The Swim Team won both CISAA and OFSAA Championships this season, smashing records along the way and outperforming its competition at every turn. Highlights from the Swimming OFSAA Championships earlier this week are as follows:
*Gold in the Jr. 200 Medley Relay (Spencer Brown, Keaton Ward, Peter Jentsch, Brian Chan- Alternates-Austin Almadi and Minjoo Cha)-2:03.26
Gold in the Jr. 200 Freestyle Relay ( Keaton Ward, Peter Jentsch, Spencer Brown, Brian Chan- Alternates-Ben Sutton and Minjoo Cha)-1:50.11
Gold in the Jr. 50 Breaststroke -Keaton Ward-33.78
Gold in the Jr. 100 Freestyle- Spencer Brown ("Ross")-59.00
OVERALL TEAM SCORE FOR MEN- BRONZE!
The team broke two more school records at the OFSAA Swimming Championships:
Daniel Cho (AC), has another record breaking swim in the 50 Fly breaking his own record from last week's race at CISAA
Previous Record: Daniel Cho 50 Butterfly 29.68- February 2010
New Record: Daniel Cho 50 Butterfly 29.55- March 2010
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Spencer Brown, Keaton Ward, Brian Chan and Peter Jentsch ( Alternates - Austin Almadi and Minjoo Cha), gold medalists at OFSAA and broke their own record from last week's gold medal race at CISAA.
Previous Record: Spencer Brown, Keaton Ward, Brian Chan, Peter Jentsch -2:04.58-February 2010
New Record: Spencer Brown, Keaton Ward, Brian Chan, Peter Jentsch -2:03.26-March 2010
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Outstanding Performances from:
Brian Chan- Jr. 50 Fly- 9th
Sr. 200 Freestyle Relay-Kris Mackowiak, Ben Fockter, Daniel Cho (AC), Craig Davis (C) (Alternates: Conor Sheridan and Nate Jin)-9th
Ben Sutton- Jr. 100 Freestyle-10th
Theo Sotiropoulos-Sr. Open 50 Freestyle tied for 13th and 10th in the 100 Freestyle
Sr. 200 Medley Relay -Kris Mackowiak, Ben Fockter, Daniel Cho (AC), Craig Davis(C) (Alternates: Steven Sirbovan and Thomas Brindley)-11th
Peter Jentsch-Jr. 50 Fly- 12th
Daniel Cho Sr. 50 Fly- 14th
Kris Mackowiak- SR. 50 Freestyle-18th
Minjoo Cha-Jr. 50 Breaststroke-18th
A special thank you to Ms. Amanda Thorne, Maintenance, Mrs. Jane Bedard and the Dining Hall Staff for all of their support this year. We could not have done any of this without you.
Story by Christine McCue, 1st Swimming Coach