meet, swimming her first 400 Im in 6:19, along with breaking the 3:00 mark in the 200Im is turning into a very well rounded swimmer. She had 5 out of 6 best times and a few new B times as well and is creeping up on the boys little by little.
• Nicole was a racer at night with big drops in the 100 and 50 free and also breaking 2:40 for the 200 IM.
• Rebecca had a great meet with all her long events seeing big drops. Under 3:00 in the 200 free and under 2:30 in the 200 IM. She will be looking to make some finals at A's

Also I would like to admit that my DS skills improved over the weekend thanks to Rebecca and Halle handily beating me on the car ride up.