Four Newfoundland and Labrador swimmers are in Edmonton for the Canadian Swimming Trials which open today.
The meet serves as the selection Trials for the 2018 Pan Pacific championship, the 2018 Pan Pacific Para championship and the 2018 FINA world championship.
Swimming in Edmonton are Natalie Smart and Kate Sullivan from the Mount Pearl Marlins, who will compete in Sunday’s 1,500-metre freestyle, Paralympic star Katarina Roxon of Kippens, a gold medallist at the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympics, and Owen Daly, a St. John’s native now living in Montreal and training at the CAMO club.
Daly will swim in the 50-, 100- and 200-metre freestyle races.
Former Memorial Sea-Hawks star Jasmine Foran of New Brunswick is also swimming in the Edmonton Trials.
Junior swimming star Noah Cumby of the St. John’s Legends, who will begin his freshman season at Texas Christian University next month, qualified to swim in the Trials, but won’t be headed to Edmonton.
Instead, Cumby will swim in the Canadian junior championship running July 25-30 in Winnipeg. Cumby will head to Fort Worth, Texas after the national juniors.
In late August, Cumby is headed to Fiji with the Canadian junior team for the junior Pan Pacific championship.
