A pair of North Shore swimmers scored victories at the Pan Am Games Team Canada Trials held last week in Toronto.
Teen sensation Emily Overholt of West Vancouver won gold in the women's 200-metre freestyle, clocking a personal best time of one minute and 58.69 seconds for the victory, edging 2012 Olympian Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., by 0.15 seconds.
"I had a great preliminary which gave me a lot of confidence," Overholt stated in a Swimming Canada release. "I've accumulated a lot of experience at this level over the past couple of years and my race strategy has really improved."
The 17-year-old also won the 400-m freestyle and placed second in the 400-m individual medley. The results earned Overholt a spot on the team that will represent Canada at the Pan Am Games this summer in Toronto as well as the senior world championships scheduled for August in Kazan, Russia.
North Vancouver's James Dergousoff also scored gold at the trials, winning the 200-m breastroke. Dergousoff will also represent Canada at the Pan Am Games in July.
