Buoyed by a dominant showing from their boys, the Hyack Swim Club finished in second place at the Swim B.C. AAA championships in Saanich.
When the water calmed, the UVic-Pacific Coast club finished first with 3,232.5 points, edging the New Westminster-based Hyacks who posted 3,092.5 points, almost 1,000 points more than the third-place finisher.
When it came to the boys, the Hyacks piled up twice as many points as its nearest competitors, led by a trio of water stars: 10-year-old Sergey Chernomorchenko, who won two events and eight medals in total, remaking all the club’s 10 and under boys records in the process; 11-year-old Adam Wu, who reeled off 11 gold medals to lead the medl parade; and 14-year-old Sehajvir Singh’s record-setting swim in the 400-metre individual medley. Singh broke the old B.C. record by nearly two seconds, finishing in a time of 4:32.84.
Winning four girls events was nationally ranked Octavia Lau, 14, as well as a pair of silver.
In the overall points race, it came down between the Hyacks and UVic, with UVic pulling away on the third day for a fourth consecutive title.
“Going into this meet we anticipated we would be able to take a run at the championship but with our group having 20 less swimmers overall we kind of thought we would run out of scoring swims by the last day and that was the case,” remarked Hyacks coach Mark Bottrill. “With that said, though, we swam great with 15 club records going down and our swimmers getting to meet records and a new provincial record.”
Here are more results: Chris Baker, 17, 3rd 200 fly; Alex Chernomorchenko, 13, 3rd 200 fly; Sergey Chernomorchenko, 10, 1st 100 back, 400 fr, 2nd 100 fly, 200 bk, br, 400 IM, 3rd 800 fr; Andy Cho, 12, 2nd 400 fr, 1500 fr; Martin Dimitrov, 15, 3rd 200 fly; Zoe Froh, 13, 1st 800 fr, 2nd 400 IM, 3rd 200 fly, fr, 400 fr; Rolando Hernandez, 18, 1st 200, fr, IM, 400 IM, 2nd 50 bk, 400 fr, 3rd 50 fr; Stella Jin, 15, 1st 50 fly, fr, 100, 200 fly; Octavia Lau, 14, 1st 200, 400, 800 fr, 2nd 200, 400 IM, 3rd 100 fr, 200 fly; Yedam Lee, 14, 3rd 200 br; Sehajvir Singh, 14, 1st 400 IM; Eric Sue, 13, 3rd 1500 fr; Adam Wu, 11, 1st 50, 100 fly, 200, bk, fly, fr, IM, 400 IM, 800 fr; Brodie Young, 15, 1st 100 br, 2nd 200, 400 IM, 3rd 200 br, 1500 fr.
Also qualifying for finals were: Amar Fejzic, Carleen Gao, Jacob Garricks, Gregor Gasovi- Varga, Peter Huang, Micah Lau, Xavier Lau, Andrew Li, Sean Li, Calin Lucas, Regian Saenz, Alex Shen, Nikita Slivinski, Aaron Sun, Kyra Tamagi, Victoria Tocheva, Eric Xiong and Louis Yang.
