GHAC Nov 19 Colour Meet

On Nov 19 GHAC hosted our first Color meet.  We divided our swimmers into 4 teams – Blue, Pink, Purple and Blue.  The goal of the meet was to foster team bonding by having the senior swimmers team up with our up and coming swimmers; to encourage them, and show them how much fun swim meets are.

Amid the loud cheering, and a few tears, we had some fantastic swims.  Here are some of the highlights (based on unofficial meet results):

Blue team:

• 82 total swims, 23 were first time attempts, 34 best times
• Emma Moore and Christian Costa had rookie appearance in all of their 3 events
• Lilian Bowe, Anna Yanover, Enye Elbard-Berkovski and Morgan Chrysler had 100% best times in 3 events
• Antonio Fricano, Ellery Alden, Adelyn Van Kampen, Taylor Medves and Vienna McNamara had 2 best times and 1 new time, for 13 points each.  Emma Wang and Mia McLeod had 1 best time and 2 new times for 11 points each.
• Big drop in time for Andrew Maricic in his 200 IM (50 seconds), Anna Yanover had huge drops in her 50 Free, 50 Back and 50 breaststroke (13 seconds, 11 seconds, 19 seconds), Ellery Alden dropped almost 15 seconds since the Brantford meet in her 50 backstroke

FANTASTIC!!!!!

Pink team:

•  76 total swims, 37 were first time attempts, 19 best times
• Newcomers Alexia Golumbeanu, Bennett McCaughey, Emily Peart and Ervin Kerimov joined Aliyah Neville and Audrey Chu in swimming 3 events for the first time.
• Amber Dixon had 100% best times
• Abby Corbett and Aida Girgis had 2 best times and 1 new event, for 13 points
• Impressive improvements seen by many swimmers, including Amber Dixon dropping 46 seconds in her 400 free, Houston Manning-Giglia chopping off almost 11 seconds in his 50 free, Alessia DiGiammartino shaving almost 7 seconds in her 50 free

OUTSTANDING!!!!!

Purple team:

•  81 total swims,  35 were first time attempts,  18 best times
• Eloise Lummack, Jessie Dingle, Maya Heersink, Nisa Sevinc, Norah Yanover, Owen Burk all had great rookie swims.
• Cheng Sun, Andre Lozano, Matthew Sirko, Ryen Stratten, Alexander Brownie, Hunter Chrea, Mark Roung and Sumbul  Zafar racked up max points with best times and new times.
• Top point getter was Stella Corbett with 100% best times.
• Biggest improvements were by Stella Corbet in 50 Breast, 50 Free, and 50 fly (6, 10 and 9 seconds), Matthew Sirko who dropped almost 8 and 11 seconds in his 50 breaststroke and 100 free, and  Andre Lozano obliterated his previous 50 backstroke time by 13 seconds.

IMPRESSIVE!!!

Yellow team:

• 74 total swims,  20 were first time attempts,  22 best times
• New to the sport, Finn McCaughey, Hailey Linde and Kayra Sevinc made impressive debut appearances.
• Abbey Flynn and Finn Rafferty had 3 best times, and Gwen Bowden had a best time and 2 new races.
• Most improved swim was by Abbey Flynn who cruised to a 15 second drop in her 50 Backstroke.  Additional impressive showings were by Finn Rafferty in the 50 free and 50 back (9 and 10 seconds), and Adalynn Rafferty’s 9 second drop in 50 fly

WONDERFUL!!!

At the end of the day, GHAC’s goal is to foster love of the sport.  We hope all the swimmers had fun.

All of our competitive swimmers are working hard to qualify for different levels of meets, so it is with pleasure that we share with you some qualification times that were met at this meet.  For some swimmers, this may be for their weaker events or they have aged up to a higher qualifying time…but for some it is their first time qualifying.

“Congratulations”

New qualifiers *(based on current age)

If you are curious about qualifying times and the different levels of competition, feel free to ask your coach… or better yet,

come join us at the Festive Family Fun Night to meet other parents and swimmers who can tell you all about it.

Quotes from swimmers

“that was my first meet, it was so much fun.  When is the next one?”

“those little kids are so cute, it was fun cheering them on”

“so much fun”

“I loved being the team mascot”; “I loved acting like a mama duck”

“what a fun way to integrate the club and show the “younings” where they can go with their swimming.  Energy was great”

And the winning teams was….Blue