Thursday, July 24, 2008

AG Nats - Cascade early lead over Etobicoke

AG Nats first night of finals brought fast swims out of Canada's best youth swimmers and when the spray settled, Cascade have the early lead in overall points. Amanda Reason's (WEST) stand-out swim in the 50Fr showed that the 14y old has a bright future in National teams beckoning.


50Fr
Girls 12y
1 Jozwiak, Alexan MSSAC 28.53, 2 Stoyan, Jillian TSC 28.72, 3 Kwiatkowski, Me Ubc Dolphins 29.04
Girls 13y
1 Keire, Jacqueli ESWIM 27.34, 2 Lapointe, Marie C.A. St-Eustache, 27.49, 3 Mittermaier, Em PSW, 27.76
Girls 14y
1 Reason, Amanda WEST 26.47, 2 Ste. Marie, Dev AAC 26.86, 3 Vanlandeghem, C Manta 26.95
Girls 15y 1 Ackman, Alyson Pointe-Claire Sw 26.79, 2 Matthews, Drew LASER 26.82, 3 Gabor, Alexandr Glacier Bears 27.13
Girls 16-18y
1 Williams, Miche NYAC 26.26, 2 MacLean, Heathe ESWIM 26.56, 3 Mielnichuk, Bob OSC 26.71

Boys 13y
1 Zhao, Edward Ubc Dolphins 26.48, 2 Gilchrist, Robe Whitby 26.56, 3 Burlton, Graham NEW 26.64
Boys 14y
1 Greenley, Conno AAC 24.97 , 2 Liu, Edward TSC 25.02 , 3 Wray, Bryan Manta 25.84
Boys 15y
1 Fedak, Zach AAC 24.31 , 2 Grillo, Matthew Pointe-Claire Sw 24.39 , 3 Peddie, Luke OSC 24.89
Boys 16y
1 Troskot, Kyle LASC 23.68 , 2 Manning, Chris WRMS 23.85 , 3 Ur, Jo Jo HTAC 24.24
Boys 17-18y
1 Goodway, James CP 23.66, 2 Tapp, Charlie LOSC 23.70 , 3 Aspinall, Kelly RAC 23.79

Canadian Age Group Nationals Kick Off in Calgary

The first preliminaries session has set up a night of finals for youngsters aspiring to the title "National Champion".
Members of the World Juniors National Team are setting the bar high for swimmers from clubs across the country.
Finalists for tonight include Jillian Stoyan (TSC) and Alexandra Jozwiak (MSSAC)leading the field into the 12y women's 50Fr, with all 8 finalists' times spanning only 1.1 secs. The 14y women's final will see Amanda Reason (WEST) demonstrate the degree of her supremacy in this event - her qualifying time 26.92 s would have her qualify as fastest in the 15-18y final.
Stoyan features in the 12y 200IM final as well, and 13y women are led by Marni Oldershaw (OAK) whose times remain dominant, as do those of Sinead Russel (BAD) among 15y women.
Men's 200IM qualifying times are desparately close and exciting racing is expected between David Dimintrov and Nicholas Sinclair for the 16y men, Curtis Lutsch and David Hibberd (17-18y men).