While most Canadian swimmers found out their Pan Pacific fate on Sunday, Whitehorse Glacier Bear Alexandra Gabor had to sweat it out a bit longer.

Swimming Canada selected their team for this year's Pan Pacific Championships based on results from the senior summer nationals, which were held last week in Victoria.

When the event wrapped up, 52 swimmers were picked for the Pan Pacs, which will be held in Irvine, California Aug. 18-22. Gabor wasn't on the list, but head coach Marek Poplawski knew she should have been.

"Alex, based on points, should have taken a spot,” he explained. "I had to dispute it and ask them to correct the mistake.”

Poplawski got the phone call this morning that Gabor would in fact be added to the team, but not at the expense of any other swimmer. Canada received permission to add a swimmer.

"They made some mistakes, but they finally fixed it,” said Poplawski.

Mistakes were few and far between when it came to Gabor's races at the senior nationals.

The 17-year-old athlete finished fifth in the 200-m free, with a time of 2:00.51. She also made the A final in the 100-m free, finishing seventh with a time of 56.47.

In the 400-m free, Gabor was 14th overall, making the B final with a time of 4:19.85.

And she was 23rd in the 50-m free, with a time of 26.78.

Gabor remained in Victoria this week to train and will head to California next week with the national team to get set for Pan Pacs.

Also qualifying for the Pan Pacifics was former Yukoner MacKenzie Downing, who is now a member of Pacific Coast Swimming.

Downing finished second in the 200-m fly, with a time of 2:10.0, as well as seventh in the 100-m fly, with a time of 1:00.65.

Glacier Bear Bronwyn Pasloski, who is heading to Indiana State University this fall on a swimming scholarship, took part in two races at the senior nationals.

Pasloski was 11th in the 100-m breast, making the B final with a time of 1:11.27.

She was also 20th in the 200-m breast prelims, with a time of 2:39.09.

"Overall, it was very good,” said Poplawski. "There was a high level of competition and lots of excitement. It came right down to the wire.”

Meanwhile, the Canadian Age Group Nationals took place last week in Winnipeg. It was a huge competition, with more than 1,500 competitors and many of the best age group swimmers from across Canada attending.

The Glacier Bears were represented by Isabel Parkkari, Erin Mcarthur and Haley Braga.

"They all did very well,” stated Poplawski. "In some events they were top-10 in the country, so that's very good. They made nice progress.

"They had got some medals at B.C. age groups earlier, so I had an idea they could be in the top-10 at nationals.”

In the 13-year-old girls category, Parkkari, swimming at her second age nationals competition, swam extremely well.

She finished fifth in the 800-m freestyle, fifth in the 5,000-m open water event, sixth in the 1,500-m free, 25th in the 100-m fly and 26th in the 400-m IM.

Also in the 13-year-old girls category, Braga – at her first age nationals – was eighth in the 400-m free, 10th in the 800-m free, 10th in the 5,000-m open water event, 13th in the 200-m free, 21st in the 100-m free, and 23rd in the 200-m back.

In the 12-year-old girls category, also swimming at her first age nationals, Mcarthur narrowly missed swimming in the finals.

She placed ninth in the 50-m breaststroke, 10th in the 50-m back, 19th in the 200-m breast, 21st in the 100-m breast, 25th in the 50-m freestyle, 30th in the 100-m freestyle, and 34th in the 200-m IM.