The junior boys were eliminated from the Valley tournament on the weekend as they lost to MEI and Sands to finish 1-2 in pool play.

Chantel Desch, the sole Yale qualifier for the BC Championships this past weekend, ended her season with a time of 20:47 on the 4.4 km course at Crescent Park, improving her valley time by over a minute.  Congratulation, Chantel on an outstanding season.

On Thursday November 5 at 6:15am eighteen spirited and dedicated swimmers boarded the bus to the Fraser Valley Championships in Surrey.  The team comprised of Matthew Bianchini, Christina Chow, Sarah Davies, Josh Davis, Burkely Duffield, Zoee Fenelon, Brittany Kopetsch, Terin Lovestar, Caleb Reardon, Joon Rho, Keenan Rogozinski, Alexa Tielmann, Taryn Waller, Curtis Yaffe, Dennis Baek, Luis Baquedano, Tori Wong and Jessica Barclay swam incredibly fast.  Every member of the team, swam a seasonal or personal best and nine members, incuding Matthew, Burkely, Caleb, Joon, Keenan, Curtis, Luis, Josh and Tori will be competing at BC Provincial Championships in Richmond on November 20-22.

Highlights

Dennis Baek took 3.5 seconds off his time in the 50 Free
Caleb, Keenan, Joon and Curtis qualified in both relays, placing sixth 200 Free Relay and seventh in the 200 Medley Relay.
Burkely qualified for provincials in three events.  He swam a personal best of 27.78 in the Boys 50m Free and placed 6th.
Matt, Josh, Burkely, and Luis all swam personal best times in the Boys 200 Free Relay.  Their outstanding performance resulted in a third place finish.
Tori qualified for provincials in all four of her events including the 100 Free, 100 Fly, 100 Back and 200 IM.
Taryn Waller swam a personal best time of 39.30, shaving 3.5 seconds of her personal best time.
Sarah Davies and Jessica Barclay competed in the first swim meet.  Sarah dropped 3 seconds off of her personal best and Jessica swam her way to a third place finish in her heat.
Zoee competing the open category against club swimmers held her own and swam a personal best time of 33.56 in the girls 50m Free. 
Christina, Brittany and Terin was personal best times in every one of their races and stepped up to complete against senior swimmers in the 200 Free Relay.  Way to go girls!
Alexa finished in the top 12 in all of her events and raced her way to a 1:11.63 in the 100m Freestyle.

After weeks of hard practices our team of experienced veterans and excited rookies are looking forward to competing at the Fraser Valley Championships in Surrey this Thursday, November 5.  The team has been practicing extremely hard this season in anticipation of the tough competition that awaits them and with twenty six swimmers competing in over one hundred races the meet promises to exciting. Our goal is for every swimmer to have personal best time for the day and to send ten swimmers to the BC Provincial Championships in late November. Please wish the members of the swim team the best of luck has we look to making some serious waves in the pool on Thursday!

The Jr Boys volleyball team competed in the Abby Christian tournament this weekend and finished 5th out of 12 teams.  Coulson De St Remy received an allstar award as the team struggled with consistency through the two day event.  Tuesday, the boys host Unity for their final league match.  Thursday is the start of playoffs being hosted by ACS.

The Cross Country Fraser Valley Championships were yesterday in Hope and Yaliens were up against some pretty tough competition. A HUGE congratulations goes out to Chantel Desch who ran as a senior and placed 29th with a time of 21:50 in the 4.4 km race, qualifying her for the BC pronvincial championships Nov. 7 at Crescent Park in Surrey.  GOOD LUCK CHANTEL!  One more week of training remains in the season and all runners are expected to attend. So, the next practice is Monday. See you then.