Bounty of gold for OAK swimmers at Hicken meet


Published on May 25, 2007

Seven Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) athletes won three or more gold medals at the Dr. Ralph Hicken Invitational swim meet recently in Mississauga, helping the club to a second-place overall finish.

Marni Oldershaw paced OAK with nine individual gold, two relay gold, a silver and a bronze, setting five club records in the process. Mack Darragh won six gold and three silver, with Zack Chetrat adding five gold, three silver and a relay gold.

Mika Spencer (four gold, five silver, one bronze and two relay gold), Mike Seifert (three gold, five silver and a bronze), Tera van Beilen (three gold and a silver), Brody Dyson (three gold and a silver) and Kent Kikot (two gold, two silver and a bronze) were OAK's other multiple-gold winners.

Adding one gold medal each were Carolyn Antonsen, Curtis Samuel, Karina Sils, Katie Fox, James Loh, Alex Smith, Mitchell Gour, Jose Lozano and Evan White.

Following is a complete list of OAK medalists at the meet:

INDIVIDUAL

10-and-under girls: Meghan Clark (silver in 50m breast, 100m breast), Meredith Johnson (silver in 100m back); 12-year-old girls: Marni Oldershaw (gold in 800m free, 50m back, 100m back, 200m back, 50m breast, 100m breast, 200m breast, 200m IM, 400m IM; silver in 200m free; bronze in 400m free), Mika Spencer (gold in 50m free, 100m free, 200m free, 50m fly; silver in 400m free, 100m back, 100m fly, 400m IM; bronze in 200m fly), Emily Hunt (silver in 200m fly), Annie Harrison (bronze in 100m back, 200m back, 100m fly, 200m IM, 400m IM); 13-year-old girls: Clara Armstrong (silver in 50m breast); 14-year-old girls: Tera van Beilen (gold in 50m breast, 100m breast, 200m breast; silver in 200m IM), Veronica Davis-Freeman (silver in 200m breast; bronze in 100m breast), Erin Assman (bronze in 100m free, 50m fly, 100m fly), Alanna Boffa (bronze in 50m breast); 15-year-old girls: Katie Fox (gold in 200m breast; bronze in 50m free, 50m breast, 100m breast); 16-and-older girls: Carolyn Antonsen (gold in 200m IM; bronze in 100m back, 200m back), Karina Sils (gold in 200m back), Jennifer Wilson (silver in 200m breast; bronze in 200m IM); 10-and-under boys: Alex Smith (gold in 50m breast), Luke Gollschewski (silver in 50m breast).

11-year-old boys: Michael Seifert (gold in 50m fly, 100m fly, 400m IM; silver in 50m free, 100m free, 200m free, 100m back, 200m IM; bronze in 200m back), Mitchell Gour (gold in 50m back; silver in 200m back; bronze in 400m free, 100m back), Evan White (gold in 100m breast; bronze in 50m free, 200m free, 200m IM); 13-year-old boys: Mack Darragh (gold in 50m back, 100m back, 200m back, 200m fly, 200m IM, 400m IM; silver in 800m free, 200m breast, 100m fly), Kent Kikot (gold in 50m fly, 100m fly; silver in 100m free, 100m back; bronze in 200m free), Alex Plotnikov (silver in 100m breast; bronze in 50m breast); 14-year-old boys: Jose Lozano (gold in 100m free; silver in 50m free, 1,500m free, 50m fly, 100m fly, 400m IM; bronze in 200m free, 200m fly, 200m IM); 15-year-old boys: Brody Dyson (gold in 50m back, 100m back, 200m back; silver in 800m free), Dylan Kent (silver in 200m back; bronze in 200m IM), Graham Fink (bronze in 50m back, 200m back); 16-and-older boys: Zack Chetrat (gold in 100m free, 1,500m free, 200m fly, 200m IM, 400m IM; silver in 400m free, 200m back, 50m fly), Curtis Samuel (gold in 400m free; silver in 50m back, 800m free, 400m IM; bronze in 200m fly), James Loh (gold in 200m breast), Luke Kikot (bronze in 100m fly), Matt Lawson (bronze in 200m free).

RELAY

10-and-under girls: Perrie Armstrong, Meghan Clark, Erin Jordan, Meredith Johnson (silver in 4x50m medley); 11-12 girls: Marni Oldershaw, Annie Harrison, Mika Spencer, Holly Olsen (gold in 4x50m free freestyle; gold in 4x50m medley relay); 13-14 boys: Kent Kikot, Mackenzie Darragh, Reid Scarrow, Jose Lozano (silver in 4x50m freestyle), Alex Plotnikov, Darragh, Lozano, Kikot (silver in 4x50m medley); 15-and-older boys: Curtis Samuel, Cameron McLellan, Zack Chetrat, Luke Kikot (gold in 4x50m freestyle; silver in 4x50m medley).