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Re-design unlikely to save lives: Transport Canada Senior official questions verdict on fiery, fatal Russ Baker Way plane crash

BY JAMES KELLER The Province

Changing the way aircraft are designed to save lives by limiting fires after plane crashes wouldn’t be simple, nor would it be the most effective way to reduce aviation fatalities, a senior official with Transport Canada says.

Martin Eley was responding to a scathing report from the Transportation Safety Board that argued two pilots might still be alive if the federal government heeded recommendations that date back seven years.

The safety board’s report last week probed an October 2011 crash in Richmond in which two pilots were killed and seven passengers were seriously injured when a turboprop plane slammed into a road while preparing for an emer-

gency landing at Vancouver International significant research to evaluate whether Airport. such changes would even work, as well as The board’s report concluded the the cooperation of foreign regulators. pilots could have survived the crash, but He said Transport Canada, as instead, a cockpit fire fuelled by arcing well the U.S.-based Federal Aviation wires connected to the plane’s Administration and regulators battery left them with fatal in Europe, have instead focused burns. their resources on preventing An investigator told a news crashes in the first place, identiconference that Transport Canada fying the issues most associated has repeatedly ignored recomScan page with fatal crashes and concenmendations first issued in 2006 to see video trating on those. to prevent or reduce the severity For example, Eley said half of post-crash fires, including introducing of all aviation fatalities are linked to technology to disconnect aircraft batteries either the pilots’ loss of aircraft control, upon impact. controlled flight into terrain, or poor Eley, Transport Canada’s director genresponse to engine failure. eral of civil aviation, said it would take “Those areas contribute to the larg-

est number of accidents, so the decision was made to focus on those things, which are clearly all about avoiding accidents, in preference to focusing on a particular piece that is not going to create the same impact in terms of the overall fatality numbers,” Eley said in an interview.

Eley said it would be difficult for Canada to unilaterally introduce new standards that differ from design specifications elsewhere in the world, and he argued that widespread change would be extremely slow, given that many aircraft remain in operation for decades before they are replaced.

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A Richmond soccer coach is bringing a little bit of Brazilian flair and fundamentals to the Richmond Oval starting next month.

Huw Harris is spearheading the push to set up the first operation to bear the Brazilian For video of Soccer Schools banner locally a Brazilian and is hoping to attract young Soccer School players to a system of training that emphasizes much more contact with a soccer ball to improve their foot skills, as well as conditioning.

It’s a concept developed in the U.K. and has spread around the globe. Harris, who is also the volunteer, technical director for Richmond Youth Soccer, said the idea embraces what is called Futebol de Salao, a method designed to accelerate the technical confidence of young players.

Futebol de Salao stems from impromptu soccer games in small, crowded and impoverished Brazilian backstreets where players often use whatever can be cobbled into a ball — often wrapped up plastic bags or even rags.

“You can see why these young Brazilian kids are so technically competent,” said Harris. “They are not just doing the one-on-one things, but their deftness of touch is so much more superior at a younger age because they are playing the game in confined spaces, often using different things that your brain gets to the point where it doesn’t matter what shape the ball is, you can control it.”

The more structured Brazillian Soccer Schools’ version harnesses that pure form of Futebol de Salao, as well as the Brazilians’ unbridled joy of the “beautiful game” in smallsided games using a small — size 2 — soccer ball that has limited bounce, is weighted and cannot be lifted off the ground easily.

That forces players to become more adept at controlling the ball with their feet and not simply opting for long, high passes.

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Huw Harris is going to be bringing a little ‘samba’ to the Richmond soccer community by establishing a Brazilian Soccer School at the Richmond Oval, starting in September.

“It was former English manager, Brian Clough, who said that, ‘If God had wanted us to play football in the air, he’d have put grass up there,’” Harris said with a smile.

Harris added the average Brazilian Soccer session also encourages a much greater number — Huw of touches of the soccer ball than traditionally run practices.

According to the Brazilian Soccer Schools website (braziliansoccerschools.com), play-

ers in a traditional 11-a-side soccer match touch the ball 0.60 times a minute.

