A really good Provincial meet for the Pirates this weekend!

Northern Provincials was made of 20 swim teams and 250 swimmers.
Each of the nine qualified Pirates in attendance managed to perform personal best times and finish in the Top-8 in at least one event. Our Team Smashed 6 Team Records; Won 15 Medals—5 Gold, 7 Silver; 3 Bronze; and picked up another Alberta Championship Cut in the 400 Freestyle—by Payton Loon.

New Records
Ryan Boll lowered the Male 15 & Over 100 Butterfly record to 1:01.66, the previous record was 1:02.04 held by Kail Ketelaars
Payton Loon lowered the Girls 11-12 400 IM team record to 6:09.29, the old record 6:18.75 was set in 2009 by Megan Titcomb
Jewel Shewchuk lowered a couple of the Ladies 15 & Over records:
400 IM was lowered to 5:45.48, the previous record of 6:29.53 was set by Anna Stuart in 2012; 50 Butterfly was taken down to 33.91, previously 34.71 held by Alisa Fald; as well as, re-setting Jewels own 100 & 200 back records.

On the Podium
Ryan Boll won Gold in 100 Back and 100 Fly
William Cosgrove won Gold in the 50, 200, & 800 Free
Finn Crowe placed second in the 200 & 800 Free
Payton Loon took silver in 50 Free
Brevan Wagner placed second in the 800 Free

Finished in the Top-8
Aspyn Curry-Punk in 5 events
Dakota Dotzlaf in 4 events
Jewel Shewchuk in 3 events
Tegan Smith in 1 event

New Pirate A Times
Ryan Boll 100 Fly
William Cosgrove 200 & 800 Free
Aspyn Curry-Punk 50 Fly and 100 Back
Dakota Dotzlaf 100 Free
Payton Loon 400 & 800 Free

New Pirate BB Times
Finn Crowe 200 Free
Tegan Smith 50 Breast & 100 Back

Last weekend, February 9 & 10, the Pirates raided MacEwan University for the Fast Eddies Sprint Invite! Over twenty Pirates took to the water and raced up a storm—winning 20 events plus two Swiminator Events! William Cosgrove won the 13-14 Mens Swiminator, while Ryan Boll & Brevan Wagner One-Two’d the 15 & older Swiminator. Our Lady Pirates put in strong performances in the Swiminator with Ally McCrimmon and Alisa Fald coming in runner up in each of their age groups.

Rewriting the Record Books—4 Team Records were broken over the weekend! Alisa Fald smashed the 50 & 100 Free records, while Jewel Shewchuk body-slammed the 100 IM and 100 Fly records.

Gold Medal Winners: Ryan Boll won 6 events; William Cosgrove, Alisa Fald, Payton Loon, & Jewel Shewchuk Won 3 events each; and Brevan Wagner won 2 events

Silver & Bronze: Dakota Dotzlaf silvered in 2 events; Kyla Fald, Allyssa McCrimmon, Garrett McCrimmon, & Tegan Smith each took a Silver in a event; Julia Needham & Marley Steeves took a bronze each

New Pirate-A Time performances by William Cosgrove and Brevan Wagner

New Pirate-BB Time performances by Dakota Dotzlaf, Paytoon Loon and Alyssa McCrimmon

New Pirate-B Time performances by Garret McCrimmon, Julia Needham, Katlyn Palmer, and Marley Steeves

Additional Strong and Best Time Performances by Francesca Brown, Elise Cooke, Addison Fossen; Jennifer Genge, Sydney Guertin-Bougerolle, Katlyn Palmer, Noah Vermue, and Sara Vermue

See More Results Here!

Great Swimming Pirates!

On Wednesday, December 13, 2017, several Parkland, Stony Plain, and Spruce Grove Swimmers got an opportunity to represent their High Schools in the Metro Edmonton High School Athletic Association Championship Swim Meet, which was held at the Kinsmen Pool in Edmonton.

15 year old, Beavan Wagner—representing Spruce Grove Composite High School—WON the 50m backstroke(setting a Metro Record), and placed 4th in the 400m freestyle.
15 year old Jewel Shewchuck—representing Spruce Grove Composite High School—took Silver in the 200m IM, Bronzed in the 50m backstroke, and Bronzed again as a member of the 4×50 Free Relay
16 year old Alisa Fald—representing Memorial Composite High School—brought home Silver in the 100m IM and placed 6th in the 50m Breaststroke.
17 year old Dylan Bacchus—representing Memorial Composite High School—placed 4th in the 50m backstroke and placed 6th in prelims of the 400m freestyle.

It is great to see Pirates representing their High Schools in this activity!

What are Pirate Motivational Times?

AAAA or Faster closely represents the Top 6%
AAA or Faster places a swimmer within the Top 12%
AA or Faster is around the Top 20%
A or Faster is within the Top 30%
BB or Faster is about the Top 45%
B or Faster represents about the Top 52%

Pirate Times are great for goal setting!
It’s another way to track improvement and gain recognition
Each standard can give a swimmer an idea of where they stand within an age group outside of what they see locally.

The Pirates offer a FREE clinic geared towards giving prospective swimmers an opportunity to see what swimming on Team is like, while developing a lifesaving skill that will last your child a life time.

CLINIC Info, Dates & Time:

SEPTEMBER 3-6 & 9-12 from 5:15 to 6:00 PM @ the Outdoor Stony Plain Pool. However we swim the rest of the year at the TRI in Spruce Grove
Must be able to swim 25m of freestyle or backstroke.

info@parklandpirates.com
780.807.8665