The provincial age group championships were a medal playground for the Hyack Swim Club.
The New Westminsterbased swim club took home 39 medals, including 13 gold and four provincial meet records at the AAA short course meet in Surrey last weekend.
Sherry Liu shattered the provincial meet record in the 16 to 18 girls' 400-metre freestyle.
The Burnaby swimmer set a new meet and club record with a winning time of 4: 09.45, eclipsing the time of Vancouver Island runner-up Taylor Padington by more than 10 seconds, while beating the old mark set by Cassie Morrice in 2009 by more than five seconds.
Liu won the 800m free and 400m individual medley. She was also runner-up in the 200m free and IM.
Eleven-year-old Ethan Laing set new meet standards in the boys' 11-andunder 100 and 200m breaststroke.
Laing lopped a full second off the old provincial mark in the 200m breast, winning in a time of 2: 50.41. The young Hyack also shaved two-tenths of a second off the 100m mark.
Stephan Milosevic broke a long-standing club record in the 16 to 18 boys' 200m free, setting a new mark of 1: 50.64 in the final.
Milosevic also won gold in the 200m backstroke and 400m individual medley, a silver in both the 200m IM and 1,500m free and a bronze in the 200m butterfly.
Wendy Yang was also a winner, taking gold in the 13-year-old girls' 100m fly. Yang placed second in the 50 and 100m free and 100m back as well.
Kiana Stark was a silver medallist in the 11-andunder girls' 100m breast and a bronze-medal winner at 200m.
Devon Joanis, 13, Justin Kiedrzyn, 18, Igor Gasovic Varga, 16, Mark Pang, 13, May Li, 15, Chris Polok, 16, and Inder Pooni, 15, were also race finalists.
The Hyacks placed fifth in the team aggregate.
tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
