Olympian Swim Club

Over Mother’s Day weekend 💐, 23 OSC swimmers took the short flight over the Rockies to race at the annual Persist Oil & Gas Invitational hosted by the Kelowna Aquajets Swim Club. ❤️💙🤍

This meet is a standard meet on our meet calendar now and swimmers attend not only because of the fast racing, but also the great memories and fun to be had as a team.☀️



Leading off the racing is another TWO club records for Tao So! This 12 year old swimmer is cruising through the record board this season and adding to his tally. 🆙 This weekend Tao broke the record in the Boys 11-12 200IM with a time of 2:27.24 on day 1 of the meet. The next day he followed that up with a record in the 200 Freestyle with a time of 2:11.83 in finals after breaking it in prelims just a few hours earlier. Congratulations Tao on an amazing season so far! 🙌



OSC also had a total of 12 podium finishes 🏆 as they raced with some of the fastest swimmers from BC and Alberta! OSC coaches are extremely proud of the following swimmers for achieving podium places this weekend:

Tao So - 3 Gold, 1 Silver

Evan Brake - 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

Mackenna Riou - 2 Bronze

Kendall Zaboroski - 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Tatiana Cockwill - 1 Silver



Finally to top off the weekend the swimmers celebrated Sunday evening with a fun (and windy) pizza party at the beach to unwind from the weekend and enjoy some Kelowna tourist offerings. 🏖️🍕

Then on Monday before departing for home again they stopped by the Kangaroo Creek Farm for some interactions with exotic animals from “down under” and a fun team bonding adventure! 🦘



A massive thank you to our amazing chaperone team of Samar, Winnie, Jon and Jimmy who kept the kids well fed, entertained and transporting back and forth all weekend. The success of OSC is more than racing, it is the endless hours of work from our volunteers on big weekends such as these! 👏👏

As our season nears its climax, we’d like to take the opportunity to recognize some standout performances from the last month!

Swimming is largely recognized as an individual sport, but it is the teammates that you train and compete with that further deepens your love for the sport.

These swimmers of the month are not only phenomenal athletes but incredible team players, and are key contributors to the club culture that we know and love. You may even see some of them on deck as officials when they are not competing!

A huge thank you to all of our swimmers, and specifically our swimmers of the month, for modelling the club’s vision and being an inspiration to coaches, athletes, and parents alike.

We are so proud of the team that we have, and are delighted to see our club continue to thrive.

Please congratulate these swimmers of the month when you next see them!

Last month, OSC sent 15 swimmers to Winnipeg to attend the first ever Best of the West Fest, a return to racing across the western provinces of Canada. 🤠

The level of competition brought out some outstanding moments from our swimmers, including club and Provincial records 🔥: a clear result of the hard work in training from these swimmers.

NEW RECORDS

On the final day of the competition, 12 year old Tao So dove into the water and swam the race of a lifetime setting a new Provincial Record 🏆 in the 800m Freestyle with a time of 9:22.71 breaking a 24 year old record!

Tao So may have capped off his weekend with a Provincial Record, but leading up to his final event he also broke 4 more club records. The oldest of these records was in the 200m Backstroke where Tao broke the record of longtime OSC swimmer, parent and volunteer Scott Flowers, a record that stood for over 40 years! 😮

The other 3 records came in 400 Free, 800 Free and 400IM. Congratulations Tao on an amazing weekend!

PODIUM FINISHES

OSC came home with some silverware (or wooden tablets for those who know!) 🪵

OSC Podiums:
Layne Birbeck - Silver 200BR & 50BR
Joshua Bodet - Bronze 200BK & 400FR, Silver 800FR
Tucker Buhler - Bronze 800FR
Alex Lim - Bronze 100FL
Tao So - Gold 1500 FR, 400FR & 800FR
Leo Wang - Silver 200IM, 200BK, 200FR & Bronze 400IM

TOP PERFORMANCES

Finally to add to the accolades we had some swimmers achieve Top 1 & Top 10 times ⭐️, who will be recognized by Swim Alberta at the upcoming Summer Provincial Championships in Calgary at the end of July:

Alex Lim - Top 10 - 100FL
Tao So - Top 1 - 1500FR, 400FR & 800FR
Leo Wang - Top 10 - 200IM & 400IM
Kendall Zaboroski - Top 10 - 200BR

NEW CANADIAN TRIALS QUALIFIER

Alex Lim swam the race of his career in the 200 Backstroke with a time of 2:11.19, earning him qualification to the Canadian Swimming Trials in Montreal this July! 🇨🇦 Congratulations Alex on your hard work and amazing results!

