Dolphin News Archives

Manitoba Marlins New Years Invitational meet was attended January 21 & 22nd. Results were very good considering we had the Christmas off and manywere sick on the return to practice.

The Fun Meet November 19th at the Pan Am pool was a great experience for Emma, Abby, Sonja, Teaghan and Marcus. All swimmers received certificates of racing achievement learning about why we need to practice, what we need to work harder on in practice and having fun racing. Congratulations swimmers on your amazing achievements.

Congratulations Tiana for being named to Teir 3 Provincial Swim Team.

Congratulations to all the swimmers who competed at the St. James Seals swim meet. the 'A' swimmers had 99% improvement with some swimmer being disqualified for turn infractions.

"AA" swimmers worked hard, with many running back and forth between swim races and waterpolo games.

3 Dolphins record were set. Jillian for 200 Back, Tiana for 200 free and Brandon for 200 fly.

November 12 & 13 we are competing in Brandon. Good luck swimmers.

Practice will start at 7:00 for those not attending the meet.

I apologize if I have missed anyone, Tristan , Brennan Softball 2nd at Prov.,

Cailyn Silver medal WCSG Softball,qualified Nationals,  Jayde and Gio - multiple awards Dirt Bike, Brandon - multiple medals Dragon Boat Worlds WCSG High knee Canoe, qualified Nationals.

Manitoba Summer Games are hosted by Swan River 2012. If you are female born 1998-2001 or male 1997-2000 you have a chance in making the team.

Come out and try the Sport of Competitive swimming.

2010-2011 Annual Awards

  Attendance - James Janzen

Most Improved - Austin Leforte

Rookie - Jillian Friesen

Team Mate of the Year - Kristen Burnham

Stroke Awards

Butterfly - Brandon Stamm

Backstroke - Tiana Arnason

Breaststroke - James Janzen

                                                    Freestyle - Evan Los

                                            Individual Medley - Gio Wickett

Congratulations Award Winners. Swim Manitoba Awards - Congratulations to Tiana and James for achieveing high standards of achievement recognized by Swim Manitoba.

ManSask Championships

Pan Am Pool July 7-10th

The Dolphins finished 13th overall with 322 points.

Tiana finaled in 5 of 7 swims winning silver in 100 bk, and bronze in the 50 and 200 back. Larissa finaled in the 50 fly finishing 16th in a very large 15 & over girls field. Evan swam his way to 5 finals earning bronze medals in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events. James put on an exciting show swimming all 7 events in heats and finals winning 3 silver, 50 back,breast and 100 back and 1 bronze 100 breast tieing his competition in not 1 but 2 events in finals. James also qualified for Age Group Nationals in 4 events.

Gio finaled finishing 16th in the 200 backstroke and 800 free.

Unfortunately the Open 5 km swim was cancelled Monday July 11th due to poor conditions.

Congratulations to the Provincial Dolphins Team

Special congratulations to Jillian and Austin for their hard work they put into attaining the standards for their first Provincial Championship Meet representing our Team in high fashion and being part of

the Veteran Team of Alyssa, Rachel, Janine, Tiana, Evan, Brandon, Gio, Jayde who all

swam amazing over the June 10-12th weekend in Winnipeg. Rachel got her first AA qualifying time, Evan earned 4 more AA times. Everyone achieved personal best times and qualified for finals earning the Team the Marvin McDonald award for Small Team. The Dolphins finished 6 of 12. Special congrats to Evan for earning Male high point for 15 year age category.

July 7 - 11 the Team of Gio, Tiana, Larissa, Evan, James and Brandon are competing at ManSask Championships in Winnipeg.

GO TEAM GO

Great Job at Where Friends Meet. I can see that there has been a lot learned in the last few weeks and we hope to be ready for the next 2 meets. Keep up the great work TEAM.

Congratulations to Tiana and James for making Tier 3 Manitoba Provincial Team. Let's see if we can get a few more swimmers on that team.

Congratulations to the swimmers who competed at the Golden Plains Invitational.

ManSask Report

Congratulations team for a fabulous showing in Saskatoon March 17-20. The Team was lead by Tiana in Backstroke with 2 gold 1 silver, and finalled in 2 other swims. with 100 % PB's. New comer to the Team this year, breaststroker, James lead the males with 1 Silver, that earned a spot on the Provincial 14 year old relay, 1 Bronze a 5th, 6th 2 - 8th and a 12th.

Kristen's first time at Man Sask was well rewarded with 2 final swims in 50 back(8th) and 50 breast(10th).

Evan our other breaststroker had 3 finals in a tough age group - all 3 breast events finishing 1 - 7th and 2 - 9th's.

Larissa found true heart at the end of the weekend getting stonger as the days went on. 2 - 13th, 1-16th and 1- 17th.

