While the country's top swimmers competed in the recent Olympic trials in Montreal, the future elite swimmers competed at the 2008 Pentathlon Meet in Etobicoke.

The Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) had its own passing of the torch at the meet. The same day OAK swimmer Kate Plyley retired after competing in her third Olympic trials, the club's Michelle Gervais broke Plyley's in the 200-metre individual medley. Gervais' time of two minutes, 55.74 seconds broke Plyley's 12-year-old record by 3.5 seconds.

Plyley, 22, retired after 15 years with OAK. She was a member of five straight Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship teams with the University of Toronto and she was co-captain for the last two. She also earned the T-Holders Academic Award of Excellence in each year at U of T.

Gervais earned the 10-year-old girls' gold medal in the pentathlon, which combines the times in five races (100m freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly and the 200m individual medley). Gervais won three of the races and finished second in the other two.

OAK's Meghan Clark also posted a victory by taking first in the 11-year-old girls' 100m breaststroke. Clark was also seventh in the 100m butterfly.

Other top-eight finishes from the meet included:

? 12-year-old boys: Connor Wilkins, fourth, 100m fly; Jarrod Baddeliyanage, seventh, 100m breaststroke; Dan Rona, eighth, 200m IM.

? 10-year-old girls: Abbey Saunders, sixth 100m fly, seventh, 200m IM; Olivia Sinclair, seventh, 100m fly, 100m back, 100m free; Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba, eighth, 100m free.

? 11-year-old girls: Meredith Johnson, seventh, 100m back, eighth 100m free, 200m IM.

? 12-year-old girls: Michelle Carrabetta, eighth, 100m back.