Dropping down to a five-a-side game, the number rises to 2.73.

And using the Brazilian Soccer School methods, that per minute figure jumps up to just under eight.

Harris “The number of times kids touch a soccer ball is what really drives how good they are going to be,” Harris said. “For most soccer programs, kids see Kids page 4

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Continued from page 3 go out once a week and have training, and consequently, these kids don’t touch the ball enough.”

The program will also address the subject of physical literacy, a term that describes a youngster’s adeptness at controlling their body — something Harris contends has been dulled by today’s computer/video game-centred youth.

“Kids today don’t go out and play unstructured games as much any more,” Harris explained. “They don’t climb trees, run around the park, play cowboys and Indians.

Consequently, they have to be taught to fall to the ground, pick themselves up, whereas it’s instinctive for kids from two generations ago.

“Now, our kids are so structured in terms of their time, there’s a physical literacy side to all sports that’s missing in a lot of these

kids,” he added. “I have seen seven- and eight-year-olds who have difficulty catching a soccer ball. And that’s because they’ve never had to try and catch something. No one’s ever played catch with them.”

Music will also be used to help stimulate body movement and rhythm during the training. And to help encourage the players to improve, the Brazilian system uses a badge/ reward system.

“It’s a bit like Boy Scouts in that there is a measurement whereby the kids are assessed, and once they achieve something they are given an award. So, there’s this ongoing process where they are assessed and their success is reinforced. And it gives them targets, levels to attain — a bit like martial arts.”

At the outset, the school will offer programs for three age groups: six and sevenyear-olds, eight and nine-year-olds, and 10 to 11-year-olds.

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“A lot of what we do is looking after the commercial fishing fleet,” Horton said.

It didn’t take long for “We actually provide the latest addition to the close escorts during the fishSteveston-based Canadian ing season.

Lifeboat Institution’s fleet of “And we will be out this rescue vessels to get her hull upcoming weekend because wet in action. there is a sockeye opening Not long after the secfor the native fishery.” ond-hand, 47-foot, Tyne And now, with two vesClass lifeboat, renamed the sels to call on, coverage Fraser Lifeboat, was unload- in that area will be vastly ed at Surrey Fraser Docks improved. from its deep sea carrier that “Better coverage, and brought it from the U.K. on a faster coverage, too,” Aug. 1, she was tasked with Horton said. “The Steveston answering a distress call.

Lifeboat has a maximum “Within two hours of speed of 10 knots, and the hitting the water she was new boat has a speed of 18 off on her first rescue,” said knots.

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Public invited to help set record “Each person sings just one word, but it has to be done in tempo to musical accompaniment, without any miscues in order to Richmond residents are being called on set the record. On the surface it may sound to try and set a Guinness World record on easy because it’s a song most people know Friday — one word at a time. by heart. But when you attempt it, you The attempt is set for the first day of find very quickly that it often doesn’t take the Richmond Martime Festival where at long before somebody miscues, or falls off Britannia Heritage Shipyards tempo.” people are being asked to sign up The public, 12 and older, is and help sing the nursery rhyme encouraged to pre-register for the Row, row, row your boat. attempt at the Richmond Martime Sounds easy, right?

Festival website (richmondmariBut in order to make the For video and timefestival.ca). Registration can photos attempt, a minimum of 155 also be made on the day. people are required to sing one Those taking part will be word of the song each, in series, in time, and awarded a commemorative certificate, a butin tune. ton, and have their name entered for a $200The current record is held by memgift card at Richmond Centre Mall. bers of the Jim Pattison Group, which had “Plus, they have the potential of being 154 people turn out in March 2011 at its a co-world record holder,” Townsend said, JPG Partners in Pride Conference in San adding participants are asked to be at Antonio, Texas.

Britannia Heritage Shipyards at 3 p.m. to Organizers here are hoping to not only rehearse before the actual attempt begins at break that, but clearly own the title with as 5 p.m. many as 200 or so singers doing their onePart of the judging panel for the Guinness word part in the lengthy relay. attempt is Canadian Olympic silver medalist A group of 18 city staff members recent(women’s eights) rower and Richmond local ly made a video demonstrating how the Darcy Marquardt.

