Last weekend swimmers from the Waveriders swim club continued to improve and made several trips to the podium in the process at the Williams Lake Blue Fins Spring Fling swim meet.
Billy Swyers, 7, outswam the competition and even some 12-year-old swimmers in the 100 m freestyle event.
Swyers also broke the one-minute mark in the 50 m freestyle event which placed him fourth among swimmers eight years and younger.
Newcomer Anna Staats, 8, made a good impression at her first meet, taking first place in her heat in the 50 m backstroke and finished eighth overall.
Staats, said she wasn’t nervous going into the competition.
“It’s fun,” she said with a big smile.
Garnet Currie, 10, continued to improve and dominate the competition.
Swimming in the 400 m freestyle event for the first time, Currie not only collected the gold medal but did it by swimming a AAA time for his age group.
Currie also collected gold medals in his other events.
Réka Sikli, 11, continued to shave time off her personal bests at the Williams Lake swim meet.
Sikli earned a third-place finish in the 100 m breaststroke with a AA time and a first-place finish in the 50 and 200 m breaststroke events.
In his first crack at the 400 m freestyle, Brad Swyers, 11, swam to a bronze medal. Swyers added a first-place finish in the 50 m breaststroke, and 200 m individual medley, second-place finishes in the 50 and 100 m freestyle events, the 50 m butterfly event and the 50 m backstroke.
Swyers rounded out his medal haul with a third-place finish in the 100 m breaststroke.
Janna Kovacs and David Sikli head to Victoria this weekend for the provincial
