Story by Alexandria Teng, UBC Artistic Swimming SC Marketing & Communications Executive
March 15 – 17, 2024 – the UBC Artistic Swimming Club traveled to Winnipeg, MB to compete at CUASL National Championships. After Westerns was canceled in January, this was the club’s only chance to compete against other universities across Canada.
The competition started off hot on Friday with Experienced Team Prelims. All the teams gave it their all in order to pave the way for finals. The White team had an incredible swim and the Gold Team placed 7th with a goal of cracking the top 6 in finals. Meanwhile, the Blue Team sat in first by more than an 8 point margin.
Saturday, the club’s beautiful soloists performed. Raiyana, wow’d the judges placing 9th in Novice Solo. The Experienced soloists, Marissa and Serena, captured everyone’s attention placing 2nd and 7th.
The final day of Nationals started bright and early Sunday morning with duets. Liam and Raiyana salsaed their way to 4th place in the Novice Duet event. The two Experienced Duets, Flynne and Marissa, and Katie and Maddy, put on fantastic performances with Flynne and Marissa claiming 2nd.
Lastly was the long anticipated Experienced Team Finals event. The White team had the best swim of the season achieving their goal of scoring over 100!
The Gold team put on a roaring show and moved up from prelims to 6th place!
Finally, for the third year in a row, the Blue Team held onto their position placing 1st in finals, bringing home the John Drake Trophy and title of 3-Peat Top Experienced Team.
Deservingly, Marissa Enns was awarded Top Experienced Athlete of the entire competition after placing 2nd in solo and duet, and 1st in team!
Congratulations to all the athletes of UBC Artistic Swimming for such a successful weekend. To see more photos and videos from Nationals follow the team on Instagram @ubcartisitcswimming.