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Hyack Swim Club makes a splash at AAAs

Club records fall aplenty at Swim B.C. short course provincial AAA age group championships

New Westminster Hyack swimmers set a heaping handful of club records at the recent B.C. short course AAA age group championships in Surrey.

Stella MiYoung Jin, 14, led the assault on the Hyack record book, taking down two longstanding butterfly pool marks at the recent meet.

Jin broke a 38-year-old 13/14 girls’ record in the 200-metre fly with a second-place time of 2:20.59. She also won the 100m fly in a new record time of 1:03 flat.

“Stella has had a great time with our record board, especially with the old ones,” said Hyack coach Mark Bottrill, “earlier in the year, she took off another ’70’s record in the 100 free.”

Jin also won the 50m fly and free, while placing third in the 100m free.

At the Western Canadian Open last month, Jin broke the club’s long-course records in the 50 and 100m fly.

Zoe Froh also rewrote an old club record in the 200m backstroke, winning the 12/13 girls’ B final in 2:26.04. She also set a new long-course record at the Westerns in the 200m fly that dated back to 1976.

Froh won a silver medal in the 400m individual medley.

Sergey Chernomorchenko also took a run at three 10-and-under records at the championships.

The nine-year-old Hyack swimmer placed third in the 50m fly in a club record time of 34.14. He also won a bronze medal in the 200m fly.

Chernomorchenko had a pair of sixth-place finishes in the 400m IM and 800m free, in respective club record times of 5:52.15 and 10:43.17.

Brodie Young, 14, set a new club age group mark of 31.33 with a seventh-place swim in the 50m breaststroke.

Sehajvir Singh, 13, picked up eight individual medals at the meet, including first-place swims in 100 and 200m back, 200m free and IM and 400m IM. He also was runner-up in the 50m fly and 50 and 100m free.

Singh picked up a team bronze medal with Dragos Tudosa, Nicholas Lee and Graham Dowdle in the 200m medley.

Octavia Lau, 13, was another big Hyack age-group winner, placing first in the 50, 100 and 200m free and third in the 200m back and 400m IM.

Lau also added a silver in the 200m free relay with Kyra Tamagi, Briana Haiduc and Victoria Tocheva.

HuiJun Yang was a runner-up in the 11-and-under girls’ 50m free. Yang shared a bronze medal with 400m free relay teammembers Regina Rosas-Saenz, Vivien Truong and Avery Tamagi.

The Hyacks placed sixth at the provincial short course meet. UVic-Pacific Coast Swimming won the age-group aggregate.