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Catalina seventh in team competition at provincials

The Red Deer Catalina Swim Club placed seventh in the team competition at the Senior Provincial Championships during the weekend.The Catalina Club, who had 19 competitors and was one of the smaller groups on hand, came away with five medals.

LETHBRIDGE — The Red Deer Catalina Swim Club placed seventh in the team competition at the Senior Provincial Championships during the weekend.

The Catalina Club, who had 19 competitors and was one of the smaller groups on hand, came away with five medals.

Marshal Parker was a double medalist, finishing second in the 50-metre butterfly and the 400m freestyle while Lainie Wareham won silver in the girls’ 800m freestyle.

Halle Loyek was third in the 50m freestyle and Haley Jaques third in the 50m backstroke.

Parker also set two new club records in the 17-and-over and the open boys’ 50m butterfly (25.58 seconds) and 100m Individual Medley (1:00.52). Loyek had a club record of 26.72 seconds in the 15-16 year-old 50m freestyle and Jaques had club mark of 30.16 seconds in the 15-16 year-old and open girls’ 50m backstroke.

The girls’ 15-16 year-old 4x100m freestyle relay team of Sydney Robinson, Wareham, Kristen Trepanier and Loyek also had a club record.

Marshal Parker (15-17 year-old boys top 10) and Loyek (15-17 year-old girls’ top 25) received Alberta youth recognition awards.

As well, both Wareham, in the 800m freestyle, and Trepanier, in the 50m butterfly, earned qualifying standards to compete in the Canadian Age Group Nationals in Montreal in July.