{"id":31072,"date":"2022-09-01T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=31072"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:29:57","slug":"swimming-provincials-success-has-east-hants-stingrays-buzzing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=31072","title":{"rendered":"Swimming provincials success has East Hants Stingrays buzzing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;156&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> The East Hants Stingrays buzzed to 12 provincial medals at the recently held Swim Nova Scotia summer provincials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 15-person team captured three gold; four silvers; and five bronze medals, to go along with 22 top 10 finishes. \u00a0Swimmers also earned Highest Points 11-12 age group small team award; Highest Points 17-18 age group small team award; and the Overall Small team award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Stingrays were named to the provincial All-Star team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this with one season under their belts at the new East Hants Aquatic Centre in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Stingrays have been part of the community for 20 years or so, they haven\u2019t been together as a team since 2019 (pre-COVID).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since late May, they have assembled a new board and a team of 23 swimmers aged seven through 180-years-old. The team has been practicing daily at the East Hants Aquatic Centre for the past seven weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs our summer season has wrapped up with provincials we look forward to non-competitive fall, winter and spring swimming beginning in late September,\u201d said Jessica MacDougall, President of the Stingrays. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/prov-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31073\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;She said the coaches are beyond proud and amazed at the swimmers success at provincials, especially since many were rookies to the sport. That helped the team earn Most Improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe came in as a small team (the underdogs, if you will), but&nbsp;proved we were worthy with spirit &amp; skill,\u201d said MacDougall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;146&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the team members made great memories and experiences this summer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCommunity pride and added support has grown since provincials success, growing our team to double it&#8217;s size for the fall maintenance training season,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those interested in more on the Stingrays, check out their Facebook page \u201cEast Hants Stingrays Swim Team\u201d or reach out to <a href=\"mailto:east.hants.stingrays@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">east.hants.stingrays@gmail.com<\/a>. Outside of summer they will be offering fall, winter, and spring programming for two hours per week at the East Hants Aquatic Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;161&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;156&#8243;] ELMSDALE: The East Hants Stingrays buzzed to 12 provincial medals at the recently held Swim Nova Scotia summer provincials. The 15-person team captured three gold; four silvers; and five bronze medals, to go along with 22 top 10 finishes. \u00a0Swimmers also earned Highest Points 11-12 age group small team award; Highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,21],"tags":[4121,4122,986,4123,4124],"class_list":["post-31072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-sports","tag-east-hants-hants","tag-east-hants-stingrays","tag-elmsdale","tag-swim-nova-scotia","tag-swimming-provincials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}