Whitehorse swimmer Cassis Lindsay didn’t head to Fort McMurray with illusions of beating the best in Western Canada in the 100-metre freestyle. The 14-year-old did give herself a goal though. Lindsay wanted a time under one minute in the 100, and she did it Thursday afternoon at the Summer Games.

In the semifinal heat, Lindsay was just off her mark with a time of 1 minute and 13 one-hundredths of a second, but quick enough to earn her one of the eight lanes in the final.

While she finished in eighth, she posted a time of 59:94.

“She broke the minute mark, which was big for her, and it was her goal for the race,” assistant swim coach Kathy Zrum said this morning from the Western Canada Summer Games 2015. “She was pumped. She was excited she did it.”

Thursday marked the first day of competition for the 77 Yukon athletes and coaches who arrived Tuesday for the second week of competition to compete in swimming, badminton, soccer and volleyball. The first wave of 88 Yukoners departed Tuesday – with a couple of medals.

Hannah King of Whitehorse won a bronze in judo Sunday, and Brody Smith followed up Monday with a silver in the 5,000-metre race walking event.

Both the men’s and women’s soccer teams lost their opening matches Thursday, and were scheduled to play their second games this afternoon. The badminton team went down to B.C., Alberta and Manitoba yesterday.

And the two Yukon volleyball squads both dropped the first two matches but for the men, it was a thriller against Manitoba.

They lost the three games 25-22, 25-21 and 25-21.

Team Yukon chef de mission Trevor Twardochleb said the Yukon was leading in the opening game and had a chance to close it out but it just got away from them.

“The second and third games were back and forth, back and forth,” he said. “It was pretty exciting.”