2026 Alberta Summer Games Summary
August 1, 2026
2026 Alberta Summer Games
Meet Summary
Athletes' Village, cafeteria trays, and five proud Patriots
The Alberta Summer Games, taking place in Strathcona County, offered a full mini-Olympics experience: team buses up north, shared quarters in the Athletes' Village, communal cafeteria meals alongside athletes from fourteen different sports, and marching under the Zone 3 banner. Sending five swimmers to this event was an extraordinary achievement for a club of our size.
Sophia Rippe
,Audrey Thompson
,Silas Kwok
,Desmond Phillips
, andEverett White-O'Neil
represented the Patriots on deck at Millennium Place while soaking up every bit of the Games experience.Our swimmers made a huge contribution to Zone 3 (Calgary) winning the cup with their numerous podium finishes!
Triple gold, a Westerns cut, and a #1 record
Twelve-year-old
Audrey Thompson
put together an unforgettable series of races. She swept gold in the 50 Fly, 50 Breast, and 100 Breast, but her biggest milestone arrived in the 100 Breast: a performance that earned her first-ever Western time standard. To top off her weekend, she set a brand-new #1 all-time Patriots club record in the 12-year-old 50 Breast with a time of 35.26 seconds, while also placing on all-time top 10 lists in three other events.Desmond Phillips and Silas Kwok stack the podium
Twelve-year-old
Desmond Phillips
proved virtually uncatchable in the sprint freestyle events, winning gold in both the 50 Free and 100 Free alongside a bronze in the 100 Back. He dropped time in every race he entered, earned Provincial Champs standards in both freestyle and backstroke, and wrote his name into four separate top 10 club record lists.Silas Kwok
assembled a versatile four-medal haul of his own, taking silver in both breaststroke events and bronze in the 100 IM and 50 Fly. Kwok also secured all-time top 10 club rankings in the 100 IM and 50 Fly.Milestones, moves, and zone relay sweeps
Twelve-year-old
Everett White-O'Neil
grabbed bronze medals in the 100 Free and 50 Back, earning his first-ever Provincial Champs cut in the 50 Back and climbing to #6 all-time in the club records. Eleven-year-oldSophia Rippe
earned bronze in the 50 Free and moved up to #2 all-time in Patriots history in the 100 Free with a time of 1:05.26.Beyond individual accolades, our five Patriots joined forces with fellow Zone 3 teammates, including
Hannah Giesbrecht
,Emily Piatek
, andChristian Chu
, to sweep five gold relay titles, two silvers, and a bronze.And finally
Five Patriots, five standout performances, and a weekend that showed exactly what our club can do on the provincial stage.
Check out the updated top-10 lists, and more, on our [rankings site]
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Meet:
Alberta Summer GamesLocation:
Millenium PlaceDates:
2026-07-17 to 2026-07-19Podium finishes - Individual events
Podium finishes - Relay events
New time standards
New Youth Recognition awards
A t-shirt today, bigger goals tomorrow
Clean sheets
Dropped time in every race, nothing but green!
New personal top swims
The highest-quality swim of your career, measured against North America's best
New club records - all-time top 10