PCS

Another weekend and another fantastic performance by the Silver Tide swimmers. Nadine was on fire with club records in the 200, 800 and 1500 free. Her 1500 was the fastest one ever done by a Silver Tide girl and in doing that she also achieved her first ever Senior National time by 10 seconds. For these efforts she was named one of 3 swimmers of the meet. Also setting a new club record was Karlyn with a fantastic 200 IM where she took control right from the start and did not look back. The 15 and over girls relay team of Rachelle, Julie, Sydney and Karlyn also broke the club record in the 200 FR and were well on there way in the MR as well if not for a little mix up. Other fantastic efforts from the weekend came from butterflier? Erin who decided she was more than a butterflier and achieved her first ever Western cuts in the 400 IM by taking off 20 seconds and her 800 free by taking off well over 30 seconds. These great efforts earned her swimmer of the meet as well. Our 3rd swimmer of the meet was Brendan Elford who achieved his first 13 year old A time in 200 fly and had a number of other great events on his way to a 100% best time weekend. It truly was a magical weekend. Sydney earned new Western times in the 200 and 400 IM. Julie, after signing off on backstroke decided that it ain't so bad with another big best time. Rachelle had a breakthrough in her 100 and 200 free getting her first best times in those events since this time last year. Sarah had a fantastic meet all around and breast stroke is finally her slowest stroke (time wise). Greg is finding new events and is seeing great success. Nicole continued to grow into a very well rounded swimmer with a great 400 IM and Free. And Brayden continued to inch closer and closer to his A time in a number of different freestyle events. Lots of best and great swims by everyone involved. Keep up the great work everyone.

The Magic of Saanich Commonwealth Place was a great thing to experience and many swimmers get to do it all over again in February.

Senior Meet recap

For some of the seniors this was their final meet heading into the Christmas break and they made the best of it. Seeing 73% best times with only a small break. This is just a glimpse of what they should be able to accomplish as we head into a Christmas camp that should have them ready to see results that they couldn't have even imagined by the end of short course season. Nathan took off time in his freestyle like only and age grouper should with huge drops and got his first best time in 100 back since the end of short course last year. Jenny showed some great improvements in her butterfly and got her first PB in 100 Breast of the season. Meagan continued with huge drops in 100 fly by dropping over 1 second again after just doing that at the last meet. Silken had a fantastic backstroke weekend dropping over 1 second in her 100 and 3 in her 200 and Delaney and Zac both qualified for senior champs this weekend too!

The rest of the group is gearing up for the PCS Christmas Cracker this weekend and we saw some great signs that things are falling into place nicely. Erin narrowly missed qualifying for Westerns in 2 events while getting her first best time in 100 fly since the Cracker last year. Nicole was on fire seeing big drops all across the board and making tons of finals and Nadine broke the club record in 800 free while negative splitting her race by over 5 seconds. And on Sunday Sydney was off the wall swimming lots of events very close together in finals and getting best times in every single one. Everyone saw results that should have them very excited about the up coming weekend. Everyone showed some great PRIDE even though they should have been quite fatigued heading into the weekend they did great jobs swimming much faster at night than in the morning. This preperation is fantastic and should have everyone pumped up for what they can accomplish in Victoria.

Plenty more records and best times should be on their way this weekend as we look to finish off the first third of the season in style before heading into a week and a half of testing and a week of R and R.

Thanx for reading

JP Fiset

Another swim meet and another successful weekend from the Silver Tide Swim Club. The meet ran very well with heats and finals for the 13 and overs making for a very challenging finals session for some and timed finals for the 12 and unders. Everyone really saw some very positive results.
To start off I would like to highlight the 5 club records broken at the meet which brings our annual total up to 7 club records. In the 11-12 year old boys 400 MR, 13-14 boys 400 MR, 13-14 girls 400 MR and 800 free, 15-17 girls 400 MR. These were just some of the fabulous swims this past weekend. Congratulations everyone!
As a team we finished 3rd place behind the host Olympian Swim Club and the perenial powerhouse Keyano Swim Club. With 46 swimmers in attendance we definitely made a presence. Including a clean sweep of the boys 13-14 year old relays! And 20 swimmers had 100% best times or only missed a PB in 1 event. We had new age group trials qualifiers in Halle Elford, Lauren V and Calvin Geddie and many other swimmers demonstrated that they are ready to make that jump shortly too like Brooklyn, Matt, Jasmin, Liam, Sierra, Melissa, and Hayley. Delaney and Zac also qualified for Senior Champs.
This has been a great first third of the year as some swimmers get ready to head off to Victoria or compete at 10 and under series and others continue to swim into the Christmas break.
Be sure to congratulate the new record holders if you haven't done so already.

Tuesday mornings

Just a reminder, Tuesday morning practices have been cancelled till the New Year with our reduced training load heading into the holiday break.

JP Fiset Invitational

I hope that you all had a wonderful time at the JP Fiset swim meet hosted by the Silver Tide oh, I mean Olympian swim club. Sorry, with all of our parents working so many shifts, in key positions too, I got a little confused with who hosted the meet this weekend. Thank you parents for stepping up. I am sure that I am not the only one that noticed. You did a great job, who knows maybe next year we'll host our own heats and finals meet. Thank you again for all of your work and support of swimming.