Say PCU Centre not fit for training
By Eric Mackenzie, The Daily Graphic

There will be no Piranhas in the pool at the PCU Centre this competitive season.

After a trial swim in the Shindleman Aquatic Centre on Aug. 26, the Portage Piranhas swim club decided the venue did not meet their needs as a training facility, and a handful of the team’s members have found clubs in Winnipeg to swim with this winter.

“The club is suspended,” said Piranhas president Jodi Harder. “It’s just not a pool for a swim club to train in.

“It’s very disappointing.”

Portage Regional Recreation Authority aquatics manager Dean Janzen said he was sad the Piranhas opted not to use the new pool, and that the PRRA tried and would still be willing to work with the club on ways to make the facility a training site as the Piranhas saw fit.

“I’m disappointed,” he said. “It’s the end of an era, and it would have been nice if they continued.

“I hope the Piranhas think about it and decide to come back in a year from now, because I think you’ll find this facility is really good for training. I would love to see a competitive program back, because I think Portage can use it.”