The OSC family of coaches, swimmers and parents are extremely proud of all our swimmers at this meet! 👏

On April 24th-26th Olympian Swim Club had swimmers from JOW, OW, JAG, JAG, and Regional compete at The Calgary Patriots 49th Chinook Invitational Meet! Our swimmers did an amazing job at representing OSC with many time improvements and achievements! This weekend was filled with fast racing, best times, and team spirit. We are super proud of all of our athletes for competing hard!

A special shout out to the O’s who achieved festivals this weekend! 🎉

Shay Apang: Boys 10&U 50 BR - 50.97

Another special shoutout to two of our O’s who competed in the 50 free eliminator and both coming in 3rd place! 🏆

Sofia Inaba Girls 12&U
Kai Rymer Boys 12&U


We had some amazing top finishers on the team over the course of the weekend:

1st place finishes 🥇

Alyssa Argueta (Girls 10&U 200 IM, 200 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Free)
Luke Li (Boys 10&U 200 IM, 200 Free, 400 Free, 100 Breast, 100 Fly)
Shay Apang (Boys 10&U 50 Breast)
Evan Brake (Boys 11-12 50 Breast, 200 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Breast, 100 Fly)
Miller Schnepf (Boys 13-14 200 Fly)
Adam Shumilov (Boys 10&U 200 Back, 50 Back, 100 Back)
Zenon Andriuk (Boys 11-12 200 Back)
Josie McMartin (Girls 11-12 200 Free, 50 Fly)
Beckham Dodd (Boys 10&U 50 Fly, 100 Free)
Aisling Ulrich (Girls 10&U 400 Free)

2nd place finishes 🥈

Sofia Inaba (Girls 12&U 50 Free)
Beckham Dodd (Boys 10&U 200 IM, 200 Back, 100 Back)
Aavya Sareen (Girls 10&U 50 Breast)
Adam Shumilov (Boys 10&U 50 Fly)
Nola Ulrich (Girls 10&U 400 Free, 100 Back)
Zenon Andriuk (Boys 11-12 50 Back, 100 Back, 100 Breast)
Mila Andriuk (Girls 11-12 100 Breast)
Josie McMartin (Girls 11-12 100 Fly)

3rd place finishes 🥉

Nola Ulrich (Girls 10&U 200 Back)
Alice Ternovetsky (Girls 10&U 200 Free)
Shay Apang (Boys 10&U 200 Free)
Sofia Inaba (Girls 11-12 400 Free, 100 Back)
Aavya Sareen (Girls 10&U 100 Breast)
Kai Rymer (Boys 11-12 100 Breast)


At the end of the weekend, OSC finished second overall in points! Congratulations to all of the swimmers on this impressive accomplishment! Let’s go O!

On Sunday April 12, 2026, 110 OSC swimmers participated in our OSC 12 & Under Novice Series #3 Swim Meet at the Kinsmen Sports Centre. In attendance were 277 swimmers representing 8 swim teams from around Alberta. The afternoon was filled with many great achievements by all, most notably:

We had 3 swimmers qualify for a new provincial meet!

Elizabeth Morgantini – Provincial Trials 50 Breaststroke with a time of 39.47
Mariia Horobets – Festivals 50 Fly with a time of 40.79
Joshua Carmichael – Festivals 50 Fly with a time of 39.05

The team also had 27 of our swimmers achieved a total of 42 Top 3 finishes:

16 First
12 Second
14 Third
We saw 250 personal best times out of 330 swims - way to go, swimmers, on all your achievements!

Our next 12 & Under Novice Series #4 will be held May 24, 2026 at the Kinsmen Sports Centre. A huge Thank You to all our volunteers and officials for making this meet possible, and congrats to all of the swimmers on a great day of racing!



Let’s go O!

With March being one of our busiest months for meets, it’s no surprise that these swimmers stood out as March Swimmers of the Month for Racing!

Life is about seizing the opportunity, and these swimmers spare no effort in making the most of every single racing opportunity that they get! As the famed Edmontonian Wayne Gretzky once said, “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”.

These swimmers embody that mindset, putting 110% effort into every single practice. Practice makes permanent, and while it may be easy to push hard at meets, these swimmers go above and beyond, and show that same effort at practices, and this is what sets them apart.

Join us in congratulating our March Swimmers of the Month!

This past weekend, OSC had 8 swimmers compete at the Speedo Canadian Swimming Open held at the Kinsmen Sports Centre. This annual meet brings the best swimmers across Canada to compete in early April and the competition this year was fierce!

