Pick up time for Killer Whales

Please note the team bus will be arriving into Campbell River at 6:00 pm at the Budget rental office on the corner of Erickson and old Island Highway.

First All Level Meet of Season goes this Weekend

The first meet for the "big kids" goes this weekend at the Crystal Pool in Victoria. 31 swimmers from Campbell River will compete at the meet. Check here for updates and results from the weekends action.

CRKW Youngsters Awesome in Meet Debut's

Seven young members of the Killer Whales Swim Club competed in Ladysmith this past weekend at the first progressive meet of the season. With all of them competing for the Killer Whales for the very first time, they were all outstanding in their efforts and their results.

Every swimmer on the team was able to place in the top 10 at least once, which is quite the feat considering that the meet was run with boys and girls combined for all events. Mackenzie Padington was a first place finisher in the mixed 25 breaststroke with a time of 37.06. At 6 years old she was one of the youngest competitors at the meet but swam an excellent race nonetheless. Nadia Gilson was also able to manage a top 3 finish with a third place finish in the 25 breaststroke making CRKW a 1-3 finisher in the event.

Kylie Modras and Birklee Landels, both in their first year of competitive swimming had excellent showings with two top 10 finishes each. Modras was able to place 6th in the 25 breast and 7th in the 25 free while Landels placed 7th in the 25 breaststroke and 8th in the 25 free.

Kevin Monk placed 9th in the 25 breaststroke and had excellent freestyle and backstroke swims at the meet while Nolan Stuart had a great 5th place finish in the 25 butterfly, showing excellent technique.
CRKW next competes in the TYEE All Level meet and then in Victoria and Port Alberni as well as at home in Campbell River in November.

New UBC Pool Site - 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

Ottawa, ON - Construction begins this month on a new University of British Columbia pool facility, that will be the site of the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.

The outdoor pool will be a ten-lane, 50-meter pool will replace the current 55-yard, six-lane outdoor pool that was originally built for the 1954 British Empire Games. The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships (Pan Pacs) will be held from August 17 to 20, 2006 and mark the first major international competition to be held at the facility. In addition to 1,000 participants, officials and coaching staff, the event will draw 8,000 spectators and over 1.5 million viewers around the world through its international broadcast reach. Following Pan Pacs, UBC will use the pool to serve its students and residents of UBC’s emerging University Town community, and to support its world-class varsity swim program.

This will be the first major international swimming competition to be held on Canada’s west coast since the Commonwealth Games in 1994. Over 400 of the world’s top swimmers will be in attendance. Canadian Olympians and 2005 World Championship medalists Rick Say, Brent Hayden, and Brittany Reimer will join international stars such as USA’s Michael Phelps, Amanda Beard as well as Australia’s Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett.

‘The new UBC Pool represents a very important legacy for Canadian swimming, states Dan Thompson, President, SNC. ‘The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships will provide us with an exceptional opportunity to enhance our competitiveness and generate greater support for our athletes.’

The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships is renowned as one of the most exciting competitive swimming events in the world. Canada is a founding member among four charter nations, including Australia, Japan and the United States, which launched this competition in 1983 to rival competitions in the European nations.

"This new outdoor pool will support our exceptional varsity swimming program, and have a positive and lasting impact on our community and the province as a premier recreation and performance centre, "says Brian Sullivan, Vice President, Students, UBC. "We look forward to working with Swimming Canada to inaugurate this facility and create a highly successful Pan Pacific Games that advances Canada's competitive swim program."

CRKW Named 2005 British Columbia Swim Club of the Year

At tonights annual Swim BC Awards Banquet in Whistler, BC, the Campbell River Killer Whales Swim Club was named the 2005 Swim Club of the Year for our development over the past three years, for our improvement, our performance and our overall structure. Congratulations to our volunteers but mostly to our swimmers who's performance and representation made this award possible.