Team Alberta earns swimming medals at Canada Summer Games

Alberta finished the first day of competition at the 2022 Niagara Canada Summer Games with a total of 4 medals in the pool.

Breanna White from Sherwood Park, who is making her debut at the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games finished with a silver medal in the Women’s freestyle para event. White is the first athlete from Team Alberta to medal at these games and was proud to share the experience with her other swimming teammates who also podiumed not long after White’s individual performance. Reid Maxwell from St.Albert, followed with a second podium for team Alberta, only this time bringing home the gold in the men’s freestyle para event.

Following the para swimming individual athlete events, both our men’s and women’s 4x200m swim teams headed into the pool to haul two more podiums for Team Alberta. The women’s team swimmers Maxine Clark (Calgary), Abbi Bahler (Sylvan Lake), Dakota Howard (Spruce Grove) and Milena Cosicand (Calgary) (from left to right) finished in third place right behind British Columbia (2nd), and Team Ontario (1st).

The men’s relay swimmers Nicholas Duncan (Calgary), Torren Vandersteen (Beaumont), Cooper Waddel (Red Deer) and Addison Butler (Irricana) (from left to right) completed the podium colours for the day by sweeping another bronze medal for team Alberta, right behind British Columbia (2nd), and Team Ontario (1st).

Team Alberta stands in 2nd place for total medal rankings right behind Ontario with 3(medal count as of 10pm EST). Team Alberta won a total of 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals today. In 2017, at the last Canada Summer Games Alberta won 98 medals in total (26 gold, 38 silver, 34 bronze).

Today’s events include the following: