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/

Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 30 - July 4 2014

Here is the link to our tentative aquatics schedule for Monday June 30 to Friday July 4 2014:
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Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 27-29 2014

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Jeanne and Glenn Carlsen were jointly inducted into Masters Swimming Canada's Hall of Excellence

The full news release is found here: http://mymsc.ca/Awards/AwardsBooklet2014.pdf

Canadians come away with a 6th place finish

Montreal – A dry patch in the third quarter cost the Canadian men’s side dearly against the Americans, who went on to win their match for 5th place 14-11 on Saturday, at the Super Final of the Water Polo World League, presented in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 

The Canadian side got off to a good start in the first quarter, jumping out to a 2-0 lead behind goals by Constantine Kudaba of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Alec Taschereau of Ottawa and then went up 3-1 after Scott Robinson of Calgary scored. Their neighbours from the south would manage to equalize after 8 minutes, however, making the score 3-3. 

The Americans were the first to get on the board after the break. The Canadians replied with a Justin Boyd of Beaconsfield, Quebec, marker, but the United States countered to retake the lead. Team Canada would get even by halftime, though, making the score 5-5 at the break thanks to another goal by Robinson. 

The Americans would dominate the third quarter, taking a quick 6-5 lead before moving comfortably out in front 9-6. Only Repentigny-native Nicolas Constantin-Bicari found the back of the net for the Canadians in the period. 

In the last stanza, the eventual winners managed to keep their opponents at a safe distance, keeping leads of 11-6 and 13-7. The Canadian contingent attempted one final push that brought the score back to 13-10, but it was too little, too late. Constantin-Bicari and Boyd both scored twice, while Zacchary Kappos also scored. 

Alex Beslin satisfied 

“From what I saw, my team was really tired, especially with the effort they put in last game. I think it’s the biggest reason why we made mistakes today,” explained national coach Alex Beslin, who was making reference to the come-from-behind victory over the Brazilians on Friday, where the team came back from four goals down to win 14-13. 

Besides that win, the Canadians also won 10-8 versus the Australians in their last contest of the prelims, where they also fell to the Americans 12-9 and the Hungarians 10-3. They lost again in the quarter-finals, falling to the Serbians 16-11. 

“Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with our tourney. I thought we did a lot of things right, and there were certain objectives attained. The players followed my game-plan, so I’m happy,” Beslin concluded. 

For a second World League Super Final in a row, the Serbs took home top honours by defeating the Hungarians. After winning by a score of 12-7 last year, the bronze medalists at the London Games took down the world champions this time around, winning 10-6 on Saturday. 

Meanwhile, the bronze medal would go to the Montenegrins, who beat the Australians 12-9. 

Absent from the last Super Final and the 2012 Olympic Games, the Canadians finished 11th at the 2013 FINA World Championships, just under a year ago in Barcelona. 

As for the Americans, they finished 4th in the Super Final in 2013, 8th in London and 9th in Barcelona. 

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Source : Pascale Beaudoin 
Communications 
Water Polo Canada 
Téléphone : 613-748-5682 poste 328 
Télécopieur : 613-748-5777

Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 23-26 2014

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Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 20-22 2014

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City of Calgary and Talisman Centre Win the Bid to Host Water Polo National Championships

The City of Calgary and Talisman Center have been awarded the following National Championship events in 2015 on behalf of Water Polo Canada:

• 14 and under boys and girls Western National Championships
• 16 and under boys and girl Western Conference Championships
• 19 and under men and women Crossover weekend
• National Championship Finals (16 and under and 19 and under male and female)

Read Full announcement: http://web1.visitcalgary.com/sites/default/files/20152016_nchosts_announcement.pdf

TC Voted Best Place to Work Out!

We are excited to announce that Talisman Centre has once again been awarded the Best Place to Work Out by FFWD Magazine in their annual Best of Calgary issue.

It’s our 16^th year winning this award and it wouldn't be possible without all of our awesome staff. Thanks to all staff for making this such a great place for everyone to enjoy for the 16^th time!

You can check out all the winners on FFWDs Best of Calgary results page. 

Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 16-19 2014

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Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 13-15 2014

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Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 9-12 12014

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Halle Pratt tops all-important figures standings at 2014 Canadian Espoir Championships

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – Halle Pratt of the Calgary Aquabelles kicked off her last appearance at the 2014 Canadian Espoir Championships in synchronized swimming on Wednesday by ranking first in the all-important figures standings in the 13-15 age group. 

Pratt topped the almost 200-entry field with 72.1250 points. Emily Armstrong of the Variety Village Synchro Club in Toronto ranked second at 70.8780 and Paige Hopper of the Aquabelles third at 70.0570. 

The top-25 in the 13-15 figures event advanced to Phase 2, a second figures event scheduled for Friday. The top-20 athletes from Phase 2 will meet again on Sunday for Phases 3 and 4 when a 12-member training squad will be selected. From that group the 10-member squad for the 2014 Mediterranean Cup set for September in Greece will be finalized. 

In the 13-15 duet preliminaries, Armstrong and Teghyn Gurney of Variety Village are first at 72.6333, Charlotte Maheu-Savard and Rafaelle Valiquette of Montreal Synchro second at 72.600 and Sabrina Barnes and Meaghan Ozikizler of Granite Synchro in Toronto third at 71.9333. 

The competition is hosted by the Kamloops Sunrays and Synchro B.C. under the leadership of Synchro Canada. A total of 273 athletes from 23 clubs across Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan) are competing. 
Competition continues through to Saturday at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre. 

Schedule and results for the 2014 Canadian Espoir Championships are available on-line at www.synchro.ca 

Tentative Aquatic Schedule for June 6-8 2014

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Sochi 2014 Athlete Celebration June 4-6 2014

We have the privilege to be welcoming approximately 200 Olympians to the City of Calgary for a celebration from June 4-6.  The athletes will be staying downtown and will be provided the opportunity to work out here at TC on TC.  Their workout times would be during non-peak times, specifically 2-5pm.  

Please be considerate of these athletes and do not interrupt them during their workout. 

Thank you. 

Full Press Release:
http://csicalgary.ca/en/news/1815-more-than-200-olympians-paralympians-and-coaches-to-partake-in-2014-celebration-of-excellence