By Shawn Logan
The Eagle
The Cochrane Comets Swim Club is already blazing early into a new season, according to coach Suzanne Gaida.
Coming off a pair of swim meets the past weekend and weekend before, the squad already appears to be in top form.
“We’ve had tons of best times,” Gaida said. “At this point in the season, that’s a little surprising.”
The Comets are in the midst of the short course season which doesn’t hold its provincial regionals until February. The long course season begins shortly after that and wraps up in June.
Over the weekend, the older swimmers hit the pool at a meet in Medicine Hat while the younger group competed in a league meeting in Calgary.
“I’m happily amazed looking at where they are,” Gaida said.
She said the swimmers seem to be surpassing their best times almost every time they get in the water.
Gaida attributes the early season success (the Comets have been in the pool for two months) to their rigorous training regimen with some of the top swimmers in the water seven days a week.
The club has 22 members in the regular program and 10 more in the developmental group.
Gaida said the club will use a small break during the Christmas holidays to train even harder.
Former Comets’ coach Stephanie Martin, now a nationally ranked swimmer at the University of Lethbridge, will be the guest instructor at a swim camp at Cochrane’s Big Hill Leisure Pool Dec. 20-24.
This weekend the entire Comets team will compete in a swim meet at the Calgary Winter Club.

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