Guinness attempt has to be performed (scan In addition to a second judge, video cerpage using Layar). tification will be used to verify the event “There’s 18 words in the song, so we and submitted to the Guinness World Record expect to be going through it about nine officials. times in total to set the record,” said City of For the full story, and to see the video, Richmond spokesperson Ted Townsend. visit www.richmond-news.com.

Thank you for electing me as the MLA for Richmond Centre.

BY PHILIP RAPHAEL

Creating jobs is the best thing we can do to protect and secure a brighter future for B.C. families. That is why the foundation of The B.C. Jobs Plan is based on diversifying and expanding new markets for B.C.’s goods and services, especially in those emerging economies in Asia and beyond. As a small, open economy, BC recognizes the crucial importance of trade for our economic prosperity.

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B.C. has a long shared history with Asia, and Richmond has one of the most diverse populations in North America, with many community and business connections to countries across the Pacific. I look forward to working with the community and local companies in achieving our Jobs Plan goals.

Just recently, we saw China Eastern announced the doubling of daily flights from YVR to Shanghai, further cementing YVR’s as the airport that welcomes more Asian passengers than any other in North America, and an important part of the Asia Pacific Gateway.

Our government has invested $22 million in the Pacific Gateway which has improved the movement of goods. The Asian middle class is growing and they need our resources such as natural gas, copper, agrifoods, coal and lumber. B.C.’s goods exports to Asia have increased by more than $7 billon since 2001, reaching a record amount of more than $14 billion in 2011.

Since the launch of the Asia Pacific Initiative in 2007, our province’s exports to Asia have increased by more than $5 billion.

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We must leverage our many family, cultural and business connections to countries across the Pacific and around the world to strengthen our trade relationships, attract new investment, and create and protect jobs for British Columbians. Now is the time to seize the opportunity to market ourselves as never before as the preferred destination for international investment.

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Dance to soccer samba According to the “Big Count” in 2006, FIFA — the world’s governing body for soccer — almost three million men, women and children played the “Beautiful Game” in Canada.

Easily the most participated sport in a country of 10 million square kilometres, nearly one in 10 Canadians, out of a population of 33.5 million, kick a soccer ball either competitively or recreationally.

Canada, which recently had its backside handed to it on a plate during World Cup 2014 qualifying match-up with Honduras, ranks 88th on the planet and hasn’t graced the grass of a World Cup Finals since Mexico in 1986.

Trinidad and Tobago, a total land mass of 5,000 square kilometers and a population the size of Richmond and Vancouver combined (1.2 million), sits 87th at the top table of soccer.

Anyone see a problem here?

Clearly, we Canucks love the game; we’re just not particularly good at it or not the best at coaching it…or both.

So a Richmond soccer coach’s bid to bring in a Brazilianstyle soccer school to the city simply has to be welcomed with open arms.

It’s called “Futebol de Salao,” is based on old-school, streetstyle soccer and it’s all about getting as many touches on the ball as humanly possible during a mini-sided game.

After all, if we’re going to get better and climb those rankings and perhaps challenge for a coveted World Cup Finals berth, why not learn from the most successful nation in world soccer history.

The move is bound to create a few ripples in B.C. and possibly Richmond, where not everyone sees eye-to-eye on how best to develop the game and its young talent.

The Canadian Soccer Association, in all fairness, has recognized the country’s shortcomings and implemented a “Wellness to World Cup” long-term player development program.

And we have some talented and exciting youngsters filtering through Richmond’s grass-roots soccer programs, graduating to university, Whitecaps and national levels of the game.

But surely every little bit of help we can get, including samba-style soccer from Brazil, can’t be sniffed at, can it?

CHOICE WORDS

Fix unsightly ATM on Wharf The Editor, I am curious as to who had the awful idea of placing an unsightly ATM Machine on Fisherman’s Wharf. What an unsightly contraption it is — a white, metal, glass-boxy thing, set in one of our Village’s most photographed areas.

Surely there must be an alternative location for this eyesore?

It sticks out like a chapel hat pin.

