Again and again the Whitehorse Glacier Bears compete with the best swimmers on the west coast.

Four Glacier Bears were in top form against the coast's best at the Swim BC Provincial AAA SC Championships held at Saanich Commonwealth Place in Victoria from March 3-6.

Yukoners Isabel Parkkari, 14, Haley Braga, 14, Erin McArthur, 13, and Taylor Campbell, 15, competed for the Glacier Bears and each made the finals in one or more events.

But this time it was Parkkari who reached top form for the Yukon contingent.

She won silver medals in the 800-metre freestyle and 400 free, as well as a bronze medal in the 400 Individual Medley, each in the girls 14-year-old category.

Apart from nabbing best times in all of her races, Parkkari broke the girls 13-14 400 IM club record twice – once in preliminaries and once in the finals – which was previously held by Glacier Bear Bronwyn Pasloski.

Parkkari smashed Pasloski's record by nearly four seconds.

Pasloski's previous time was five minutes, 11.62 seconds. Parkkari's time in the finals was 5:07.78, good enough for her first club record.

"The best performance, I would say, was done by Isabel,” Glacier Bears coach Marek Poplawski said.

"Especially her 800-metre time of nine minutes, two seconds was fantastic.

"I didn't think she was going to go that fast.”

Parkkari also placed fourth in the 200 IM, sixth in the 200 free and 14th in the 200 breaststroke.

Braga came off personal best times at the Western Canadian Swimming Championships in Kamloops, B.C., to pick up a handful of best times in Victoria last weekend.

Also swimming in the girls 14-year-old category, Braga made the finals and earned personal best times in the 800 free, 100 free and 200 backstroke.

She finished seventh in the 800 free, eighth in the 400 free, 10th in the 200 back, 11th in the 100 free and 11th in the 200 free.

At Westerns in Kamloops, Braga acheived a personal best time in the 200 free with a time of two minutes, 12.11 seconds for 22nd. She also placed 23rd in the 400 free and 25th in the 800 free in that competition. Parkkari also qualified for Westerns but chose to sit it out.

"We have basically three cycles in the season,” Poplawski said. "So one of the cycles is from September to December.

…The second cycle is around March, which is provincial championships. Whoever is working well is going to improve, so that's what happened. It's no surprise. Like always, somebody will improve more than the others. So I'm very happy. I expected them to swim well.”

In Victoria, McArthur made the finals in the 100 breast and placed eighth in the 13-year-old category.

She also swam to an 11th and a personal best time in the 50 free, 12th in the 200 breast, 18th in the 200 IM, 25th in the 100 free and 26th in the 100 back.

Campbell, swimming in the girls 15-year-old category, made the finals in the 200

free and placed eighth.

She finished 10th in the 100 and 200 back, 11th in the 50 free, 12th in the 400 free and 14th in the 100 free.

The four girls swam together in the girls 18 and under relays and placed 19th in the 200 free relay as well as 19th in the 200 medley relay.

"Altogether, all those four girls did very well and I'm very happy that they swam so well,” Poplawski said.

The Glacier Bears will be represented by Alexandra Gabor at the Spring Nationals/

World Championship Trials (SC) in Victoria from March 30-April 3.