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2005 / 2006

2005 / 2006 Coaching Staff

Randy Bennett National Group Coach,

Director of Swimming for Island Swimming

[email protected] 595-9995

Lori Melien Assistant National Group Coach


Neil Harvey Tyee Head Coach & TAG Group Coach


Cindy Radford COHO Head Coach & Crush Coach


Steve Baird Crush Entry Coach


Avila Rhodes Dynamo & OW Coach


Cathy Hanan Dynamo Entry Coach


Jessica Edwards Assistant OW Coach


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ISLAND SWIMMING AWARDS BANQUET FOR 2004/2005

SEASON

Age Group Aggregate Winners Age Group Female Male

10 & Under Rebecca Langlois Mason Loewen

11 -12 Katie McEvoy Joseph Shan

13 - 14 Shawnee Landolt Ashkaughn Forghani

15 - 17 Stephanie Pollard Ryan Cochrane

Grit / Spirit Winners Group Grit Award Spirit Award

Dynamo Entry Carly Manning Petra Reuben

Dynamo Mason Loewen Jason Chiu

Crush Entry Gwen O'Connor Ariana Reuben

Crush Jeremy Bagshaw Christine Ridenour

TAG Nicky Fyfe Joshep Shan

National Sarah Mayzes Ryan Cochrane

COHO -JdF Lina Meikle Amanda Galbraith

Tyee Junior-Crystal Julia Friedman Julia Buckingham

Tyee Frys-Crystal Meghan McIntyre Caroline MacDonald

International Recognition Swimmer Competition Location

Desmond Strelzow FISU Games (Universiade) Izmir, Turkey

Ryan Cochrane Junior Pan Pacific Champs Maui, Hawaii

Stephanie Pollard Australian Youth Olympic Festival Sydney, Australia

Senior National Qualifiers and National Champions Senior National Qualifiers National Champions Event

Kaitlyn Casper Ryan Cochrane 1500 Free

Richard Alexander Rick Say 50/100/200 Free

Alex McLaren

Age Group National Qualifiers and Age National Champions Senior National Qualifiers Age National Champions Event

Keegan Zanatta Thomas Dew-Jones 100 Breast

Jeremy Bagshaw Sarah Mayzes 800 Free

Vanessa Loewen Ryan Cochrane 1500 Free

Brittany Buna Nate Hart 50 Back,200 IM

Provincial Qualifiers

Maddie Coutts Scarlett

Desairais Rachel Fellner Connor Foreman Truan Forsyth

Michael

Goulding Rebecca Langlois Mason Loewen Vanessa Loewen Jennifer Mann

Tanner Milne Savannah

Moneo Brook Powell Marika Rueben Sydney Smilowski

Hilary Wille Anton Yanovich

Regional Qualifiers

Heidi Bradley Jason Chiu Liam Cochrane Hayley Dennett Morgan Dew-Jones

Julia Fridmann Adam Galbraith Bryn Grant Kieran Hartford Victoria Kappel

Mikaela Kendal Paige Lucas Caroline

Macdonald Tyler Manning Caitlyn Marco

Jessica McLeod Lina Meikle Nicole Norman Gwen O'Connor Ariana Reuben

Hilary Ribeiro Arianna

Rumenovich Joshua Saunders Lisa Su Andrea Sutherland

Victor Yuan Kimberly Zhu

Olympic Way Graduates Allison Bell Courtney Butler Christine Chiu Sage Dennett Hillary Fisher

Celine Hunter Gabrielle Janicki Madeleine Janicki Mikaela Kendal Stephen Lucato

Foster cGee Natassja Marc Trevor Marc Matthew Neufeld Madison Powell

Sarah Radford Katie Smith Dario Zanatta Brandon Zhou-Charles Kimberly Zhu

By: Jim Morris - Canadian Press (from Pac Sport website)

Rick Say, who won two silver medals at this summer's world aquatic championships, wanted to give something back to

swimming. So the Salmon Arm, B.C., native dug into his own pocket to come up with $2,500 he handed out to a pair of

promising swimmers for his Island Swimming club in Victoria.

"The swimmers were thrilled," Randy Bennett, a coach with Island Swimming, said Tuesday. "It was a really heart-felt

moment. Some of the parents were in tears. You hear about athletes but very seldom do you hear about them giving back at

that level. That's a significant level of money for a guy that doesn't make a lot of money."

Sarah Mayzes and Alex McLaren, both 18-year-olds from Victoria, were given cheques for $1,000 each and $500 worth of

trophies. Both Mayzes, who swims the 800 and 1,500-metre freestyle and McLaren, a backstroker, had significantly reduced

their times over the year.

Say got the idea for "the bust-out swim" last winter.

"I think as an athlete you take a lot from the sport," said the 25-year-old who was a member of Canada's 4x100 and 4x200-

metre relays at the world aquatic championships in Montreal. "People are giving to help you succeed. I get the opportunity to

go and compete on a world stage and do something I really love.

"It's not until after you're done you see what you've got or the opportunity you had. I'm sort of appreciating it while I'm still in

it." Say, who represented Canada at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, found some instant gratification in giving out the awards.

"One of the parents of the kids that won it, the mom came up to me and she was crying," he said. "That was really cool. Yes,

it's money but it's more the idea and the feeling behind it. To see how emotional that mom was, it was a great feeling for me.

It was pretty special to see that."

Pierre Lafontaine, Swimming Canada's chief executive officer, was impressed with Say's gesture.

"Rick is one of the swimmers who gives so much back to the community," said Lafontaine. "The more we have athletes on

our national team that can do this, the more our sport will progress."

Say has committed to sponsor the award again next year. Already one family, which runs a local business and has swimmers

in the club, has said they will donate money to keep the award alive in future years. Bennett said there won't be strict

guidelines on the award. Some years no award might be given out. In other years, three swimmers may get cash.

"We're trying to recognize kids that really take a big stride forward," he said. In the past Say has been outspoken in his belief

Canada's athletes need better funding to compete against the world's best. "It's something he feels he didn't get and he feels it

needs to happen," Bennett said. "He has the idea and vision to do it."

Myrtha Pool Commonwealth Games Trials – Island Swimming’s Meet Summary

Island Swimming played host to the 2005 LC Myrtha Pools Commonwealth Games Trials, and the home

team sent their largest contingent to the National event, with a total of 16 swimmers. The women’s team

qualified: Lauren Daniels, Kaitlyn Casper, Caroline Clapham, Tara Hahto, Sarah Mayzes, Stephanie

Pollard, Brittany Reimer and Kathryn Sutton, while the men’s team consisted of: Richard Alexander, Ryan

Cochrane, Morgan Knabe, Alex McLaren, Rick Say, Desmond Strelzow, Jason Strelzow and Thomas

Zochowski.

All participating swimmers and coaches wish to thank all the parents and fellow swimmers who helped

with officiating and sponsorship of the event! Your support did not go unnoticed!! Below is a brief daily

summary of how the Island swimmers did at the meet.

DAY 1 – Thursday, November 24

Six Island swimmers qualified for 7 finals (Top 16) during the night. Caroline Clapham (24), started the

night swimming in the first 2 women’s races, where she placed 15th in the 100 free and 16th in the 50 back.

On the men’s side, Rick Say (26) and Thomas Zochowski (25) of the National Swim Centre and

representing Island Swimming both improved on their morning swims in the 100 free, with Rick racing to a

50.90 (5th) and Thomas clocking a 51.57 (9th).

Following that pair was the backstroke duo of Desmond Strelzow (20) and Alex McLaren (17) in the 50m

race. Desmond found some speed in his backstroke as he swam to a 27.08 and 5th place finish, while Alex,

swimming in his first Nationals ever, went a 27.37 for an 8th place finish. Alex’s swim would later win him

the MALE ROOKIE of the meet honours!! Richard Alexander (18) returned home from University to

compete in the meet and he swam to an impressive 7th place swim in the 200 Fly by going 2:07.34.

Day 2 – Friday, November 25

Day two saw Island Swimming represented five times during the finals and was the night where they

cracked into the medals! First up was Brittany Reimer (17) who has just recently moved to the Island to

swim with the Pacific Swim Centre and represent our club. Brittany swam tough throughout the entire 400

free to win GOLD in a time of 4:14.08, while teammate Sarah Mayzes (18) finished 7th in a time of

4:23.90.

Ryan Cochrane (17) followed up with an inspiring 400 free on the men’s side. During the morning swim

Ryan fared well by being the only swimmer in the top-8 with a lifetime best time! But he had more in his

reserves as he swam a blistering 3:53.51 which was another five second drop from his morning swim to

earn him the SILVER medal and a BC 15-17 year old Provincial record!

The backstroke boys continued their best time streak in the 100 as Desmond Strelzow was 5th in a time of

56.98 and Alex McLaren swam to a 59.16 to finish 14th.

Day 3 – Saturday, November 26

The third day turned out to be the most successful for Island Swimming, as they placed 3 swimmers onto

the Commonwealth Games team and added another 3 medals to their repertoire! First up was the 200 free

where both Brittany Reimer and Rick Say earned a GOLD (2:01.49) and SILVER (1:49.53) respectively,

which qualified them for the 4 x 200 relay. Ryan Cochrane also won the consolation final in another

lifetime best time of 1:53.93.

Desmond Strelzow and Alex McLaren were up once again in the final backstroke race of the meet, the

200. Desmond raced to the GOLD in fine fashion as he became the third Island swimmer to qualify for the

Commonwealth Games by swimming the distance in 2 minutes flat, which was under the selection time

standard by 2 tenths of a second!! Alex once again showed no signs of nervousness being at his first

Nationals as he went another best time of 2:09.10.

Concluding the third night of racing was Richard Alexander once again in the 100 fly, where he swim to a

14th place finishing time of 58.01.

Day 4 – Sunday, November 27

On the final night of the meet, Island Swimming once again put up seven swimmers in the finals. First up

was sprint specialist Caroline Clamham in the 50 free. Having qualified 8th for the final and in the outside

lane, Caroline had a lifetime best swim to move up to 4th place, just narrowly missing out on the bronze.

Her time of 26.59 also broke club Island Swimming Senior Club record, a 20-year mark once held by the

great National team sprinter Pamela Rai. Thomas Zochowski followed with a 10th place swim in the 50,

timing a 23.89.

Richard Alexander raced in the 200 IM, clocking a 2:13.51 to finish 13th, while Morgan Knabe (24) of

the Pacific Sport Centre and representing Island Swimming, swam his one and only event, the 50 Breast

where he placed 4th in a time of 29.24.

The final distance races proved to be the most exciting for the team, as IS won both raced and picked up a

bronze as well! Brittany Reimer lead start to finish to win her third GOLD of the meet in a time of

8:39.17, while teammate Sarah Mayzes captured the BRONZE in a time of 8:58.01. Ryan Cochrane had

the fastest entry time going into the final and he did not disappoint his hometown fans as he lead from start

to finish in record time of 15:25.51! His gold medal performance was a new 15-17 BC Provincial Record

and secured his selection as part of the Junior Squad selected to the Commonwealth Team National Team.

Coach Randy Bennett also received honours by being named to the Coaching Staff, primarily responsible

for the Junior Squad selected to the games. Congratulations to Ryan, Desmond, Brittany, Rick and Randy!

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Saanich Commonwealth Place

Saturday, December 17TH 2005

Time: Warm-up 8AM – 8:40 AM

Start 8:45 AM

Finish 11:30 AM

Cost: $10/swimmer (maximum of 4 events plus a relay)

- individual clubs will bill (do not pay coaches)

Who: ALL swimmers in VASC, Coho and Tyee including Olympic

Way and Wavemakers.

Events: Open 100 IM

Olympic Way 25 Freestyle

Open 50 Freestyle

Open 100 Backstroke

Olympic Way 25 Backstroke

Open 50 Butterfly

Open 100 Breaststroke

Olympic Way 25 Breaststroke

Parents vs Coaches Relay 4X25 free

Olympic Way 25 Flutter Kick

Open 50 Breaststroke

Open Christmas Cracker Relay

Please let your coach know if you are attending the meet by

Monday, December 12th.

THANKS!

Boys 11-12 4x200 Free Relay Breaks Provincial Record

Island Swimming broke the 11-12 Boys Provincial Short Course record in the 4 x 200

Freestyle Relay in a time of 9:11.24 at the TAS 'AAA' BC Short Course

Championships in Surrey February 2006. The team comprised of Patrick Graham,

Brooke Powell, Keegan Zanata and Tanner Milne broke the previous record of

9:14.32 held by the UBC Dolphins from 2003.

Western Canadian Championships - Island Swimming Top 16:

WESTERN CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS - Day 1 (top 16)

50 Butterfly - 15 & Under Girls

5. Cassie Morrice, 29.30

50 Butterfly - Open Girls

3. Caroline Clapham, 28.81

50 Breaststroke - Open Girls

9. Tara Hahto, 34.48

50 Backstroke - 15 & Under Girls

10. Riordan Forsyth, 31.62

50 Backstroke - Open Girls


8. Kaitlyn Casper, 30.74

16. Jennifer Self, 31.62

800 Freestyle - 15 & Under Girls

5. Shawnee Landolt, 9:07.73

4 x 50 Free Relay - Open Girls

10. Kaitlyn Casper, Cassie Morrice, Kathryn

Sutton, Caroline Clapham, 1:49.23


50 Free - Open Girls



200 IM - 15&U Girls

10. Nikki Fyfe, 2:24.65


400 Free - 15&U Girls


100 Back - 15&U Girls

13. Cassie Morrice, 1:07.41

16. Nikki Fyfe, 1:08.79

100 Back - Open Girls

3. Caroline Clapham, 1:03.55

12. Jennifer Self, 1:05.77

16. Kaitlin Casper, 1:06.64

4 x 100 Free Relay

4. Kaitlin Casper, Caroline Clapham, Cassie

Morrice, Kathryn Sutton, 3:55.84


200 Butterfly - 15 & Under Girls 4. Shawnee Landolt, 2:25.93



200 Butterfly - Open Boys

12. Ryan Buna, 2:10.09

200 Breaststroke - 15 & Under Girls

15. Niki Fyfe, 2:44.42

200 Breaststroke - Open Girls 6. Tara Hahto, 2:38.03

7. Kathryn Sutton, 2:38.03

100 Freestyle - Open Girls 5. Caroline Clapham, 57.46


100 Freestyle - Open Boys

15. Casey Ralph, 53.63

200 Backstroke


4 x 100 Medley Relay

6. Jennifer Self, Tara Hahto, Cassie Morrice,

Caroline Clapham, 4:22.50


200 Freestyle - 15 & Under Girls


100 Breaststroke - 15 & Under Girls

13. Nikki Fyfe, 1:17.07

100 Breaststroke - Open Girls

8. Tara Hahto, 1:14.65

100 Breaststroke - Open Boys

9. Casey Ralph, 1:08.62

400 Individual Medley - 15 & Under Girls


15. Nikki Fyfe, 5:13.50

400 Individual Medley - Open Girls

11. Kathryn Sutton, 5:07.71

400 Individual Medley - Open Boys

8. Ryan Buna, 4:42.76

100 Butterfly - 15 & Under Girls



7. Caroline Clapham, 1:04.08

4 x 50 Medley Relay - Open Girls

3. Kaitlyn Casper, Tara Hahto, Cassie Morrice,

Caroline Clapham, 2:00.17

Elementary & Middle School Preliminary Meet

Results: Mon 27th and Tues 28th

Elementary & Middle Schools Championship

SWIMBC - ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL CHA (25m) - 05-MAR-2006

Team Point Standings

Team Women Men Total

GLENLYON NORFOLK SCHOOL 61 238 299

SAINT GEORGES SCHOOL 0 283 283

WILLOWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 126 80 206

ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL 87 63 150

DUNSMUIR MIDDLE SCHOOL 76 49 125

NORTH SAANICH MIDDLE SCHOOL 69 53 122

BAYSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL 89 32 121

ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL 78 0 78

HILLCREST 57 0 57

ECOLE VICTOR BRODEUR 52 0 52

ST. ANDREW'S 34 17 51

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 11 39 50

COLQUITZ MIDDLE SCHOOL 22 22 44

CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL 34 9 43

ST. PATRICK'S SCHOOL 28 13 41

EAGLE VIEW ELEMENTARY 40 0 40

SIR JAMES DOUGLAS SCHOOL 40 0 40

GORDONHEAD ELEMENTARY 26 3 29

GEORGE JAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 0 22 22

SOOKE SCHOOLS 19 1 20

WISHART SCHOOL 3 15 18

UNATTACHED 4 13 17

MONTEREY SCHOOL 6 9 15

FRANK HOBBS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 13 0 13

ARBUTUS MIDDLE SCHOOL 12 0 12

MARGERET JENKINS SCHOOL 12 0 12

TORQUAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 9 2 11

ST.MICHAEL'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 1 9 10

DONCASTER 6 0 6

CAMPUS VIEW SCHOOL 5 0 5

CHRIST CHURCH CADERAL SCHOOL 0 3 3

CORDOVA BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 3 0 3

SNC - 2005 CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH GAM (50m) - 24-NOV-

