NEWS RELEASE
ORILLIA CHANNEL CATS SWIM CLUB
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The Orillia Channel Cats Swim club recently attended the Hamilton Aquatic Club Spring Fling held at McMaster University.
Thirty-four members from the senior novice, bronze, silver and gold training groups were in attendance.
Swimmers showed improvement in long-course times, technique, attitude and demonstrated courage when racing some new, ‘bigger’ long-course events for the first time. For example, 200-metre butterfly, 400-metre individual medley and 400-metre freestyle.
“This meet was also a few swimmers’ first-ever long-course meet and they did a great job,” says head coach Meredith Thompson-Edwards. “We had some long-course club records broken as well — 10 and under, Jace Black, 200-metre individual medley, 50-metre freestyle, 200-metre freestyle, 400-metre freestyle and 200-metre backstroke; Everett Dorevich, 10 and under, 100-metre butterfly; Harrison Levene, 11-12, 200-metre butterfly and 400-metre individual medley; and Sam Pecorella, 13-14, 400-metre individual medley.”
A few swimmers added to their festival-qualifying event list: Cheyanne Hawrysio, 200-metre individual medley, Jace Black, 200- and 400-metre freestyle, and Harrison Levene, 400-metre individual medley, 200-metre butterfly and 100-metre butterfly. Sam Pecorella added to his Ontario Youth Junior Championship qualifying event list in the 400-metre individual medley.
Congratulations to all of the swimmers who were in attendance: Harrison Sibley, Cooper Chrysler, Hayden Nie, Jace Black, Taryn Fenton, Sophie Shivers, Maelle Bouchard, Kael Cresanto, Ava Fairgrieve, Sam Pecorella, Kamryn Light, Sierra Light, Niko Plett, Grace Hunter, Mila Sekleski, Trenton Sheppard, Adair Wieclawek, Lilly Edgerton, Emma Edgerton, Rydaar Watt, Harrison Levene, Ayan Rau, Christopher Dorevich, Everett Dorevich, Harrison Dorevich, Cheyanne Hawrysio, Sophia Brown, Isabella Brown, Evangeline Cooke. Fedor Radzievskii, Riley Shore, Georgia Cameron, Margot Cameron and Boyd Brown.
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