Young Canadian team shines at U.S. meet

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. – Brooklyn Snodgrass and Russell Wood of Calgary, Yuri Kisil of the Swimming Canada High Performance Centre – Vancouver and Kierra Smith of Kelowna, B.C., all showed they are ready for this summer’s big events with multi-medal performances at the Fran Crippen Swim Meet of Champions which concluded on Sunday. 

All four are on the Canadian teams for the Commonwealth Games later this month in Glasgow, Scotland and the Pan Pacific Championships next month in Australia. 

Snodgrass posted victories in the 1oo-m backstroke and 200-m backstroke for two of Canada’s seven victories on the weekend. 

The other winners were Baumann, the daughter of Canadian swimming legend Alex Baumann, in the 1500-m freestyle, Smith in the 200-m breaststroke, Emily Overholt of West Vancouver in the 400-m individual medley and Keegan Zanatta of Victoria in the men’s 400-m freestyle. 

Baumann also helped her Edmonton Keyano club to victory in the 4X200-m freestyle relay and bronze in the 4X100-m medley relay and also took third spot in the 400-m freestyle. 

Here is a list of all the Canadian medallists this weekend: 

Men 

Keegan Zanatta, Victoria: gold 400-m freestyle, bronze 200-m freestyle 
Eric Hedlin, High Performance Centre - Victoria: silver 1500-m freestyle 
Yuri Kisil, High Performance Centre - Vancouver: silver 100-m freestyle, bronze 50-m freestyle
Russell Wood, Calgary: silver 100-m backstroke, bronze 200-m backstroke 
Jeremy Bagshaw, Victoria: silver 200-m freestyle, bronze 400-m freestyle 
Kier Maitland, Edmonton: silver 800-m freestyle 
Jonathan Brown, Calgary: silver 200-m IM 
Edmonton Keyano Club: silver 4X100-m medley relay 
Jeremy Swanston, Newmarket, Ont.: bronze 100-m backstroke 

Women 

Kierra Smith, Kelowna, B.C.: gold 200-m breaststroke 
Edmonton Keyano Club: gold 4X200-m freestyle relay, silver 4X100-m freestyle relay, bronze 4X100-m medley relay 
Emily Overholt, West Vancouver: gold 400-m IM 
Tabitha Baumann, Edmonton: gold 1500-m freestyle, bronze 800-m freestyle, bronze 400-m freestyle 
Fiona Doyle, Calgary: silver 100-m breaststroke 
Tianna Rissling, Medicine Hat, Alta: bronze 100-m breaststroke 
Erin Stamp, Guelph, Ont.: silver 200-m IM 
Breanne Siwicki, Winnipeg: bronze 400-m IM 

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Full results: http://www.socalswim.org/live-results/2014mvnsmoc/