2005

Team Report

Name: ALEXANDER,RICHARD Gender: M Age: 19

Distance Stroke Seed Place Prelim Place Final

200 FREESTYLE 1:56.84 NS

50 BUTTERFLY 26.54 19 26.49 19

100 BUTTERFLY 56.91 14 57.93 14 58.01

200 BUTTERFLY 2:07.80 9 2:08.49 7 2:07.34

200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY

2:12.42 16 2:14.04 13 2:13.51

Name: CASPER,KAITLYN Gender: F Age: 17


50 FREESTYLE 26.99 51 28.59 51

100 FREESTYLE 1:00.48 40 1:00.40 40

200 FREESTYLE 2:11.52 63 2:13.42 63

400 FREESTYLE 4:48.32 59 4:46.79 59

100 BACKSTROKE 1:09.88 52 1:11.76 52

Name: CLAPHAM,CAROLINE Gender: F Age: 25


50 FREESTYLE 26.64 8 27.06 4 26.59

100 FREESTYLE 57.20 10 57.89 15 58.65

50 BACKSTROKE 30.64 14 31.35 16 32.53

100 BACKSTROKE 1:06.83 18 1:06.83 18

Name: COCHRANE,RYAN Gender: M Age: 18


200 FREESTYLE 1:55.16 9 1:54.66 9 1:53.93

400 FREESTYLE 3:59.34 1 3:58.17 2 3:53.51

1500 FREESTYLE 15:40.83 1 15:25.35

Name: DANIELS,LAUREN Gender: F Age: 20


50 FREESTYLE 28.30 49 28.36 49

50 BACKSTROKE 32.48 43 32.96 43

100 BACKSTROKE 1:04.58 41 1:09.14 41

200 BACKSTROKE 2:20.55 32 2:29.01 32


2:27.12 23 2:27.76 23

Name: HAHTO,TARA Gender: F Age: 17


50 BREASTSTROKE 35.50 34 36.14 34

100 BREASTSTROKE 1:13.33 25 1:16.58 25

200 BREASTSTROKE 2:38.53 26 2:44.17 26

100 BUTTERFLY 1:12.13 47 1:11.57 47

Name: KNABE,MORGAN Gender: M Age: 25


50 BREASTSTROKE 28.77 4 29.59 4 29.24

Name: MAYZES,SARAH Gender: F Age: 19


100 FREESTYLE 1:00.36 39 1:00.34 39

200 FREESTYLE 2:04.25 19 2:07.86 19

400 FREESTYLE 4:20.51 5 4:22.15 7 4:23.90

800 FREESTYLE 8:53.60 3

8:58.01

Name: MCLAREN,ALEX Gender: M Age: 19


50 FREESTYLE 25.57 37 25.22 37

50 BACKSTROKE 28.14 7 27.39 8 27.37

100 BACKSTROKE 59.54 15 59.17 14 59.16

200 BACKSTROKE 2:09.35 10 2:10.07 10 2:09.10

50 BUTTERFLY 28.00 NS

Name: POLLARD,STEPHANIE Gender: F Age: 18


50 FREESTYLE 27.46 46 28.28 46

100 FREESTYLE 58.48 26 59.44 26

200 FREESTYLE 2:04.29 20 2:08.27 20

400 FREESTYLE 4:26.75 23 4:30.17 23


2:23.47 25 2:27.96 25

Name: REIMER,BRITTANY Gender: F Age: 19


200 FREESTYLE 2:00.84 6 2:03.53 1 2:01.49

400 FREESTYLE 4:07.32 1 4:16.80 1 4:14.08

800 FREESTYLE 8:27.59 1 8:39.17

Name: SAY,RICK Gender: M Age: 27


50 FREESTYLE 23.38 NS

100 FREESTYLE 49.67 7 51.40 5 50.90

200 FREESTYLE 1:48.35 5 1:51.88 2 1:49.53

Name: STRELZOW,DESMOND Gender: M Age: 21


50 FREESTYLE 25.25 28 24.89 28

50 BACKSTROKE 28.48 6 27.34 5 27.08

100 BACKSTROKE 57.95 4 57.28 5 56.98

200 BACKSTROKE 2:01.94 2 2:02.61 1 2:00.00

Name: STRELZOW,JASON Gender: M Age: 25


50 FREESTYLE 24.62 36 25.18 36

50 BACKSTROKE 29.93 28 29.66 28

Name: SUTTON,KATHRYN Gender: F Age: 18


100 FREESTYLE 1:01.22 58 1:01.87 58

50 BREASTSTROKE 36.08 37 36.69 37

100 BREASTSTROKE 1:13.02 42 1:18.90 42

200 BREASTSTROKE 2:40.00 41 2:46.98 41


2:21.32 50 2:31.86 50

Name: ZOCHOWSKI,THOMAS Gender: M Age: 26


50 FREESTYLE 23.90 10 23.97 10 23.89

100 FREESTYLE 51.54 10 51.92 9 51.57

Commonwealth Games Reports from Randy - Head Coach

G'Day All:

Just a quick update as to our travels as we get ready for the Commonwealth Games. As you are aware, we

have 5 athletes who swim for ISA representing Canada at the Commonwealth Games which start in a few

short days. They are Rick Say, Ryan Cochrane, Brittany Reimer, Desmond Strelzow, and Matt Rose.

We left Victoria on the 17th of February and traveled 38 hours to a place called Narooma. This was a very

small town on Australian South Coast, population of about 8,000. We trained in a 6 lane 50 metre pool, and

stayed at a hotel about a 10 minute walk to the pool. The beaches and coast were very beautiful, quite warm

and very quiet. Everywhere we went in town, people recognized us and were very nice. Several families

got together with us for a day at the beach, and we were hosted by one of the parents of a swimmer for

dinner. All in all, we did some very good training, but had a pretty relaxing time as we started our final

prep for the games.

On March 3rd we drove ( by now I was pretty good about which side to travel on, and the difference

between the wipers and the signal lights) to Canberra which was around 3 hours. We met up with the rest of

the team at the AIS, and started our final prep and the process of trying to become a team. As the week

went by, we really started coming together and working well together. All the ISA swimmers started to do

some very good swimming in their test sets, (good sign).

On Sunday March 12 we flew to Melbourne and entered the athlete village. We are in a small sub division

type village with about 250 other Canadians. The village is quite nice, food is very good, and there is pretty

much anything you might need. The clothing we received was very nice, and there was a lot, some 40

different items, plus our Speedo Canada gear, I will need my own airplane to get the stuff home.

On Thursday we start to race, the swimmers have the following races:

Rick Say, 200free, 4 x 200 free relay and alternate for 4 x100 free.

Ryan Cochrane: 400free, 1500 free

Brittany Reimer, 400free, 800free, and 4 x 200 free

Desmond Strelzow, 100 bk,200 bk

Matt Rose, 50 bk, 100 bk, 50 free, 100 free, 4 x 100 free, 4 x 100 med

Our goals are quite simple, improve personal bests, improve rankings and race well through heats. We have

several medal hopes, however, if we keep it simple, we will be very successful.

Please take the time to follow your teammates through the competition, we appreciate all the support we

have received so far. All the best, and I look forward to seeing all of you very soon.

Randy Bennett - Director of Swimming, ISA

Great first day at the pool:

Matt Rose just missed the Canadian Record in the 50 back in the heats by 4 1/00ths of a second, at 25.75,

and then came back and swam into the final for tomorrow. He also was part of the Canadian breaking 4 x

100 free, won a bronze medal and split a personal best in 48.85 seconds, great swim for Matt.

Ryan Cochrane swam his best time in heats, moved up from 10th to 7th and went 3:53.2, very good

morning swim. At night he was a bit slower, maybe needed a bit more warm-up, (coaching error!!) but a

great first day for Ryan in his first ever senior national team.

Rick Say did a time trial to get ready for his 200 tomorrow and dove 49.72 for 100 free, just 3/100th over

his best time, but was very smooth, so look for Rick in the 200 tomorrow.

So Matt in the 50 final tomorrow night, Rick has heats and hopefully final tomorrow night.

I will keep you informed!!!

Talk to you soon, Randy

Day 2:

Matt Rose 6th in the 50 back. Good swim, moved up a spot, still need to keep working on the swim.

Rick Say swam 1:47.44 in the 200 free. This is the best time he has gone in this event since 2004 Olympic

Trials, way to go Rick. The race was great, 4 guys finished within 15/100's of a second, very exciting. Rick

finished 4th, missing the medal by 3/100th of a second, but was very pleased with the swim overall. He will

swim the 4 x 200 free tomorrow, and see if he can win a medal in this event.

Also tomorrow, Matt Rose is in the 100 free, Desmond Strelzow is in the 200BK and Brittany Reimer is in

the 800 free and the 200 free relay.

Keep cheering, the support has been great!!

Randy

Day 3

A tough night at the pool tonight for Canada. We had a few opportunities for medals and just were a little

bit off and went home with 4th's and 5th's. I think this is most around experience, it is a very tough thing to

see yourself ranked 1st or second and not get ahead of yourself and think about winning. Racing well with

good tactics and great efforts are required. The tendency is to get over excited and make mistakes, when

this happens at this level, other swimmer are there to capitalize. Always learning.

Today Brittany swam the 800 free in heats and is ranked 4th for finals tomorrow night. Brittany also swam

the anchor leg of the 4 x 200 free relay and split 1:59, but was out touched by 4/100th of a second for 4th

place. The relay was a Canadian record however.

Desmond swam the 200 back final and finished 5th. He was over his best time by 1.4 second, raced well,

and will be back into a final in a big meet very soon. Look for him at Pan Pacs this summer. Des has the

100 back tomorrow.

Rick swam the anchor leg of the men's 4 x 200 free and again we finished 4th. It was a very tight race, and

Rick split 1:47.6, which was one of the fastest splits from all the teams. Rick is done for the meet now and

will start his prep for the summer season.

Matt Rose swam the 100 free this morning in 50.20 but decided to scratch the semi and get ready for his

100 back tomorrow. Matt still has a very busy program ahead of him.

See you tomorrow.

Randy

Day 4

Island Swimming Brittany Reimer won a bronze medal in the 800 free tonight. In a very tough race Brit

was stroke for stroke with a swimmer from England and held her off to win the bronze. Great job Brittany.

Matt Rose and Desmond Strelzow both swam the 100 back this morning and advanced to the semi finals

tonight. However, neither advanced through to the finals tomorrow night.

Tomorrow we have Ryan Cochrane in the heats of the 1500, Matt Rose in the 50 free and Brittany in the

400 free.

2 more days of swimming to go, lots of very exciting swimming from other Canadians as well as several

other countires in the meet. 11,000 fans every night in a very noisy stadium. It is like being at hockey game

at GM Place.

Lots of fun!!

Talk to you tomorrow. Go Canada Go!!!

Day 5:

Matt Rose swam heats and semis in the 50 free and is going into finals in 4th place tomorrow night. 22.52

is the fastest Matt has been since Olympic year. It will be a great race, Go Matt!!

Brittany swam the 400 free in heats and finals. She finished up in 6 place with a gutsy swim in a very tough

field. Way to go Britt!!

Ryan swam the heats of the 1500 free this morning, there were only 9 swimmers entered, so he just had to

beat one swimmer in his heat to advance to the final. Ryan swam a very easy 15:55 and will go into the

finals in 7th place. A great goal for Ryan is a best time in finals. This event is one of the Aussie's crowd

favorite to watch and cheer. It will be a very exciting race, and a good challenge for Ryan.

Tomorrow we have Matt in the 50 free final and Ryan in the 1500 free final, and then Matt will swim the

backstroke leg of the medley relay.

One day to go, it will be a great night of racing!!! Talk to you tomorrow.

Randy

Day 6

On the last night of swimming in Melbourne, Canada had a our best night. We won our first gold medal, 2

silvers and a bronze. It was a great finish to a very strong meet for a young team.

From the Island perspective, we finished well again:

Ryan swam the 1500 final and swam his life time best time, broke the BC senior record and finished 5th

overall. This was a great meet for Ryan, 2 swims and 2 best times.

Matt swam the 50 free, finished 6th, was a bit slower than the semis. Matt also led out the 4 x 100 medley

relay, which finished 4th overall, just 12/100ths out of a medal. Matt had a lot of swims over the week, and

did a great job.

Overall I think the experience was a very positive one for athletes and coach. I am coming home with a

much better perspective of world swimming and some key things I think our whole program will benefit

from as we go forward. The athletes did a great job representing their country and our program, way to go

all.

Ryan and Brittany actually will continue on the Singapore and Shanghai for the world short course

championships in early April. Good luck to both of you guys.I will see you all at the end of the week.

Randy

Swim BC Long Course Provincial Team Members (Mar 27)

Congratulations to the following Island Swimming members who qualified for the LC

Provincial Team:

Age Group Squad (11-12): Savannah Moneo, Jeremy Bagshaw

Prospects Squad (13-14): Jeremy Bagshaw, (Cassie Morrice-withdrew)

These 2 squads will attend a Camp and Dual Meet against Swim Alberta in Kamloops,

April 14-16

Youth Squad (15-16): Tara Hahto, Shawnee Landolt

Junior Squad(17-18): Ryan Cochrane, Alex McLaren, Kathryn Sutton

These 2 squads will attend the 2006 US Grand Prix in Ann Arbour Michigan, May 19-

21

ISLAND SWIMMING 2006 PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONS!! (July 10)

Congratulations to all IS swimmers who competed at the recent 2006 T.A.S. BC Long Course

Championships held in Victoria this past weekend! You did our team proud by winning the competition in

fine fashion!

The 11-12 boys comprised of Michael Goulding, Mason Loewen, Brook Powell and Victor Yuan set a

Provinical record in the 4 x 100 Medley Relay swimming to a time of 4:57.33, beating the former record of

4:57.87 by the UBC Dolphins in 2003.

Not to by outdone, the 11-12 girls team of Vanessa Loewen, Jennifer Mann, Rachel Fellner and Savannah

Moneo also set Provincial records in both the 4 x 50 and 4 x 100 Medley Relays. The remarkable feat of

these teams was that the previous two records were set by the Canadian Dolphin Swim Club back in 1982 -

24 years ago! The girls lowered the 4 x 50m race to 2:11.71 (previous - 2:13.30) and they demolished the 4

x 100m race by blazing to a 4:42.74 (previous - 4:48.79). This latter relay distance (400m) was also a

NATIONAL AGE GROUP RECORD - a time 4 seconds faster than the previous mark (4:46.87) set by the

Toronto Swim Club in 2003. FANTASTIC SWIMMING TEAMS!!!

400 M.R. 4:42.74 - S. Moneo, V. Loewen, R. Fellner, J. Mann (also a CANADIAN RECORD!)

200 M.R. 2:11.71 - S. Moneo, V. Loewen, R. Fellner, J. Mann

A Year in Review Victoria Amateur Swimming Club

It has been another banner year for the Victoria Amateur Swimming Club (VASC) and

Island Swimming:

Sarah Mayzes and Ryan Cochrane from Island Swimming represented Canada at

the Victorian Open and Victorian Age Group Championships meets in Australia.

The two National Junior swimmers departed shortly after Christmas and returned

in mid January from the three week tour.

Island Swimming hosted Canada’s top swimmers as they vied for berths on the

Commonwealth Games team at trials November 24-27 in Victoria. While meeting

qualifying times is the prime measuring stick for most spots there was also a

qualification component for junior-aged swimmers (18 and under) to make for

team and gain some valuable international experience if not all the spots are filled.

In addition to the Commonwealth Games, the trials are also the selection meet for

the World Short Course Championships which follow the Games April 5-9 in

Shanghai. A total of 39 spots are available in the able bodied swimming events

and six for the swimmers with a disability

Team Canada - 2006 Commonwealth Games

Men

Name Club Coach of Record Ryan Cochrane IS Randy Bennett

Rick Say IS Randy Bennett

Desmond Strelzow IS Randy Bennett

Women

Name Club Coach of Record

Brittany Reimer IS/PNSC Bud McAllister

Team Staff

Randy Bennett Coach

The Victoria Amateur Swimming Club hosted the 79th

Annual School Swimming

Championships Finals on Sunday March 5th

at Saanich Commonwealth Place .

Over 400 elementary and middle school children from 30 schools across Victoria

advanced from three days of preliminaries and represented their schools in the

finals. Glenlyon Norfolk School took top place for private schools while Willows

took top place for all public schools.

At the Vancouver Island Regional Short Course Championships on 2006 Victoria

Amateur Swimming Club finished first overall

Top Individual Point Standings - Female

Name Team Total

WILSON,COURTENAY GREATER VICTORIA AQUATIC CLUB 131

BUNA,BRITTANY VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 123

LANDOLT,SHAWNEE VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 119

FELLNER,RACHEL VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 118

LOEWEN,VANESSA VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 117

WILLE,HILARY VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 117

SMILOWSKI,SYDNEY VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 102

Top Individual Point Standings - Male

Name Team Total

POWELL,BROOK VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 162

GOULDING,MICHAEL VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 149

GRAHAM,PATRICK VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 142

FOREMAN,CONNOR VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 129

SAUNDERS,JOSHUA VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 125

SHAN,JOSEPH VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 116

MITCHELL,KODY GREATER VICTORIA AQUATIC CLUB 114

The 2005 / 2006 BC Provincial Short Course Championships took place in

Surrey and Island Swimming finished fourth.

Power outage causes revised format on Day 3 Surrey - Feb 4, 2006

A major wind storm going through the south part of British Columbia has caused a

power outage in Surrey Sport and Recreation Centre. A revised timed final format has

been scheduled for the day three events with a planned warm up time of 2:00pm and

start of 3:00pm.

Day 3 CANCELLED due to power outage Surrey - Feb 4, 2006

Due to a continued power outage, all day three sessions have been cancelled.

A two session timed finals session will be run Sunday.

Island Swimming went to Winnipeg for the Western Canadian Championships.

from February 16 to the 19, 2006. Over 550 athletes from Western Canada

participated in the Speedo Western Swimming Championships.

National Age record for Cochrane at SC Worlds Shanghai - Apr 9, 2006

Island Swimming's Ryan Cochrane posted a 7th place

finish and new 15-17 National Age Group record in

the 1500 freestyle at the World Short Course

Championships in Shanghai, China.

Cochrane's time of 15:04.00 was 14 hundredths faster

than the previous record held by Michael McWha.

Mayzes wins Canada Games FAST Track Award Victoria - Mar 15, 2006

The Canada Games Council (CGC) and the Foundation for Athletes

and Sport Training (FAST) today announced the list of recipients of

the 2006 CANADA GAMES FAST TRACK athlete grants.

Sarah Mayzes,IS, was one of two recipients in BC and one of 60

recipients from over 1,100 applicants

Island Swimmers shine at Commonwealth

Games Melbourne, AUS - Mar 17-21,

Coach Randy Bennett,

Rick Say, Desmond Strezlow, Ryan Cochrane

Matt Rose, Brittany Reimer

Medal Winners Brittany Reimer,IS 800 Free - BRONZE

Matt Rose,IS 4x100 Free Relay - BRONZE -

Canadian Record

BC Records Matt Rose - 50 Back - 25.75

Ryan Cochrane - 1500 Free - 15:21.94 400 Free- 3:53.27

Five athletes swam for Swim BC at the US Grand Prix in Ann Arbor Michigan,

May 9th

2006. Ryan Cochrane, Alex McLaren, Kathryn Sutton, Tara Hahto,

Shawnee Landolt represented the Victoria Amateur Swimming Club.

Island Swimming came right from a weeklong training camp in Tucson to finish

fifth overall at the Mel Zajac Bell Grand Prix in Vancouver.

At the Vancouver Island Regional long Course Championships on June 9 2006

Victoria Amateur Swimming Club finished first overall.

Top Individual Point Standings - Female

Name Team Total

LOEWEN,VANESSA VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 373

FELLNER,RACHEL VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 293

BUNA,BRITTANY VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 193

LANDOLT,SHAWNEE VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 167

CLAPHAM,CAROLINE VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 150

HAHTO,TARA VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 137

MANN,JENNIFER VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 106

POLLARD,STEPHANIE VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 104

LANGLOIS,REBECCA VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 100

SELF,JENNIFER VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 100

Individual Point Standings - Male

Name Team Total

SAUNDERS,JOSHUA VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 450

POWELL,BROOK VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 411

ZANATTA,KEEGAN VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 344

GOULDING,MICHAEL VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 215

LOEWEN,MASON VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 210

COCHRANE,RYAN VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 208

ALEXANDER,RICHARD VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 195

GRAHAM,PATRICK VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 178

ZHU,KEVIN VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 162

FOREMAN,CONNOR VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 161

YUAN,VICTOR VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 153

MANNING,TYLER VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 146

LAY,LU YI VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 135

MANHAS,KEENAN VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 131

COCHRANE,LIAM VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 125

KELM,RYAN VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 120

STRELZOW,JASON VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 120

GRAHAM,CAMERON VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 101

STRELZOW,DESMOND VICTORIA AMATEUR SWIM CLUB 100

The Victoria Amateur Swimming Club Annual AGM will took place on

Thursday June 20th, 2006 at the Pacific Sport Board Room, at 7:00 pm. The

following people were elected President Don Sutton, Vice President Glenys

Fellner, Treasurer Joanne Forsyth, Secretary Lynn Ogden and Past President

Maureen Murray. Also elected were Julie Baker, Karen Bradley, Andrea Kent,

Andrea Zanatta, , Caroline Loewen and Bill Billson.

