Plenty of OAK medals at fall meets


Published on Nov 17, 2007

Oakville Aquatic Club athletes won 103 medals and set seven club records at the recent Harvest Invitational swim meet in Etobicoke.

Mack Darragh led the way with a 10-medal effort, including seven gold. Kent Kikot (five gold), Marni Oldershaw (four), Mika Spencer (three) and Zack Chetrat (two) were other multiple-event winners.

Establishing new club standards were Oldershaw (13-14 female 50-metre backstroke, 100m back and 200m back), Chetrat (17-and-over male 800m freestyle, 100m fly and 200m fly), and the team of Erin Assman, Tera van Beilen, Oldershaw and Spencer (13-14 female 4x50m medley relay).

Other OAK athletes to win gold were Michelle Gervais, Clara Armstrong, Mitchell Gour, Evan White and Curtis Samuel.

Emily Hunt, Bridget Jordan, Jennifer Wilson, Jaret Charbonneau, Jack Cavanagh and Miguel Lozano all earned at least one silver.

Meghan Clark, Meredith Johnson, Julia Sinkovits, Annie Harrison, Alana Boffa, Connor Wilkins, Michael Seifert, Peter Serles and Brody Dyson had bronze-medal swims.

The Harvest Invitational featured many of the top swimmers from across the province.

Autumn Invitational winners

Most of the OAK competitive swimmers that did not attend the Harvest Invitational were instead competing at the Autumn Invitational that weekend, also in Etobicoke.

There, OAK swimmers combined to win 69 medals, including 19 gold.

Steven Ritchie had four gold and a silver, Ellie Symes earned three gold and a silver, and Conor Joynson brought home two gold, a silver and a bronze.

Olivia Sinclair, Anne-Sophie Laramee, Nicola Taccone, Holly Ducharme, Kiersten Locas, Kirsten Morris, Dragan Poposki, Cameron Byrne, Robert Plata and Marc Ovsec also won events.

Earning silvers were Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba, Hayley Duncan-Snobel, Briar Tedesco, Paola Vega, Dana Silvestri, Kaelan Chambers, Alison Senyk, Dan Andrei Rona, Owen Scarrow, David Whiteside and Joel Pearson.

Erin Jordan, Milan Bowie, Kristina Mazalica, Kenzie Morris, Julia Ritchie and Carter Yeudall added at least one bronze each.