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Breakers break record, collect medals at provincial meet

Ravensong swim club excels at B.C. AAA championships
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Ravensong Breakers swimmer Camryn Stannard set a new provincial record in the 100-metre butterfly for 12-year-old girls and combined with 11-year-old teammate Lochlan Rogers to win nine gold medals during the B.C. AAA short-course swimming championships at the Commonwealth Aquatic Centre in Saanich last weekend.

The Parksville Qualicum Beach-based club qualified eight swimmers for the top-level provincial meet, which wraps up the short-course (25-metre) season.

The quartet of Jakob Brager, 14, Nick Bennett and Jakob Mbobela, 13, and Rogers teamed up for a silver-medal finish in the boys 14-under 200 medley relay, even with Rogers moving up an age class to fill out the team.

“All of our entrants swam multiple best times and made finals, either A or B, by finishing in the top eight or top 16 after preliminaries,” coach Byron Trajan said.

The eight swimmers combined for 34 top-16 (A or B final) finishes in the meet, including 15 podium finishes.

Stannard won medals in all seven of her individual events, including five gold, and established a B.C. age-group record with her 1-minute, 4.42-second clocking in the 100 butterfly.

Rogers matched her with seven individual medals, including four gold.

At left, Camryn Stannard of the Ravensong Breakers swim team, centre, is joined on the podium after winning the provincial AAA 100-metre freestyle by runner-up Quincy Bender, left, and bronze medalist Morgan Bender of the Peninsula Hurricanes swim club in Saanich Saturday, March 4, 2017. — Jenny Mowat photo

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