The document summarizes the awards and achievements of swimmers from the Richmond Kigoos swim team at their 2019 awards banquet. It recognizes swimmers who demonstrated excellence in criteria like volunteerism, sportsmanship, and improvement. Individual award winners are named in each category, and provincial qualifiers and record-setters are also acknowledged.

1. RICHMOND KIGOOS
2019 AWARDS BANQUET

2. The Bill McNulty Award was founded in 1999 and since 2012 has
been given to a male and female swimmer who excel at the
following criteria:
• Volunteerism
• Positive attitude
• Role modeling
• Perseverance
• Team spirit
• Participation
• Good sportsmanship
• Swimming performance
BILL MCNULTY AWARD

3. Category Female:
Tiana Maedel
2019 BILL MCNULTY AWARD

4. Category Male:
Brian Deng
2019 BILL MCNULTY AWARD

5. The Gerry Soika Award was founded by the Soika family in
memory of their son Gerry, a Kigoo swimmer.
The criteria includes:
• Full-time swimmer
• Demonstrates outstanding sportsmanship
• Demonstrates congenial attitude towards a team goal
• Works hard for the betterment of a relay team
• Works with unselfish attitude to inspire younger
swimmers
• Has the realization that personal gain does not always
reflect glory
GERRY SOIKA AWARD

6. 2019 GERRY SOIKA AWARD
Sophia Newman

7. SWIM GROUP
INTRODUCTIONS

8. This award is given to the swimmer in
each category who has taken off the
most time from the Ice Breaker Meet
to the Regional Meet.
**In cases where it would be the same recipient as the Outstanding
Swimmer, the runner-up is awarded the recognition.
MOST IMPROVED SWIMMER AWARD

9. Intermediate (Div. 3/4)
Shayla Sangha
Beckham Miller
Senior (Div. 5+)
Gloria Duan
Michael Pak
Junior Development
Pearl Lei
Kingston Panerio
Junior (Div. 1/2)
Reese Sangha
Wyatt Panero
2019 MOST IMPROVED SWIMMER

10. This award is given to the swimmer from each
category who has earned the most points for
the club between the Ice Breaker Meet and the
Regional Meet.
MOST OUTSTANDING SWIMMER

11. Junior Development
Audrey Richmond De Gros
Felix Chen
Junior (Div.1/2)
Katherine Kennedy
Cristiano Carvalho
2019 MOST OUTSTANDING SWIMMER
Intermediate (Div. 3/4)
Fern Buckley
Aden Labao
Senior (Div. 5+)
Olivia Johnston
Vincent Lee
O Cat
Quinn Wright
Nicholas Kennedy

12. The Kigoo award is given to a swimmer from each category who
exemplifies the following characteristics:
• Commitment to the sport
• Positive attitude at practices and at meets
• Good behaviour
• Participation in practices, meets and team activities
• Team spirit
• Volunteerism
KIGOO AWARD

13. 2019 KIGOO AWARD
Div. 1
Ella Kung
Raymond Liu
Div. 2
Katie Nevins
Andrew Wood
Div. 3
Yasmine Farrugia
Aaron Ma
Div. 4
Bronwyn Arkesteijn
Bryan Ta
Div. 5
Jia Sooch
Raveen Dissanayake
Div. 6 & up
Hope Chan
Lucas Yuill

14. Sonja Dong &
Kent Nevins
Thank you for your dedication to the club and
the BC summer swimming community!!
2019 PARENT OF THE YEAR AWARD

15. 2019 TRIATHLON WINNERS
Junior Development
Audrey Richmond De Gros
Jacob Del Rosario
Junior
Katherine Kennedy
James Reidy
Intermediate
Alex Yuill
Zachary Kennedy
Senior
Ashley Maedel
William Li

16. 2019 GROUSE GRIND WINNERS
Junior Development
Cassidy May
Chenxi (Ethan) Zhang
Junior
Katherine Kennedy
Dashiell Gottardi
Intermediate
Sierra Lemaire
Zachary Kennedy
Senior
Ashley Maedel
Lucas Yuill

17. 2019 PROVINCIAL QUALIFIERS
Justin Blais
Cristiano Carvalho
Bodhi Chan
Felix Chan
Abigail Cheung
Anson Cheung
Hailey Dong
Anna Dukes
Griffyn Gottardi
Ava Inthavixay
Zachary Kennedy
Aden Labao
Daniel Lakowski
Elizabeth Lee
Gabriel Lee
Jacqueline Lee
Sierra Lemaire
Julien Mady
Isabella Mady
Ashley Maedel
Tiana Maedel
Avrylle Monteflor
Katie Nevins
Theodore Pak
Liam Panerio
Nicolas Pham
Sophia Raffai
Matias Raffai
Asher Roberts
Sophia Roberts
Jacob Spata
Michael Watson
Quinn Wright
Lucas Yuill
Chenxi (Ethan) Zhang

18. 2019 PROVINCIAL MEDALISTS
Rylynn Bergson-Gonzales
Fern Buckley
Gisele Carvalho
Grant Chen
Caroline Do
Madeleine Farrugia
Yasmine Farrugia
Olivia Johnston
Katherine Kennedy
Elizabeth Kennedy
Nicholas Kennedy
Catherine Labao
Sofia Lemaire
William Li
Jake Nevins
Colin Nishi
Emi Nishi
Joshua Nygard
Marley Ohara
Rachel Pham
Chloe Sequeira
Rachel Walker
Joseph Yeh
Alex Yuill
Genyuan Zhang

19. Division 3
50 Breast
Fern Buckley
38.30
100 IM
Fern Buckley
1:15.12
Division 4
50 Free
Madeleine Farrugia
29.35
INDIVIDUAL CLUB RECORDS - GIRLS
Division 4 cont’d.
200 IM
Alex Yuill
2:38.37
100 Back
Sofia Lemaire
1:13.07
50 Fly
Emmy Nishi
30.75

20. Division 5
50 Fly
Ashley Maedel
30.66
Division 6
100 Breast
Olivia Johnston
1:19.65
INDIVIDUAL CLUB RECORDS - GIRLS
Division 7
100 Fly
Rachel Pham
1:19.65

21. Division 2
50 Fly
Colin Nishi
36.70
INDIVIDUAL CLUB RECORDS - BOYS

22. Division 4 Girls
200 Freestyle Relay
Emi Nishi
Sofia Lemaire
Alex Yuill
Madeleine Farrugia
1:58.39
200 Medley Relay
Sofia Lemaire
Catherine Labao
Emi Nishi
Madeleine Farrugia
2:11.75
CLUB RECORDS - RELAYS
Division 7 Girls
200 Medley Relay
Caroline Do
Olivia Johnston
Rachel Pham
Elizabeth Kennedy
2:09.81

23. Fern Buckley
Brian Deng
Catherine Labao
Sofia Lemaire
Sierra Lemaire
Jasmine Inthavixay
Tiana Maedel
Ashley Maedel
VOLUNTEERS: Coaches in Training
Sophia Newman
Tia Nevins
Emi Nishi
Jia Sooch
Robin Ui
Quinn Wright
Lucas Yuill
Alex Yuill

24. Swimmers please see your coaches to
receive your Best Time Certificates.
BEST TIME CERTIFICATES

25. Thank-you to the Kigoos Executive and
all of the families who have made the
past season such a success!