2012 HTO Thetis Lake Open Water Swim

photo credit: Ondine Easson

Congratulations to everyone from Island Swimming who made it out to the 2012 HTO Thetis Lake Open Water Swim this past weekend, in support of MS. This is a great event that Island Swimming likes to support each year.

The event offers 4 different race distances to choose from; 800m, 1500m, 3k and 5k. In the 800m event, Alexa Bryant of Island Swimming was first overall and Caileigh Hunt-St.Louis was third. Hamish Babin finished third overall in the 1500m distance and Coach Avila Rhodes finished third in the women's 5k race. Island Swimming also had 3 para swimmers take part this year which is very impressive! Ann Marie Gatland placed 10th in the 800m, Peter Havers swam the 1500m and placed 25th and Drew Sabourin finished third in the men's 5k event.

Congratulations everyone!

Complete results here

London, July 29th

Riding the rail system here is fairly easy, we have our route figured out to the Olympic park and to Trafalgar Square where Canada House is. We were there last night watching finals. Brittany MacLean had an awesome swim in prelims, new Canadian record, she was up against the veterans and swam her heart out in the finals.
Can you believe a swim-off in the Olympics! Well, Tera Van Beilen swam well against the Jamaican in the 100m breast swim-off, but was edged out to 9th spot,  also Julia Wilkinson came 9th in her 100 back. Good job as well to Blake Worsley, Sinead Russel, Charles Francis, Jillian Tyler, Brent Hayden, Collin Russell, Richard Hortness and Thomas Gossland.


We have been out and about to see a few sights here.If you are wondering what that shape is in one of the pictures we posted, it is called the Orbit. It is a sculpture in Olympic Park, you can walk up the stairs for a view, we will try that when we get back into the park to see prelims tomorrow. Finn and I went onto the London Eye on Friday, great view from up there, no line ups either.

Canadian Age Group Championship Top 8 Results for Island Swimming

Summary of Island Swimming finalist's results at the Canadian Age Group Championships. Congratulations swimmers.

Sunday - Final Results

400 Free
Erin Lawrance -5th



Saturday - Final Results

200 breast
Cassandra Purdon -4th

200 Free
Erin Lawrance - 4th
Taylor Padington - 7th



Friday - Final Results

100 breast
Rebecca Langlois - 7th
Cassandra Purdon - 8th

200 Fly
Heidi Bradley - 6th

50 Free
Erin Lawrance - 8th

800 Free
Taylor Padington - Bronze
Erin Lawrance - 5th




Thursday - Final Results

100 Free
Taylor Padington - 4th

50 Back
August Horeth - 6th
Heidi Bradley - 8th



Wednesday - Final Results

100 Fly
Erin Lawrance - 6th

200 Back
Peter Inches - 5th

July 28th, London 2012 prelims

The first day of swimming races, and I must say the atmosphere was incredible. Everyone cheering for everyone, no matter if you were from Great Britain or Tonga, we would cheer. There were some huge upsets and amazing happenings in the prelims. Park Tae Hwan got disqualified in the 400 free, he has appealed but at this point I don't know if he won it or not. But on better note for our Canadian athletes, right now in finals we have Ryan in the 400 free, Scott Dickens in the 100 breast semi final and now it seems that Katerine Savard is in the 100 fly semi final. Stephanie Horner, Victoria Poon, Julia Wilkinson, Samantha Cheverton, Heather Maclean and Alec Page all did well in their races too. There were amazing accomplishments from the all the athletes. There was a Olympic Record set this morning from Dana Vollmer from the USA with a time of 56.25 in the 100 fly. We scored some tickets for tonight's finals should be good.

Results on the final day of Summer Nationals

800 Free
Taylor Padington - 10th

50 Free
Taylor Padington - 20th

200 Breast
Cassandra Purdon- 19th

1500 Free
Eric Hedlin - Silver
Will Brothers - Bronze
Peter Brothers - 4th

Congruatulations to all the Island Swimming athletes and coaches. It was a great meet. Island Swimming finished 4th overall.

Results on final day of BC Summer Games

More medals and top 8 finishes today at the final day of BC Games.

800 Free
Issac Ross - GOLD
Brooke Devine - 5th

1500 Free
Aiden Longcroft-Harris - 7th

Zone 6 Girls relays 200 medley - GOLD
Alexa Bryant, Haley Bennett, Maria de Leeuw and Joanna Redenbach

Zone 6 Girls relays 200 Free - GOLD
Alexa Bryant, Haley Bennett, Joanna Redenbach and Kara Wilson

Zone 6 won the BC Summer Games Swim Meet by 25 points.

