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Noonan competing at Paralympic Can-Am Swimming Championship
Sea~Hawks swimmer Erica Noonan is in San Antonio, Texas this weekend competing with other Canadian para-swimmers against the United States in the 2010 Can-Am Championships. Noonan will be competing in several events over the weekend and if she is able to race under the qualifying standards she will qualify for this summer’s Paralympic Championship. There will be over 400 swimmers at the event.
Noonan will be very busy as she will compete in seven events at the
meet. She will open the competition on Thursday racing in the 100m
breaststroke and the 400m freestyle. On Friday she will compete in
the 50m freestyle and the 200m individual medley. Saturday will see
Noonan compete in the 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly and the 200m
breaststroke.
The competition will be Noonan’s first major paralympic event
since the Canada Games.
The Can-Am Championships are designed to bring all para-swimmers in
both Canada and the United States together twice a year to compete
in stand alone competitions that will promote fast swimming from
development to international level.
The 2010 Can-Am/World Championships Trials for Para-swimming will
begin on Thursday, March 25 and ends Saturday, March 27.
Preliminaries begin at 9 a.m. and finals at 5 p.m., each day.
Full schedule is available on the Swim Canada
website.
The International Paralympic Committee Swimming World Championships
will take place from August 15-21 in Eindhoven, the
Netherlands.