Failing that, how about a nice wooden kiosk to house it? That would fit in with the design of the Wharf, don’t you think?

Better yet, how about putting it somewhere on the vast amount of retina-blistering concrete Onni “enhanced” us with along the once picturesque boardwalk? It would blend right in!

To the powers that be: your designs are making the village look cheap and nasty. Just saying. Power and money obviously reigns over taste.

Jackie Bulmer Richmond

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New minister, new BCTF negotiations The B.C. Teachers’ Federation is about to be given the right to engage in a full-scale strike, something many of its members have been demanding for years. But they better be careful what they wish for.

The public simply won’t tolerate prolonged work stoppages that close schools behind picket lines. I would guess a teachers’ strike would last a maximum two weeks before public pressure mounts on the provincial government to end the dispute through legislation.

Granting teachers the power to strike is part of Education Minister Peter Fassbender’s interesting pitch to the BCTF, and so far the BCTF has tentatively expressed interest in what he has to say, but has also made it clear that it’s time to “show us the money.”

And there doesn’t appear to be much money to be had. Fassbender wants a 10-year deal with the union, but with provincial finances expected to be fairly bleak for the next few years, it’s hard to see how the BCTF would be motivated to sign a long term deal that gives its members minimal pay raises for that stretch.

Nevertheless, it’s too early to completely write off the chances of a longterm deal being reached.

The government has signalled it’s willing to be creative and bend a bit to meet some of what the BCTF is looking for in certain areas.

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For example, Fassbender has said more items can be bargained at the local level rather than the provincial level, which may meet a long-standing demand by the BCTF. He has also agreed to have face-to-face negotiations between the central government and the union, something the BCTF has been calling for.

Fassbender has taken away the provincial bargaining authority of the B.C. Public Sector Employees Association and has put it in the hands of two people: Health Employers Association Michael Marchbank, and long-time labor negotiator Peter Cameron.

In elbowing BCPSEA aside, Fassbender has removed school trustees, who had representation on the BCPSEA board, from the bargaining process.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, given that school trustees, who are elected by a relatively small part of the population, can’t point to any great success that is due to their presence at the provincial bargaining table.

Cameron is an interesting choice here. His background includes working for a fairly militant union,

CAIMAW, back in the 1980s. Since then he has emerged as a top labour negotiator and mediator, and if anyone can pull off a miracle deal it’s him.

While a 10-year deal seems like a remote possibility, I wouldn’t discount the chances of, say, a fiveyear contract.

Given the government’s tight money situation, such a contract would have to be back-ended loaded, meaning any wage hikes and big funding lifts would come in the last years of the deal rather than the first two years.

Would the BCTF agree to a contract that has no wage increases for the first two years, but then gives hikes of around three per cent in each of the next three years of a contract?

If the government also agreed to increase funding to address class composition and class size in the back end of the contract, along with assigning more items to local bargaining, the roots of a contract start to become visible.

Of course, Fassbender may discover, as his predecessors in the portfolio did, that the BCTF isn’t really capable of true collective bargaining and so any horse-trading that traditionally goes on in negotiations just doesn’t happen. But the leadership of the BCTF has changed since the last contract round.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Future for Garden City in vertical farming The Editor, Few cities in the world have the opportunity that currently presents itself to the citizens of Richmond. The Garden City Lands is a predominantly untouched piece of real estate in the middle of a busy urban core.

For years the debate has raged as to what our city should do with this piece of land; some favour preserving it as farmland as its current ALR zoning designates, while others would like to rezone and develop the land.

I personally believe the solution rests in a combination of both options, creating the most for all citizens of our community today, while creating a legacy for Richmond residents of tomorrow.

My answer to this quandary is ecofriendly, vertical farming; a trailblazing solution, which using a small portion of

the land base, could significantly produce more output than if the entire area were farmed traditionally.

Vertical farming is the future. Arable land is fast disappearing and populations around the globe are ever increasing at an unsustainable rate.

Resembling high-density residential development in urban areas, future cities will inevitably rely on high-density agriculture.

Consider this stat from Scientific American Journal: “A one-square-block farm 30 stories high could yield as much food as 2,400 outdoor acres.”

