Check out this article from the Penticton Western News . . . photo is of Evan Peters, and both Acacia Benn and Eric Doroshuk were interviewed! Article

Day 3 at AAAs Another exciting day at AAAs. There were so many best times and exciting swims that I will only mention a few of the highlights. Our Para swimmers, Andrew Cooke and Avery Newton, have been swimming up a storm. AAAs is a great meet for them to prepare for their CanAm (Canada and Americas) meet in early April, in Minnesota. CanAms is one of the few stand alone Para meets and it runs a full program of Para events, including heats and finals . . . Just...

AAAs Day 1 & 2 Great swims from Kisu swimmers at AAAs from the first two days of the meet in Victoria. The highlight of the first day was Acacia Benn's 800. Not only did she smash through her previous best time, but she made the AAA time standard in the 800 and unofficially in the 400. She also anchored the girls relay with another new AAA time in the 100 Free (unofficial). Acacia finished the day off with a dinner with four of Canada's Olympians. They had a great...

A great start fir KISU at Westerns in Saskatoon. Reilly Rowland went a best time by 30s in the 1500 and placed 12th. Sam Lasinski went best times on both the 50 and 100 back. Payton Nackoney went near best times in the 50 fly and back yesterday. She will be swimming the 50 free shortly.

Here are the November and December results for the timed 1000m swim, from Coach Jane . . . congratulations to all of the swimmers! November: Brynn 22 minutes 24 seconds Avery Newton 20 minutes 40 sec Morgan 23 minutes 29 seconds McKenzie 23 minutes 30 seconds Elijah17 minutes 59 seconds Brayden 19 minutes 38 seconds Evan 23 minutes 54 seconds Matt 18 minutes 58 seconds Travis 19 minutes 49 seconds Connor 21 minutes 51 seconds Carson 23 minutes 40 seconds Marlee 19 minutes 50 seconds Sam D21 minutes 04seconds Avery...

Mini Squad Swimmers of the Month: Alexis-Jane Seddon and Devin Carly: Coach Linnea has chosen Alexis-Jane this month due to her always being on time, always being ready to work hard no matter what, and always having her swim cap on. She is a fantastic listener - even when we have a group full of boys with a ton of energy, she doesn't let them affect her. Devin has been chosen because he is always ready to work hard and always has a smile on his face! He is a...

Kelowna Meet Review We had two very exciting meets in Kelowna this past weekend - the Main Meet and the Jamboree. There were some major breakthroughs for swimmers. We had four swimmers who went their first A times – Mckenna Clarke, Nikita Logie, Riley Thompson and Jaxon Stel – all in the 200 Breaststroke. We also had some other swimmers who went new time standards in their events – Acacia Benn AA in 200 IM, 400 Free, 200 Free and 400 IM. Daniel Everton – AA in 200 IM, 400...

The Academy swimmers have had their Distance week, Nov. 19 - 24. They have swam a total of 10 workouts (every morning, 6 - 7:30am and every afternoon) and more than 50km. Their top distance was 8km in Wednesday afternoon's 20 x 400 workout. Although they are tired, they have never whined and have always been keen to swim whatever the workout says. They have been willing to push themselves beyond their comfort zone. On Day 4, Workout #8, Jaxon (who just started swimming this season) swam an A time...

Great job KISU at the Vernon Meet. The meet started out on teh Friday night with 50 Back and Breast . . . and then the 800. We had some great first time swims in the 800 by Elijah Kliever, Mackenzie Wallich and Clara Schirrmeister. The most improved 800 goes to Nikita Logie who took off 102seconds! Saturday finals were very exciting. Ashley McMillan had a great 100 Fly in the morning with a 1:46, which put her in third place going into the evening finals. Ashley is quite the...

On Friday, Nov. 16, nineteen Penticton swimmers headed down to Richmond for the BC High School Provincials. The Region sends down three swimmers from the results of the Regional High School Meet held in Kelowna at the end of October. Three schools were represented - Pen High, McNicoll and Skaha Lake Middle School. On Friday, they swim heats of all the events and finals take place on Saturday. We had a number of swimmers make it to the finals in either relay or individual events. We had many best times...