Victoria swimmers Cochrane and Reimer win medals to open Santa Clara

meet Santa Clara, California - Jun 23, 2006 Ryan Cochrane and Brittany Reimer,

both of Victoria, earned silver and bronze medals in their respective distance

freestyle races Thursday to open the Santa Clara Grand Prix swimming

competition

After four days of swimming at SCP in Victoria at the BC Provincial

Championships Island Swimming 67 athletes finished 1st at the 2005 / 2006 BC

Provincial Long Course Swimming Championships. A Canadian record fell on

the second night of finals as the 11-12 Girls 400 Medley Relay team of Vanessa

Loewen , Jennifer Mann, Rachel Fellner and Savannah Moneo smashed the

National Age Group Record by 4 seconds. On day three another Provincial record

fell in the relay events as the Island Swimming 11-12 boys team of Michael

Goulding, Mason Loewen, Brook Powell and Victor Yuan broke the BC

Provincial Record in the 400 Medley Relay. Day four action saw another

Provincial relay record as the 11-12 Girls team of Vanessa Loewen, Jennifer

Mann, Rachel Fellner and Savannah Moneo, broke the 200 Freestyle Relay

Record. Island Swimming continued to maintain a strong lead throughout the final

day of competition to capture the Team Championship.

2006 TAS LC Champs: SPEEDO PRIZES The TOP SCORING SWIM (FINA POINTS) IN EACH AGE GROUP WILL WIN A SPEEDO

PRIZE PACK

ISLAND 15&O Girls Clapham, Caroline 100 Free 57.83 815 ISLAND 15&O Boys Cochrane, Ryan 400 Free 4:00.21 814

Team Aquatic Supplies Open Water Championship a big success Victoria - Jul 11, 2006

Swim BC held the first Team Aquatic Supplies Open Water

Swimming Championship at Elk Lake in Victoria. Sixty seven

swimmers completed the 5km triangular course around Elk Lake.

Great weather, warm water and some close racing produced a very

positive first time event. At the BC Open Water Championships several Island

Swimmers competed. In the ladies competition Rachel Fellner won the 12 and

under, Brittany Buna finished 3rd

in the 14 and under, Shawnee Landolt finished

5th

and in the men’s competition Brook Powell and Patrick Graham finished 1st

and 2nd

while in the 14 and under Keegan Zanatta finished 3rd

and Tanner Milne

finished 8th

.

Island Swimming sent 25 swimmers to the Club Nationals

Championships in Calgary. Island finished ninth overall with 767

point for the girls and 131 points for the boys and 898 points overall.

Congratulations to our swimmers: MANN JENNIFER, MONEO SAVANNAH, ELLIS NAOMI, LANGLOIS REBECCA, FELLNER

RACHEL, WILLE HILARY, ZANATTA KEEGAN, MILNE TANNER, GALBRAITH SARAH,

BUNA BRITTANY, FYFE NICOLE, MCEVOY KATE, BRADLEY CHRISTL, SHAN JOSEPH,

BAGSHAW JEREMY, MORRICE CASSIE, LANDOLT SHAWNEE , FORSYTH RIORDAN,

CASPER KAITLYN, POLLARD STEPHANIE, SUTTON KATHRYN, SELF JENNIFER, HAHTO

TARA, BLIGH DEXTER, BUNA RYAN,

Island Swimming sent 17 athletes to Montreal for the Senior National

Championships.

13 BC swimmers off to Pan Pacs after day 1 Montreal - Jul 27, 2006 The first evening saw plenty of great swimming at the Pan Pacific Swimming

Championships Trials with Island Swimming’s Rick Say qualifying for the Canadian

Squad. In the Men’s 200 freestyle Rick Say from Island Swimming was second at the

100 and coming down the last 25 it was 5 men abreast with Rick finishing in 5th

position qualifing for the Pan Pacific Team. Ryan Cochrane from Island won the B

final in a new PB time of 1:52.45 and looks very strong into his specialty distance

events over the final 3 days of the competition. The Men’s 100 Back Desmond

Strelzow from Island Swimming managed a 7th place finish. In the 100 fly Stefan

Hirniak from Island swimming took it out in 57.19 and finished with the silver and a

berth on the Pan Pacs Team in a time of 2:01.52 while team-mate Richard Alexander

finished in 8th place.

4 more BC swimmers named to Pan Pacs Squad

Montreal - Jul 28, 2006

In the women’s 100 freestyle, Island swimmer Caroline Clapham swam to a 57.28

winning the B Final. Island swimming went 2-3 in the men’s 100 freestyle with

Island team-mates Rick Say and Matt Rose powering home for the silver and bronze

position with final times of 49.42 (23.92) and 49.79 (23.76), respectively. Matt

Rose’s performance earning a spot on this summer’s Pan Pac Team. In the 800

freestyle ISA’s Ryan Cochrane continues to show signs of tremendous international

potential with his final time of 8:05.95. Ryan narrowly missed the National Age

Group record by 0.01 seconds, but managed to break a 15 year old BC Senior Record

and an earn himself a trip to Victoria this summer.

The top 10 team in the overall Team Scoring are from BC:

1. UBCD - 497

2. UCSC - 422

3. Island - 249

Island Swimming Crushes National Record! Montreal - Jul 29, 2006

In the 400 freestyle distance star Ryan Cochrane from Island Swimming finished in

2nd position. Ryan swam a well split race 57.14 / 1:56.74 / 2:56.93 / 3:55.47 and

looks very good for tomorrow’s 1500 freestyle. The 4x100 Freestyle Relay was the

last event of the night. The night’s last race was highlighted by a new National Club

Record for the men from Island Swimming Association in a time of 3:21.31 – WELL

DONE Rick Say (49.81), Matt Rose (49.16), Desmond Strelzow (51.66) and Thomas

Zochowski (50.66) as they broke the previous record by more than 2 seconds! A bit

of history was made last night in the men’s 100 freestyle final, with both Rick and

Matt under 50seconds - the 1st time in Canadian history for a club to have 2

swimmers to have accomplished that feat.

Team Scores from Montreal after day 3

Montreal - Jul 29, 2006 The top ten team scores heading into day four of the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming

Championships:

1st - UBCD 767 points

2nd - UCSC 564 points

3rd - ISLAND 359 points

Five Island swimmers named to the Pan Pacs Team Montreal - Jul 30, 2006

The last night in Montreal saw more swimmers make the Pan Pacific Championships

Team, with Island Swimmings total to 5 members! Congratulations to: Rick Say,

Stefan Hirniak, Brittany Reimer, Matt Rose and Ryan Cochrane. In the women’s 50

meter sprint event; Caroline Clapham from Island Swimming managed an 8th place

position with a 26.54. On the men’s side it was a 2 finish for Island swimmer Matt

Rose just 0.11 seconds behind for the silver. Rick Say, also from Island Swimming

was just touched out for the bronze and settled for a 4th place finish in 23.23. Ryan

Cochrane from Island swimming had a great battle with the National Record Holder,

Andrew Hurd and finished second with a very strong 15:28.11

Island Swimming’s Ryan Cochrane

wins bronze at

Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Ryan Cochrane of Victoria took the bronze with a time of 7:58.32 at the Pan Pacific

Swimming Championships which got underway at Saanich Commonwealth Place.

Cochrane, 17, led at the half way point anhHe also broke Hurd’s 15-17 national age

group record. "The only swimmer I knew in the race was Andrew Hurd," said

Cochrane. "I didn’t know what to expect from the others but I was a little surprised to

be in the lead at 400 metres. I figured I had a chance to challenge for a medal if I

could put a strong race together." "I was hurting at 500 to 600 metres, but hearing

everyone in the crowd cheering like that got me through it," said Cochrane, a finalist

in the 2006 Commonwealth Games 1,500 freestyle in March at Melbourne, who was

leading at the halfway point Thursday. Brittany Reimer of Island Swimming raced in

the women’s 200 freestyle final and placed seventh. Rick Say, the Canadian veteran

competing his home pool at the Saanich Commonwealth Place, placed 11th in the

heats, nearly two seconds behind the fastest time.

In the men’s 4X100 freestyle relay, the Canadians, world silver medallists last year,

won a tight battle with Australia for the silver clocking 3:16.12. The Canadian Island

swimmers were Rick Say of Victoria, and Matt Rose of Victoria.

Meanwhile 17-year-old Ryan Cochrane of Victoria completed a promising week

placing fourth in the men’s 1,500 freestyle in 15:13.44, 12 seconds faster than his

previous best. He also won the bronze Thursday in the 800 freestyle. Canada was

also fourth in the men’s 4X100 medley relay with Matt Rose of Victoria.

2006 / 2007


Randy Bennett - National Group Coach & ISA Director of Swimming email

Riley Janes – Assistant National Group Coach

Neil Harvey - Tag Group Coach email

Cindy Radford - Crush & Dynamo Entry Coach email

Steve Baird - Crush Entry Coach email

Avila Rhodes - Dynamo & Olympic Way Coach email

Jessica Edwards - Youth & Olympic Way Coach email

NEW GENERAL MANAGER HIRED (Aug 6)

Island Swimming is proud to announce the hiring of Sureen Gosal for the position of General Manager

starting September 2006. Sureen comes to us after nine years at the University of Calgary Swim Club.

Sureen was UCSC s Head Coach of Club Development, overseeing all their development programs and

coaching their top age groupers to Age Group Nationals and the Western Championships. He is also a

Skills coach Assessor for the Canadian Swim Coaches and Teachers Association. Sureen has been a leader

in helping UCSC become one of the top programs in Canada. UCSC is made up of over 300 swimmers and

has a staff of over 22 coaches. Working with an organization of this magnitude is sure to be an asset to

Island Swimming.

Victoria Amateur Swimming Club

2006/ 2007 Swim Season

Welcome!

Welcome to the 2006/ 2007 swim season with Victoria Amateur Swimming Club!

We are a non profit society which has been proudly developing young swimmers in Victoria for

more than 90 years! We are Committed to Excellence, providing each swimmer with the

opportunity to attain his or her maximum potential as a competitive swimmer.

Qualified coaches will guide your swimmer through the exciting world of competitive swimming

including in water practices, dryland training and at swim meets. Please feel free to contact your

swimmers coach if you have any questions or concerns about their development.

Randy Bennett 595-9995 [email protected]

Neil Harvey 595-8930 [email protected]

Cindy Radford 294-5528 [email protected]

Steve Baird 544-4069 [email protected]

Avila Rhodes 477-9325 [email protected]

Jessica Edwards 642-7427 [email protected]









Dedicated volunteers and board members are responsible for the day-to-day running of the club.

Volunteers assist with everything from equipment sales to meet management and are a VITAL

part of the survival of our club. Please contact any of the following volunteers if you can assist

the club in any way.

President, Don Sutton 721-3394 [email protected]

VP, Glenys Fellner 652-4433 [email protected]

Treasurer, Joanne Forsyth 658-3072 [email protected]

Meet Manager, Bill Billson 658-8867 [email protected]

Senior Officials, Jill Pollard 592-9455 [email protected]

Junior Officials, Andrea Kent 995-2288 [email protected]

Equipment, Sherrie Isaacson 361-4844 [email protected]

Need help with anything else? Our new General Manager is Sureen Gosal. Sureen started with

Island Swimming on September 1, 2006. Sureen’s contact information will be available soon.

Until then, please leave a message in the office and Sureen or one of the coaching staff will get

back to you as soon as they can.

VASC Office 479-3909 www.islandswimming.com

Proudly Sponsored by:

SPEEDO recognizes Island Swimming as one of Canada's best programs (Oct. 30)

The Island Swimming Association and their member clubs are pleased to announce that we have accepted

an exclusive sponsorship with Speedo Canada. The recognition of our outstanding performances is

welcomed, and we look forward to working with Speedo Canada in achieving our goals.

Thursday, October 26th 2006

Speedo® Canada is pleased to announce that Island Swimming Association has become a

member of the new Top 6 sponsorship program. Every year Swimming Canada

announces the top 6 teams in the country based on a scoring system. Speedo® Canada

has taken the opportunity to align themselves with the leading performance teams. Island

Swimming Association is part of an elite group of clubs that will represent Speedo® on

the Canadian competitive swimming scene. The sponsorship agreement is valid for 2

years and has a total retail value of $50 000.00.

Speedo Canada® is proud of our role as the major sponsor of Swimming, Diving,

Synchro and Water Polo in Canada over the past 25 years. No company has done more

for aquatic sports in Canada than Speedo®. Your continued support of the Speedo brand

helps make that possible.



2006 Island Pacific Cup and 12 & Under Jamboree

The 2006 Island Pacific Cup and 12 & Under Jamboree Meet Packages took place November 10th

, 11th

and

12th

. Teams from the across Canada and the USA took part in this meet Thanks you to all the clubs who

attended our meets, and we look forward to hosting you in the future. A big thanks to all the officials and

volunteers who helped put on the meets.

Island Swimming Shines at 2006 Bell Grand Prix (Nov 26)

Swimming Canada's first national meet of the season took place in Toronto on November 24-26. The Bell

Grand Prix was Island Swimming's first opportunity to take on the country this season. Following the

weekend IS walked away with 10 medal performances. 3 Gold (Ryan Cochrane 800 & 1500 Fr, Rick Say

400Fr), 6 Silver (Matt Rose 50/100Fr & 50/100BK & 100 IM, Ryan Cochrane 400FR), and 1 Bronze

(400Fr Relay D Strelzow, R Say, M Rose, R Alexander). IS swimmers finished 6th in the meet with over

70 clubs competing from Canada and the USA.

Swimming Canada Recognizes Island Swimmers at Annual Awards Night (Nov 26)

Swimming Canada recognized 3 IS swimmer at the BIG SPLASH awards celebration that kicked off the

Bell Grand Prix. Ryan Cochrane is this years recipient of the Male Junior Swimmer of the year for his Gold

medal performance in the 800Fr at this years Pan Pacific games. Rick Say and Matt Rose were recognized

for their Silver medal performances on Swimming Canada's Male relay team of the year at Pan Pacific

Games. Way to go!

Island Swimming in Action over the Dec 8-10 Weekend (Dec 8)

IS swimmers was well represented in three meets over the Dec 8-10 weekend. Coach Randy was in Oregon

for the Paul Bergen International Meet, Coach Neil was in Toronto for the Youth Cup meet, and over 90

swimmers were represented in our home town at the PCS Christmas cracker meet. Well Done Swimmers!

Paul Bergen International Live Results (Oregon)

Youth Cup Results (Toronto)

PCS Christmas Cracker Live Results (Victoria)

Island Swimming Club Champs held on December 16 (Dec 19)

The Annual IS Club champs took place at Saanich Commonwealth Place on December 16. Thank you to all

the coaches and parents for helping put on this event. Over 160 swimmers participated. Well done

swimmers!

http://www.pacificcoastswimming.com/LiveResults/2006-07/Cracker06/index.htm

Victoria swimmers medal for B.C.

Jan 31 2007

Never mind that his Victoria Amateur Swim Club was hosting the Vancouver Island Regional meet at

Commonwealth Pool. Jeremy Bagshaw had bigger fish to fry.

The 14-year-old swimmer was busy winning three freestyle gold medals and adding a bronze for Team

B.C. at the Pacific Coast All-Star Meet held at Richmond’s Watermania Jan. 20-21.

Competing against some of the fastest age group swimmers in the Pacific Northwest, Bagshaw recorded the

quickest time among boys aged 13 and 14 in the 100-metre (54.64 seconds), 200m (1:58.01) and 400m

freestyle (4:12.98) finals. He touched the pad third in the 200-metre individual medley.

Bagshaw’s efforts gave him the sixth-best point total in the meet among male swimmers at the meet and

helped Team B.C. 2006 finish third out of five teams. Southern California won the meet, followed by the

2007 Pacific Coast All-Stars.

His clubmate and B.C. team member Jennifer Mann added a first in 11-12 girls 100-metre breaststroke

(1:16.08) and second in the 50m breast.

Other medallists included Naomi Ellis, with a silver in the 11-12 girls 200m back, and Joseph Shan, third in

the 13-14 boys 50m free. Both swim for VASC.

. Island Swimming Supports Aquatics for Arthritis Event

On January 27th COHO/TYEE/VASC participated in Aquatics for Arthritis, a fundraising and awareness

event for The Arthritis Research Centre (ARC) and The Arthritis Society (TAS) to support arthritis

research in British Columbia. Over $5000 was raised for this event. For more information please follow the

links below:

Local athletes speedy in Commonwealth pool

Jan 31 2007

Buoyed by the efforts of Lisa Su, Liam Cochrane

and Rebecca Langlois, the host Victoria Amateur Swim Club walked away with the top team trophy at the

Vancouver Island Regional Championships.

Su won seven gold, one silver and a bronze in the 10-under girls division, Cochrane grabbed seven gold

and two bronze in 11-12 boys and Langlois won six gold and a bronze in 11-12 girls to help VASC finish

as the top large club (more than 50 swimmers) over the Jan. 20-21 weekend at Saanich Commonwealth

Pool.

Victoria’s Tyee club, led by the seven gold-medal performance of Ian Schoeddert in 10-under boys, wound

up fourth overall and third among the largest teams.

Among the other top local age group medallists (gold-silver-bronze):

15-over – women, VASC: Stephanie Pollard (4-2-1), Shawnee Landolt (2-1-1), Tara Hahto (0-3-0); Tyee:

Cassie Morrice (2-2-2); men; VASC: Lu Yi Lay (2-3-0)

13-14 – girls, Tyee Aquatic Club: Nicki Fyfe (3-3-1); VASC: Hilary Wille (2-0-0); boys, VACS: Brook

Powell (4-4-1), Keegan Zanatta (1-2-2); Juan de Fuca Cohos: Tanner Milne (0-2-2)

11-12 – boys, VASC: Truan Forsyth (0-2-2)

10-under – girls, VASC: Heidi Bradley (1-4-0)

For complete results, go to https://www.swimdirect.ca/ and click on 2007 Vancouver Island Regional.

http://www.saanichnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=28&cat=40&id=&more=






Island Swimmers finish in 4th position at Western Championships

13 Island Swimmers competed in Regina from Feb 15-18 at the 2007 Western Canadian Championships.

Congrats to all our swimmers on their performances.

