KISU swimmers achieved personal bests and improved times at Calgary’s 40th annual Chinook Invitational swim meet April 17-19. KISU traveled with 37 swimmers and returned with good results.
“The Big Bus meet is a great team bonding event. Not only do they travel long on a bus, but we camp out in a community hall and have a lot of fun together,” said coach Tina Hoeben in a press release. “From a coaching perspective, it is great to have an event that has a less-than-ideal situation in the mid-season as it prepares swimmers to be flexible and fast in tough situations. I was very pleased to see KISU swimmers step up to the challenge.”
The following are time improvements: Ava Wall (24.93 seconds in the girls 10 and under 200 IM); Aspen Benn (31.35 seconds in the girls 10 and under 200 IM); Sam Kliever (33.29 second time improvement in the boys 10 and under 50-metre breast stroke); Elijah Kliever (41.38 seconds in the boys 11-12 400-m freestyle); Acacia Benn (22.22 seconds in the girl’s 13-14 50-m breast stroke); Emily Caruso (42.54 seconds in the girls 13-14 400-m freestyle); Daniel Everton (51.79 seconds in the boys 13-14 400-m freestyle); Xelian Louw (20.37 seconds in the boys 13-14 boys breast stroke); Reilly Rowland (6.79 seconds in the girls 15 and over 100-m fly); Jaxon Stel (6.05 seconds in the boys 15 and over 100-m freestyle).
Other notable performances came from Marlee Caruso, Reece Haberstock, Evan Peters, Sean Peters, Kristen Vandeweghe, Mackenzie Wallich, Alice Wang and Joy Wang.
The club now heads into the long course season in May. This weekend KISU will be in Kelowna for the Kaj LC meet. A week later they travel to New Westminster for the Hyack Festival Youth Cup May 15-17.
The following weekend they will be at the UBC Aquatic Centre for the Mel Zajac meet then end the month at the Wenatchee Apple Capital meet, which is outdoors.