This past weekend the Castlegar Aquanauts competed at their home meet and left everyone almost speechless.
To suggest that coaches Nick Welychko and Michaella Yang were impressed would be an understatement.
“This weekend was a huge success. All of the swimmers competed to their maximum ability even after an extremely hard week of training,” said Yang. “The swimmers took everything that Nick and I would tell them before a race and applied it to their swims. Even after the hardest week of training, many of our swimmers were achieving best times,” Yang praised.
“Our swimmers were able to find ways to get focused and dig deep for new best times, even though many of them were exhausted and sore from the week,” said Welychko.
The Aquanauts have two weeks of training before heading over to the Kimberley Seahorses’ Invitational Swim Meet hoping to capture another victory.
Individual Results:
Div 1 Girls:
2nd: Kenna Cartwright
Div 1 Boys:
1st: Reid Quintanhila
Div 2 Girls:
1st: Claire Cartwright
Pictured below: Georgia Anderson
Div 2 Boys:
3rd: Ayden Quintanhila
2nd: Bryce Anderson
1st: Lynden Hanvold
Div 3 Boys:
3rd: Simon Laroque
2nd: Cayden Cooke
1st: Ethan Lawczynski
Div 4 Girls:
1st: Emma Lawczynski
Div 4 Boys:
2nd: Harper Shaman
Div 5 Girls:
1st: Sierra Buchanan
Div 6 Boys:
3rd: Torrin Wilson
1st: Jeff Ashton
Div 7 Girls:
2nd: Ashlee Martini
Div 8 Boys:
3rd: Ron Anderson
1st: Nick Welychko
O Cat Boys:
1st: Carson Ogloff
O Cat 2 Girls:
1st: Gabrielle Hanvold
O Cat 2 Boys:
2nd: Noah Robertson
Team Results:
7th: Colville Sharks – 188
6th: Creston Waves – 209
5th: Trail Stingrays – 287
4th: Kimberley Seahorses – 340
3rd: Nelson Neptunes – 394
2nd: Grand Forks Piranhas – 452
1st: Castlegar Aquanauts – 828
Meet records were individually broken by Carson Ogloff, Bryce Anderson, Claire Cartwright, Noah Robertson, Gabrielle Hanvold, and Lynden Hanvold. Bryce Anderson, Ayden Quintanhila, Hunter Hansen and Lynden Hanvold broke the Div 2 Boys 200 Freestyle Relay record.