Engineers calculate a typical city block at roughly 2.25 acres; therefore at 136.5 acres the Garden City lands would be equivalent to 60 average city blocks.

If 10 per cent of the Garden City

Lands (13.65 acres) was used to build six vertical green houses, at 10 stories high (60 stories total), it would produce the equivalent of 35 times more than if the entire Garden City Lands were farmed traditionally, and leave the other 90 per cent for other community uses, and renewed public discussion.

Vertical farming could provide the City of Richmond with the opportunity to create an audacious legacy, and set a worldwide vision for the future of agriculture; fittingly revolutionizing the same industry which facilitated the establishment of our city in the fertile Fraser River delta over a century ago.

The future is bright and it’s time for Richmond to be bold.

Matt Pitcairn Richmond

City changed original plan for Greenway construction The Editor, Re: “See bigger picture NIMBYs,” Letters, Aug. 02.

Ken Shultz states the “greenway” construction was not a surprise, men-

Street.

Of course, all those that would have asphalt three feet from their food are just NIMBYs, right Ken? From your musings I believe you are ready to be

tioned many times in the local papers with the route clearly marked. Oh really.

The plan approved by council in December actually shows the path from Granville Avenue to Garry

taken down the “Garden Path” by “Mike Redpath” and the City of Richmond, pun intended.

David Merke Richmond

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ThePulse We’ve got our finger on it EVENTS

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Minister of Education Peter Fassbender talked to kids taking part of the Summer Reading Club at Richmond Public Library. Fassbender got to hear first-hand what some of the youngsters were reading this summer and talked to them about the importance of reading. He also presented them with a Certificate of Appreciation recognizing their community support of the library.

Send your pictures to editor@richmond-news.com with ThePulse in the subject line. For more photo galleries, visit www.richmond-news.com.

Kids take in the Summer Fun Night

PHOTOS BY JULIA OLSEN

The East Richmond Community Association hosted its annual Summer Fun Night at King George Park.

Attendance was well over 100. Children enjoyed facepainting and games with adults joining in as well. The Gathering Place was transformed into a karaoke bar. One of the Cambie Community Centre’s volunteers, Jack Zhou, led the children in a karaoke version of Gangam style.

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In return, shareholders receive a season’s supply of fresh, affordable, local (and often organic), sustainablyproduced food. Moreover, it provides people with a meaningful way to connect with farmers, the local community and the land.

The CSA project to which I belong is with A Rocha, a Christian nature conservation organization that originated as a humble field study centre and bird observatory in Portugal in 1983.

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Training camp starts new campaign for Connaught Rising Richmond club now attracting skaters from abroad

BY MARK BOOTH

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The rest of the country and even parts of the world have taken notice of what the Connaught Skating has accomplished of late.

That was evident at the Richmond club’s recent training camp that officially launched the 2013-14 competitive season.

The sessions not only featured some of Connaught’s top homegrown talent who have gone on to win national titles and represent Canada, but skaters from as far away as Estonia and China. In fact, two others from Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan have relocated to Richmond just to work with the Connaught coaching staff in the months ahead.

It’s a huge endorsement of the work the club has been doing to produce some of the country’s finest up-and-coming talent.

“We work hard here in Richmond and are proud to have this type of elite training,” explained Connaught Director of Programs Keegan Murphy. “It’s a testament of the hard, hard work we are doing. This type of production doesn’t happen by accident. It comes with a team of staff that is working together with athletes who are in love with the sport.”

It was Mitchell Gordon who produced the club’s first rumblings at the national level, winning the Canadian junior novice and junior men’s titles in consecutive years. He jumped up to senior men’s last season and finished a more than respectable seventh thanks to a splendid free skate

at nationals which earned him a spot in the World Junior Championships.

Clubmate Larkyn Austman also made noise a year ago by winning the Canadian junior women’s title in her debut. The accomplishments means the bar needs to be pushed higher as these young skaters move forward with greater expectations. That’s where the week-long training camp is critical in the big picture.

The first challenge for the Connaught staff is bringing these skaters into a frigid rink on beautiful summer day and ensuring they are focused on the task at hand.