2007 Team Aquatic Supplies BC SC Provincial Championships are off and swimming!

The 2007 Team Aquatic Supplies BC SC Provincial Championships are under way in Victoria BC. Island Swimming and their member clubs (COHO/TYEE/VASC) are proud to host this event from March 1-4 at Saanich Commonwealth Place. Good Luck to all the participants. Top 10 Scoring Teams

UBC Dolphins 2410

Island Swimming 2214

Chena 1471

Langley Olympians 1420

Hyack Swim Club 987

Simon Fraser Aquatics

934

Pacific Sea Wolves 908

Day Four Island Swimming Highlights: Congratulations to Dru Sabourin who qualified to represent the Swim BC SWAD team at this summers Western Canadian Games. Dru's performances this weekend earned him one of the two spots for Male Swimmers with a disability. Congratulations to Patrick Graham for winning the 12&Under Boys High Point Award. Patrick swam the highest FINA point scoring swim of all the 12 & Under boys in the meet with 472pts. Congratulations to Jeremy Bagshaw who received the RAD (regional athlete development) award for being the highest RAD Scoring Vancouver Island Region Swimmer. Gold- Cassie Morrice (100Fly), Patrick Graham (200Fr) Silver- Naomi Ellis (50Fr), Jeremy Bagshaw (200IM/100Fly/200Fr), Cassie Morrice (200Fr) Bronze- Jeremy Bagshaw (50Fr), Kaitlyn Casper (50Fr), Naomi Ellis (200IM/200Fr), Katie McEvoy (200IM), Mason Lowewn (100 Fly) Day Three Island Swimming Highlights: Congratulation to the 12&U Girls 200Med relay who set a new Swim BC provincial record tonight. Way to go Naomi E, Jennifer M, R Langlois, and H Dennett. Their record of 2:10.31 surpasses the previous record of 2:10.74 that was set in 2006. Gold- Naomi Ellis (100Bk), Jennifer Mann (200Br), Patrick Graham (400Fr), 12&U Girls 200Med Relay (N Ellis, J Mann, R Langlois, H Dennett), 14&U Girls 200Med Relay (V Loewen, K McEvoy, H Wille, M Coutts) Silver- Truan Forsyth (200Fly), Hillary Wille (200Fly), Jeremy Bagshaw (200Fly/400Fr), Katie McEvoy (200Br), Cassie Morrice (400Fr), 12&U Boys 200Med Relay (P Graham, M Loewen, T Forsyth, J Saunders)

Bronze- Patrick Graham (200Fly), Sarah Galbraith (200Br), 14&U Boys 200Fr Relay (J Bagshaw, J Shan, B Powell, T Milne) Day Two Island Swimming Highlights: Island Swimming continues to produce some best performances in the water. Gold- Jennifer Mann (100Br) Silver- Jeremy Bagshaw (100Fr, 400IM), Naomi Ellis (400IM, 200Bk), Katie McEvoy (400IM, 100Br), Patrick Graham (200Bk), Joe Shan (100Br), 14&U Boys 200Fr Relay (J Shan, J Bagshaw, B Powell, T Milne), 17&U Girls 200Fr Relay (K Casper, C Morrice, S Landolt, N Roome) Bronze- Rebecca Langlois (400IM), Vanessa Loewen (200Bk), 12&U Girls 200Fr Relay (R Langlois, J Mann, H Dennett, N Ellis), 12&U Boys 200Fr Relay (P Graham, T Forsyth, J Saunders, M Loewen) Day One Island Swimming Highlights: Day one is off to a great start with some excellent performances by the Island Swimmers. Congratulation to Jeremy Bagshaw for setting a New Swim BC Record in the 1500 Freestyle. Jeremy's record breaking swim of 16:13.74 shatters the previous record of 16:17.51 that had been unbroken for 10 years. Gold- Jeremy Bagshaw (1500Fr), Patrick Graham (1500Fr) Silver- Shawnee Landolt (800Fr), 12&U Boys 400 Fr Relay (J Saunders, M Loewen, T Forsyth, P Graham), 14&U Boys 400 Fr Relay (J Shan, K Zanatta, B Powell, J Bagshaw) Bronze- Naomi Ellis (800Fr), 12&U Girls 400 Fr Relay (N Ellis, J Mann, H Dennett, R Langlois)

80th Annual Elementary/Middle School Meets Set for March

The Victoria Amateur Swim Club is pleased to host the 80th Annual Elementary/Middle School preliminary (March 5 & 6) and championship (March 11) meets. Please contact Sureen at [email protected] or 479-3909 for more info.

Spring Nationals/Pan Am Trials are in Victoria this week (Mar 21)

Saanich Commonwealth Place is playing host to the 2007 Spring Nationals and Pan Am Trials. Island Swimming is represented by 10 swimmers from Mar 21-25.

2007 World Aquatics Championships Mar 25-April 1

Canada's best aquatic athletes are in Melbourne Australia competing at the 2007 World Aquatics

Championships. This swimming component for the championships will run from March 25 - April 1. Island Swimming is represented on Team Canada by Ryan Cochrane, Matt Rose, Rick Say, and coach Randy Bennett. Check out the links below for up to date information. NEWS FLASH (March 27): Ryan Cochrane finishes 8th in the 800Fr final at the World Aquatic Championships NEWS FLASH (March 26): Ryan Cochrane breaks 800FR Canadian Record and qualifies in fourth position for 800FR Finals NEWS FLASH (March 25): Matt Rose and Rick Say help Canada finish 7th in the 4 x100 Fr relay

Victoria's Say hoped to defend silver in 4 x 100 relay, but finished seventh

Times Colonist

Monday, March 26, 2007

The world doesn't wait. It just gets faster.

At the last FINA world aquatics championships, in 2005 at Montreal, veteran Victoria swimmer Rick Say won silver with the Canadian team in the men's 4x100 freestyle relay. Yesterday in Melbourne at the 2007 FINA worlds, Say's best and that of his mates, netted seventh place in the final at Rod Laver Arena.

"The world has gotten a lot faster from the last world championships in Montreal,'' said Say, in a media release. "We went out there trying to defend our silver. But the Italians, who weren't even in the final two years ago, won a medal [bronze]. So the field is deeper.''

Also on the Canadian 4x100 freestyle team, which went 3:16.91 in the final, was Matt Rose of Victoria.

"We all showed we're ready to swim really fast. We realize what we need to do in the next year to get ready for the [2008 Beijing Summer] Olympics'' said Say.

Claremont-grad Ryan Cochrane knocked two seconds off his personal best time in placing 19th in the men's 400 freestyle.

Canadian Record for Ryan Cochrane

Mar. 27, 2007 - By: Swim BC MELBOURNE, Australia, March 27: World Championships Victoria’s Ryan Cochrane smashed the 800 Freestyle Canadian record and sits fourth heading into tonight's Final. Swimming in the final heat against Australian great, Grant Hackett, Ryan improved his personal best by almost 7seconds, won the heat and finds himself in 4th place heading into tonight’s final.

Ryan’s Canadian record splits: 57.41 1:57.40 (59.99) 2:56.92 (59.52) 3:56.87 (59.95) 4:56.58 (59.71) 5:56.18 (59.60) 6:55.68 (59.50)

7:51.55 (55.87)

Cochrane Just Misses National Record in 1500 Free

Mar. 31, 2007 - By: Swim BC

Ryan Cochrane of Island Swimming in Victoria finished 15th in the men's 1500 free at the World Championships in Melbourne Australia on Saturday morning. His time of 15:09.44 was just 4/10th second away from Andrew Hurd's national record of 15:09.44 set last year in Melbourne at the Commonwealth Games. 15. COCHRANE Ryan CAN 15:09.88

50m: 28.09 100m: 58.47 150m: 1:28.76 200m: 1:59.00 250m: 2:29.25 300m: 2:59.67 350m: 3:30.02 400m: 4:00.25 450m: 4:30.57 500m: 5:00.88 550m: 5:31.32 600m: 6:01.62 650m: 6:32.20 700m: 7:02.27 750m: 7:32.83 800m: 8:03.12 850m: 8:33.62 900m: 9:04.44 950m: 9:35.13 1000m:10:05.76 1050m:10:36.77 1100m:11:07.55 1150m:11:38.16 1200m:12:08.85 1250m:12:39.72 1300m:13:10.33 1350m:13:41.12 1400m:14:11.85 1450m:14:41.82 1500m:15:09.88

March 27, 2007

Victoria's Ryan Cochrane breaks Canadian record in men's 800 freestyle at worlds

MELBOURNE, Australia – Ryan Cochrane of Victoria beat world record holder Grant Hackett of Australia in his men’s 800 freestyle heat on Tuesday clocking a Canadian record to qualify fourth for the final in swimming action at the world aquatic championships.

"It felt really good," said Cochrane. "It's my best time by seven seconds. I am happy to get second in the heat and I am excited about the final. There are always things to improve on. I will have to work on my starts and turns. Overall it was the best swim I could have done."

It was a big day for the Americans with world record performances and gold medals for Michael Phelps in the men’s 200 freestyle, Natalie Coughlin in the women’s 100 backstroke and Aaron Peirsol in the men’s 100 backstroke. Federica Pellegrini of Italy lowered the world mark in her 200 freestyle semifinal heat.

In the men’s 800 freestyle prelims, the 18-year-old Cochrane, swam out of lane two in the sixth and last heat of the morning. It turned out to be a very exciting race, with Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia winning the heat in 7:51.48, Cochrane second in 7:51.55 and Hackett third in 7:51.86.

Those were the third to fifth fastest times of the prelims. Cochrane smashed the previous national mark of 7:55.88 set by Andrew Hurd of Toronto set at last year’s Pan Pacific Championships.

"He was a bit faster than expected," said Cochrane’s coach Randy Bennett. "And the reason is because there were three guys in previous heats that went 7:50 and 7:52. Ryan could see the race shaping up in the pool, he was able to see the clock and see where he stood. At the 500-metre mark he knew he had to pick it up. If you look at his history he always closes very well and once he turned at 600 in 5:56 I knew he would be fine. His last 100 was the best in the field."

Bennett said finishing ahead of the legendary Hackett is a big confidence boost for Cochrane. Cochrane pulled ahead of Hackett at the halfway point of the race for good.

"Having Hackett in the middle of the pool was a huge plus and Ryan was going stroke for stroke with him," said Bennett. "His tactic was not to get in to over his head early in the race and make sure he was within striking distance. Ryan understands the event really well. He’s a very mature racer."

The final is on Wednesday.

"It's my best time by seven seconds. I am happy to get second in the heat and I am excited about the final", said Ryan Cochrane. The swimmer from Victoria qualified fourth for the final of the 800 m freestyle at the world aquatic championships, Tuesday, with his time of 7:51.55, a new Canadian record, which was better than world record holder Grant Hackett's time.

VASC AGM set for April 10

The Victoria Amateur Swim Club will be holding their Annual General Meeting on April 10 in the PacSport Board room at 7pm. There is a notice of motion "To amend the VASC constitution and by-laws"

2007 Island LC Invitational Meet (April 20)

The 2007 Island LC Invitational took place from April 20-22 at Saanich Commonwealth Place. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped put on this event.

Island Swimming in action at Bell Grand Prix/Zajac Meet(June 1)

27 Island Swimmers are in Vancouver from June 1-3 at the UBC Aquatic centre for the 2007 Bell Grand Prix/Zajac meet. Good Luck to all our swimmers. Day One Highlights: It was a golden night for Island Swimming. Ryan Cochrane starts the night by breaking the 800Fr meet record by 10 seconds well ahead of the rest of the competitors. Matt Rose wins Gold in the 50 Fly. The Boys 4x100Fr relay wins Gold to finish off the night (R Say, M Rose, S Hirniak, R Cochrane).

Day Two Highlights: Island takes the top two spots in the 400 freestyle tonight. Ryan Cochrane finishes with the Gold, and Rick Say takes home the Silver medal. Matt Rose wins Silver in the 50 freestyle. Day Three Highlights: Ryan Cochrane wins GOLD with a New Canadian Record in the 1500Fr. Stefan Hirniak wins Gold in the 200 Fly, and Rick Say brings home Silver in the 100Fr.

June 1, 2007

Victoria's Ryan Cochrane lowers meet record at Mel Zajac Jr International / Bell Swimming Grand Prix

VANCOUVER – Ryan Cochrane of Victoria

recently returned from the land down under and

finished on top in the men’s 800-metre freestyle

in meet record time on Friday to open the 44th

Mel Zajac Jr International / Bell Swimming

Grand Prix.

Cochrane, who broke the Canadian record en

route to an eighth place finish at the worlds in

March, took the gold in eight minutes and

00.090 seconds. That smashed the previous

meet mark of 8:10.15 set by Andrew Hurd of

Toronto last year. C.J. Nuess of the U.S., was

second in 8:20.59 and Jarrod Ballem of Calgary

third in 8:21.71.

"That was my best time since the worlds," said

Cochrane, who remained in Australia for six

weeks after the worlds to work with a training

group. "I approached the race differently than

usual by starting out much faster. I think by

doing that I underestimated how hard the race would be, but I’m really happy with it."

Other winners Friday in men’s competition included Matt Rose of Victoria in the 50

butterfly.

Competition continues through to Sunday.

"I approached the race differently than usual by starting out much faster", said Ryan Cochrane of Victoria, who won the men's 800-metre freestyle at the 44th Mel Zajac Jr International / Bell Swimming Grand Prix by breaking the meet record with a time of 8:00.090. "I think by doing that I underestimated how hard the race would be, but I’m really happy with it."

June 3, 2007

Ryan Cochrane breaks Canadian record at Mel Zajac Jr International / Bell Swimming Grand Prix

VANCOUVER – Ryan Cochrane of Victoria broke the Canadian record Sunday in the men’s 1,500-metre freestyle to conclude the Mel Zajac Jr International / Bell Swimming Grand Prix.

Cochrane clocked 15 minutes and 08.25 seconds to eclipse the previous national mark of 15:09.44 set by Andrew Hurd of Toronto last year. Sandy Lockhart of Vancouver was second and C.J. Nuess of the U.S., third.

"It was pretty unexpected," said Cochrane, 18. "It was the end of the meet, I wasn’t happy with my performances so far and I didn’t have a good warm-up. My strategy tonight was to hold back a bit at the start. At the 1,000 I saw that I needed to pick it up. Once I was on pace for the record I knew I could make it. I could see the splits and hear the cheering."

"It was pretty unexpected. It was the end of the meet, I wasn’t happy with my performances so far and I didn’t have a good warm-up", confessed Ryan Cochrane, Sunday, after he broke the Canadian record in the men's 1,500-metre freestyle with a time of 15:08.25 at the Mel Zajac Jr International / Bell Swimming Grand Prix.

Crowd's cheers bring Cochrane home in Canadian record time

Terry Bell, The Province

Published: Monday, June 04, 2007

Flyin' Ryan Cochrane finished off the Mel Zajac Jr. International swim meet with a

helluva kick Sunday. In the meet's final individual event, the 18-year-old Island

Swimming club speedball set a Canadian record in the men's 1500-metre freestyle,

winning in 15 minutes, 08.25 seconds, breaking the 15:09.44 Oakville, Ont.'s Andrew

Hurd swam at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2006.

"It's great," said Cochrane. "I just missed [the record] at [the 2007 world championships

last March in Melbourne] and this was really unexpected, which makes it 10 times better.

This wasn't really in the plans. Two weeks ago, I swam a 15:11. This record was kind of

a long-term thing."

The crowd got into it at the half-way mark when Cochrane was four seconds below

record pace. The din pulled him along, which was a good thing because he had no one in

the pool to do that work.

"For sure, that helped," said Cochrane, who also won the 800-m freestyle on Friday and

the 400-m free on Saturday. "It started to hurt at about 400 metres, so it was great to hear

everyone."

Island athletes hot as the weather Cleve Dheensaw, Times Colonist


Cochrane broke swimming records over the weekend with more regularity than global-

warming scares and B.C. lottery scandals. The rawboned Claremont-grad eclipsed the

Canadian standard in the men's 1,500-metre freestyle yesterday at the Zajac International

Grand Prix meet in Vancouver after breaking the 800-metre freestyle meet record on

Friday. The rapidly rising 18-year-old added the 400-freestyle title for good measure,

with Olympic veteran and fellow-Victorian Rick Say second.

"It was pretty unexpected . . . it was the end of the meet and I didn't have a good warm-

up," said Cochrane, in a release, after clocking 15:08.25 to best Andrew Hurd's previous

Canadian 1,500-freestyle record of 15:09.44 set last year.

Everybody should have such bad warm-ups.

"Once I was on pace for the record, I knew I could make it. I could see the splits and hear

the cheering."

Where do you go when you want to learn from the best in swimming? Oz, of course, and

that's where Cochrane has been for two months training with Grant Hackett's coach Denis

Cotterell. Those sessions seem to have worked

TYEE Set to host 2007 VIR LC Champs (June 1)

The 2007 VIR LC championships will be hosted by TYEE and take place from June 8-10 at Saanich Commonwealth Place. The 2007 VIR LC championships were hosted by TYEE from June 8-10 at Saanich Commonwealth Place. Thank you to all the volunteers for putting on such a great event. Over the weekend many swimmers achieved new qualifying standards, and many new VIR Meet Records were set. COHO/TYEE/VASC Highlights: Island Swimming members finishes the weekend with excellent results, and VASC once again stood on top of the point scores as the 2007 VIR LC Champions. Congrats to the following IS swimmers who set new VIR Meet records on the weekend: Zochowski, Thomas 50 Free 24.42 previously set in 2003 at 25.43 by Sean Sepulis (VASC) Mann, Jennifer 100 Breast 1:16.29 previously set in 2005 at 1:17.54 by C Loewers (NRST) Ellis, Naomi 800 Free 9:55.02 previously set in 2004 at 9:58.57 by Kate Adamson (COMOX) Ellis, Naomi 200 Free 2:19.35 previously set in 2003 at 2:21.87 by Jayme Weimer (PCS) Wille, Hilary 1500 Free 18:21.72 previously set in 2006 at 18:31.37 by Brittany Buna (VASC) Wille, Hilary 200 Fly 2:24.54 previously set in 2006 at 2:28.11 by Christl Bradley (VASC) Landolt, Shawnee 1500 Free 18:00.85 previously set in 2003 at 18:12.41 by Sarah Mayzes (COHO) Loewen, Vanessa 100 Back 1:07.85 previously set in 2006 at 1:09.15 by Alyssa Bakken (UVPCS) Loewen, Vanessa 200 Back 2:26.38 previously set in 2006 at 2:26.71 by Alyssa Bakken (UVPCS) Moneo, Savanna 200 Breast 2:44.20 previously set in 2006 at 2:47.00 by C Loewers (NRST)

Milne, Tanner 200 Free 2:08.16 previously set in 2004 at 2:08.38 by Willem Hergesheimer (NRST) McLaren, Alex 200 Free 1:58.83 previously set in 2006 at 1:59.00 by Ryan Cochrane (VASC) Powell, Brook 200 Fly 2:20.90 previously set in 2005 at 2:21.92 by Craig Dagnall (UVPCS) TYEE 15&O Girls 200 Medley Relay 2:05.52 (N Roome, K McEvoy, C Morrice, K Casper)

Island Swimmers Head to Europe for 2007 Mare Nostrum Meets (June 11)

Island Swimmers Matt Rose and Rick Say are in Europe this month taking part in the Mare Nostrum Meets. The Mare Nostrum meets take place in Canet, Barcelona, and Monoco. Canet Meet Highlights: Matt Rose wins the 50 Free "B" Final 23.10, 7th in the 100 Free 50.59, 50 Fly 25.22 Rick Say 100 Free 52.50, 5th in the 200 Free 1:50.22 (1:49.82 in prelims), 7th in the 400 Island Swimmers get wet in Santa Clara and Montreal (June 28)

From June 28-July 2 Stefan Hirniak is representing Island Swimming at the 2007 Quebec Cup/Grand Prix meet in Montreal. On the same weekend Richard Alexander, Ryan Cochrane, and Coach Randy Bennett are attending the 2007 Santa Clara International Grand Prix meet in California. Good Luck!

