QC Division 1 Championships at CAMO get underway

Quebec's top clubs go head-to-head in the pool this weekend at the Province's Division 1 Championships. CAMO have taken an early lead in overall points (426), over Pointe Claire (397), Club de Natation CSQ (252), Samak (248), CNPPO (217) and Rouge et Or (212).

Point Claire Swim Club Friday showed their dominance in the 11-12y age group, sweeping the girl's 200Fl (Gabrielle Murphy, Sarah Kennedy and Bianca Grasso) and taking a 1-2 in the boy's (Nicholas Quigley and James Guest).

Raphaelle Charron (28.96s) and Yasmine Mekallach (29.77s) put CAMO on the podium in the 11-12 girls 50Fr, while Antoine Villeneuve (CNCSQ) took the boy's short sprint in 29.15s.

In this year of breaking records, Quebec's Age Group Provincial Records stayed safely untouched, but some exciting racing kept spectators on the edge of their seats. The 15-16y boy's 100Fr was won by Pascal-Hugo Cantin (Rouge et Or), who touched the wall just 0.2s ahead of Taylor Bond (PCSC).

Girl's 200IM finals were won convincingly by Gabrielle Murphy (PCSC, 11-12y), Ashley McGregor (PCSC, 13-14y) and Genevieve Cantin (Rouge et Or, 15-16y). Point Claire took gold in all the age group boy's 200IM finals (Nicholas Quigley, Lyam Dias and Daniel Jensen).

Friday evening finished with the 400FR, and victories for Elyanne Lamothe (CAMO, 11-12y), Katerine Savard (CNCSQ, ,13-14y), Barbara Jardin (CNPPO, 15-16y), Antoine Villeneuve (CNCSQ, 11-12y), Kevin Bustamante (CAMO, 13-14y) and Simon Villeneuve (CNCSQ, 15-16y).

TSC girls break Canadian 4x50IM relay

The TSC quartet of Zsofi Balazs (17y), Helen Pitchik (17y), Paige Schultz (16y) and Hilary Bell (16y) finished the 4x50IM relay in 1:57.93, wiping 2.2 seconds off the PCSC Canadian Record set in 1976. High fives and coaches dancing on deck celebrated the girls third long course national relay record at the end of the Ontario Division One Championships, in which TSC came second overall to ESWIM.

Power Rankings - 50Fr

WIth the long course season underway adn some important meets completed this weekend, the LC Power Rankings are taking shape.

 

The fastest LC swimmers in Canada over 50m freestyle so far this year are:

 

10&U:    Natalie Blouin (MM) and Zachary Fitzgerald (RHAC)

11y:       Justine Rheaume (TORP) and Lukasz Kosiorek (TSC)

12y:       Sarah McLean (BTSC) and Etienne Dubreuil (CNSH)

13y:       Lauren Earp (ESWIM) and Edward Liu (TSC)

14y:       Amanda Reason (WEST) and Anders McIntyre (VKSC)

15y:       Heather Maclean (ESWIM) and Kyle Troskot (LASC)

16y:       Hannah Riordan (CSL) and James Goodway (CP)

17y:       Hayley Nell (LAC) and Kyungsoo Yoon (NYAC)

Open:    Victoria Poon (CNPPO, 23y) and Frederick Bousquet (TNTC, 26y)

ESWIM pulling away after Saturday p.m. session at Ontario Div 1

A gap of more than 100 points now separates ESWIM from second place TSC after the 10&u and 11-12 age group sessions Saturday afternoon in Nepean.  Jillian Stoyan (TSC) and Cino Ling (TSC) scored in the IM, fly, breast and back, but were not enough to counter the depth and strength of the ESWIMmers.  Ross Hagan, Melanya Zaraska, Ross Hagan, Tristan Cote and Matvei Selezen drove ESWIM's 10&u agenda, while Ioana-Maria Negru helped out in the 11-12 category.

 

Relays and a massive list of finals this evening will give some idea if there is any hope for a TSC comeback, or for another hopeful club to rise from the also-rans...