UBC TSC Artistic Swimming – Top of the West!

By Jonah on January 24, 2023

By Lisa Koyama-Wong, UBC Artistic Swimming SC Marketing & Communications Executive

The UBC TSC Artistic Swimming athletes had a successful weekend competing at the first event of the year, the Canadian University Artistic Swimming (CUASL) Westerns. Great performances qualified them for CUASL Nationals.

“I’m so proud of how UBC competed at Westerns and I’m excited for to showcase our routines at Nationals!”

– Zara Herbert

CUASL Westerns | Surrey, BC | January 21st & 22nd, 2023

Day 1

The competition started off strong with our extra routines on Saturday with our Experienced solos sweeping the podium and our Novice solos placing 2nd and 5th. We ended off the first day of competition with our Novice duet placing 2nd and our Experienced duet taking home 1st place.

The experienced soloists swept the podium. Claire Hein-Salvi (2nd, left), Xera Vegter Maharajh (1st, centre), Serena Chin (3rd, right)
Novice soloists Penny Raymond (5th, left) and Ava Keshavarzsafiei (2nd, right)
Experienced Duet: Flynne Gossling and Marissa Enns with their first place ribbon.

Experienced Solo

1st – Xera Vegter Maharajh

2nd – Claire Hein-Salvi

3rd – Serena Chin

Novice Solo

2nd – Ava Keshavarzsafiei

5th – Penny Raymond

Experienced Duet

1st – Marissa Enns & Flynne Gossling

Novice Duet

2nd Place – Raiyana Alibhai & Bryce Wilson

Day 2

The competition continued on Sunday with the team events.

In the Novice division, our Novice team showed off their dance-themed routine capturing 2nd place.
The White team placed 4th with their Madonna-themed routine and the Gold team placed 2nd with their energetic disco routine.
Finally, the Blue team captured the gold in this category claiming the title of Western Champion for the 4th year in a row.

Returning athlete Zara Herbert shared, “It was great to compete alongside other athletes in the greater BC artistic swimming community at Westerns! I’m so proud of how UBC competed at Westerns and I’m excited for to showcase our routines at Nationals!”

These results qualify all of our routines to compete at the CUASL National Championship in March. There, we will be facing Canada’s top universities with hopes to repeat as National Champions!

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