The Yorkton Storm Swim Club (YSSC) sent a strong team to the Saskatoon Lazers Septathlon swim meet this past weekend.
Top five performances were turned in by eight swimmers. Auston Roberts (12) finished first in the 50m Butterfly event for Yorkton's lone gold medal performance. A second huge highlight from the meet was the second place finish by Cassidy Flasch (11) in the 50m Backstroke. Her time of 43.19 seconds is only 0.48 seconds away from an AA time which would get her to the Man-Sask meet this summer, she will have another month to train to reach that goal before their next meet, but is just a fraction of a second off.
Two swimmers did manage to punch their tickets to the Man-Sask Meet however as the Haczkewicz sisters wasted no time in qualifying for the summer's major meet. Jennifer Haczkewicz (13) swam three AA times in Saskatoon. Her AA times came in the 50m Freestyle (2nd place), 50m Backstroke (3rd place) and the 50m Butterfly (2nd place). She also finished 4th in the 100m Freestyle and 5th in the 100m Backstroke.
Kelsey Haczkewicz (13) will join her sister at the Man-Sask Meet for the first time this summer after swimming an AA time in the 50m Freestyle where she placed 4th. She also had a 5th place finish in the 50m Backstroke, nearly joining her sister on the podium twice in the 50m heats.
Connor Watrych (11) finished 2nd in the 50m Butterfly and 3rd in the 400m Freestyle. Connor was becomes the first recipient of a new award from the YSSC, the "Storm Chaser Award." This award is presented to the YSSC swimmer that shows the greatest on average time improvement in all of the races they swim at a meet. In Saskatoon, Watrych showed a 15 second average improvement in all of his races after some hard training.
Jillian Just (14) had a great weekend in the pool and turned in four top five performances in Saskatoon; 3rd place in the 200m Breaststroke, 4th in the 400m Freestyle, and 50m Breaststroke, and a 5th place finish in the 100m Breaststroke. Just has been one of the YSSC's top swimmers this season and with four top five finishes and a bronze in the 200m, Just had another excellent weekend in the Bridge City.
Rounding out the Storm's weekend performances were Bryant Jones (11) who finished 4th in the 50m Butterfly. Jayden Lang (13) rounded out the top five performances placing 4th in the 100m Butterfly, and 5th in the 50m Butterfly events.
The next meet for the YSSC crew is in Regina, May 24-26th as the swimmers continue to attempt to qualify for this summer's Man-Sask meet.
