麻豆社区

A new swim club record now belongs to Luke Bakica.

The teenaged swimmer broke the seven-year-old Whitehorse Glacier Bears 200-metre breaststroke standard at the Ryan Downing Memorial Swim Meet last weekend.

Bakica, 16, swam to the record time late in the day Saturday during the mixed final.

He was the fastest seeded swimmer in the event and finished in 2:39.04.

Whitehorse Glacier Bears head coach Malwina Bukszowana said that the event is likely his best, much to Bakica鈥檚 chagrin.

鈥淗e doesn鈥檛 believe it,鈥� she said. 鈥淓veryone wants to swim sprint, but I think his best event is 200 breast.鈥�

The hard work that Bakica put into training last season never really showed during swim meets, but with his fast start at the first meet of the season this year, it appears that his training is starting to pay off in competition.

More than 80 Whitehorse Glacier Bears swimmers jumped in the pool for the Ryan Downing Memorial Swim Meet last Friday and Saturday.

Twenty meet records fell over the weekend, including nine by Glacier Bears and 11 by Yellowknife Polar Bear swimmers.

Rennes Lindsay (200 IM), Cassis Lindsay (200 back), Aidan Harvey (100 back, 200 back), Thomas Bakica (200 fly), Adrian Robinson (200 free and 50 breast) and Luke Bakica (100 breast and 200 breast) all contributed to the nine records.

With seven Whitehorse coaches supervising their kids鈥� swims, Bukszowana was pleased with how the club performed at their first meet of the season.

鈥淭he kids are swimming very nicely,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 think the club is in a good position right now.鈥�

The Yellowknife Polar Bear and Mackenzie Muskrat Swim Teams came out for the day-and-a-half-long swim meet, which Bukszowana would like to see grow to three days.

She noted it鈥檚 difficult to ask Outside teams to travel to鈥圵hitehorse for fewer than two days of competition.

The swimmers鈥� next event will be a time-trial in late November, followed by the Christmas Cracker swim meet in Victoria at the start of December.