Swimming hot around the region

Swimmers such as Island Swimming s Ashleigh Toby will put their best stroke forward at the provincial

AAA long course swim championships this week in Kamloops.

By Don Descoteau

News staff Saanich News

Jul 04 2007

Increase in numbers over past five years fuels boost in success rate

Saanich Commonwealth Place has hosted some high-calibre swimming events, from the Pan Pacific

Championships to the Canadian Pan-Am Games Trials to the Commonwealth Games in 1994.

Fourteen years or so after it was built, the SCP pool has become a hotbed for talented local athletes. In the

case of Island Swimming and the University of Victoria-Pacific Coast Swimming, the two largest local

organizations training young swimmers, the picture is particularly rosy.

Between the two rival groups they train side on opposite sides of the pool at SCP an all-time high of 94

swimmers, 52 with IS and 42 for UVic-PCS, qualified for the 2007 long course provincial championships,

set for July 5-8 in Kamloops. A healthy percentage of those swimmers have already qualified for the Age

Group Nationals two weeks later in Montreal, while others will be out to make nationals time standards.

We have a long-term development kind of philosophy, said Randy Bennett, director of swimming for

Island Swimming and head coach for the Commonwealth-based Victoria Amateur Swim Club.

This is my fifth year here and I feel now we have a pretty good 14-under development program, he said,

noting that many of those swimmers started with the club at age 9 or 10. You can start seeing the results

paying off. A few of these kids have really started to show their mettle. The system is starting to work and

it should stand the test of time. We still have the strength in 10-11-12 (year-olds) as we had several years

ago.

The region s largest swim organization, Island Swimming encompasses VASC, the Victoria Tyee Swim

Club and the Juan de Fuca Cohos for provincial meets and above. It lists past and future Olympians Rick

Say, Ryan Cochrane and Brittany Reimer among its membership, as well as a stable of rising stars that

includes Richard Alexander, Alex McLaren, Vanessa Loewen and Stephanie Pollard.

At provincials, the 18-time champion UBC Dolphins will be the team to beat, but Bennett said his team is

primed to knock the Dolphins off.

We only lost (the short course provincials team title in March) by a couple hundred points. We re going

there to try and get that title back, he said.

Regardless of what happens, the ongoing level of competition they face is helping push local swimmers to

new heights at the recent Vancouver Island regional championships, IS athletes shattered more than a

dozen records.

IS brings home the top spot at the 2007 BC LC Championships

The 2007 Team Aquatic Supplies BC LC Provincial Championships took place in Kamloops from July 5-8.

Island Swimming was well represented by 56 swimmers. A weekend of tough fast swimming helped the

team finish with the top position as the #1 team in the Province. Way to go Swimmers!

Day Four Highlights:

The last night brought exciting swims and results in the pool. IS swimmers walked away with the #1

position in the overall point scores and placed 6 swimmers on the Swim BC Far Westerns provincial team

trip. This is truly exciting as there were only 8 positions available for the entire province. Congrats to

Naomi Ellis who won the Team Aquatic Supplies Regional Development award for Vancouver Island and

to Ian Schoeddert who brought home the 10&U boys All Star Bronze award for having the third fastest

cumulative time of all 10&U boys events.

Gold- Naomi Ellis (100Bk & 400Fr), 14&U Girls 200 Medley Relay (V Loewen, S Moneo, H Wille, S

Smilowski), Senior Girls 200 Medley Relay (K Casper, T Hahto, C Morrice, K Sutton)

Silver- Hilary Wille (200Fly), Christl Bradley (200Fly), Vanessa Loewen (100Bk), Patrick Graham (400Fr)

Bronze- Jeremy Bagshaw (400Fr), 12&U Girls 200 Medley Relay (N Ellis, C MacDonald, H Dennett, L

Su)

Day Three Highlights:

It has been a scorcher in Kamloops and the Island Swimmers continue to battle the top spot in the province.

Gold- Shawnee Landolt (800Fr), Savannah Moneo (100Br)

Silver- Ian Schoeddert (50Fr), Naomi Ellis (200IM), Kathryn Sutton (200IM), Jennifer Mann (100Br), Tara

Hahto (100Br)

Bronze- Jeremy Bagshaw (1500Fr), Naomi Ellis (100Br), Mason Loewen (100Br), Ian Schoeddert (100Bk)

Day Two Highlights:

The second day finished strong with Island Swimming taking the top position on overall point scores.

Vanessa Loewen started the night by making her first Senior National standard in the 200Bk. In the final

event of the night the Senior girls and 14&U girls swept the top spot on the 400 Medley relays while the

14&U girls also set a new Provincial record. Vanessa Loewen, Jennifer Mann, Hilary Wille,and Sydney

Smilowski were more than 3 seconds ahead of the previous record that was set over 10 years ago. Well

done Girls!

Gold- Kathryn Sutton (400IM), 14&U Girls 400 Medley Relay (V Loewen, J Mann, H Wille, S

Smilowski), Senior Girls 400 Medley Relay (S Pollard, T Hahto, C Morrice, K Casper)

Silver- Naomi Ellis (200Bk, 400IM), Vanessa Loewen (200Bk), Stephanie Pollard (200Bk), Alex McLaren

(200Bk)

Bronze- Brittney Buna (400IM), Hilary Wille (800Fr)

Day One Highlights:

The first day has started off well with 21 swims moving on to finals. Congratulations to Jennifer Mann who

achieved her first Senior National time in the 200 Breast.

Gold- Jennifer Mann (200Br), Cassie Morrice (100Fly)

Silver- Alex McLaren (200Fr), Savannah Moneo (200Br), Tara Hahto (200Br), Hilary Wille (100Fly),

14&U Girls 200Fr Relay (V Loewen, S Moneo, H Wille, S Smilowski)

Bronze- Jeremy Bagshaw (200Fr), Vanessa Loewen (100Fly), Naomi Ellis (800Fr), 12&Under Girls 200Fr

Relay (N Ellis, C MacDonald, L Su, H Dennett), Senior Girls 200 Fr Relay (K Casper, C Morrice, K

Sutton, S Pollard)

Island Swimming Prevails at BC Long Course Champs

Jul. 08, 2007 - By: Swim BC

Sunday, July 08, 2007

The Team Aquatic Supplies BC Long Course Swimming Championships wrapped up on Sunday,

July 08, 2007, with one of the closest finishes ever in team scoring, a nd a number of superb

performances highlighting the final day’s events.

Not only was there a very close race for top spot in team scoring, but there was also a tight

contest for third spot.

For top honours, Island Swimming prevailed, besting UBC Dolphins b y a mere 62 points, 2196

to 2134. And in the battle for third-place bragging rights, Richmond Rapids, on the strength of

some great performances from their 12&U and 14&U swimmers finished third.

Team Aquatic Supplies Regional Age Group Development Award .

Vancouver Island: Naomi Ellis (IS)

Once again, the meet included the very popular and hugely successful Swim BC 10&U

SwimStars competition for the best 10&U swimmers in BC. On Saturday and Sunday, 34 10&U

swimmers from across the province competed in s ix events, with the combined time of the six

events being used to determine overall individual placing.

In the Top eight 10&U SwimStars girls was Kimberly Zhu IS, and for the Ian Schoeddert (IS).

IS Swimmers are in Montreal for AG Nationals

28 Island Swimmers are in Montreal for Swimming Canada's Age Group Nationals from July 19-22.

Coaches Cindy and Neil are set for some great results. Good Luck!

Island Swimming AG Team

Name: BAGSHAW,JEREMY

Name: BLIGH,DEXTER

Name: BRADLEY,CHRISTL

Name: BUNA,BRITTANY

Name: CASPER,KAITLYN

Name: EFFORD,JENNIKA

Name: ELLIS,NAOMI

Name: FYFE,NICOLE

Name: GALBRAITH,SARAH

Name: GRAHAM,PATRICK

Name: HAHTO,TARA

Name: LANGLOIS,REBECCA

Name: LOEWEN,VANESSA

Name: MANN,JENNIFER

Name: MCEVOY,KATE

Name: MONEO,SAVANNAH

Name: MORRICE,CASSIE

Name: PHILLIPS,KRISTINA

Name: POWELL,BROOK

Name: ROOME,NAOMI

Name: SMILOWSKI,SYDNEY

Name: TOBY,ASHLEIGH

Name: WALTER,CHANTAL

Name: WILLE,HILARY

Name: YUAN,VICTOR

Name: ZANATTA,KEEGAN

Name: ZHU,KEVIN

Coaches Recap: We have just returned from Montreal at the National age group championships. The team

performance was very good. Island swimmers won 11 medals and finished 11th out of 125 teams!! I would

like to congratulate everyone who attended the meet and performed a personal best time. There were over

1400 swimmers at the meet. It rained heavily for 2 days and then the sun shone hot for the last 2 days. It

was an adventure for sure.A big thanks go out to the chaperones Andrea Kent and Byron Powell for doing a

fantastic job for our swimmers.

AGE GROUP NATIONALS – MONTREAL – PARC JEAND DRAPEAU JULY 18-21, 2007

DAY 1

Swimmers woke up Thursday morning to gray sky and rain Day 1 of the Ag e Group Nationals at Parc Jean Drapeau in

Montreal. With 1400 plus swimmers competing out of 16 lanes in the prelims the meet was already challenging

without the steady downpour, but the morning went off without a hitch. The rain slowed for warm up at nigh t and stopped by about 10 minutes into the first night of finals.

BC swimmers were a solid presence in the 10 lane finals and on the podium Day 1. Sixty -four BC swimmers advanced to finals winning four Gold, nine Silver and seven Bronze medals.

Our best medal event was the 50 Back where BC won six medals. Our largest final presence was the 200 IM where seventeen BC swimmers advanced. We were weakest in the mile where BC picked up just one Gold medal count along

with two Silver and two Bronze medals and only fourteen swimmers made the Top 10. IS had the highest number of

Top 10 finishes with one Gold, one Silver and seven Top 10 finishes.

Day One Highlights:

Gold: Vanessa Loewen (50Bk)

Silver: Jeremy Bagshaw (1500Fr)

Finalists: Brook Powell (7th 50Fr, 4th 1500Fr), Naomi Ellis (5th 200IM), Vanessa Loewen (8th 200IM),

Savannah Moneo (10th 200IM), Jeremy Bagshaw (10th 200IM), Brittany Buna (1500Fr)

AGE GROUP NATIONALS – MONTREAL – PARC JEAN DRAPEAU JULY 18-21, 2007

Day 2

The soggy weather got worse today, breaking a rain accumulation record of over 100 mm, but that didn’t put a damper

on the competition. Swimmers, coaches and officials all hunkered down, sticking to their roles and got the job done.

Finals weren’t only rainy but pretty cold.

Maybe our BC swimmers had a rain advantage because our swimmers picked up the pace today with 71 swims and seven relays in scoring position. BC swimmers claimed 24 medals tonight winning five Gold, eleven Silver and eight

Bronze. We were best in Fly winning three Gold from 25 swims in the Top 10. BC had three or more finalists in six of

the ten age groups.

BC swimmers also won seven medals in the 100 Back with only one win, but we managed six more medals out of only

fourteen finalists. We were weak overall in the 50 Breast winning only two Bronze out of twelve scoring swims. The 400 Free was solid with six medals in total, one win and five silver out of the eighteen final swims.

IS were had three winning individual medals while claiming two Silver and a Bronze.Everyon e is looking forward to the clear skies tomorrow that the weatherman has promised.

Day Two Highlights:

Silver: Hilary Wille (200Fly), Naomi Ellis (100Bk)

Bronze: Vanessa Loewen (100Bk)

Finalists: Jeremy Bagshaw (10th 200Fly, 6th 400Fr), Christl Bradley (10th 200Fly), Savannah Moneo (4th

50Br), Jennifer Mann (5th 50Br), Tara Hahto (8th 50Br), 14&U Girls 400Fr Relay (8th S Smilowski, H

Wille, N Ellis, V Loewen)

AGE GROUP NATIONALS – MONTREAL – PARC JEAN DRAPEAU JULY 18-21, 2007.

Day 3

The sun came out this morning and it was a welcome sight to everyone. It's worth mentioning again that the meet committee, volunteers and officials did a great job through the first two days of steady downpour.

Team BC had slightly fewer Top 10 swims this evening but the medal count was only one less and the BC Gold Medal count

was up tonight, with a total of nine. BC swimmers also had 62 individual swims and six relays in the finals tonight, coming

away with nine gold, five silver, and eight bronze.

We had sixteen finalists in the 200 Free, the 100 Breast and the 200 Back, with the highest number of medals coming in the

200 Backstroke (two gold, two silver, and three bronze); Vanessa Loewen, 13, (IS) was particularly impressive.

IS won the most medals this evening with one Gold, one Silver and three Bronze. They also had another three final swims

and two relays make the top 10.

With the weather co-operating it was definitely the best overall racing we've seen at the Age Group Nationals so far.

Tomorrow night is looking like it will be a great finish. The final two events to watch for will be the traditional 400 Free

Inter-provincial Relays. Go BC!


Gold: Vanessa Loewen (200Bk)

Silver: Jennifer Mann (100Br)

Bronze: Brook Powell (200Fr), Naomi Ellis (200Bk)

Finalists: Jeremy Bagshaw (6th 200Fr), Savannah Moneo (6th 100Br), Katie McEvoy (7th 100Br), 13&U

Boys 200Med Relay (6th P Graham, B Powell, M Loewen, V Yuan), 14&U Girls 400Med Relay (4th V

Loewen, S Moneo, H Wille, S Smilowski)

AGE GROUP NATIONALS – MONTREAL – PARC JEAN DRAPEAU JULY 18-21, 2007.| Day 4

It was another beautiful day in Montreal today for the last session of the 2007 Age Group National Championships. BC swimmers had more swimmers in the top 10 than any other sessi on, with 88 swims in the top 10. We ended up

with a total of 24 medals tonight: eight Gold, nine Silver and seven Bronze.

We had the most top 10 swims in the 800 Free, closely followed by the 400 IM with 19, where we won the most

medals (8 in total: two Gold, three Silver and three Bronze). Our worst medal showing event was the 100 Free where

we won just two Gold out of seventeen finalists. Our weakest event tonight was the 50 Fly where we had only thirteen swimmers in the finals. We were solid in the 200 Breast winning a total of seven medals: two Gold, two Silver and

three Bronze.

IS won two medals. IS had 10 Finalists to lead BC into the final session.


Silver: Naomi Ellis (400IM), Jennifer Mann (200Br)

Finalists: Jeremy Bagshaw (4th 400IM), Brittany Buna (8th 400IM, 4th 800Fr), Vanessa Loewen (6th 50

Fly), Savannah Moneo (5th 200Br), Tara Hahto (4th 200Br), Hilary Wille (9th 800Fr), Brook Powell (5th

800Fr), 14&U Girls 400Fr Relay (8th S Smilowski, H Wille, N Ellis, V Loewen)

AGE GROUP NATIONALS – MONTREAL – PARC JEAN DRAPEAU JULY 18-21, 2007.| Day 5 Open Water Swim

The Open Water events at Age Group Nationals resulted in some excellent performances from BC swimmers who were among the 114 swimmers from across Canada who con tested the event. The race took place on a beautiful

Monday morning at the Olympic Rowing Basin (basically a 2km long swimming pool) adjacent to the river and on the

same island as the competition pools used for the rest of the meet.

Silver:

Brook Powell (IS) – 13-year boys (1:03:46)

Open Water Highlights 5KM:

Silver: Brook Powell

Top10: Patrick Graham (6th), Victor Yuan (9th), Kevin Zhu (8th)

Island's Stefan Hirniak Represents Canada at Pan Am Games (July 17)

Our very own Stefan Hirniak is in Rio De Janeiro Brazil for the Pan American Games which take place

from July 13-29, 2007. Stefan will represent Team Canada in the 200 Fly and on the Canadian team relays.

Swimming events will take place from July 14-22. Good Luck Stefan!

Stefan Hirniak battles back from illness with fastest 200 butterfly qualifying time at Pan Am Games

RIO – Stefan Hirniak of Victoria overcame a bout with food poisoning to qualify first in the men’s 200-metre butterfly in Thursday evening’s swimming preliminaries at the Pan Am Games.

Hirniak, who fell ill two nights ago, clocked 2:00.15 to advance to Friday’s semifinal. Adam Sioui of Trenton, Ont., also moved on qualifying fifth.

"I had a tough night a couple of nights ago but I’m gradually getting better," said Hirniak, 22. "I was very happy with how the race turned out. I felt I was in control. My strokes were long and I came off the turns really well."

Stefan Hirniak overcame a bout with food poisoning to qualify first in the men’s 200-metre butterfly, Thursday, at the 2007 Pan Am Games.

NEWSFLASH: Stefan Hirniak wins Bronze in the 4 x 200 Fr Relay

Stefan Hirniak finishes 7th

in 200 Butterfly final

IS swimmers settle in to Calgary for the 2007 Summer Nationials (July 25)

Swimming Canada is hosting the 2007 Summer Senior Nationals at the Talisman Centre in Calgary from

July 26-29, 2007. Island Swimming is represented by 10 swimmers at this event. Good Luck to all our

competitors, Alexander, Richard, Cochrane, Ryan, Hirniak, Stefan, Landolt, Shawnee, Mayzes, Sarah,

Mclaren, Alex, Olesen, Eric, Penhale, Sean, Rose, Matthew, and Say, Rick

Swimming Canada hosted the 2007 Summer Senior Nationals at the Talisman Centre in Calgary from July

26-29, 2007. Island Swimming was represented by 10 swimmers that help lead the team to a third place

finish in the overall team scores. The Men's team moved ahead of the UBC Dolphins over the last two days

to finish second in the Men's team scoring. Well Done Everyone!


Island Swimming finished the championships as the 2nd Highest scoring Men's team, and the 3rd highest

scoring team on overall points. This is two positions higher than the 5th place finish last year. Well Done

Island!

National Champions (GOLD): Ryan Cochrane (1500Fr)

Silver: Matt Rose (50Fr)

Bronze: Sean Penhale (1500Fr)


Island Swimming continues to stay in third position on the overall team scores and moved ahead of the

UBC Dolphins to second position in the Men's team scores. 1 additional swimmers was selected to the

2007-2008 Swimming Canada National Stroke Camps (Eric Olesen).


Bronze: Matt Rose (50Bk), Men's 4 x 100 Fr Relay (S Hirniak, M Rose, R Say, E Olesen)

Finalists: Alex McLaren (11th 50Bk, 14th 200Bk), Eric Olesen (13th 50 Bk), Sean Penhale (5th 400Fr),

Stefan Hirniak (5th 100Fly), Eric Olesen (8th 100Fly)

Day Two Highlights:

Island Swimming continues to remain in third position in the overall team scores. 2 additional swimmers

were selected to the 2007-2008 Swimming Canada National Stroke Camps (S Penhale, M Rose).


