OLDS — Seleah Organ, a member of the Olds Rapids swim club, broke five club records for 12-year-old girls in just three months (September to November) in four swim meets.
Rapids head coach Cecelia Wessels says Organ’s name will be on the club’s record board for 100 metre (m) and 400m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 200m butterfly and 100m individual medley (IM, a mixture of all swimming strokes).
Organ also achieved seven provincial time standards for girls 12 and under in 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle, 50m backstroke, as well as 50m and 100m butterfly.
She also won gold in the 100m IM during a meet in Medicine Hat.
“She is only missing 50 metre breaststroke to complete her quadathlon,” Wessels says. “Seleah is a great example to her fellow Olds Rapids teammates and we love to watch her race.”
“She is determined, powerful and a great friend.”
Wessels says although breaststroke is not her favourite stroke, Organ is willing to work on it in order to strengthen her favourite one: butterfly.
Organ turns 13 this month so she’ll now be competing in an older age category. Wessels is confident she’ll do as well, if not better in that age group.
She needs one qualifying time to compete in the Swim Alberta provincial swim meet in March as a 13-year-old female. If that happens, she’d be joining Cheye-anne Wessels, 12, and Aidan Fox, 14, there.
The club also has high hopes that Brooke Rosevear, 11, Thomas Andrews, 13, and Gracie Baker, 14, will also qualify for that meet.
