BC Winter Provincials 2025 Report

Winter Provincial Champs 2025 Report

The 2025 Winter Provincial Champs happened last weekend at the Saanich Commonwealth Place, Victoria, BC. CDSC came in 3^rd in the female category (with 862 points) and 8^th overall (with 1048 points). CDSC took 31 swimmers to the meet.

1. Top 5 Individual Point Score

Olivia Zhou (14 yrs) is CDSC’s highest point score contributor (137 individual points) and came second for aggregate awards in her age group (13-14). She won a few medals and broke a few club records:

• Medals
  • Gold
    • 50 FR – 26.32
      • Broke 13-15 Record – Old record by Emma Liu
    • 50 FL – 28.47
      • Broke 13-14 record - old record by Lucy Liu
      • Broke Open record – old record by Nathalie Day
    • 50 BK – 30.55
      • Broke 13-14 record – old record by Lucy Liu
      • Broke Open record - old record by Lucy Liu
  • Silver
    • 100 FL – 1:03.78
    • 100 FR – 59.24
  • Bronze
    • 100 BK – 1:06.84

Lucy Liu (15 yrs) was the second in terms of point contributor with 108 points

She won the following medals

• Silver
  • 200 FR – 2:05.29
• Bronze
  • 100 FL – 1:02.69

50 FR – 27.07

Abigail Skinder (18 yrs) comes in fourth in terms of point contributor with 107 points:

She won the following medals:

• Silver
  • 200 BK – 2:23.21
• Bronze
  • 200 FR – 2:10.08

Audrey Chow (14 yrs) comes in fourth in terms of point contributor with 106 points:

She won the following medals and broke the following records:

• Silver

• 1500 FR – 17:54.38 – club record and new Canadian Open time!

Milly Tung (17 yrs) was the fifth most number of point contributor with 102 points.

She won the following medals:

• Gold
  • 200 FL – 2:19.87
• Silver
  • 400 IM – 5:04.87
  • 100 FL – 1:06.02
• Bronze
  • 800 FR – 9:22.35
  • 1500 FR – 17:52.21
  • 400 FR – 4:33.99

1. Our relays were very competitive, with the following medals and records:

• Silver
  • 15-17 4x50 Medley
    • Lauren D, Luna C, Lucy L, Olivia Z
    • New Club Record from Summer 2022
  • 13-14 4x100 Free
    • Olivia Z, Izzy SH, Mia L, Audrey C
  • 13-14 4x50 Free
    • Olivia Z, Audrey C, Izzy SH, Mia L
• Bronze
  • 13-14 4x50 Medley
    • Oliva Z, Izzy SH, Mia L, Audrey C
  • Open 4x200 Free
    • Lauren D, Abby S, Audrey C, Lucy L
• Club Records
  • 15-17 4x50 Free Relay - Lauren D, Olivia Z, Audrey C, Lucy L
    • Old Record from last Winter Provincials 2024

1. Top 3 Boy Individual Point Score

• Tyler Clogg win 73 points
• Sam Heusel with 37 points
• Jimmy Zhu with 25 points

1. New Accomplishments

• Lauren D (15 yrs) – getting her first Canadian Open Time Standard in the 50 FR!
• Emma L (12 yrs) – first time in Provincials, 2 finals (50 BK and 100 BK), breaking club record in the 50 BK from 2022 and winning a bronze Medal!
• Matei Z (11 yrs) – first time in Provincials, helping out the 13-14 boys 4x100 FR relay team, placing 6^th!

1. Our best time percentage is exceptionally high, hovering around 75%! This proves that our team is improving and getting better!

As we reflect on the successes of the CDSC crew, our success would be without our super chaperones Sandra & Peter Heusel for helping our team travel crew! Their work was exceptional!

Looking forward to Summer Provincials, we look to improve our individual and relay rankings, and we hope more swimmers would not only make more swims, but ultimately more second swims. This means that our morning swims should be very competitive within the province in their respective age groups.

Most of our swimmers have moved up to the lower age band of the age groups and we hope that their development will bring them to be the top swimmers in the BC Championships age groups.

Our 11-12 yrs swimmers number at Provincials has also improved from 1 swimmer last year to 3 this Winter and we hope to have even more in the summer! This is an important step as we rebuild our grassroots to help in the long term.

Our next meet is the Canadian Open for some National Group swimmers and Olympian LC April Swim Meet .

Good job to all and we look forward to fast swimming in BC Summer Provincials!