Swimming Canada – EDMONTON – Canada will send 50 of its top swimmers to the upcoming Pan Pacific championships after a successful Canadian Swimming Trials in Edmonton.

The five-day national Trials wrapped up Sunday at the Kinsmen Sports Centre.

The Olympic program side saw 32 swimmers (18 women, 14 men) qualify for the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo Aug. 9-14.

With Commonwealth Games medals to their credit already this year, athletes such as Kylie Masse, Taylor Ruck and Markus Thormeyer are among the names to watch. Meanwhile international medallists including Richard Funk, Kennedy Goss and Emily Overholt will make their returns to Team Canada, joining veterans such as Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, Yuri Kisil and Kierra Smith.

“I just want to see them all improve on what they’ve done here. If they improve on where they are here we are going to have a good number of athletes make finals,” said Swimming Canada High Performance Director and National Coach John Atkinson. “Once you are in the final you can have a shot at winning medals.”

Meanwhile, the Paralympic program will send 18 swimmers (13 women, 5 men) to Cairns, Australia for the Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships Aug. 9-13

The Para-swimming team will be highlighted by Paralympic medallists Aurelie Rivard, Tess Routliffe, Katarina Roxon and Nicolas-Guy Turbide, and world record holder Shelby Newkirk, bolstered by youth such as Commonwealth Games medallist Abi Tripp.

“There will be parts of our team that will be super competitive, we are taking world record holders,” said Associate High Performance Director and National Para-swimming Coach Wayne Lomas, who will helm his first Canadian team back in his native Australia.

“We’re not necessarily worried about medal performances. Of course we want them. We want to see athletes that can go faster in Australia than they did here. It shows they are able to continue to progress throughout the summer and they can travel one of the longest flights you will ever do, prepare and then compete away from home and away from their normal trappings.”

Both teams will stay in Edmonton for a two-day mini-camp before departing for their respective staging camps.

“It’s a rehearsal for Tokyo 2020. The staging camp venue in Wakayama is where we will be in 2020. We will have the same support team that will go for 2020 as well. That in itself will be good, they get to know the venue, the hotel. It really is a great opportunity for that rehearsal. Thanks to Own The Podium, Sport Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee we can put together a really good rehearsal this year with everything in place due to their support.”

Pan Pacific Championships Team

Last Name	First Name	Club	Coach of Record
Acevedo	Javier	AAC	Smith	Brian
Bagshaw	Jeremy	ISC	Mallette	Ryan
Binnema	Josiah	UBCSC	Johnson	Tom
Brothers	Peter	UCSC	Blondal	Mike
Cote	Tristan	UCSC	Blondal	Mike
Daly	Owen	CAMO	St-Jean	Claude
Darragh	Mack	OAK	Titley	Ben
Fournier	Sarah	CSQ	Pelletier	Marc-André
Funk	Richard	TSC	Lamy	Pierre
Gaziev	Ruslan	MAC	Novak	Rob
Goss	Kennedy	GGST	Westphal	Mike
Hanus	Danielle	ISC	Mallette	Ryan
Kisil	Yuri	UBCSC	Johnson	Tom
Leibel	Kyla	RDCSC	Wilson	Scott
Masse	Kylie	WEST	Kiefer	Linda
Nicol	Rachel	UCSC	Blondal	Mike
Overholt	Emily	UBCSC	Johnson	Tom
Padington	Mackenzie	CRKW	Mallette	Ryan
Pickrem	Sydney	ISC	Bultman	Steve
Pisani	William	UNCAN	Studd	Neal
Pratt	Alex	CASC	Johnson	Dave
Ruck	Taylor	SCAR	Titley	Ben
Sanchez	Kayla	AAC	Titley	Ben
Sanderson	Kate	UNCAN	Doane	Mike
Seltenreich-Hodgson	Erika	GO	Johnson	Tom
Smith	Kierra	SCAR	Kremer	Kelly
Smith	Rebecca	SCAR	Titley	Ben
Thormeyer	Markus	UBCSC	Johnson	Tom
Wall	Eli	TSC	Kiefer	Linda
Wog	Kelsey	UMAN	Cerny	Vlastimil
Zavaros	Mabel	OAK	Baker	Sean
Zevnik	Alexia	PCSC	Holloway	Braden

 

Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships Team

First Name	Last Name	Club (incl. HPC)	Coach of Record
Shelby	Newkirk	Saskatoon Lasers	Kramer, Eric
Abi	Tripp	Kingston Y Penguins Aquatic Club	Keith, Vicki
Aurélie	Rivard	Centre Haute Performance – Quebec / Neptune Natation	Thompson, Mike
Nicolas-Guy	Turbide	Club Natation Region de Quebec	Pelletier, Marc-André
Tess	Routliffe	Centre Haute Performance – Quebec / Neptune Natation	Thompson, Mike
Katarina	Roxon	Aqua Aces Swim Club	Roxon, Leonard
Sabrina	Duchesne	Rouge et Or  Université Laval	Girardin, Johanne
Danielle	Kisser	Centre Haute Performance – Quebec / Delta Sungod Swim Club	Thompson, Mike
Angela	Marina	Brantford Aquatic Club	Langridge, Tom
Philippe	Vachon	Club de Natation Megophias	LaBrie, Charles
Danielle	Dorris	Club Natation Bleu et Or	Allen, Ryan
Matthew	Cabraja	Cobra Swim Club	Roopnarine, Ian
Alexander	Elliot	Region of Waterloo	Witolla, Hans
Morgan	Bird	CASCADE	Johnson, Wendy
Justine	Morrier	Club Natation Haut-Richelieu	Latendresse, France
Sarah	Girard	Neptune Natation	Bruggeman, Jeremy
Tammy	Cunnington	Nose Creek Swim Association	Diep, Alexx
Zachary	Zona	Centre Haute Performance – Quebec / Norfolk Hammerheads Aquatic Club	Thompson, Mike

NOTE: Saskatoon’s Samantha Ryan, a Paralympic finalist and Parapan Am Games medallist, met the standard, but has decided to withdraw from the team. As she prepares to begin her studies at McGill University, she has decided to take additional time at home in preparation for her university life to commence. Two-time Paralympian Camille Berube also declined, due to personal reasons, as did 20-time Paralympic medallist Benoit Huot. The 34-year-old is expecting the birth of his first child this fall and plans to pursue an executive MBA at Queen’s University.

In addition, Swimming Canada has named six swimmers to its team for the World Swimming Championships (25m) taking place in December in Hanzhou, China:

Last Name	First Name	Club	Coach of Record
Darcel	Sarah	ISC	McKeever	Teri
Glover	Mackenzie	UMAN	Holloway	Braden
Janvier	Aela	PCSC	Gingras	Martin
Loginov	Oleksandr	TSC	Macdonald	Byron
Wilm	Ingrid	UBCSC	Johnson	Tom
Zakala	Josh	ISC	Mallette	Ryan

 

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