The Grande Prairie Piranhas won the Medium Team Award at the Swim Alberta Provincial Championships. Photo credit: Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Club/Facebook.

By Curtis Galbraith

Swimming

Piranhas win medals, team awards at recent competitions

Mar 25, 2024 | 2:36 PM

The Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Club won a bunch of medals and finished fifth in the team standings at the Western Canadian Championships held over the weekend in Winnipeg.

Piranha’s swimmers won 13 medals, seven gold, four silver and two bronze.

Oliver Dawson won four of those gold medals, Mikayla Laurin two and Marissa Laurin one.

Mikayla also earned a silver medal, Dominic Kwiecien a silver and bronze, Jesse Carlson a silver and Brandon Stanton a silver and bronze. His medals came in para swimming.

This comes after they won 23 medals and the award for medium-sized teams at Swim Alberta Provincial Championships held March 7 to 10 in Calgary.

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That included six gold, 10 silver and seven bronze.