This first meet of the season for the Shuswap Swimming Team showed a lot of promise.
Olin Mosher and Bree Cooper returned from the KISU Triple Pentathlon Invitational Swim Meet on Oct. 12 to 14 with second place overall finishes, while five Shuswap Swimmers qualified for provincials.
Seventeen local swimmers attended.
The competition was unique, offering five different races each day, with each swimmer eligible to race all five, or up to 15 races on the weekend. At the end of each day, the swimmers results were tallied up by a total amount of time taken to perform each race, and that time then ranked the swimmers. So, not only were swimmers ranked in individual races, but in daily totals as well.
For the Shuswap Swimming Team, the daily pentathlon results were:
• Day 1 – 100-metre backstroke, 100-m breaststroke, 100-m butterfly, 100-m freestyle and 200-m individual medley
• Girls, 12 and under – Jenna Tiedeman 24th place; Sandra Hall 31st place; Molly Fogarty 32nd place.
13 to 14-year-old girls – Emma Pyle 12th place.
15 and older – Bree Cooper 2nd place; Jessie-May Baird 21st place; Virginia Flahr 23rd place.
• Boys:
12 and under – Olin Mosher first place; Jacob Rambo 8th place; Ethan Pyle 13th place.
13- to 14-year-old boys – Thomas Flahr 4th place; Torrey McKee 18th place.
• Day 2 – 200-m backstroke, 200-m breaststroke, 200-m butterfly, 200-m freestyle and 400-m individual medley.
• Girls:
13 to 14-year-old girls – Emma Pyle 15th.
15 and older – Bree Cooper third; Jessie-May Baird 19th place.
• Boys:
12 and under boys – Olin Mosher second.
13- to 14-year-old boys – Ethan Quilty 10th place; Ty Webster-Locke 13th place; Torrey McKee 16th place.
15 and older boys – Logan Pilias 16th place.
• Day 3 – 50-m backstroke, 50-m breaststroke, 50-m butterfly, 50-m freestyle and 100-m individual medley.
• Girls:
12 and under – Jenna Tiedeman 43rd place; Molly Fogarty 45th place.
13 to 14-year-old girls – Paige Coutlee – 11th place; Emma Pyle 16th place.
15 and older girls – Bree Cooper second; Jessie-May Baird 22nd place.
• Boys:
11-12 boys – Olin Mosher 2nd; Jacob Rambo 10th place; Ethan Pyle 14th; and Garret Wasylenki 17th place.
13 to 14-year-old boys – Ty Webster-Locke 15th place; Torrey McKee 18th place.
15 and over – Logan Pilias 17th place.
• Triple Pentathlon Overall Top 3 results rankings were, in girls, 15 and over, – Bree Cooper 2nd place. In 12-and-under boys, Olin Mosher took 2nd place.
Topping it off, several swimmers have qualified for upcoming Provincial Level Swim Meets already, based upon their results from this swim meet. Olin Mosher, Ethan Quilty, Logan Pilias and Thomas Flahr all earned their qualifying time standards for the Swim BC “AA” Provincial Short Course Championships to be held on the weekend of Feb. 8-10 in Surrey. Bree Cooper swam fast enough to qualify to race at the Swim BC “AAA” Provincial Short Course Championships to be held on Feb. 28 to March 3 in Victoria.
The team will be hosting its annual Fall Jamboree Swim Meet on Oct. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
If you are interested in joining the Shuswap Swimming Team, call 250-804-2006.
