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Season Ending Performance In
a competitive swimmer's life, true joy comes from an exhaustive process of tackling
serious challenges. For the past two months the National Development Group and
the Provincial 1 Group have taken on and attempted to meet the serious goals they
set for themselves at the beginning of the season. It is usually with great apprehension
and worry when young swimmers compete in the concluding meets of the season. In
these events they are competing against the best swimmers in the province and
all of their work and determination are given one final measure. There are many
days in our lives that we can take or leave, when nothing really happens, but
in these few days, everything seems to happen. For
our National Development and Provincial 1 swimmers, the Central Region Champs
on Feb 28, at the Olympium, the Provincial Championships on March 2 in London,
along with a trip on March 6 to compete in Pittsburgh for their Age Group Championships
provided real challenges for the conclusion to the short course season. Their
results at these three meets were magical with club records, provincial championships
medal performances and personal bests being constantly recorded. They displayed
the ingredients of hard work, competitive focus and talent, a powerful mixture
to produce simply outstanding results. Our National Development and Provincial
1 swimmers, at the most competitive meets of the season, when it really mattered,
defined themselves as first rate competitors, swimmers of substance, on a steady
course destined for success.
The real story is found in the wonderful
details of these three meets below: Central
Region Champs in Etobicoke
Matthew Gamelo - finalist in both the 100 breast and 50 free
Melanie
Gavan - new provincial time in the 400 free coming 3rd
Jacquelyn Kicksee
- 6th in the 1500 free
Jocelyn Langballe - best times in all 4 of her
swims
Gavin Lifman - best times in the 200im, 100 fly, 100 and 200
back
William Lim - new provincial time in the 50 free placing 2nd
Kelvin Lui - 3rd in the 200 breast, 4th in the 100 breast
Arthur
Macioszek - new provincial time in the 100 free placing 2nd
Patrick
Malihan - 6th in the 100 back including best times in all his races
Yaakov
Oumansk - new provincial time in the 100 free, including placing 2nd in the
100 free and 3rd in the 200 free
Maggie Runnalls - best times in all
6 of her swims
Ozgu Topuz - 6th in the 200 fly
Sarah Spitz
- best times in the 100 free, 200 im and 100 back
Jeffrey Turnock -
best times in all 6 of his swims
Tessa Henley - 6th in the 800 free,
3rd in the 100 free, 4th in the 100 fly and 5th in the 50 free
Radu Vezeanu
- 3rd in the 200 fly, 6th in the 100 fly
Provincial
Champs in London
Clement Cheng - best times in all four of his swims, including a 9th place
finish in the 800 free
Roland Drews - best times in both the 200 free
and 200 im
Casey Gallagher - finalist for both 100 and 200 breast
Alex
Hamilton - 5th in the 800 free and 200 fly and 6th in the 400 im and 400 free
Caitlin Hodge - 3rd in the 1500 free (new club record), 4th in the 800
free and 5th in the 400 free
Nathaniel Hu - 1st in the 200 fly, 3rd
in the 100 fly, 2nd in the 200 free, 4th in the 800 free, 400 free and 200 back,
6th in the 200 im
Katie Martin - 9th in both the 100 and 200 back
Alex Mierzynski - 1st in the 200 free and 400 free, 2nd in the 800 free,
400im,100 free and 200 im, 3rd in the 200 back
Connie Yang - 2nd in
the 200 fly, 3rd in the 100 fly and 8th in the 200 im
Lev Oumanski
- best times in all four of his swims - including top 16 in both the 50 and 100
free
Alleghany
Mountain Swim Conference
Age Group Champs in Pittsburgh,
USA
Clement Cheng - 2nd in the 50 fly, 3rd in the 100 fly
Casey Gallagher
- 2nd in the 200 breast, 8th in the 400 im
Melanie Gavan - 5th in the
200 breast
Caitlin Hodge - 1st in the 1650 free, 5th in 200 free, 6th
in the 200 fly
Nathaniel Hu - 1st in the 50 and 200 fly, 2nd in the
500 and 200 free, 3rd in the 100 back, 4th in the 200im and 100 free
Jacquelyn
Kicksee - 4th in the 200 back, 6th in the 200 free and 400 im
Katie
Martin - 7th in the 1650 free
Alex Mierzynski - 1st in the 50,
100, 200, 500 free, 100 and 200 back and 200 im
Sarah Spitz - 5th in
the 100 back
Connie Yang - 1st in the 200 fly, 3rd in the 200 im, 4th
in the 50 fly, 200 breast and 200 free
Tessa Henley - top 16 swims in
both the 50 free and 1650 free Season
Ender at UofT
Ariella Daniels - best times in the 50 fly, 100 free and 100 breast
Vinny D - best times in the 100 fly and 200 im
Evelin Kovacs
- best times in both the 100 and 200 free
Ronald Lam - 1st in the 50
fly and 200 im
Jocelyn Langballe - 3rd in the 100 back, 4th in the
50 back
Gavin Lifman - 1st in the 50 back, 3rd in the 100 breast
Kelvin Lui - 1st in the 100 and 50 breast
Patrick Malihan -
3rd in the 50 back , 4th in the 200 free
Kammi Mukherjee - 4th in the
100 back, 5th in the 50 back
Yaakov Oumanski - 1st in the 50 free,
3rd in the 100 and 200 free
Tommy Westwood - 1st in the 100 fly, 100
free and 200 free
Alex Ruivo - 3rd in both the 50 fly and 100 breast
Sarah Spitz - 2nd in the 100 fly
Jeffrey Turnock - 1st in the
100 fly, 100 back and 100 free
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