Finals on Day three of Summer Nationals

400 Free
Jeremy Bagshaw - Gold
Keegan Zanatta - 4th
Will Brothers - 9th
Peter Brothers - 10th
Taylor Padington - 11th (won the B final with best time!)
Eric Hedlin - 11th

100 Fly
Heidi Bradley - 18th

200 Back
Stefanie Schmidt - 7th

200 Back
Peter Brothers - 14th

Men's 4x100 Free Relay team
Stefan Hirniak, Jeremy Bagshaw, Keegan Zanatta & Peter Brothers. Gold (tied for 1st)

LIVE RESULTS or Watch finals Live on SWIMCAN WEB TV starting at 5pm PST each night!

Saturday at BC Summer Games

Here are the results from finals at the BC Summer Games today, representing Zone 6.

400 Free from timed final in the morning
Aiden Longcroft-Harris - 4th
Alexa Bryant - 5th
Brooke Devine - 6th

100 Fly
Issac Ross - 7th

200 IM
Issac Ross - Bronze
Brooke Devine - 8th

100 Back
Issac Ross - 8th

100 Free
Alexa Bryant - Bronze

LIVE RESULTS

Island Swimming athletes in triathlon at BC Summer Games

photo credit: Ondine Easson L-R Farisha Arensen, Holly Henry, Abby Speirs

Congratulations to all the Island Swimming athletes that represented Zone 6 in the triathlon event today at the BC Summer Games. Holly Henry took the gold, Farisha Arensen was second and Abby Speirs of Island/Piranhas finished 3rd overall. Well done girls. The boys also did well; Hamish Babin finished 5th, Sam Ogden, who was one of the youngest competitors in triathlon, was 8th.

In finals Day 2 Summer Nationals

Here is the finals results in Edmonton tonight. Sorry no photos yet.

100 Free - B Final
Taylor Padington - 19th
Jeremy Bagshaw - 11th
Keegan Zanattta - 16th

400 IM - A Final
Will Brothers - 5th

400 IM - B Final
Eric Hedlin - 12th

4x200 FR Relay
Jeremy Bagshaw, Stefan Hirniak, Keegan Zanatta, Peter Brothers - GOLD

LIVE RESULTS or Watch finals Live on SWIMCAN WEB TV starting at 5pm PST tonight!

In Friday finals at BC Summer Games

Some great swimming today from our Island Swimming athletes representing Zone 6. These are the Island Swimmer results in finals today.

4OO IM (Timed final in morning)
Issac Ross - Bronze

50 Free
Alexa Bryant - 4th

200 Fly
Issac Ross - Bronze

200 Free
Brooke Devine - 7th

LIVE RESULTS

3 Island Swimming athletes on the podium on Day 1 of Summer Nationals

3 Island Swimmers got themselves on the podium tonight. Great job everyone. The meet continues tomorrow. LIVE RESULTS

800 Free
Eric Hedlin - Silver
Will Brothers - Bronze


200 Free
Jeremy Bagshaw - Bronze
Stefan Hirniak - 4th
Keegan Zanatta - 7th
Peter Brothers - 9th
Taylor Padington -10th
Eric Hedlin - 20th

In finals on Day 1 of Summer Nationals

It is no easy feat to make finals at a Canadian Senior National Championship. Congratulations to the following swimmers. Show your support and watch them swim live tonight on SWIMCAN WEB TV starting at 5pm PST tonight! Go Island!

200 Free - A Final
Taylor Padington
Jeremy Bagshaw
Stefan Hirniak
Keegan Zanattta
Peter Brothers

200 Free - B Final
Eric Hedlin

100 back - B Final
Jeremy Bagshaw

200 Fly - B Final
Keegan Zanatta

800 Free - A Final
Will Brothers
Eric Hedlin

LIVE RESULTS or Watch finals Live on SWIMCAN WEB TV starting at 5pm PST tonight!

Results (Top 3) from Moses Lake

Ivan Rincon has reported that Island Swimming was sitting in 5th at the end of the Friday.

Unfortunately there are no Live Results for this meet but Ivan has kindly provided a list of the Top 3 finishers so far from Island Swimming according to results posted at the event...