Silver: Men's 4 x 200 Fr Relay (S Hirniak, A McLaren, R Say, R Cochrane)

Bronze: Sean Penhale (800Fr), Matt Rose (100Fr)

Finalists: Rick Say (6th 100Fr), Matt Rose (5th 50 Fly), Eric Olesen (12th 50 Fly)

Day One Highlights:

Island Swimming finishes day one in third position in the team scores, and 5 swimmers were selected to the

2007-2008 Swimming Canada National Stroke Camps (R Alexander, R Cochrane, S Hirniak, S Landolt, R

Say).

National Champions (GOLD): Stefan Hirniak (200Fly)

Silver: Rick Say (200Fr)

Bronze: Ryan Cochrane (200Fr)

Finalists: Shawnee Landolt (8th 1500Fr), Eric Olesen (13th 100Bk), Alex McLaren (15th 100Bk), Richard

Alexander (6th 200Fly)

IS Members Represent BC at Far Westerns in California

Left to right: Martin Gurrin (Coach) IS, Clay Stewart, Alec Paige, Tanner Milne IS, Brook Powell IS, Vanessa Loewen IS, Hilary Wille IS, Caitlin Quon, Sydney Smilowski IS, Jennifer Mann IS, Caroline Loewen (chaperone) IS

Six Island Swimming athletes were in Concord, California competing at the 2007 Long Course Far

Western Championships from August 1-5. Jennifer Mann, Vanessa Loewen, Sydney Smilowski, Hilary

Wille, Brook Powell, and Tanner Milne along with 3 other BC athletes representing our province. Coach

Martin Gurrin and Chaperone Caroline Loewen were the staff on the Swim BC trip.

IS Swimmer Highlights:

Gold: Jennifer Mann (100Br, 200Br, 400Med Relay), Hilary Wille (200Fly, 400Med Relay), Vanessa

Loewen (400Med Relay), Sydney Smilowski (400Med Relay)

Silver: Vanessa Loewen (100Bk, 200Med Relay), Jennifer Mann (200Med Relay), Hilary Wille (200Med

Relay), Sydney Smilowski (200Med Relay)

Finalists: Hilary Wille (5th 400Fr), Vanessa Loewen (4th 200Bk), Tanner Milne (9th 800Fr, 5th 800Fr

Relay, 6th 400Fr Relay, 8th 200/400Med & 200Fr Relay), Brook Powell (5th 800Fr Relay, 6th 400Fr

Relay, 8th 200/400Med & 200Fr Relay)

IS Swimmers help lead BC to Western Canada Games Swimming Title (Aug 6)

Sarah Galbraith, Drew Sabourin, and coach Janet Dunn represented Team BC at the 2007 Western Canada

Games in the Strathcona County, Alberta. The games took place from August 3-11, with the swimming

portion running from August 3-6.

Gold: Drew Sabourin (Mixed 200 Fr Multi-Disability Relay)

Silver: Drew Sabourin (50 Fr)

Bronze: Drew Sabourin (100Fr, 100Bk, 200IM)

Finalists: Sarah Galbratih (4th 100Br, 4th 200 Br, 4th 400Med Relay, 8th 400IM), Drew Sabourin (4th

100Br)

IS in Paris for EDF Swimming Open

Ryan Cochrane, Stefan Hirniak, Matt Rose and Coach Randy Bennett were in Paris, France from July 29 -

August 5 for the first EDF Swimming Open. Our swimmers will took on the best of Europe and the rest of

the world in this meet that initiated the one year lead up to the Olympic games in Beijing.

Silver: Ryan Cochrane (1500Fr)

Finalists: Matt Rose (11th 100Fr, 15th 50Fr), Ryan Cochrane (8th 400Fr)

NEWSFLASH: Ryan Cochrane is first Canadian to go

under 15 minutes in the 1500Fr

Competing at the Paris Open in France this past

weekend, Ryan Cochrane (Island Swimming) became

the first Canadian ever to break the 15-minute

barrier in the 1500 freestyle.

Cochrane, who has spent his entire career training in

Victoria, was already the Canadian Record holder,

with a time of 15:08.25, and he absolutely

obliterated that time, going 14:59.72.

That swim gave him a second-place finish at the

Paris Open, one of the top international meets of the

summer, behind Polish swimmer Mateusz

Sawrymowicz, who finished in 14:56.47.

After going out in 57.76, Cochrane settled almost immediately int o a pace of one minute per

Ryan Cochrane wins a silver medal and beat his own canadian record in the men’s 1500 m Freestyle, Saturday, on third day of French Open in Paris, France.

hundred, plus or minus a few tenths, before finishing off with a b 58.06 on the final 100m.

Cochrane's splits en route to his new National record: 2. COCHRANE Ryan '88 CAN 14:59.02

50m: 27.90 100m: 57.76

150m: 1:28.07 200m: 1:58.29 250m: 2:28.66 300m: 2:58.92

350m: 3:29.13 400m: 3:59.38

450m: 4:29.48 500m: 4:59.28 550m: 5:29.52 600m: 5:59.34

650m: 6:29.25 700m: 6:59.22

750m: 7:29.46 800m: 7:59.50

850m: 8:29.78 900m: 8:59.98

950m: 9:30.22 1000m: 10:00.37 1050m: 10:30.31 1100m: 11:00.29

1150m: 11:30.17 1200m: 12:00.49

1250m: 12:30.47 1300m: 13:00.50 1350m: 13:30.70 1400m: 14:00.96

1450m: 14:30.67 1500m: 14:59.02

NEWSFLASH: Matt Rose Wins Bronze in the 4x100Fr Relay The men’s 4x100m freestyle relay clocked 3:17.73 to win the bronze medal just 0.07 seconds behind France who took the silver in 3:17.66. Russia claimed gold in 3:15.42. Swimming for Canada was Matthew Rose of Victoria, Brent Hayden of Mission BC, Adam Sioui of Calgary and Colin Russell of Burlington

Camp Barnard Summer Camp offered to competitive swimmers(July 31)

Island Swimming will be hosting their annual Camp Barnard from August 27-30. This camp is for swimmers aged 11&Over who are registered with Swim BC affiliated swim clubs.

When- August 27th through to the 30th

Where- Camp Barnard, 3202 Young Lake Road, Sooke

Directions- Head to Sooke on Sooke Rd.

- Turn right onto Otter Point Rd. (lights @ gas station) and follow for several km’s.

- Turn right onto Young Lake Rd. and follow to the end

- You will see the Camp sign

Who’s invited- All swimmers aged 11 and up that are currently registered with COHO, TYEE, or VASC;

younger siblings may be accepted at the discretion of the coaching staff: check with Avila.

2007 / 2008

Proudly Sponsored by:


Saanich Commonwealth Pool (VASC)

Randy Bennett - National Group Coach & ISA Director of Swimming Neil Harvey - Tag Group Coach Cindy Radford - Crush & Dynamo Entry Coach Steve Baird - Crush Entry Coach Avila Rhodes - Dynamo & Olympic Way Coach Jessica Edwards - Youth & Olympic Way Coach

2007-2008 Registration Info

The 2007-2008 Registration information for COHO, TYEE, and VASC is now available. Please see the link below for more info. The first practice for all our programs will be on Monday September 17.

By Mail: 24046-4420 W Saanich Rd, Victoria, BC V8Z 7E7 In Person: (check back for confirmed times)

Victoria Amateur Swimming Club -Saanich Commonwealth Place Saturday Sept 15 10am-12pm The first practice for all our programs is Monday September 17

VASC AGM set for October 9

The Victoria Amateur Swimming Club will be holding their Annual General Meeting and Election of

Officers at 7pm on Tuesday October 9 in the PacSport Board room at Saanich Commonwealth Place. All

members in good standing are encouraged to attend this important meeting.

COHO AGM set for October 19

The Juan De Fuca Coho Swim Club will be holding their Annual General Meeting at 6:30pm on Friday

October 19 at the Juan De Fuca Recreation Centre. All members in good standing are encouraged to attend

this important meeting.

TYEE AGM set for November 1

The Tyee Aquatic Club Society will be holding their Annual General Meeting at 7:00 pm on Thursday

November 1, 2007 at Crystal Pool. All members in good standing are encouraged to attend this important

meeting.

Awards Night 2006/2007 – Island Swimming AA (VIR) Qualifiers – first and last names of swimmers who attained their first AA (or VIR for 10&unders) standard. Jeffrey Berna Cassandra Purdon Emily Bradshaw Meghan Rogers Saje Dennett Jennifer Shan Erik Evans Sacha Stewart Laura Fisher

Julia Sunderland-Baker Meg Lovett Emma Toevs Abigail Marco Justin Whitson Emil Morgensen Sarah Kahale Sam Ogden Brynn Walker

Fiona Roome Luke Polson Peter Inches Noah Charlton Bryn Longcroft-Harris Igor Peshkov Egor Peshkov

AAA (Provincial) Qualifiers – first and last names of swimmers who attained their first AAA standard. This includes any 10&unders that achieved the 10&under standard in the 200 IM/400 free Cameron Graham Kimberly Zhu Madison Powell Heidi Bradley Nicky Lapointe

Jessica McLeod Nicolas Sunderland-Baker Ariana Rueben Jason Chiu William Wild

Mikaela Kendall Ian Schoeddert Morgan Dew-Jones

Spirit Award – Given to a swimmer in each competitive group (National, TAG, Crush, Dynamo) who exemplifies the following qualities consistently: group/team leader, good and consistent attendance, sportsmanship and positive attitude towards team mates and coaching staff.

Group Swimmer

National Shawnee Landolt

TAG Christl Bradley

Crush Jennifer Mann

Crush Entry Alana Walter

Dynamo Cassandra Puedon

Tyee - Crystal Angela Sullivan

Coho – Juan de Fuca Caesha McCollum

G.R.I.T. – Guts, Reliability, Integrity, Toughness. Given to a swimmer from each competitive group (National, TAG, Crush, Dynamo).

Group Swimmer

National Brittany Buna

TAG Sydney Smilowski

Crush Nicolas Sunderland-Baker

Crush Entry Courtney Butler

Dynamo Cameron Graham

Tyee - Crystal Garth Schoeddert

Coho – Juan de Fuca Brennan Lund

Age Group Trophies – 10&under girls/boys (top point scorer), 11/12 girls/boys, 13/14 girls/boys, 15-17 girls/boys.

Age Group Female Male

10 and under Heidi Bradley Ian Schoeddert

11/12 Naomi Ellis Patrick Graham

13/14 Vanessa Loewen Brook Powell

15 - 17 Shawnee Landolt Jeremy Bagshaw

New National Qualifiers – Age (long sleeved t-s) and Senior National (plaque) Senior National Qualifiers 2006/2007 Sarah Galbraith, Jennifer Mann, Vanessa Loewen Age National Qualifiers 2006/2007 Connor Foreman, Liam Cochrane, Victor Yuan, Kristina Phillips, Chantal Walter, Mason Loewen, Ashleigh Toby, Dexter Bligh National Champions – Single Age Champions Ryan Cochrane – 400 free, 800 free and 1500 free - Summer Nationals – Calgary Stefan Hirniak – 200 fly - Summer Nationals – Calgary Vanessa Loewen - 50 back, 200 back – Age Nationals - Montreal International recognition World Championships, Melbourne Australia, March 2007 Coach Randy Bennett Ryan Cochrane, Matt Rose, Rick Say Pan American Games, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, July 2007 Stefan Hirniak Special Posters Awards

Ryan Cochrane for Canadian Record swims Rick Say for bronze medal at World Championships

Rick Say Bust Out Swim Trophy and $1000 Scholarship Shawnee Landolt Ryan Cochrane Dr Michael Perchinsky Scholarship and $5000 Scholarship

Ryan Cochrane

Swimmers receive pool of school cash Saanich News October 24, 2007 Ryan Cochrane first recipient of scholarship Doctors are entrusted with saving lives. Now, one in Victoria is helping to build them. Dr. Michael Perchinsky has committed to donating $10,000 a year for the next 10 years to help elite swimmers achieve their dreams. A cardiac surgeon and former competitive swimmer, Perchinsky is giving $5,000 a year for a high-performance swimmer pursuing post-secondary education. Another $5,000 will be set aside for future scholarships. “It’s a really surprising gesture,” said Andrea Kent, president of Victoria Amateur Swim Club. “We’ve never had someone come forward with $100,000 before. I think he got a lot out of the sport and wants to give something back.” The inaugural winner is Ryan Cochrane, who’s already set Canadian records this year in the 800 metre and 1,500m freestyle. The first-year University of Victoria student also became the first Canadian to break the 15-minute mark in the 1,500, clocking in at 14:59.02 at a meet in Paris. “With athletes, it’s a huge expense with traveling and training,” added Kent, who estimated that Cochrane spends more than 20 hours a week in the pool, plus dryland training as well. That’s typical, she said, of someone competing in the upper echelons of the sport. “They put in endless hours and they don’t get a whole lot of (financial) support. There really isn’t a lot for athletes in Canada and they don’t have time for part-time jobs. This is the second major bursary this year for Cochrane, who continues to train with Saanich Commonwealth Place-based Island Swimming. Along with fellow IS swimmer Shawnee Landolt, he captured the Rick Say “Bust Out Swim” award worth $1,000. Kent said these scholarships go a long way in helping athletes who aren’t in a position to earn a lot of money. “They’re so dedicated and they don’t get the funding. This is pretty big.”

IP Cup and Jamboree meets set for November

VASC is proud to kick off the new season by hosting the annual IP Cup and Jamboree meets from November 9-11, 2007. Please note that we have made changes to the format of both meets for this year.

Congratulations

Jeremy! 15 year old, Jeremy Bagshaw of Island Swimming,

has been selected for the Swim Canada

2008 Youth Team “European Tour”.

Jeremy will travel to Geneva and Luxembourg to compete

January 15 - 28, 2008

Jeremy is coached by Randy Bennett.

TYEE Aquatic Club hosts the BC High School Swimming Championships

The 2007 BC High School Swimming Championships took place at Saanich Commonwealth Place on Nov.

16 and 17. Well Done Swimmers!

Island Swimmers in Action at the Bell Grand Prix

Island Swimming was in action from November 23-25 at the Bell Grand Prix in Toronto. This was the first

Swimming Canada meet for the 2007-2008 swim season. Swimmers competed short course during the

preliminaries, and swam long course for the finals each day. Well Done Island!

Friday Highlights:

Bronze: Ryan Cochrane (800Fr), 800Fr Relay (S Hirniak, R Cochrane, R Say, M Rose)

Finalists: Matt Rose (4th 100Fr), Rick Say (9th 100Fr), Stefan Hirniak (12th 50 Fly)

Saturday Highlights:

Gold: Ryan Cochrane (400Fr)

Silver: Matt Rose (50Bk & 50Fr), 400Fr Relay (M Rose, R Say, C Carl, S Hirniak)

Finalists: Stefan Hirniak (10th 100Fly), Christian Carl (12th 50Fr)

Sunday Highlights:

Silver: Ryan Cochrane (1500Fr)

Bronze: Stefan Hirniak (200Fly)

IS hosts first set of Time Trials of the season

Thank you to all our volunteers who helped put on our IS Distance Challenge Time trials on Saturday

Morning. We hosted 4 time trials over the morning which brought over 125 of our swimmers to the pool.

The 5km, 400Fr, 800Fr, and 1500Fr results are on the Swimming Canada Results site. Thanks Everyone!

Over 140 Island Swimmers in Action over the Dec 7-9 Weekend

Island Swimming is busy competing at home, in the USA, and in Europe over the December 7-9 weekend.

Coach Randy is in Eindhoven, Netherlands taking on the best in Europe with 3 IS swimmers at the 2007

Swim Cup Championships. Coach Neil is in Oregon taking on the some of the best junior swimmers from

Canada and Oregon with 11 IS swimmers at the Paul Bergen Junior International Meet. 50 IS swimmers

are taking part in the Christmas Cracker meet at Saanich Commonwealth Place, and we have over 80

swimmers competing at the Tyee Crystal Clear meet at Crystal Pool this weekend. Best of Luck

Swimmers!

PCS Christmas Cracker Tyee Crystal Clear Paul Bergen Jr International in Oregon

2007 Swim Cup Championships (Europe)

Day One Highlights: Stefan Hirniak wins Silver in the 200Fly, and Ryan Cochrane finishes 5th in the B

final of the 200Free

Day Two Highlights: Ryan Cochrane wins Gold in the 400Free, Stefan Hirniak finishes 1st in the B Final

of the 100Fly (New Club Record)

Day Three Highlights: Ryan Cochrane wins Gold in the 1500Free, Matt Rose places 5th in the 50Free

Island Swimming to Host Westerns in February From February 14-17 the best in the west will come together in Victoria for the 2008 Speedo Western

Canadian Championships. Island Swimming is proud to be co-hosting this event with Swimming Canada.

Please take the time to support your club and watch some of the best swimming in the west. Good Luck to

all competitors!

2008 Speedo Western Canadian Championships - 2/14/2008 to 2/17/2008 Island Swimmers 1 Bagshaw, Jeremy

2 Bakken, Alyssa

3 Bligh, Dexter

4 Bradley, Christl

5 Buna, Brittany

6 Carl, Christian

7 Cochrane, Ryan

8 Dagnall, Craig

9 Fyfe, Nicki

10 Galbraith, Sarah

11 Hirniak, Stefan

12 Jackson, Jenna

13 Landolt, Shawnee

14 Loewen, Vanessa

15 Mann, Jennifer

16 McEvoy, Katie

17 Moneo, Savannah

18 Morrice, Cassie

19 Pickerl, Riley

20 Repp, Grayson

21 Roome, Naomi

22 Rose, Matt

23 Say, Rick

24 Smilowski, Sydney

25 Solmer, Raquel

26 Toby, Ashleigh

27 Walter, Chantal

28 Wille, Hilary

29 Zanatta, Keegan

30 Zochowski, Thomas

Meet Highlights

Ryan Cochrane smashes Canadian record at Speedo Western Championships February, 18, 2008

VICTORIA – Ryan Cochrane of Victoria smashed the

Canadian short course record in the men’s 1,500-metre freestyle on Sunday night at the Speedo Western

Championships swimming competition.

Cochrane, 19, clocked 14:35.73, the fifth fastest time in the world this year, to eclipse the previous mark of 14:50.04 set by Kurtis MacGillivary of Waterloo, Ont., in 2003. Cochrane’s

coach Randy Bennett wasn’t totally surprised to see his star pupil lower the record. ‘’It was an absolutely fantastic swim but truly this is the level he is at right now,’’ said Bennett. ‘’ I was expecting he would go around 14:43 on Sunday. I knew he was as good as he ever has been and he has the capacity to swim pretty fast while he is in hard training.’’

Bennett said Cochrane’s swim Sunday was relentless. ‘’He was just on it and had the intention of breaking the record,’’ said Bennett. Cochrane is a finalist for junior athlete of the year at next month’s Canadian Sport Awards. He is already a Commonwealth Games and world championship finalist. Last summer he was the first Canadian to clock a sub 15 minute time in the 1,500 in the long course pool, joining

an exclusive group of only 21 swimmers to have broken the barrier.

