All the Waveriders had a good weekend in Prince George at the Moose Meet, but Garnet Currie had a golden one.
Currie took the aggregate gold medal in the 11-12 category.
The weekend started off with a bang, according to Brink said, which gave the club a great start.
“The energy from Friday carried right through the weekend,” he said.
One of the highlights of the weekend was Currie’s performance and race for the gold.
“He had a really good 400m battle for aggregate,” said Brink
“He’s only twelve, but when his mind starts turning the gears, he really throttles it. It’s pretty impressive.”
Currie was happy about his performance, dubbing it ‘good’ and saying that he felt ‘good’ about it.
‘Good’ was a repeated word amongst the young swimmers, though Brink was more descriptive.
“In general the meet was fantastic, the energy was high,” he said.
Nine year-old Billy Swyers had an impressive swim as well, breaking into the top ten Canada wide for his age group. He now sits in eighth overall in Canada in the 50m backstroke.
“The swim felt really good,” he said.
Boroka Peters offered some excitement for the crowds watching. The six year-old swam hard, keeping up with swimmer up to four years older during the weekend.
Emerie Watson, at her first meet since getting out of a cast, managed to break a slew of personal bests.
Many of the swimmers were out on the long course, a 50m long pool instead of the Rec. Centre’s 25m pool.
Sonny Cervienka was one of the rookies and said he felt nervous. Despite the lack of experience and nerves he got the ‘A’ standard in 50 free and 100 breast.
Bradley Swyers and Jarrid Uphill also hit ‘A’ standards, with Swyers only a couple seconds off his ‘AA’ standard, which Brink knows is within his grasp.
“If he buckles down he’ll do it; I know he can do it,” Brink said.
The team broke 69 personal bests between the 16 swimmers.
With personal bests falling for many of the swimmers, the team snuck into fifth overall for the competition.
The Waveriders are next in action in Kelowna, May 11-12.
