The Shuswap Swimming Team shone at the Kamloops Classic Valentine Splash Swim Meet Feb. 5/6.
• Eight-year-old girls – Miya Coutlee was at her first swim meet, earning 10th place in the 50-metre freestyle.
• Nine-year-old girls – Nina McKee earned second place 50-m butterfly race. Gillian Simpson brought home ninth place in the 100-m breaststroke.
• 10-year-old girls – Morgan Rasmuson earned second in the 100-m backstroke. Lilli Rakose-Lund took third place in both the 100-m backstroke and 200-m freestyle races. Abby Wilson scooped up 10th place in the 100-m backstroke race. Rasmuson and Rakose-Lund combined for four new individual team records.
• 11 and older girls – Jessie-May Baird earned first place in the 50-m breaststroke and finished in the top three in every race she swam. Emma Pyle earned two second-place finishes in the 50-m freestyle and 50-m butterfly races, while dropping an amazing 30 seconds off of her 400-m freestyle race. Chiara Kuzmick picked up a second place finish in the 50-m breaststroke. Emma Chorneyko earned fifth place in the 100-m freestyle, while team mate Cabri Wilson also picked up fifth place in the 50-m freestyle. Virginia Flahr took sixth place in the 100-m breaststroke.
• 10 and under relay – Morgan Rasmuson, Abby Wilson, Nina McKee and Lilli Rakose-Lund scooped up third place in the 4 x 50-m freestyle race.
Relay highlights for the weekend were the team of Baird, V. Flahr, Kuzmick and Pyle who took first place in the 4 x 50-m freestyle. The team of Kuzmick, Baird, Chorneyko and Pyle also took first place yet again in the 4 x 50-m medley relay.
• Nine-year-old boys – Ethan Flemming earned fourth in the 200-m freestyle race.
• 11 and older boys – Thomas Flahr earned three second place finishes in the 50-m freestyle, 50-m butterfly and 100-m backstroke races. Mark Carson picked up a fifth place in the 50-m butterfly. Teammate Torrey McKee notched sixth place in both the 200-m individual medley and 100-m backstroke. Olin Mosher earned three seventh-place finishes in the 50-m freestyle, 100-m backstroke and 200-m freestyle races.Jacob Bojey and Ty Webster-Locke earned 12th and 13th place finishes respectively in the 200-m freestyle.
• 11 and older relay – Torrey McKee, Ty Webster-Locke, Olin Mosher and Jacob Bojey combined for fifth place.