OSC had 4 swimmers from the small team qualify for finals and we are so proud of our swimmers for stepping up and representing our club this weekend:

👉 Emily Morgantini - 50 Breast, 200 Breast
👉 Sophia Musselman - 50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Back
👉 Regan Peace - 50 Back, 100 Back
👉 Minh Nguyen - 50 Free

These swimmers did a phenomenal job at this high level meet which saw the likes of Taylor Ruck, Yuri Kisil, and many other famed Olympic athletes. We are so proud of all of our attending swimmers, and look forward to seeing what they will continue to achieve for the remainder of the season.

It was a weekend filled with cheering and personal achievements - many of our swimmers came out over the weekend to cheer on their teammates and coaches - which also highlighted our amazing team culture!

Thank you to Swimming Canada and the Edmonton Keyano Swim Club for hosting an amazing meet with such unforgettable moments for our swimmers to carry with them forward in their journey with the sport.

Let’s Go O!

On March 19-22, OSC along with Swim Alberta hosted over 600 athletes at the 2026 Winter Provincial Championships. A MASSIVE thank you goes out to the parent volunteers who made this competition possible. The results we celebrate would not exist if it was not for the long hours you put in to ensure these swimmers had a great meet! 👏

3 NEW CLUB RECORDS 🚨
Tao So set a record in the Males 11-12 year old 800m Freestyle with a time of 9:25.83 breaking the old record held by Erik Olson by almost 15 seconds and narrowly missed the Provincial Record by 1 second. Tao is sure to be targeting that record at his next competition, so stay tuned! Tao also broke the Male 11-12 year old 400IM record with a time of 5:12.18, breaking the 10 year old record by Alexandr Lapshin.

Regan Peace added to the record tally by breaking the Male Open 50m Backstroke record with a time of 26.68 breaking the old record by .17 held by OSC alumni Frederik Kamminga.

Congratulations to Tao and Regan! 🎉

NEW QUALIFIERS
We have a new Best of the West qualifier! Ivy Maguire cruised her way in the 200m Butterfly with a time of 2:37.91 and booked her ticket to the inaugural event in Winnipeg at the end of April!

Tucker Buhler, after weeks of training hard and a few short misses at swim meets, finally got his Canadian Open time standards in the 800m Freestyle with a time of 8:39.78 and now gets to compete with Canada’s best athletes at the April 9-11th event here in Edmonton!

We also had some swimmers achieve additional qualifiers at this meet:

Tao So: 3 BOW qualifiers
Joshua Bodet: 3 BOW qualifiers
Alex Lim: 1 BOW qualifier
Sophia Musselman: 1 Canadian Open qualifier
Leo Wang: 4 BOW qualifiers
Michael Woo: 1 BOW qualifier

OSC had a strong showing on the podium this past weekend as our swimmers stepped it up in finals and worked their way to represent the Blue & White each night in finals with 11 🥇, 13🥈, and 11🥉!

We are so proud of our swimmers and the hard work they have put in. The club finished amongst the top 10 in Alberta, and we are so excited to see our swimmers build on this success! ⭐️

On March 14th and 15th, OSC competed at the 2026 Neil Lepps Memorial Meet at Millennium Place and put together an excellent weekend of racing. From top to bottom, it was a meet filled with strong performances, great effort, and plenty of encouraging results as swimmers continued building through the season. 🆙

OSC had 79 swimmers in action this weekend and came away with an impressive 272 personal bests. That is an outstanding number and a great reflection of the work being done at training. 💪

We also had a new qualifier from the weekend: Leona Zhan earned a new Festival qualifying time in the 100 Butterfly, touching in 1:37.59. Congratulations Leona on a great swim and a well-deserved new standard! 👏👏

OSC made its presence felt throughout the weekend, finishing the meet with 75 podium finishes (27 🥇, 19🥈, 29 🥉) overall.

That is a fantastic medal haul and reflects strong racing across many different age groups and events. Congratulations to all of our medalists who stepped up and represented the team, especially those with multi-medal performances across the weekend!

There were strong swims, great improvements, and plenty of valuable racing experience gained over the two days. Most importantly, the team atmosphere was excellent. Swimmers supported one another, competed hard, and showed the kind of attitude that will continue to move this team forward. 🤍💙

Well done to all of our swimmers. Keep working, keep supporting each other, and we look forward to seeing this momentum carry into the next competitions of the season. 🙌🙌

As we near the end of Day 3 Champs, OSC would like to take the opportunity to congratulate our February swimmers of the month for dedication, which is all the more apparent as the meet goes on.

These swimmers are the model athletes, consistently being there not only physically but also mentally by giving it their all in every practice, every swim, every workout, every race at every meet.

We are so incredibly proud of our swimmers of the month and look forward to seeing them continue to develop and improve as swimmers, athletes, and individuals with OSC!