Feb. 15, 2008 - By: Swim BC

Results on Day 1 of Western Champs

The Western Canadian Championships, hosted by Island Swimming, kicked off yesterday in Victoria

with 61 teams and 550 swimmers with over 3000 splashes participating in the competition. Day 1 of the competition consisted of the Women's 1500m Free, Men's 800m Free, 50m Butterfly, 50m Backstroke and 50m Breaststroke. The last event of Day 1 was the 50m Backstroke. Matt Rose (IS) finished off the evening with a first place performance in :26.18.

Feb. 16, 2008 - By: Swim BC Results on Day 2 of Western Champs Day 2 of the Western Canadian Championships proved to be very exciting as the crowd watched Erica Morningstar (CP) of Calgary break the 15 year old Canadian Record in the Women's 200m IM, previously held by Nancy Sweetnam.

Finals started on Friday evening with the 50m Freestyle. Matt Rose (IS) dominated the event for a GOLD medal finish in :22.65. Matt Rose (IS) took his second medal of the evening with a SILVER medal performance at :24.22.

The 400m Free event was dominated by Ryan Cochrane (IS) finished with the GOLD medal with a large lead amongst the competition with a final time of 3:45.53. Coming up with the SILVER medal was veteran Rick Say (IS) in 3:51.44, and right on his heels was Stefan

Hirniak with a time of 3:52.28 to take the BRONZE medal.

The last individual event of the night was the 100m Backstroke. Matt Rose (IS) swam to another GOLD medal performance during this session with a finish of :53.98.

Finishing the evening was the 4 x 100 Free Relays. The Men's relay was won by Island Swimming whose team consisted of Christian Carl, Matt Rose, Stefan Hirniak and Rick Say .

Feb. 17, 2008 - By: Swim BC Results on Day 3 of Western Champs Erica Morningstar of Calgary erased another old national short course record from the books on Saturday and nearly broke one of her own marks on Saturday at the Speedo Western Championships. Morningstar, tuning up for the CN Swimming Trials April 1-6 which will determine the Olympic team, clocked 31.45 seconds in the women’s 50 breaststroke to break the 31.50 national mark held since 1990 by Keltie Duggan of Edmonton.

The first event of finals was the 200m Fly. Stefan Hirniak (IS) finished in a close race with the SILVER medal with 1:55.33. In the 100m Free Rick Say (IS) took the SILVER medal with :48.75 and teammate Matt Rose (IS) took the BRONZE medal at :49.75. Island Swimmers won the gold medals in the mens 4 x 200 Free Relay. GOLD medal winners Island Swimming - Ryan Cochrane, Matt Rose, Stefan Hirniak and Rick Say.

Feb. 18, 2008 - By: Swim BC

Results on Day 4 of Western Champs While the entire competition was exciting, BC swimmers Alexandra Gabor (WGB) and Ryan Cochrane (IS) gave grand finale performances Sunday evening at the Western Canadian Championships as both swimmers set new Canadian records. Medal winning performances from Island Swimmers on Sunday evening include: 200m Fr Rick Say (IS) - GOLD medal 1:45.56

Stefan Hirniak (IS) - BRONZE medal 1:47.12 50m Bk Matt Rose (IS) - GOLD medal :25.09 100m Fly Stefan Hirniak (IS) - SILVER medal :54.21 1500 Free Ryan Cochrane (IS) - GOLD medal 14:35.73 - CDN Record 4 x 100 Medley Relay

IS Men's - GOLD medal 3:43.43: M. Rose, R. Pickerl, S. Hirniak, R. Say Island Swimming's Ryan Cochrane, 19, continued on his pace to becoming considered among the very best in the world in the 1500m free, as he destroyed the Canadian National record by just shy of 15 seconds, clocking in at 14:35.73. It was not very long ago at all when Canada didn't have more than a single swimmer just barely under 15 minutes for the metric mile short course; now Cochrane has the National record of 14:59 long course, as well as this 1500m short course time, which puts him solidly amidst the favourites in Beijing. His splits for the race, demonstrating his characteristically impeccable pacing is as follows:

Cochrane, Ryan 19 Island Swimming 14:52.50 14:35.73 (989 FINA pts.) Reaction time:+0.84 26.91 / 55.98 (29.07) 1:26.03 (30.05) / 1:55.64 (29.61) / 2:24.99 (29.35) / 2:54.44 (29.45) 3:23.83 (29.39) / 3:53.43 (29.60) / 4:22.85 (29.42) / 4:52.46 (29.61) 5:21.73 (29.27) / 5:51.42 (29.69) / 6:20.78 (29.36) / 6:50.17 (29.39)

7:19.59 (29.42) / 7:48.55 (28.96) / 8:17.25 (28.70) / 8:46.54 (29.29) 9:15.57 (29.03) / 9:44.94 (29.37) / 10:13.88 (28.94) / 10:43.20 (29.32) 11:12.14 (28.94) / 11:41.45 (29.31) / 12:10.83 (29.38) / 12:40.26 (29.43) 13:09.48 (29.22) / 13:39.14 (29.66) / 14:08.32 (29.18) / 14:35.73 (27.41)

Western Canadian Championships highlights

An exciting competition concluded Sunday evening at the Commonwealth Pool in Victoria as the Western Canadian Champs wrapped up. A total of 5 Canadian records were broken over the weekend (3 senior and 2 age group).

The University of Calgary Swim Club won the Team Points score with 1630pts, while Cascade Swim Club came second with 1434pts, and Island Swimming third with 1357pts. The top Female Swim of the Meet was awarded to Erica Morningstar (CP) for her performance in the 200m IM, scoring 974 Fina points and a new Canadian Record. The top Male Swim of the Meet was awarded to Ryan Cochrane (IS) for his performance in the 1500m Free, scoring 989 Fina points and a new Canadian Record.

81st Annual Elementary/Middle School Meets Set for March (updated Feb 11)

The Victoria Amateur Swim Club is pleased to host the 81st Annual Elementary/Middle School preliminary (March 4 & 5) and championship (March 10) meets. Please contact Sureen at [email protected] or 479-3909 for more info.

Island Swimming Well Represented 12 swimmers at the 2008 BC Winter Game

Island Swimming had 12 swimmers selected to represent Vancouver Island (Zone 6) at the 2008 BC Winter Games in Kimberly/Cranbrook from February 21-23, 2008. Coach Sarah Paulson was also selected as one of the two coaches on this trip. Vancouver Island finished the games in 2nd place. Congratulations to the following swimmers on their performances: Renee Barone, Liam Cochrane, Hayley Dennett, Rachel Fellner, Connor Foreman, Truan Forsyth, Patrick Graham, Rebecca Langlois, Ken Naito, Kristina Phillips, Eryn Sylvester, and Victor Yuan.

IS/Zone 6 Medalists: Gold- Ken Naito (100Br, 200Br), Truan Forsyth (200Fly), Rebecca Langlois (200Br), Renee Barone (200IM), Boys 200Fr Relay (V Yuan, L Cochrane, K Naito) Silver- Liam Cochrane (200Bk, 100Bk), Rachel Fellner (200Fly), Ken Naito (200Fr, 200IM, 100Fr), Girls 200Med Relay (R Barone-bk, H Dennett-fly), Boys 200Med Relay (L Cochrane-bk, K Naito-br, T Forsyth-fly), Girls 200Fr Relay (E Sylvester, H Dennett) Bronze- Rebecca Langlois (100Br), Kristina Phillips (200Bk), Victor Yuan (200Fr), Connor Foreman (1500Fr)

Earning the second highest point scores on the mens side was Ken Naito of Island Swimming with 270 points. A newcomer to BC this fall, Ken began his swimming career in the Alber summer club system. The past two years Ken Naito swam for the Canmore swim team under Head Coach Rick Whitson. There he became an Age Group National qualifier. Now he is a member of the VASC/IS team and coached by Neil Harvey.

While Ken's best event is the 1500m Fr he didn't swim it here at the Games as he is resting up for the Provincial Champs next weekend in Victoria. He did, however, show his strength in the breaststroke and IM events.

Ken wasn't expecting the results he got this weekend, but was pleased overall. "My best swimming highlight so far was when I set a Provincial record in Alberta as a 10 year old".

Ken took home three GOLD medals in the 100m Br, 400m Fr, and 200m Br, as well as four SILVER medals in the 200m Fr, 400m IM, 200m IM and 100m Fr for individual events.

Island Swimming is taking on BC's best at the 2008 BC SC Championships (Mar 3)

The 2008 Team Aquatic Supplies BC SC Provincial Championships took place at Saanich Commonwealth

Place from February 28-March 2, 2008. Island Swimming was represented by almost 60 swimmers at this

meet and finished just behind UBC Dolphins in second place. Well Done Everyone!

The Speedo High Point Awards were presented to the swimmer in each male and female age

group who had the single highest FINA point score swim throughout the weekend.

Congratulations Jeremy Bagshaw (IS) who each received a $50 gift certificate for the 15 and

over age group swimmer of the meet.

Jeremy Bagshaw - IS 1st - 1500m Free

1st - 200m IM 1st - 100m Back 1st - 200m Free 1st - 400m IM 1st - 100m Fly

1st - 100m Free 1st - 400m Free 1st - 200m Fly

Speedo High Point Award

Island Swimmers

2008 TAS BC Provincial SC Championships 2/28/2008

Bagshaw, Jeremy (15) Baker, Kathleen (16) Bakken, Alyssa (15) Barone, Renee (14) Bradley, Christl (15) Bradley, Heidi (11) Buna, Brittany (16) Cochrane, Liam (14) Dagnall, Craig (17) Dennett, Hayley (13) Ellis, Naomi (13) Fellner, Rachel E (14) Foreman, Connor L (14) Forsyth, Truan (13) Fyfe, Nicki (16)

Galbraith, Sarah (16) Graham, Cameron (10) Graham, Patrick (13) Havers S7SB6SM7, Peter (22) Jackson, Jenna (16) Kendal, Mikaela S (11) Landolt, Shawnee (17) Langlois, Rebecca (13) Lapointe S6SB5SM6, Nicky (18) Loewen, Mason R (12) Loewen, Vanessa R (14) Macdonald, Caroline (12) Mann, Jennifer (13) Marco, Caitlyn (13) McEvoy, Katie (15)

McLeod, Jessie (11) Meikle, Lina (13) Milne, Tanner (14) Moneo, Savannah (14) Morrice, Cassie (16) Naito, Ken (14) Nelson S7SB7SM7, Brianna (15)

Ogden, Jessie (11) Phillips, Kristina (14)

Powell, Brook J (14) Powell, Madison (10) Purdon, Cassandra (10) Repp, Bailey (12) Repp, Grayson (16)

Sabourin S14SB14SM14, Drew (29) Saunders, Joshua (12) Schoeddert, Ian (11) Schwartz S6SB6SM6, Nate (22) Smilowski, Sydney E (14) Solmer, Raquel (14) Su, Lisa (12) Sylvester, Eryn A (14) Toby, Ashleigh (16) Walter, Chantal J (14) Wille, Hilary (14) Yuan, Victor (14) Zanatta, Keegan (14)

Day Four Highlights: Gold- Jeremy Bagshaw (400Fr, 200Fly), Alyssa Bakken (200Bk), Chantal Walter (100Br), Hilary Wille (200Fly) Silver- Hilary Wille (400Fr), Tanner Milne (400Fr), Naomi Ellis (200Bk), Vanessa Loewen (200Bk), Brittany Buna (200Bk), Liam Cochrane (200Bk), Jennifer Mann (100Br), Mason Loewen (100Br), Truan Forsyth (200Fly). Cassie Morrice (200Fly) Bronze- Sydney Smilowski (400Fr), Cassie Morrice (400Fr), Keegan Zanatta (400Fr, 200Fly), Raquel Solmer (100Br), Katie McEvoy (100Br), Craig Dagnall (200Fly) Day Three Highlights: Jeremy Bagshaw of Island Swimming continues his golden streak. Winning two more gold medals this evening, Jeremy Bagshaw has won every event he has entered in this weekend. Taking the 15-year old 100m Fly with a time of 58.01, a full second over his competition, Jeremy continued with a GOLD medal in the 15-year old 100m Fr in 52.91. With six GOLD medals in six events, Jeremy is the top points scorer after Day 3 with 300 points. Gold- Jeremy Bagshaw (400IM, 100Fly, 100Fr), Raquel Solmer (200Br), Nicki Fyfe (200Br) Silver- Naomi Ellis (400IM), Raquel Solmer (400IM), Nicki Fyfe (400IM), Vanessa Loewen (100Fly, 100Fr), Cassie Morrice (100Fly), Jennifer Mann (200Br), Savannah Moneo (200Br), Katie McEvoy (200Br), Sydney Smiloski (100Fr), 14&U Boys 200Fr Relay (T Milne, K Zanatta, V Yuan, K Naito) Bronze- Caroline MacDonald (400IM), Drew Sabourin (50Fly), Chantal Walter (200Br), Sarah Galbraith (200Br), Brianna Nelson (100Fr), 14&U Girls 200Fr Relay (V Loewen, S Smilowski, C Walter, N Ellis) Day Two Highlights: The results through to Event #40 - Boys 17 & U 200 Medley Relay - found the UBC Dolphins with a commanding lead over the competition in first place for combined team scores with a total of 1763 points. Following in second place is Island Swimming who had an amazing start on the first day of Provincials with three new BC records, scoring a total of 1386 points. Jeremy Bagshaw (IS) who just recently was selected and participated in the Swimming Canada Youth European Tour is again making waves. Swimming a total of three events so far, Jeremy has dominated each event in the 15-year old category; however Jeremy was the fastest male

swimmer at Provincials in both the 1500m Free and 200m IM. Adding a new BC record to his credentials in the Mens 15-17 4 x 200 Free Relay is all just a part of the experience. Posting a time of 15:46.32 in the 15-year old 1500m Free, and 2:07.21 in the 15-year old 200m IM established Jeremy top male swimmer in each of these events. With a four second lead in the 15-year old 200m Free Jeremy sailed in to a first place finish with a time of 1:54.60. Jeremy was the anchor on the Mens 4 x 200 Free Relay that set a new BC record on Thursday. Through Event #40, Jeremy is placed second for total points scored in individual events with 150 points and four GOLD medals. Gold- Jeremy Bagshaw (200IM, 100Bk, 200Fr), Naomi Ellis (100Bk), Vanessa Loewen (100Bk), Silver- Naomi Ellis (200IM), Nicki Fyfe (200IM), Tanner Milne (50Fr), Alyssa Bakken (100Bk), Brianna Nelson (100Bk), Hilary Wille (200Fr), 14&U Girls 200Med Relay (V Loewen, J Mann, H Wille, S Smilowski) Bronze- Heidi Bradley (200IM), Brianna Nelson (50Fr), Liam Cochrane (100Bk), Sydney Smilowski (200Fr), Cassie Morrice (200Fr), Boys 14&U 200Med Relay (L Cochrane, K Naito, T Milne, K Zanatta) Day One Highlights: Provincial Records Fall: Island Swimming sets three records The BC Provincial Short Course Championships kicked off today in Victoria at the Commonwealth Pool. With over 600 swimmers in attendance and the hot streak BC swimmers have been on this season, there will be many exciting performances to witness this weekend. Top results from Thursday were in the relay events. The energy in Commonwealth Place was electric as four Provincial records fell. Island Swimming claimed three new BC Provincial Records in the 13-14 Girls 4 x 200 Free Relay, 13-14 Boys 4 x 200 Free Relay and the 15-17 Boys 4 x 200 Free Relay. The first record was taken down by the 13-14 Girls team by Island Swimming's Vanessa Loewen, Hilary Wille, Sydney Smilowski and anchored by Naomi Ellis. They eclipsed the previous record held by Chena at 8:40.45 with a new Provincial Record of 8:39.21. Answering right back was the 13-14 Boys team from Island Swimming. Lead by Tanner Milne, followed by Ken Naito, Brook Powell and anchored by Keegan Zanatta, the Island Swimming relay team smashed the previous record set by UBCD in 2006 by seven seconds and established the new BC record in 8:21.94. The Men's 15-17 Relay team took the third Provincial record of the night for Island Swimming. The previous record was set by the Langley Olympians in 2006; the Island Swimming relay team captured the attention of the crowd as they obliterated the record by almost six seconds. The team was made up of Grayson Repp, Craig Dagnall, Tanner Milne and Jeremy Bagshaw who swam to a final time of 7:45.83. At the end of the first day of competition the Combined Team Scores through Event 12 found Island Swimming with a firm lead earning 520 points, while the UBC Dolphins are in second with 479 points, and the Hyack Swim Club in third place with 305 points. Gold- Jeremy Bagshaw (1500Fr), 14&U Girls 800Fr Relay (V Loewen, H Wille, S Smilowski, N Ellis) *New Provincial Record*, 14&U Boys 800Fr Relay (T Milne, K Naito, B Powell, K Zanatta) *New Provincial Record*, 17&U Boys 800Fr Relay (G Repp, C Dagnall, T Milne, J Bagshaw) *New Provincial Record*

Silver- Hilary Wille (800Fr), Patrick Graham (1500Fr), Craig Dagnall (1500Fr), 14&U Boys "B" 800Fr Relay (P Graham, V Yuan, L Cochrane, C Foreman) Bronze- Keegan Zanatta (1500Fr)

Island Swimming fine tunes their skills at the 2008 BC Senior Championships (Mar 6)

The 2008 Team Aquatic Supplies BC Senior Championships are taking place at the University of British Columbia from March 6-March 8, 2008. Island Swimming has 7 swimmers fine tuning their skills and strategies as they prepare for the Olympic Trials in April. Good Luck Swimmers! Day Three Highlights: Gold- Stefan Hirniak (200Fly), Matt Rose (50Fr) Silver- Rick Say (200Fr), Christian Carl (50Fr) Bronze- Ryan Cochrane (200Fr) Day Two Highlights: Gold- Ryan Cochrane (400Fr), Stefan Hirniak (100Fly), Rick Say (100Fr) Silver- Matt Rose (100Fr) Bronze- Riley Pickerl (400Fr) Day One Highlights: Island Swimming Sweeps the top 3 positions in the first Mens event of the day (1500Fr) Gold- Ryan Cochrane (1500Fr) Silver- Craig Dagnall (1500Fr), Stefan Hirniak (50Fly) Bronze- Riley Pickerl (1500Fr)

Victoria Amateur Swimming Club Host’s

81st Annual Elementary / Middle School Meets

The 81st Annual Victoria Elementary / Middle Schools meets were proudly hosted by the Victoria Amateur

Swim Club a member of Island Swimming. Twenty six teams took part in the three day event with the

Preliminary Novice meets taking place on Tue March 4 and Wed March 5. The Championship meet was

held on Monday March 10. Glenlyon-Norfolk school took top honours, with Willows Elementary school in

second and Royal Oak Middle school finishing third. Well done to all the competitors.