“For skaters at this (elite) level, the real development and improvement happens in the summer,” continued Murphy. “It’s quite rare to acquire a new skill in November during competition time. This is the time of the year where the skaters really have the psychological, physical and emotion energy to give everything they can in training.

“It is really quite amazing they have come to a place in their life where they are willing to be in this training environment from 9-4 five straight days and give up their summer season. Those are the life skills we talk about that will make them stronger adults down the road.”

When the skaters weren’t on the ice, there were plenty of dryland training sessions — working with a personal trainer or a ballet teacher.

The competitive schedule kicked off at the recent Glacier Falls Classic in Anaheim and will continue for the many at the upcoming B.C. Summer Skate in Burnaby — Aug. 15-18.

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Connaught Skating Club’s Director of Programs Keegan Murphy shares a laugh with 2012 Canadian Junior Men’s champion Mitchell Gordon during the club’s recent training camp at the Richmond Ice Centre.

Richmond’s Gill captaining host B.C. at U18 Rugby Nationals Richmond’s Harjun Gill will be captaining two-time defending champion B.C. when it begins play today at the Rugby Canada National Festival at the University of British Columbia.

The coaching tandem Jeff Williams and Ramses Langston selected Gill to captain this year’s squad, going with experience as the Richmond Rugby Club standout is one of two returning players from last year’s roster.

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Williams and Langston return for a third straight year as the program seeks a rare three-peat. The coaching staff held a final selection camp two weeks ago at Shawnigan Lake School where they were able to fine tune their squad heading into the tournament.

“Our camp went really well and we had 30 guys in attendance,” said Williams.

“We’ve been working a lot on our defence and putting in the hard yards and focusing

on our tackling.”

Gill and St. George’s teammate Karsten Leitner will be relied upon heavily as veteran players. Both are part of the B.C. Rugby Academy.

“There is some real parity in the U18 rugby competition this year with Quebec emerging as a top side, Ontario always posing a challenge and with Alberta proving to be a tough team,” Williams added.

B.C.’s opening match against Alberta this afternoon (4:30 p.m.) will be a repeat of the 2012 national final where they downed Alberta 40-16 in Sherbrooke,

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Meanwhile, another Richmond Rugby Club product will be suiting up for the TrueBlue U17 men’s provincial team which will be competing in the tier two tier competition of the U18 championships.

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Rapids enjoy best ever showing at provincials

The Richmond Rapids enjoyed their best showing in club history at the B.C. “AAA” Long Course Championships, placing second overall and coming within a top eight finish of winning it all.

The Rapids finished Thursday’s finals session in seventh overall, and slowly started to climb up the rankings, due to huge efforts from their athletes.

Morgan Mark, who now swims for the University of Hawaii, claimed four medals for herself, three in the freestyle disciplines.

Three 11-year-old Rapids distinguished themselves, as Matthew Crawford successfully defended his 100 backstroke title from short course; Jeremy Fung earned his first provincial medal in the 1500, and Dini McIver walked away with two medals from her provincials

debut.

The Boys 14 and under relay team won all three contests – a feat that this group of swimmers has been able to do several times. The Boys U12 team were able to bring home three bronze medals to add to the collection.

As the meet progressed, the top five teams changed places after nearly every event, regularly with fewer than 50 points separating first from fifth. It was a monstrously dramatic Sunday finals, with the Rapids swimmers making a huge push to put the team at the top of the listings.

“This was the craziest session I’ve ever witnessed,” says coach Alex Pettifer. “In all my years with BC swimming, I’ve never seen tighter competition.”

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What does this mean for next year? Coming so close to victory has only made the club hungrier to be at the top, to continue chasing what no Rapids team has ever done – finishing as provincial team champions. Clearly the club has the speed to accomplish the task.

“It will take a cleaner meet,” says coach Drew McClure. “There were missed opportunities all over the place. Our first step should be racing harder in prelims and having more Rapids in finals. It’s clear that all of our athletes step up at night – that’s not the

issue. We just need more of them with a lane. That’s the goal for next year.”

Medalists for all age groups include:

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