OAK third at junior provincials
Published on
Mar 09, 2008
Fifty-six medals, including 17 gold, were enough to secure the Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) a third-overall finish at the Ontario Junior Provincial Swimming Championships last weekend in London.
Oakville finished with 879 points, well ahead of fourth-place Newmarket (475.5). Etobicoke won the meet with 1,195.5 points, followed by Toronto (958.5).
Mitchell Gour, one of OAK's top young swimming talents, earned the Ironman Award as the top 11-year-old swimmer at the meet. Gour won four races, setting a provincial record in his 100-metre backstroke win, and added four silver medals.
Zack Chetrat (200m fly) and Curtis Samuel (400m individual medley) each won their specialty races, showing they are on the right track in their Olympic Trials preparation. Chetrat broke the provincial record in the 200m fly, and both swimmers set two OAK records at the meet.
The girls' 13-14 relay team of Marni Oldershaw, Tera Van Beilen, Erin Assman and Mika Spencer continued its dominance, winning two gold and two bronze as well as setting a provincial record in the 4x50m medley. Last month, the quartet broke the Canadian long-course record in the same event.
Oldershaw finished the meet with 11 medals, including five individual gold. She set new provincial standards in the 200m and 400m IM, broke six OAK records and won the 13-year-old girls' Ironman Award.
Other gold-medal winners at the meet were Mack Darragh (two) and Michelle Gervais. Bridget Jordan, Gamal Assaad, Cassandra Pedro, Jenna Wood, Emily Hunt and Annie Harrison each won at least one silver medal, and Kent Kikot, Reid Scarrow and Miguel Lozano all took home bronze.
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TOP LOCAL FINISHERS AT JUNIOR SWIM PROVINCIALS
10-and-under girls: Michelle Gervais (gold in 100m back; silver in 200m back; bronze in 100m free, 200m free, 400m free, 100m fly), Hannah Hunt, Michelle Gervais, Abbey Saunders, Olivia Sinclair (fifth in 4x50m medley; sixth in 4x100m medley; eighth in 4x50m free)
11-year-old girls: Meghan Clark (fifth in 100m breast; seventh in 200m breast), Meredith Johnson (sixth in 100m back)
12-year-old girls: Bridget Jordan (silver in 50m free, 100m breast, 200m breast; bronze in 100m free; fifth in 200m IM; seventh in 100m fly, 400m IM), Emily Hunt (fourth in 100m back; fifth in 200m free, 200m back; eighth in 100m fly), Emily Hunt, Bridget Jordan Cassandra Pedro, Jenna Wood (silver in 4x100m medley, 4x50m medley; bronze in 4x100m free)
13-year-old girls: Marni Oldershaw (gold in 100m back, 200m back, 100m breast, 200m IM, 400m IM; silver in 1,500m free, 200m breast), Mika Spencer (gold in 100m fly; silver in 100m free, 200m free, 400m free; fourth in 50m free, 200m back; fifth in 800m free), Annie Harrison (silver in 200m back; fourth in 100m back; sixth in 400m IM; seventh in 200m IM), Holly Olsen (fifth in 100m breast, 200m breast)
14-year-old girls: Erin Assman (silver in 200m fly; bronze in 100m fly; sixth in 400m IM), Tera Van Beilen (bronze in 200m breast; fourth in 800m free; fifth in 400m free, 100m breast, 400m IM), Clara Armstrong (seventh in 100m breast, 200m breast), Marni Oldershaw, Tera Van Beilen, Erin Assman, Mika Spencer (gold in 4x50m medley, 4x100m medley; bronze in 4x50m free, 4x100m free)
11-and-under boys: Mitchell Gour (gold in 400m free, 100m back, 200m back, 200m IM; silver in 100m free, 200m free; sixth in 50m free)
12-year-old boys: Gamal Assaad (silver in 100m fly, 200m fly; fourth in 200m free; fifth in 400m free, 200m back; sixth in 800m free; seventh in 200m IM), Evan White (fifth in 200m breast; sixth in 200m fly; seventh in 100m breast, 400m IM), Gamal Assaad, Evan White, Cameron Byrne, Mitchell Gour (eighth in 4x50m free)
14-year-old boys: Mack Darragh (gold in 100m breast, 200m breast; silver in 100m back, 200m IM, 400m IM; bronze in 200m fly; fifth in 200m back), Jack Cavanagh (fifth in 200m breast; sixth in 100m breast), Kent Kikot (bronze in 50m free, 100m fly, 100m free; fourth in 200m free, 800m free; fifth in 200m fly; seventh in 100m back), Reid Scarrow (bronze in 100m breast, 200m breast; seventh in 100m free)
15-year-old boys: Miguel Lozano (bronze in 1,500m free; fourth in 400m free; sixth in 100m fly; seventh in 400m IM), Graham Fink (fifth in 1,500m free; seventh in 200m free; eighth in 800m free), Mack Darragh, Reid Scarrow, Kent Kikot, Miguel Lozano (4x100m medley, 4x100m free), Miguel Lozano, Mack Darragh, Graham Fink, Kent Kikot (fifth in 4x50m free, 4x50m medley)
16-17-year-old boys: Zack Chetrat (gold in 200m fly; silver in 100m fly; fourth in 100m free, 200m free; fifth in 100m back; sixth in 200m back), Curtis Samuel (gold in 400m IM; bronze in 400m free, 1,500m free, 200m fly; fourth in 200m back; fifth in 200m IM; eighth in 200m free), Curtis Samuel, John Steadman, Miguel Lozano, Zack Chetrat (sixth in 4x50m free), Brody Dyson, Mack Darragh, Chetrat, Samuel (sixth in 4x100m medley), Kent Kikot, Lozano, Chetrat, Samuel (seventh in 4x100m free), Steadman, Darragh, Chetrat, Samuel (eighth in 4x50m medley).