2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Smith And McCabe Set Up For Breaststroke
The Canadian women’s team is looking to be well rounded with the potential to send a swimmer into the Olympic final in almost every stroke discipline. While women’s backstroke has the most depth in Canadian swimming, women’s breaststroke isn’t far behind. With plenty of top competitors like Rachel Nicol, Kierra Smith, and Martha McCabe, Canada has the potential to send a very solid breaststroke group to Rio.
Natalie Coughlin Won’t Swim At Canadian Trials
Despite being on the original psych sheets released by Swimming Canada, American swim star Natalie Coughlin will not be competing at Canadian Trials in Toronto.
2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Caldwell, Masse Look To Lead Backstroke
The women’s backstroke scene arguably displays the most overall depth in Canadian swimming. In both events there are at least two athletes entering with seeds under the FINA ‘A’ time meaning it’s likely Canada will be able to send two athletes in each stroke discipline. With young talent mixing with more seasoned swimmers, the backstroke races will be some of the fastest races at trials.
2016 Canadian Olympic Trials: Fastest Field Of Female Freestylers Ever
The 2016 Canadian Olympic Trials will feature one of the best fields of freestylers on the women’s side that the nation has ever seen. From the 50 to the 800 there are competitors who could potentially make Olympic finals and have competed well internationally.
How To Qualify For the 2016 Canadian Olympic Team
Swimming Canada’s selection process is unique, posing seven different ways that an athlete can qualify for the team. When an athlete meets one of the seven qualifying criteria, Swimming Canada will submit their nominates to the Canadian Olympic Committee who will ultimately approve the nominations.
Georgia Tech’s Moises Loschi Withdraws From NCAA Championships
Georgia Tech swimmer Moises Loschi has decided to pull out of the men’s 2016 NCAA Championships leaving the Yellow Jackets with just two qualifiers headed into the meet.
WATCH: Four Teammates Hope To Be Representing Canada’s Relay In Rio
Four athletes from the High Performance Centre – Ontario are looking to make their mark at the Canadian Olympic Trials this April with hopes of all qualifying for a spot on the 4x100m freestyle relay.
King Aquatic Club Breaks Second Medley Relay NAG Record This Weekend
The King Aquatic Club boys broke the 13-14 year-old national age group record in the 400 yard medley relay this morning at the 2016 Northwest Region SC Age Group Championships in Federal Way, Washington.
Swimming Canada Sets Up Training Base In Japan
Swimming Canada announced today that they would be establishing a training base in the Wakayama Prefecture in Japan.
University of Toronto Men And Women Win CIS Championships
For the first time since the 1992-93 season the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men’s and women’s swim teams both won the CIS Championships.
2016 CIS Championships Day 3 Finals Live Recap
2016 CIS CHAMPIONSHIPS Quebec City, QC SCM – Prelims LCM – Finals Prelims 10:00 am ET Finals 6:00 pm ET…
2016 CIS Championships Day 3 Prelims: Tera Van Beilen Set Up To Sweep
UBC’s Tera Van Beilen is perfectly set up to sweep the breaststroke events here at her last CIS Championships. Van Beilen was a 31.43 this morning in the 50m breaststroke in order to take the top seed over Rebecca Terejko.
2016 CIS Championships Day Two Prelims: Tera Van Beilen Back For More
Tera Van Beilen of UBC made a statement this morning with a 2:23.98 performance in the heats of the 200m breaststroke. Not only did that give her the top seed overall, but she was almost five seconds faster than all of her remaining competitors.
Kylie Masse Breaks Long Course Canadian National Record
University of Toronto swimmer Kylie Masse broke her first long course Canadian national record tonight at the CIS Championships en route to a victory by over a second.
2016 CIS Championships Day One Finals Live Recap
Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson is the top seed in both the women’s 200m freestyle and 400m IM.
