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OAK's newest swimmers help club to regional title
Sports
Jun 30, 2007
Receiving personal-best performances from several of its newest swimmers, the Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) won the team title at the recent Central Ontario Region long-course swimming championships in Etobicoke.

The personal-best swims and top-eight finishes enabled OAK to finish with 757 points, 23 more than runner-up Toronto Swim Club.

Sharlynn Missiuna, Julia Sinkovits, Ryan Maccarone, Alana Boffa and Marina MacDougall each qualified for junior provincials for the first time. OAK, which also qualified Avery Longmore, Jenna Wood and Hannah Burgess for provincials at the time trials held earlier this month, will send 42 competitors to next month's junior provincial championships in Ottawa -- nearly double the total of swimmers it sent a year ago.

Other notable club news includes the fact that Bridget Jordan has qualified for age group nationals in the 200-metre breaststroke. Earlier this month, Jordan helped her club's 12-and-under girls' relay team set two Canadian records.

"The Central Region meet went very well," said OAK coach Alex Wallingford. "Super swims from all age groups. I think the best was to see some different swimmers get up and win/medal as well as hit their cuts. All around, great swimming."

Top medal winners for OAK at the meet were Graham Fink (three gold, three silver), Tera Van Beilen (three gold, one silver), James Loh (three gold, one silver, one bronze), Jack Cavanagh (two gold, two silver, one bronze), Dylan Kent (two gold, one silver, one bronze) and Michelle Carrabetta (two gold).

Also winning medals were Emily Hunt, Julia Sinkovits, Sharalynn Missiuna, Avery Longmore, Jessica Kim, Jessica Fraser, Jenna Wood, Clara Armstrong, Emily Ower, Alana Boffa, Sydney Clarke, Marina MacDougall, Bridget Scott, Karina Sils, Julie Koszo, Jarrod Baddeliyanage, Gregory MacLennan, Mackenzie Martyn, Connor Wilkins, Ryan Maccarone, Alexander Plotnikov and Jason Bysice.

Cracking the top eight were Perrie Armstrong, Meghan Clark, Kelsie McNeill, Alexandrea Will, Veronica Davis-Freeman, Megan Brocks, Amanda Fraser, Hilary Turk, Grace Johnson, Megan McNevitts, Caroleene MacLennan, Nicole Mackenzie, David Wilson, Jaret Charbonneau, Peter Serles, Dragan Poposki and Robert Plata.

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