BC Record for Island Swimming on Day 2 of National Championships

Due to some very impressive swimming from all of our Island Swimming athletes, we are sitting in 2^nd place in the team standings after Day 2 of Summer Nationals, not far behind the UBC Dolphins. 

Island Swimming’s girl’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay team (Alexa Komarnycky, Cassie Morrice, Taylor Padington and Julia Wilkinson) set a new BC Record with a time of 8:11.98.  19 year old Cassie Morrice and 16 year old Taylor Padington had their work cut out for them, teaming up with the likes of seasoned Olympians, Komarnycky and Wilkinson.   However, they both rose to the occasion and churned out exceptional swims, each with a new personal best.  Congratulations ladies.

Island Swimming’s men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay team (Stefan Hirniak, Blake Worsley, Jeremy Bagshaw and Ryan Cochrane) took the win with a time of 7:23.25, over 6 seconds faster than the second place team from Australia.

Olympian, Ryan Cochrane missed the A final from his preliminary swim in the 400 IM.  However, his final time of 4:22.97 in the B final would have earned him a bronze medal.  Additionally, this swim set a new Island Swimming Club Record.  The previous record goes back to 1990 and was held by Jon Kelly who swam on the national team for nearly a decade and specialized in IM and fly.

16 year old Alec Page also swam the 400 IM in the B final and set a new Island Swimming Club Record for the 15-17 boys in the 400IM with his time of 4:29.29.

Island Swimming’s Julia Wilkinson, added 2 more individual medals to her collection.  She took gold in the women’s 50 backstroke and bronze in the 100m freestyle.

The pool competition continues through to Sunday at the Saanich Commonwealth Pool.