Combined Team Scores Place Team Points

1 Glenlyon Norfolk School GNS 352 .50

2 Willows Elementary School WILL 240.50

3 Royal Oak Middle School ROM 201

4 Monterey Middle School MMS 169

5 Central Middle School CMS 138

6 St. Josephs Catholic School STJ 126

7 Cedar Hill Middle School CHMS 109

8 St Michaels University School SMU 95

9 Sooke Schools SOOKE 94

10 Frank Hobbs Elementary School FHE 89

11 St. Margarets School SMS 87.50

12 St Patricks Catholic School STP 73

13 Arbutus Middle School AMS 65

14 Pacific Christian School PCS 44

15 Torquay Elementary School TRQ 41

16 St. Andrews Catholic School STA 37

17 Eagle View Elementary EVE 35

18 Gordon Head Middle School GHM 33

19 North Saanich Middle School NSM 31

20 Margaret Jenkins Elementary MJ 28.50

21 Bayside Middle School BAY 28

22 Wishart Elementary School WIS 19

23 Hillcrest Elementary School HILL 14

24 Dunsmuir Middle School DMS 10

25 Sir James Douglas SJD 3

26 Oaklands Elementary School OAK 2

Island Swimmers set for 2008 Olympic & Paralympic Trials (Mar 31)

The 2008 CN Swimming Trials is a 6-day, action packed, high profile swimming competition that will take place at the 1976 Olympic Pool in Montreal from April 1-6. Island Swimming is pleased to have 24 swimmers representing our programs at this event. This meet will serve as the selection meet to the 2008 Beijing Olympics & Paralympics, as well as the Canadian World Youth and Senior "B" teams. Best of luck to all our swimmers! Swimming Canada has also announced that the 2008 CN Swimming Trials will be broadcast on CBC and SRC to over 3 million viewers. From April 1-6, 2008, countless Canadians across the country will be fortunate to witness the excitement and drama of the 2008 CN Swimming Trials Live on the CBC and SRC Networks.

Times Colonist Opening Day Article

The full Canadian swim team to Beijing will be decided between today and Sunday and the atmosphere is crackling around the Montreal pool, with CBC providing daily TV coverage beginning today at 6:30 p.m. "All the banners are up and the environment is pretty amazing," noted Say, who opens tomorrow with the men's 200-metre freestyle. "There's a nervous energy and buzz around the pool deck and we're ready to go. We're ready to race. I'm in the right frame of mind. All our Island Swimming Club guys are ready to go. [Backstroker] Matt Rose is bursting at the seams. Ryan [Cochrane] is looking like a gem and gets a chance right on opening day [today] to qualify in the 400 freestyle and that would really take the pressure off him the rest of the week. And Stefan [Hirniak] is looking so fast. We worked hard for this moment and are prepared. In front of us this week is a really amazing opportunity for all four of us to qualify for Beijing."

Day Six Highlights:

NEWSFLASH: 15 year Old Brianna Nelson qualifies to represent Canada at the 2008 Paralympic Games

NEWSFLASH: Ryan Cochrane Dazzles the Crowd while setting a new

1500 Fr Canadian Record

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Cochrane smashes Canadian record on final day of Trials Canadian swimming is making history. With several swimmers nominated to the Olympic team that have a real shot at winning medals at the Beijing Olympics this summer, there is a sense of rejuvenation and renewed support from fans. The noise was deafening this evening at the Piscines du Parc Olympique facility in Montreal as packed stands filled with enthusiastic fans brought multiple athletes to new Canadian records in style. It may have been the last individual event of Olympic Trials, but it was certainly brought the crowds to the feet, wildly cheering on distance swimming phenom Ryan Cochrane of Island

Swimming to an amazing new Canadian record that puts Cochrane ranked fourth in the world. To put Cochrane's evolution in perspective, four years ago at the 2004 Olympic Trials Cochrane came seventh in this event. This time around, there is no one in Canada that can keep pace with world-class Cochrane.

Making the 'A' final from BC was Sean Penhale of Island Swimming, and Ryan Cochrane showed up for the race sporting a new mini-hawk hairdo. The race proved to be one that will be remembered by all who witnessed it for a very long time. Cochrane had just an amazing swim, and thanks to the stellar announcing by Chris Hindmarch-Watson the 2,000 fans were actually on their feet the entire last 500m of Cochrane's race. Seven seconds faster than the Canadian record at the 800m mark, it was an electric performance by Ryan Cochrane who would break the

Canadian record by five seconds with a new time of 14:54.66. In the interview with the CBC following the race, Cochrane attributed his outstanding performance to the fans stating that the last 500 metres of the race were quite painful, but hearing and seeing the fans fed him in the last stretch of the race, pushing him through the pain. Waiting for Cochrane was coach Randy Bennett to give him a huge smile and a big hug. This performance ranks 19-year old Ryan Cochrane fourth in the world. Don't be surprised to see this amazing BC talent on the podium in Beijing.

Gold- Ryan Cochrane (1500Fr) Silver- Matt Rose (50 Fr) Finalists- Chris Carl (1st 50 Fr "B" Final), Brianna Nelson (5th 50 Fr "B" Final), Sean Penhale (4th 1500Fr) Day Five Highlights: Silver- Peter Havers (50 Fly) Finalists- Stefan Hirniak (5th 100Fly), Richard Alexander (5th 100 Fly "B" Final) Day Four Highlights:

NEWSFLASH: Rick Say gains a berth to his third Olympic Games in Canada's fastest ever 100Fr Final.

Finalists- Rick Say (4th 100Fr), Matt Rose (8th 100Fr), Brianna Nelson (5th 100Fr "B" Final), Boys 800Fr Relay (5th R Alexander, A McLaren, R Pickerl, C Dagnall) Day Three Highlights: Finalists- Stefan Hirniak (4th 200Fly), Girls 800Fr Relay (5th C Morrice, S Landolt, B Buna, A Bakken) Day Two Highlights: Bronze- Matt Rose Finalists- Rick Say (6th 200Fr), Ryan Cochrane (1st "B" Final 200Fr), Brianna Nelson (8th 100Bk)

Day One Highlights:

NEWSFLASH: Ryan Cochrane Sets a New CANADIAN RECORD on the first night of the CN Trials

The last event of the evening was the Mens 400m Free. With three BC athletes in this final, and favourite Ryan Cochrane of Island Swimming facing the current Canadian

record holder in this event Andrew Hurd, the crowd was on the edge of their seat as these men stepped up onto the blocks. Ryan Cochrane has swam for coach Randy Bennett the past six years. Cochrane has firmly established that he is a world class distance swimmer, able to take on the giants such as Grant Hackett. Hurd took a slight lead in the first 100m as Ryan Cochrane easily kept pace just beside him. By the 150m mark, Cochrane and Hurd had a commanding lead on the competition, but maintained their head-to-head race as they appropached the 200m mark. Off the turn at 200m, a few powerful dolphins kicks and Cochrane took a slight lead over Hurd. Pushing off the last 50m Cochrane turned on the engine and let loose and explosive kick that enabled him to take a commanding lead over Andrew Hurd. Finishing first with a new Canadian record of 3:47.92, 19-year old Ryan Cochrane earned a ticket to his first Olympics. Blake Worsley of the UBC Dolphins comes from a fami ly of swimmers: his mother was a Dolphin who competed in the 70's. Right on the best time performance from this morning, Worsley swam to a fifth place finish with 4:00.08. Anders McIntyre will be a name to remember in the future. In the interview after qualifying for his first Olympic team, Ryan Cochrane commented: "It's what I wanted to do. It sets me up well for this summer, and takes the pressure off of me for the rest of Trials as I'm already qualified".

Congratulations to Ryan Cochrane on his Canadian record performance in the 400Fr, and his nomination to the Canadian Olympic Team. Ryan's swim was the highest ranked swim of the day.

Gold- Ryan Cochrane (400Fr) Finalists- Peter Havers (6th 100Br Video), Nate Schwartz (7th 100Br Video), Brianna Nelson (6th 100Br, 1st 400Fr "B" final), Sean Penhale (5th 400Fr "B" final)

3 Island Swimmers and Coach to Represent Canada at

2008 Beijing Olympic & Paralympic Games

Island Swimming is proud to announce that 3 Island Swimming swimmers and coach Randy Bennett have been nominated to represent Canada at the 2008 Beijing Olympic & Paralympic Games. Congratulations to Ryan Cochrane (1st time Olympian), Brianna Nelson (1st time Paralympian), and Rick Say (3rd time Olympian) for their performances at the recent 2008 CN Swimming trials which earned them each a spot on the Canadian team. Congratulations to their coaches Randy Bennett (Ryan and Rick) and Janet Dunn (Brianna).

COHO Sprint Distance Time Trial (Apr 22) On April 19 over 120 Island Swimmers took part in the Coho Sprint Distance Time Trial at Saanich

Commonwealth Place. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped put on this event.

Island LC Invitational (May 12) Thank you to all the volunteers that helped host the annual Island LC Invitational meet at Saanich

Commonwealth Place. Well done swimmers!

2008 Mel Zajac Jr International Meet (May 21) Over 25 swimmers from Island Swimming were in Vancouver for the annual Mel Zajac Jr International

meet. Swimmers from around the world, as well as Canada's 2008 Olympic Team were in attendance at this

event. Please note that this event had afternoon prelims and morning finals.

Day Three Highlights: Gold- Ryan Cochrane (1500Fr) Silver- Stefan Hirniak (200Fly) Finalists- Matt Rose (5th 100Bk), Craig Dagnall (5th 1500Fr), Jeremy Bagshaw (7th 1500Fr) Day Two Highlights: Gold- Ryan Cochrane (400Fr) Silver- Matt Rose (50 Bk) Bronze- Stefan Hirniak (400Fr), Matt Rose (50Fr) Finalists- Jeremy Bagshaw (5th 400Fr), Riley Pickerl (7th 400Fr) Day One Highlights:

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Gold- Ryan Cochrane (800Fr) Finalists- Craig Dagnall (4th 800Fr), Stefan Hirniak (5th 200Fr), Rick Say (6th 200Fr), Hilary Wille (7th 1500Fr)

COHO Proud to Host VIR Championships (May 29)

Thank You to all the volunteers that help put on the 2008 Vancouver Island Region Championships at

Saanich Commonwealth Place from June 6-8, 2008. Congratulations to the Victoria Amateur Swim Club

for taking the team title. Well Done Swimmers!

Island Swimming in Action at 2008 Janet Evans International (June 8)

Coach Randy Bennett and four Island Swimmers were in action at the 2008 Janet Evans International meet

from June 6-8, 2008. This meet was held at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Congrats

to Richard Alexander, Ryan Cochrane, Stefan Hirniak, and Rick Say on their results. Day Three Highlights: Gold- Ryan Cochrane (1500Fr NEW CANADIAN RECORD) Finalists- Stefan Hirniak (5th 200Fly), Richard Alexander (2nd "A" Consol 200Fly), Rick Say (3rd "A" Consol 100Fr) Day Two Highlights: Bronze- Ryan Cochrane (400Fr "NEW CANADIAN RECORD") Finalists- Rick Say (4th 200Fr), Stefan Hirniak (7th 200Fr, 6th 100Fly)

Ryan Cochrane has a Record Setting Weekend

Island Swimming's Ryan Cochrane had a record setting weekend while attending the 2008 Janet Evans International meet in Los Angeles. Ryan performances in the 400Fr and 1500Fr both set a new bar in the Canadian Record books. Ryan's 400Fr time of 3:47.21 places him in the worlds top 13 swims, and his 1500Fr time of 14:50.65 is the 4th fastest time in the world this year. Well done Ryan!

Another record day for Cochrane

Canwest News Service


Ryan Cochrane of Victoria continued an extraordinary performance at the Janet Evans International swimming competition in Los Angeles yesterday, breaking his Canadian record in the men's 1,500-metre freestyle for the gold medal.

Cochrane clocked 14 minutes and 50.65 seconds to eclipse his previous mark of 14:54.66 set in April at the Beijing Swimming Trials in Montreal. It was also the fourth-fastest time in the world

this year. Erik Vendt, of the U.S., holds the fastest time at 14:46.78. Ous Mellouli of Tunisia was second yesterday in 14:56.22 and Larsen Jensen of the U.S., third in 14:58.80.

"I definitely swam it differently than at the trials," said Cochrane, 18, who also lowered his 400 freestyle national mark on Saturday. "I didn't rush it as much and didn't overstroke. I knew I was swimming fast from my 400 time and that helped me get out to the lead quickly. I really like the tactics in this race and I felt great when it was over."

Summer Programs offered at Crystal Pool & Saanich Commonwealth Place

The TYEE Aquatic Club and the Victoria Amateur Swim Club are pleased to present summer camps and skills improvement sessions during the month of July and August this summer.

Island Swimming is Hiring

The Island Swimming Association is now accepting applications for Coaches (Full and Part time) and

Administrative staff for the upcoming 2008-2009 swim season.

The Island Swimming Association is now accepting applications for Coaches (Full and Part time) and Administrative staff for the upcoming 2008-2009 swim season. Positions include: Club, Pool, and program Head Coaches, Assistant Coaches, and administrative support (book keeping, club registration, ect). Island Swimming is an association made up of three member clubs. The Juan De Fuca Coho Swim Club, the Tyee Aquatic Club, and the Victoria Amateur Swimming Club. Our programs operate throughout the Greater Victoria area, and include the Crystal, Juan De Fuca Rec Centre, Saanich Commonwealth Place, and SEAPARC pools. At Island Swimming we are “Committed to Excellence” and provide opportunities for each of our swimmers to attain their maximum potential in the sport. Successful applicants will be energetic, enthusiastic, and willing to challenge our athletes to meet their full potential. All candidates must have NCCP Level 1/Skills Coach OR other swimming instructor certification. Attendance at all practices, swim meets, club functions, and staff meetings will be required.

Send Resumes and Cover Letters to: Randy Bennett, Director of Swimming [email protected] (250) 479-2432 [fax] Deadline for Applications: July 7, 2008 Please Note: Only successful candidates will be contacted

Island Swimming off to Richmond for the 2008 BC LC & Open Water Championships

The 2008 Team Aquatic Supplies BC LC Provincial Championships took place in Richmond from July 2-6, 2008. Island Swimming was represented by almost 60 swimmers at this meet. Well Done Everyone! Congratulations to Keagan Zanatta for receiving the 15 yr old Boys Speedo Swim of the Meet prize for his performance in the 1500 Freestyle. Open Water Highlights:

Silver- Patrick Graham (3KM) Bronze- Jessie McLeod (1.5 KM)

Day Four Highlights: Gold- Jennifer Mann (200Br), Chantal Walter (200Br), Keagan Zanatta (400Fr), Jeremy Bagshaw (400Fr), Girls 14&U 200 Medley Relay (N Ellis, J Mann, V Loewen, E Sylvester) Silver- Vanessa Loewen (100Fly), Hilary Wille (400Fr), Grayson Repp (400Fr) Bronze- Nicki Fyfe (200Br), Caroline MacDonald (400Fr), Vanessa Loewen (400Fr), Sydney Smilowski (400Fr), Craig Dagnall (400Fr), Boys 14&U 200 Medley Relay (L Cochrane, M Loewen, T Forsyth, V Yuan) Day Three Highlights: Gold- Keagan Zanatta (1500Fr), Jeremy Bagshaw (1500Fr), Jennifer Mann (100Br), Naomi Ellis (200Bk), Liam Cochrane (200Bk) Silver- Hilary Wille (800Fr), Craig Dagnall (1500Fr), Tanner Milne (200Fr), Drew Sabourin (50Fly), Chantal Walter (100Br), 14&U Boys 400Fr Relay (V Yuan, T Forsyth, L Cochrane, P Graham), 15&O Boys 400Fr Relay (G Repp, A McLaren, T Milne, J Bagshaw) Bronze- Sydney Smilowski (800Fr), Cassie Morrice (200Fr), Drew Sabourin (100Br), Vanessa Loewen (200Bk), Nicki Fyfe (200Bk)

Day Two Highlights: Silver- Heidi Bradley (200Fly), Hilary Wille (200Fly), Josh Saunders (50Fr), Naomi Ellis (200IM), Jeremy Bagshaw (200IM) Bronze- Jeremy Bagshaw (200Fly), Brianna Nelson (50 Fr), Ian Schoeddert (50Fr), Chantal Walter (200IM), 12&U Girls 400Fr Relay (C MacDonald, L Su, V Lan, H Bradley) Day One Highlights: Gold- Alyssa Bakken (100Bk) Silver- Nicki Fyfe (400IM), Keegan Zanatta (400IM), Brianna Nelson (100Bk), Vanessa Loewen (100Bk) Bronze- Tanner Milne (100Fr), Brianna Nelson (100Fr), Caroline MacDonald (400IM), Naomi Ellis (400IM, 100Bk), Liam Cochrane (100Bk), Girls 12&U 200Fr Relay (C MacDonald, L Su, M Kendal, H Bradley)

2008 TAS BC AAA LC Champs - 03-Jul-08 to 06-Jul-08

Girls 10 & Under Sextathlon Place Name Team

5 Powell, Madison 10 IS

8 Purdon, Cassandra 10 IS

Boys 10 & Under Sextathlon Place Name Team

10 Polson, Luke 10 IS

Jeremy Bagshaw Selected to represent Canada at the 2008 North American Challenge Cup

The North American Challenge Cup is a tri-meet between three nations;Mexico, Canada and the United States. This is the 2nd year of this highly successful initiative and is designed to provide the top age group swimmers in the country with an entry-level international competition. Congratulation to Island Swimmer Jeremy Bagshaw on his selection to the team. This meet will take place from August 7-9 in Edmonton, Alberta. Good Luck Jeremy!

Three Island Swimmers Selected to represent Swim BC at the 2008 Far Westerns

Swim BC has announced it's team of sixteen athletes for the 2008 Far Western Championships being held in California from July 30 - August 4. Congratulations to Jeremy Bagshaw, Craig Dagnall, and Keegan Zanatta. We wish them every success at the meet.

Can Am Championships take place in Victoria

Island Swimming had four swimmers representing our club at the Can Am Championships in Victoria from July 11-13, 2008. The series of Can-Am swim meets is designed to bring all swimmers with a disability (SWAD) in both Canada and the United stated together twice a year to compete in stand alone competitions that will promote fast swimming from development to international level. Well Done to Peter Havers, Brianna Nelson, Drew Sabourin, and Nate Schwartz. Day Three Highlights: Silver- Brianna Nelson (100Bk) Finalists- Peter Havers (7th 50Br), Drew Sabourin (8th 100Bk), Brianna Nelson (5th 100Fr) Day Two Highlights: Finalists- Brianna Nelson (4th 200IM, 4th 50Fr, 7th 400Fr), Drew Sabourin (7th 200IM, 5th 50Fr, 4th 400Fr) Day One Highlights: Silver- Brianna Nelson (50Bk) Finalists- Brianna Nelson (5th 100Br), Peter Havers (7th 100Br), Drew Sabourin (4th 100Fly)

https://www.swimming.ca/liveresults/08CANAM/



Island Swimming ready to take on the country at Summer Nationals

Swimming Canada's flagship event of the summer! Senior Nationals brings together Canada's top swimmers from across the country for their chance to race against the best in the country. Winnipeg will be the host of the summer's classic from July 16-20th and will be the final preparation competition for Canada's Olympic Team. This meet will adopt the Olympic sequencing evening preliminaries sessions and morning final sessions. Island Swimming will have 17 swimmers at this event. Good Luck Swimmers!

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