Successful weekend for Aquanauts

The Castlegar Aquanauts had a very successful past weekend at the Creston Invitational Swim Meet, placing first overall.

There were 25 swimmers in attendance at the swim meet.

The Aquanauts made a few new meet records and had a lot of top finishes. All of the swimmers went incredibly fast and showed the other teams that the Aquanauts are the team to beat this summer.

Both of the head coaches, Laura Zevenhuizen and Michaella Yang were very impressed with the results achieved by the Aquanauts this weekend.

“It was so great to see all of our swimmers have such success this weekend. There were definitely some races that had Michaella and I on the edge of our seats,” said Zevenhuizen.

A particularly exciting moment during the swim meet was the 50m freestyle eliminator. An event that takes the top 5 50m freestyle finalists for divisions 1-3 and 4-8 and has them continuously race to be the last ones standing. The Aquanauts received 1st place in all four eliminators! This was one of the many achievements for the aquanauts this swim meet.

“This past weekend at Creston was amazing. Both Laura and I were stunned at how well everyone raced. Each and every single swimmer should be proud of their performance,” said Yang.

The next swim meet for the Castlegar Aquanauts will take place in two weeks time in Colville. It is about halfway through the season and the swimmers have already had a ton of success.