400 Free Girls 13-14
Kayla Cooper 1st

200 IM Girls 13-14
Carolyn Dahl 1st
Brooke Devine 2nd

400 IM Boys 13-14
Roberto Fedrigo 3rd

400 Free Boys 13-14
Jacob Beyak 3rd

400 Free Boys 15 and over
Nic Sunderland-Baker 3rd

200 IM Boys 15 and over
Finn Page 2nd

100 Breast 10 and under
Seth Baker 3rd

100 Breast Boys 13-14
Roberto Fedrigo 2nd
Erik Harper 3rd

100 Breast Boys 15 and over
Finn Page 2nd

Girls 200 Back 13-14
Carolyn Dahl 2nd

Boys 100 Breast 15 and Over
Finn Page 2nd

Boys 100 Fly 15 and over
Finn Page 3rd

Sunday...

Girls 13-14 200 Free
Brooke Devine 2nd
Kayla Cooper 3rd

Boys 15 and over 200 Free
Finn Page 1st

Boys 15 and over 200 Fly
Finn Page 1st

Girls 13-14 100 back
Carolyn Dahl 3rd

Girls 13-14 200 breast
Brooke Devine 3rd

Boys 13-14 200 breast
Roberto Fedrigo 2nd
Erik Harper 3rd

Boys 15 and over 200 breast
Finn Page 1st

Island Swimming at Moses lake

The competition is underway at Sizzlin Summer Moses Lake Swim Meet in Washington.

We will be updating our Moses Lake Photo Album throughout the weekend thanks to Ivan Rincon.

Six Island Swimming athletes earn a medal at the 2012 BC Open Water Championships.

Full results will likely not be published until Thursday afternoon but our inside source, (Coach Cindy) has provided a list of Island Swimming medallists. Six Island swimmers earned a medal in their age groups as follows;

Jessie Ogden - GOLD

Erin Lawrance - SILVER

Finn Page - SILVER

Sam Wohlgemuth - SILVER

Sam Ogden - BRONZE

Nick Sunderland-Baker - BRONZE

Congratulations swimmers!

Good luck to Island Swimming Athletes Competing in the BC Open Water Championships

Good luck to all the Island Swimming athletes braving the open water swim today in Abbotsford despite the warning sign. As pictured above with Coach Cindy (l-r), Sam Ogden, Aiden Longcroft-Harris, Sam Wohlgemuth, Finn Page, Erin Lawrance, Molly Heaney-Corns, Jeremy Lynn, Jessie Ogden & Nick Sunderland-Baker.

Meet Information

Island Swimming finishes 2nd overall at 2012 TAS BC AAA LC Championships

What a fantastic come back! Island Swimming managed to finish 2nd overall in the team standings despite getting off to a slow start and having a few of our point scorers (Keegan, Eric & Aimeson) at the Canada Cup in Montreal. Congratulations to all the athletes! Good luck to all the open water swimmers competing tomorrow as the rest head home tonight. Here is a summary of the final night in the pool.

200 Fly
Lauren McMillan - 7th
Heidi Bradley - 6th
Noah Charlton - 5th
Finn Page - 6th

100 Back
Zoe Hunt-St.Louis - 7th
August Horeth - GOLD
Stefanie Schmidt - GOLD
Heidi Bradley - BRONZE
Sophia Borchers - 8th
Peter Brothers - GOLD
Peter Inches - 6th
Ian Schoeddert - 7th


400 Free
Erin Lawrance - GOLD
Alexa Bryant - 6th
Cassandra Purdon - 4th
Sarah Mabee-Hall - SILVER
Taylor Padington - Silver
Jessie Ogden - 6th
Kirah Monks - 8th
Aiden Longcroft-Harris - 7th
Sam Ogden - 8th
Luke Polson - BRONZE
Peter Brothers - GOLD
Finn Page - SILVER
Peter Inches - BRONZE

Girls 14&U 4x50 Medley Relay
Z Hunt-st.Louis, C Purdon, M Powell, A Bryant - 4th

Boys 14&U 4x50 Medley Relay
A Horeth, R Fedrigo, I Ross, L Polson - 7th

Girls 15&O 4x50 Medley Relay
H Bradley, R Langlois, T Padington, C Chapman - SILVER
S Schmidt, K McEvoy, L McMillan, S Mabee-Hall - 5th

Island Swimming athletes in finals on the last day of the BC AAA Championships

Island Swimming has 20 athletes going through to finals tonight at the BC LC AAA Championships in Richmond. Congratulations swimmers! Let's go Island!

