Trail Stingrays kick start their 2011 Summer Season!
By rgurney
This past weekend was the first swim meet of the 2011 summer swim season. The club has been training since the beginning of May and the season ends in August after Provincials. This year’s provincials are in Richmond, BC and the Stingrays have a large amount of swimmers aiming to qualify for the Provincial Championships.
There were 8 teams in attendance and over 220 swimmers at the meet.
The Stingrays missed out on 1st by only a few points! They had 34 swimmers competing at the meet.
1st – Revelstoke Aquaducks
2nd – Trail Stingrays
3rd – Castlegar Aquanauts
4th – Grand Forks Piranhas
5th – Nelson Neptunes
6th – Colville Sharks
7th – Kimberley Seahorses
8th – Creston Wave
Aggregates:
Division 1 – Dylan Kormendy – Gold
Division 2 – Kayla Fraser – Silver
Division 3 – Eden Kormendy – Gold
Division 3 – Jovan Santiago – Silver
Division 4 – Sharman Thomas – Bronze
Division 5 – Cassidy Martin – Silver
Division 5 – Jennifer Chung – Gold
Division 6 – Oleg Liferovich – Bronze
Division 7 – Christine Cook – Silver
Division 7 – Samme Beatson – Gold
The Stingrays had an impressive weekend at the Nelson meet. The club narrowly missed out on 1st place at the meet. The Revelstoke team from the Okanagan brought over 40 swimmers and stole the meet in our own region!
The next meet coming up is the Grand Forks “B” meet this weekend on Saturday June 11th.
Our own meet is June 18/19th. so feel free to come out and cheer on the best swimmers in the Kootenay Region.
