South Surrey swimmers earn medal success at provincials, Commonwealth Games<\/p>\n
Published 2:15 pm Monday, August 17, 2026<\/p>\n
Several South Surrey-based swimmers with the Pacific Sea Wolves have had some smashing success in the pool so far this summer.<\/p>\n
The PSW swimmers and Para swimmers, who train with head coach Jy Lawrence at Grandview Aquatic Centre, came in second overall in the entire province at the B.C. provincial championships in Kamloops earlier this summer, then Para swimmer Mary Jibb won Canada\u2019s first medal \u2014 a bronze \u2014 at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very proud of her ability to push through adversity \u2014 this year has been challenging, as she was assigned a new sport class, and to have this success at the end of that is so exciting!\u201d Lawrence said earlier this month, after the Commonwealth Games concluded. \u201c(Jibb) was very excited about the result, the best time, the medal and being the first medalist for Canada was icing on the cake for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow Para swimmer Sebastian Massabie broke a Canadian record in the S5 50 free event before he raced in the S7 sports class \u2014 up two classes from the S5 class.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was challenging for him to push himself, knowing he would be fighting for last or second-last, but he did a great job focusing on himself and putting up a best time,\u201d Lawrence said, commending Massabie\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n
Lawrence also shared how proud she was of her swimmers and their performance at the provincial championships in Kamloops.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the largest team (54 athletes) PSW has ever sent to provincials and I am so proud of how far the team has come,\u201d Lawrence told the Peace Arch News. \u201cI could not do it without my exceptional staff and how dedicated each of them are to progressing the athletes they have. Having been the head coach for the last seven-plus years is starting to show in what we are building and I am very excited for what is to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 54 athletes at provincials were aged 10-18 and swam in up to eight events each, plus relays, with the 15-17-year-old boys taking gold in all three relay events, Lawrence noted, and PSW also won the open age category 4\u00d7200 free on the boys\u2019 side.<\/p>\n
Lawrence, who was just in California for the Pan Pacific Championships Aug. 10-16, will travel back to California at the end of the month for the Para Pan Pacific Championships as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur summer of racing doesn\u2019t end until Aug. 30,\u201d she said, adding that overall, the summer\u2019s experiences have been amazing. \u201cIt\u2019s been pretty awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Surrey swimmers earn medal success at provincials, Commonwealth Games Published 2:15 pm Monday, August 17, 2026 By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-861855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}