After 3 Senior Club records in the first 2 days, the team was pretty pumped to continue the great racing and see how many more records, finals, and best times we could get.

• Nadine broke through in a big way on Friday night in the 800 Free (8:55.13), dropping 9 seconds off of her previous best time, (and Club Record) she set just a month and a half earlier, and earning her STSC’s first Gold medal of these championships. It is Nadine’s first gold medal at any National-level swim meet. 
• Karlyn moved to within 1.4 seconds of another Club Record after a really great 200 IM (2:28.13), which was also a best time by over 2 seconds. 
• Megan continued her brilliant swimming with a few more best times in 50 Free (29.73) and 100 Back (1:10.56), both events less than 1-sec away from making another top-8 final. 
• Alli finished her first ever Age Group Nationals with continued solid performances, and was a big part of breaking 2 more club records, this time in relays. 
• The girls 800 Free Relay and 400 Free Relay both broke the previous 15-17 Girls Club Records. 
• Brendan Elford swam an inspiring 200 Fly (2:20.46) which now qualifies him forever to the Age Group National meet, and added a final best time in 50 Fly (29.57) to round out his incredible week of racing. 
• Kevin was also full of best times, and his 100 Back (1:10.60) was once again just shy of making a top-8 final. 
• Nathan very nearly broke through in his 100 Back (1:04.03) by swimming out to nearly a best time at the 50m split (30.79) – taking risks like that are crucial to becoming a fast senior swimmer. 
• Greg also needed to take some risks to create new best times, and after spending a record amount of time with his coach, and then a little introspection, he discovered his own pride and desire to race faster than ever before. In possibly his best race of the season, Greg pushed our 400 Free Relay to a huge lead by splitting his 100 Free (55.6) in a nearly 2-second best time. 
  

    We’re looking forward to seeing this determination follow into next season’s training and racing. The Open Water 5-km race took place on Monday morning, and Karlyn, Brendan and Kevin were entered. This open water race was entered by the most swimmers in the history of Canadian Age Group nationals, and the competition was therefore very deep.
    Our great week continued, as

•  Karlyn took the Gold medal, STSC’s 2nd Gold of the competition! Coach Maciek was on the beach watching the race, and describes Karlyn’s race as “so exciting!”: in the hunt the whole way, moving up from 3rd to 1st in the final 1500m and eventually touching the Finish Line in a tie! Karlyn is clearly one of Canada’s best open water swimmers, and her performance already has the country buzzing about Silver Tide. 
• The boys’ results are still pending, but Brendan and Kevin also finished their first-ever open water event happy about their performances. 

    The pool swimming gave us club records in 4 individual and 2 relay events.
Every swimmer walked away with best times, a great experience, and lessons to look forward to using next season.
I’m a very proud head coach and can’t wait to see everyone again in the fall!

Chris Nelson Head Coach - Silver Tide Swim Club
780.455.7203
Chris.Nelson@silvertide.ca

       Age Group Nat's are going really, really well.
3 out of 4 girls have set individual Senior Girls Club Records so far, and it's only Day 2.

• Karlyn went 5:11 for 400 IM (4-sec best time, and first best in that event since 2008)
• Megan went 2:26 in 200 Back (8-sec best time, and squeaked into finals 8th with a 2:29 before just missing a medal and finishing 5th in Canada! It's her first time ever at this meet)
• Dini got into town last night and led our relay off this morning with a 2:07 in 200 Free (1-sec best time, and first best in that event since 2008)
• Alli was also a best in her 200 Free (2:29, 3-sec best). So that's a Senior record in 400 IM, 200 Back and 200 Free in just 2 days!! 
• Brendan also went another best in 400 IM (5:14, 2-sec best) and 1500 Free (18:30, 20-sec best). 
• Kevin almost made finals in 200 Back (2:28, 3-sec best).    
• Nathan had a great 200 Back (2:20, 1-sec best) and 200 Free (2:02, 1-sec best). 
• Greg was also a best in 200 Free (2:07, 1-sec best). 

    We've had a lot of heat winners, and the racing is really fun to watch. Not every team is having a great meet, so we're getting noticed with all of our great performances.
    I'm looking forward to tomorrow, with 100 Breast, 200 Fly, 50 Free and the 800 Free. Hello to everyone back home.
   
You can follow along with the team’s results at www.swimming.ca

Go Tide!!
Chris Nelson Head Coach - Silver Tide Swim Club
780.455.7203
Chris.Nelson@silvertide.ca

Female 13-14 200 Back
                2:29.37             THEA NORTON at LC YOUTH / JR. NATIONALS 2000 13/07/2000
                2:26.83         ** MEGAN MARTIN at 2010 Canadian Age Group Championship 21/07/2010

Female 15-17 200 Free
               2:08.32              NADINE WILLIAMS at 2009 Mel Zajac Jr International 22/05/2009
               2:07.52          ** NADINE WILLIAMS at 2010 Canadian Age Group Championship 21/07/2010

Female 15-17 800 Free
               9:04.05             NADINE WILLIAMS at TYR Swim Meet of Champions 10/06/2010
               8:55.13         ** NADINE WILLIAMS at 2010 Canadian Age Group Championship 21/07/2010

Female 15-17 400 IM
               5:15.03              KARLYN ELFORD at Alberta Age Group/Senior Long Course Champs 03/07/2008
               5:11.65          ** KARLYN ELFORD at 2010 Canadian Age Group Championship 21/07/2010

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Club Records have been updated.