Welcome back Gio, despite the limited training and recent 2 swim meets she managed to take off even more time in all her events- 21.5 sec in 1500 free, finishing 12th,18th in 800 free ,50 & 200 Back.

The Team outdid themselves this time 14 Bronze, 11 Silver and 19 Gold 2, high points Gio and Brandon and we finished 2nd behind the Wave by 11 points for small club. The girls finished 4th overall and boys finished 6th to put the TEAM 6th overall.

The Dolphins hosted a fabulous meet Feb 18 - 20 despite the postponement of the distance events on Friday to Saturday between session 2 and 3 due to the bad weather.

Thanks to all the volunteers from our team and all those who volunteered from the 10 other teams and swimming community who attended.

Our 25 Dolphins swam extremely fast.

Watch for these up and coming swimmers.

First time competitors Kalysa, Max, Matts, Austin, Ashley and Madallyne learned a lot from the weekend and got to experience what competitive swimming is all about. Dedication, Commitment and Camaraderie.

There were also some valuable lessons learned with some swimmers receiving a disqualification, mostly for backstroke turn infractions. The veteran swimmers still have a hard time with those.

Other swimmers new to our club this year Jillian, Nicole and James have been a great addition to the club since September, swimming very strong and bringing a lot of spirit with them.

We are coming to the end of our short course season

with A provincials in 2 weeks in Brandon,

We have 15 swimmers qualified for Provincials - 13 will be attending - Rachel, Tiana, Larissa, Kristen, Cailyn, Alyssa, Jillian, Shane, Arthur, James, Evan, Brandon, Janine, Gio and Jayde will be swimming in Brandon March 4 - 6.

March 17 we are headed to Saskatoon for ManSask. Tiana, Larissa, Kristen, Cailyn, James, and Gio will be leading the team hoping we have a few more qualify at provincials.

Congratulations to the Winners of the

Bartenders Delight Draw!!!

Grand prize Winner: Karen Thomas

2nd Prize Winner: Kim Allen

3rd Prize Winner: Amanda Wait

Selkirk Dolphins Swim Club was awarded $1000 from True Sport for their submission in the Community Give Away contest. Congrats to the team members and the coaches for their hard work. Special congrats to Coach Michelle for initiating the entry and to Alex for filming the event and Larissa and Jocelyn for the editing of the tape.

*****WAY TO GO TEAM*****


Congratulations to Tiana and Robin in being named to the Next Ripple Provincial Team.

During the week of July 21st - 25th Robin participated in Age Group Nationals in Winnipeg. There were over 1300 swimmers participating from across Canada nevermind trying to get your warm-up in with 600 other swimmers in the pool. Great Job Robin.

Congratulations to the swimmers who qualified for Man Sask in Saskatoon. The results were great. the Check the results go to Swim Canada.

Congratulations to all swimmers for the fantastic swims at Provincials. We took home 39 medals, finished 5th overall, 3 high points by Larissa, Shane and Brandon. Girls 11-12 relay finished 3rd in the Medley and Free. Awesome.

Moose Jaw swim meet was the best meet of the year. Outdoor 50 meter 8 lane pool; The Weather was perfect, results fantastic and we had a great time and Evan got his time for ManSask. Going Next Year, Definitely!

Congrats to Gio for her High Point Award.

Olympic Torch Relay Team

On January 6th in Gimli at 10:00am on 2nd Ave, eleven Selkirk Dolphin Team members carried the Olympic Torch in the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. The 20 person Team is representing the SOGO ACTIVE M anitoba Provincial Team for the Selkirk Community Pool. The Dolphins members are in order of the run - Robin, Brandon, Shane, Gio, Cailyn, Shannon, Larissa and Meaghan, Head Coach Michelle, assistant coach Lynn and parent chaperone Terina, also former swimmer Twylla .



The focus this year will be to build the team numbers going to various qualifying and championship meets and prepare us for Qualifying for the Western Canada Games in 2011 in Kamloops B.C.

2008 - 2009 Awards Luncheon and Windup


Attendance: Group 4 Madison Black
Group 2 Shane Haney and Brandon Stamm
Most Improved: Group 4 Janine Starodub
Group 2 Larissa Best
Rookie of the Year: Veronica Jackson
Team Mate of the Year : Alyssa Fey.

Stroke award winners

Larissa - Butterfly
Seth- Backstroke
Robin - Breaststroke
Shane - Freestyle
Brandon - Individual Medley

2009 - 2010 Awards
Attendance: Larissa Best
Most Improved: Evan Los
Rookie of the Year: Tiana Arnason
Team Mate of the Year : Larissa Best
Stroke award winners
Larissa - Butterfly
Tiana - Backstroke
Robin - Breaststroke
Shane - Freestyle
Brandon - Individual Medley



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