JP Fiset Invitational 2024
JP Fiset Invitational 2024
December 12th – 15th, 2024
Edmonton, AB
(Written by Coach Francois Coezter)
We did it! We successfully ran our 50th anniversary JP Fiset Invitational this past weekend with some of Albert, BC and Saskatchewan’s fastest swimmers coming to Kinsmen Sport Centre to show off 4 months of hard training. OSC welcomed over 600 swimmers from those provinces and even had two international swimmers from Ireland!
As expected, the competition was fierce and fast, and OSC had a lot of swimmers step up to the challenge bagging 4 Gold, 12 Silver and 9 Bronze medals. And just to show how hard our swimmers have been training, OSC had over 700 best times over the course of the weekend! Great job swimmers, it was great to see all the hard work pay off. However none of these achievements would have been possible without our amazing parent volunteers who not only make sure the swimmers make it to practices, but a large swim meet like this could never happen without you. So from all of the coaching staff at OSC, THANK YOU for everything you do! We appreciate you all more than you know.
Now we want to take a moment and recognize some amazing achievements OSC swimmers accomplished this weekend.
We start with 10 year old Evan Brake who set a NEW CLUB RECORD in the boys 200m Backstroke with a time of 2:40.07 beating the previous record of 2:43.70 set back in 2019. Congratulations Evan, that is some fast swimming!
Now a number of swimmers achieved Top 10 Youth Recognition times. These time standards are set by Swim Alberta and OSC have a strong history of swimmers achieving these standards. These swimmers will be recognized at Festivals or Provincial Champs with a T-Shirt ceremony.
Current Top 10 Swimmers:
Emmit Kingston - 200m and 1500m Free Boys 13 Year Old
Aiden Gyorfi - 200m Free, 400m Free, 800m Free and 1500m Free Boys 16 Year Old
Joshua Bodet - 1500m Free Boys 13 Year Old
Elsa Anderson - 1500m Free Girls 13 Year Old
Congratulations swimmers on your remarkable achievements!
We finish off our recognitions with swimmers who have made new qualifying standards as OSC continues to bolster its team rosters for Provincial and National competitions. Please join the coaches in recognizing the follow swimmers:
Aiden Gyorfi - new Canada Open times in 400 IM, 200 Backstroke and 400 Freestyle
Alexander Jenkins - new Trials time in 200 Breastroke
Isla Probert - new Trials times in 100 Backstroke and 200 Backstroke
Varvara Varankina - new Trials times in 200 Backstroke
Congratulations to ALL swimmers on an amazing weekend. And thank you again to our amazing parents who made this meet possible.
LET'S GO O!!!