Barracudas Launch Long Course Swim Season
By Kelly Sharp
Monday, April 23, 2007 03:23 AM
Competitive swimming is all about time and this past weekend 258 swimmers were chasing their best long course times in the Prince George Barracudas Dental Moose Meet sponsored by the Prince George Regional and District Dental Society. The long course racing season began for the northern swimmers at the eight 50- metre lanes of the Prince George Aquatic Centre.
“It’s awesome, I am very proud of this facility,” said swim meet manager Karl Tress.
“We like to show off this facility when we get the chance.”
The only long course swimming pool in northern BC attracted 68 swimmers from the northwest. Swimmers from Smithers, Kitimat, Terrace and Prince Rupert raced under the banner of the Points North Swim Club against the host Barracudas. Terrace coach Roman Ramirez, a former national level swimmer in Mexico, says the water is fast at the PG Aquatic Centre producing personal best times for his swimmers.
“The pool is great,” said Ramirez. “I never thought I would see such a facility in the north.”
The Prince George Barracudas Swim Club scheduled another long course meet in June at the Prince George Aquatic Centre and Points North plans to be there. Barracudas head coach Jerzy Partyka has already penciled in meets in Edmonton and New Westminster for the Prince George swimmers who are targeting the BC Long Course Swimming Championships in Kamloops in July.
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I also wonder if the university has a swim team and uses it as a training pool.
This is the first time I ever heard of an olympic sized pool being referred to as a long course pool. Things change over the years I suppose.
The pool is one of the facilities in PG which we can be proud of and should promote for more competitive events.