Chena/Gators LMR recap By Agatha Leung, On March 11th and 12th, 56 Gators attended the Chena/Gators LMR at Harry Jerome Recreation Centre. This was the first meet that we hosted this season, and we successfully brought together several other clubs for this two-day meet. High energy was displayed as Gators cheered on each other during individual events and relays. Our swimmers brought back good results, despite not being used to the facility, and even gained some new divisional and provincial qualifiers. In addition, thank you to all parent volunteers who...

April Schedule Notes - April 7 -10, is easter long weekend. Pre-competitive groups and Development groups (Gold,Silver,Bronze, Alligator, Crocodile A/B/C, Gecko A/B/C, Salamander A/B)have no practice. - April 7-9, Competitive groups (Elite A/B, Senior, Age, Junior) have no practice. April 10, Monday, Elite A/B, and Age’s afternoon practice will be kept the same as regular; Elite A/B has no Kerrisdale morning practice on April 10. - April 15 &16, Elite A/B, Senior, Age, Junior are attending PSW LMR. The practice at Killarney and Templeton for those groups are cancelled. -...

By Anchie Xu, The 2023 Swim BC Winter Provincial Championship was hosted by Island Swim Club at Saannish Commonwealth Place in Victoria on March 2-5. There were 593 athletes from 42 swim teams who raced at this meet. Uma Sukkau, Helen Shen, Jobia Plata, Kieu-vy Nguyen, Sephora Lee, Melissa Zeng, Kohen Lee, Jayden Chung, Jayden Du, Eugene Park and Terrance Wen attended the meet. For some swimmers, this was the first provincial championship they had participated in. They raced the event they had just qualified at the Dividivial champs, so...

By Octavian R. On March 5, 28 swimmers from Gold, Silver, Bronze, Alligator and Crocodile attended Hollyburn Developmental Meet at Hollyburn Country Club. Even it was tiring late afternoon development meet, all swimmers showed great result. For some swimmers, this was their first time experiencing a multi-club swim meet. We are very proud of all of our Gators' swimmers for their performance. The meet results are attached HERE. Congratulations to Grace Ho, Sophia D Dadivas , Wan Hei Ethan Man , Nathan C Lau , Keen Shimakura-Thomas , Yang Chris,...

On February 12, the Gator Swim Club held its mid-season time trial. The day kicked off with the 200 IM event, where 8 swimmers qualified for the Lower Mainland Regionals (LMR). The rest of the events saw many swimmers setting new personal best times, demonstrating our teams’ constant improvement. Throughout the time trial, the swimmers were able to support each other and gain valuable experience by observing faster swimmers. At the end of the event, during the relay races, the swimmers were in high spirits and showed great support for...

By Anchie Xu On March 17 to 19, Twenty-Six swimmers from Elite A/B, Senior and Age represented Gators attended the 2023 Winter Divisional Championship Fraser&Vancouver division with 13 swim teams total of 348 swimmers. This meet was the peak performance meet for the first training cycle. With the preliminaries and finals meet format, some swimmers had more than 6 races each day. Our athletes showed untiring perseverance and relentless energy. We achieved 3 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 9 bronze medals. Our girls' athletes ranked 4th with 552 points,...

By Agatha Leung On January 28th and 29th, 43 Elite, Senior and some Age group swimmers attended LMR Champs at Watermania. Even after a tiring three-day meet last week, all swimmers were able to perform incredibly well. Of 242 events swam, our swimmers achieved a whopping 157 new best times. For many of these events, swimmers had very limited rest in between races. Nonetheless, they swam to the best of their abilities and their hard work paid off. We have many new Divisional and Provincial qualified events. Very well done...

By Octavian R. On Saturday and Sunday, January 28 - 29, 2023, 14 Gators Swimmers from Age, Gold, Silver and Alligator attended Chena 12 & Under Swim Meet. Two days of great swim meet for all young Gators swimmers. Although, there is no new LMR qualified this time but they showed good result and dropped in their individual timing in multiple events. Most of our swimmers swam 4 individual events and relay events. Some of them also brought the Bellringer Prize from Chena and they loved it. Great job team...

February Schedule change note: February 12, Sunday, Junior, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Alligator, Crocodile A/B/C, Gecko A/B/C, and Salamander A/B are attending Mid-season Time Trial at Templeton from 7:45 to 11:00 am. Event signup required. Senior, Age’s practice on February 12, Sunday at Templeton is cancelled. Senior, Age have an extra practice on February 11, Saturday from 6:45-8:45pm at Renfrew pool. Elite A/B are attending the Winter Divisional Championships on February 17-19, 2023. Elite has no practice on February 17,18 and 19. Age group have practice on February 18, Saturday 5:45-8:00am...

By Daniel Camacho, Three days of a great swim meet gave the gators good results and showed improvement in the swimmers. Friday morning, the team began the journey with the 800 FR and 1500 FR races, where the swimmers from Elite group had good results. During the [Friday] evening, Age and Senior groups arrived to participate in 100 BK, 200 FL and 400 IM. By the end of the first day, gators had the first divisional qualifier from the age group. Saturday came by fast, and the whole team was...