200 Fly
Lauren McMillan
Heidi Bradley
Noah Charlton
Finn Page

100 Back
Zoe Hunt-st.Louis
August Horeth
Stefanie Schmidt
Heidi Bradley
Sophia Borchers
Peter Brothers
Ian Schoeddert
Peter Inches

400 Free
Erin Lawrance
Cassandra Purdon
Sarah Mabee-Hall
Taylor Padington
Luke Polson
Peter Brothers
Finn Page
Peter Inches

Island Swimming results in finals on Day 3 of BC AAA LC Championships

Great job tonight Island Swimming. At the beginning of finals we found ourselves moving up in the team rankings but fell off later in the evening, which put us back into 3rd place overall. We are going to have to really bring it tomorrow to remain in the top 3. Here are the results...

15 & Over 800 free
Sarah Mabee-Hall - SILVER
Stefanie Schmidt - SILVER
Jessie Odgen - 4th
Kirah Monks - 7th

15 & Over 1500 free
Finn Page - SILVER
Sam Wohlegmuth - 6th

100 Free
Erin Lawrance - GOLD
Alexa Bryant - 7th
Chloe Chapman - SILVER
Sarah Mabee-Hall- 6th
Taylor Padington - GOLD
Kirah Monks - 8th
Luke Polson - 4th
Peter Inches - 4th
Noah Charlton - 6th

100 Free PARA Multi Class
Jana Murphy - GOLD
Brianna Nelson - SILVER
Peter Havers - 6th

200 IM
Erin Lawrance - SILVER
Cassandra Purdon - 4th
Lauren McMillan - 7th

100 Breast
Cassandra Purdon - GOLD
Lauren McMillan - BRONZE
Katie McEvoy - 4th

100 Breast PARA Multi Class
Jana Murphy - GOLD
Brianna Nelson - BRONZE
Nerissa Zelych - 5th
Peter Havers - 6th

14 & Under Boys 4x200 free relay
A Longcroft-Harris, I Ross, S Ogden, L Polson - 7th

15 & Over Boys 4x200 free relay
P Brothers, P Inches, N Sunderland-Baker, N Charlton - 5th

Island Swimming in finals on Day 3 of the BC AAA Championships

Despite a few just missing finals, Island Swimming has 17 athletes going through to finals on Day 3 of the BC LC AAA Championships in Richmond. Great job everyone! Let's go Island!

15 & Over 800 free
Stefanie Schmidt
Kirah Monks
Sarah Mabee-Hall

15 & Over 1500 free
Finn Page

100 Free
Erin Lawrance
Alexa Bryant
Chloe Chapman
Sarah Mabee-Hall
Taylor Padington
Kirah Monks
Luke Polson
Peter Inches
Noah Charlton

100 Free PARA Multi Class
Peter Havers

200 IM
Erin Lawrance
Cassandra Purdon
Lauren McMillan

100 Breast
Cassandra Purdon
Lauren McMillan
Katie McEvoy

100 Breast PARA Multi Class
Jana Murphy
Brianna Nelson
Nerissa Zelych
Peter Havers

Island Swimming results on Day 2 of the BC AAA Championships

More great performances from Island in finals on Day 2 of the BC AAA LC Championships. Great enough to help us climb into 3rd place in the team rankings at the end of Day 2. Great job swimmers! Let's keep the momentum going.

14 & Under 800 free
Madison Powell - 8th
Sam Odgen - 4th
Aiden Longcroft-Harris - 5th
Ankit Jayant - 8th

200 Back
Zoe Hunt-St.Louis - 8th
August Horeth - BRONZE
Chloe Chapman - 8th
Stefanie Schmidt - GOLD
Heidi Bradley - 5th
Sophia Borchers - 6th
Peter Brothers - SILVER
Peter Inches - BRONZE

100 Back PARA Multi Class
Jana Murphy - GOLD
Brianna Nelson - SILVER
Nerissa Zelych - 5th

50 Free
Erin Lawrance - BRONZE
Alexa Bryant - 4th
August Horeth - 7th
Chloe Chapman - 4th
Taylor Padington - SILVER
Luke Polson - 5th

50 Free PARA Multi Class
Jana Murphy - GOLD
Brianna Nelson - SILVER
Nerissa Zelych - 5th
Peter Havers - 6th

400 IM
Cassandra Purdon - 5th
Roberto Fedrigo - 8th
Lauren McMillan - BRONZE
Finn Page - GOLD
Noah Charlton - 5th

14 & Under 4x200 Free Relay
M Powell, M Heaney-Corns, E Lawrance, C Purdon - BRONZE

15 & Over 4x200 free Relay
T Padington, S Mabee-Hall, K Monks, S Schmidt - GOLD (Meet Record!)

