A team of 65 swimmers helped catapult the Burnaby Mountain Mantas team into third overall at the B.C. Summer Swimming provincial championships in Kamloops recently.
The Mantas, led by a strong senior squad showing, trailed first-place Vancouver by 157 points, jumping up from fifth a year ago.
The club’s medal haul included three individual gold, a silver and nine bronze, while the relays racked up three gold, six silver and four bronze, while establishing 11 club records.
Picking up a gold in boys Div. 7 100-metre butterfly was Xavier Lau, who set a club record in the process. He also tallied bronze in the 50- and 100m freestyle races, both in new record time.
Scoring two gold and new club marks in Div. 7 was Bryan Yu, with wins in the 100m breaststroke and 200m individual medley. Lau and Yu joined forces with Ryan Huang and Harvey Lee for victories in the 200 free and medley relays.
For the senior girls, Shalynn Lee captured a couple of bronze in Div. 7 girls 50- and 100m fly, while also posting a new club record in 100m free. In Div. 6, Lauryn Sartori finished third in the 100m breast, and was part of the freestyle relay squad – also featuring Sayla Briggs, Jocelyne Guy and Desiree Wu— that placed second. Elva Yu, Briggs, Sartori and Wu also collected silver in the medley relay.
Hannah Cui swam to a silver in girls ‘O’ cat 2 division’s 100m free, as well as twin bronzein 50m free and 200m IM.
Other medal winners were Yolanda Ling and Vivian Yang. Here are more Mantas results:
BOYS, Div. 5 – DJ Tsang, 4th 100 fly; Jadon Tsang, 4th 100 br; Div. 7 – Xavier Lau, 1st 100 fly, 3rd 50, 100 free, 4th 50 fly; Bryan Yu,1st 100 br, 200 IM, 4th 100 back, 5th 100 fly.
GIRLS, Div. 3 – Vivian Yang, 3rd 50 br, 7th 100 IM. Div. 6 – Lauryn Sartori, 3rd 100 br; Div. 7 – Shalynn Lee, 3rd 50, 100 fly. ‘O’ cat 1 – Yoland Ling, 3rd 50 fly, 4th 50 br, 100 IM; ‘O’ cat 2 – Hannah Cui, 2nd 100 free, 3rd 50 free, 200 IM.