Island Swimming in finals on Day 2 of BC AAA LC Championships

Island Swimming has 19 athletes going through to finals tonight at the BC LC AAA Championships in Richmond. Great job everyone! Let's go Island!

14 & Under 800 free
Madison Powell

200 Back
Zoe Hunt-St.Louis
August Horeth
Chloe Chapman
Stefanie Schmidt
Sophia Borchers
Heidi Bradley
Peter Brothers
Peter Inches

100 Back PARA Multi Class
Jana Murphy
Brianna Nelson
Nerissa Zelych

50 Free
Erin Lawrance
Alexa Bryant
August Horeth
Chloe Chapman
Taylor Padington
Luke Polson

50 Free PARA Multi Class
Jana Murphy
Brianna Nelson
Nerissa Zelych
Peter Havers

400 IM
Lauren McMillan
Finn Page

Island Swimming results on Day 1 of the BC AAA Championships

Some great performances from Island in the finals tonight! We had many swimmers on the podium. Congratulations to all of our finalists.

12 & Under 800 free
Erin Lawrance - BRONZE

200 Free
Erin lawrance - SILVER
Sam Ogden - 8th
Sarah Mabee-Hall - SILVER
Chloe Chapman - 5th (Huge best time...nearly 6 secs off her seed time!)
Taylor Padington - SILVER
Stefanie Schmidt - 6th
Kirah Monks - 7th
Peter Brothers - GOLD
Peter Inches - 4th

200 Free PARA Multi-Class
Jana Murphy - GOLD
Brianna Nelson - SILVER
Peter Havers - 4th

200 Breast
Cassandra Purdon - SILVER
Lauren McMillan - GOLD
Rebecca Langlois - 6th
Finn Page - BRONZE

100 Fly
Erin Lawrance - SILVER
Heidi Bradley - BRONZE
Noah Charlton - 5th
Egor Peshkov - 8th

50 Fly PARA Multi-Class
Brianna Nelson - GOLD
Peter Havers - 5th

100 Fly PARA Multi-Class
Nerissa Zelych - GOLD

Girls 14 & Under 200 Free Relay
C Purdon, E Lawrance, A Bryant, M Powell - 4th

Girls 15 & Over 200 Free Relay
T Padington, C Chapman, N Ellis, H Bradley - GOLD
S Su, K Monks, S Mabee-Hall, H Dennett - BRONZE

Island Swimming in Finals on Day 1 of BC AAA Championships

Not including relays, Island Swimming has 15 athletes heading to finals tonight at the BC LC AAA Championships in Richmond. Great job everyone!

200 Free
Erin lawrance
Sam Ogden
Sarah Mabee-Hall
Chloe Chapman
Taylor Padington
Kirah Monks
Stefanie Schmidt
Peter Brothers
Peter Inches

200 Breast
Cassandra Purdon
Rebecca Langlois
Lauren McMillan
Finn Page

100 Fly
Erin Lawrance
Heidi Bradley
Noah Charlton
Egor Peshkov

12 & Under 800 free
Erin Lawrance

...and they're off!

Good luck to our AAA team as they head over to Richmond tonight for the BC AAA Long Course Championships. The meet starts tomorrow. Check back for updates over the weekend. Go Island!!

Island Swimming has 47 athletes attending...

Women's Team

Sophia Borchers, Heidi Bradley, Alexa Bryant, Holly Celuszak, Chloe Chapman, Hayley Dennett, Brooke Devine, Naomi Ellis, Molly Heaney-Corns, Zoe Hunt-St.Louis, Rebecca Langlois, Erin Lawrance, Sarah Mabee-Hall, Katie McEvoy, Lauren McMillan, Kirah Monks, Jana Murphy, Brianna Nelson, Jessie Ogden, Taylor Padington, Madison Powell, Cassandra Purdon, Kaitlin Rogers, Meghan Rogers, Stefanie Schmidt, Lisa Su & Nerissa Zelych.

Men's Team

Peter Brothers, Noah Charlton, Troy Chooi, Roberto Fedrigo, Peter Havers, August Horeth, Peter Inches, Ankit Jayant, Aiden Longcroft-Harris, Jeremy Lynn, Stefan Nasedkin, Samuel Ogden, Finn Page, Egor Peshkov, Luke Polson, Issac Ross, Ian Schoeddert, Nicholas Sunderland-Baker, Douglas Van Ek & Sam Wohlgemuth.

LIVE RESULTS