Canadian Olympic Trials 2024
The Piranhas sent a team of 7 to the Canadian Olympic Trials held at the Pan Am centre in Toronto during May. The competition brought together the best swimmers from across Canada to compete for Junior and Senior finals, podiums and the Paris 2024 Olympic team!
Mikayla Laurin
Jessie Carlson
Marley Monsen
Marissa Laurin
Hudson Frayn
Dominik Kwiecien
Ollie Dawson
Over 7 days of competition the team produced some of the best performances the club has ever seen to date achieving many lifetime best, finals, podiums, club, provincial and Canadian age group records.
Hudson and Marley had their first experience and Mikayla’s second experience competing at this level after successful performances at Provincial and Western Championships. All raced in heats and time trials, producing strong performances and gaining important race experiences for the future.
Jessie Carlson at her first championship set a best time in the 100m Butterfly and achieved a 10th place finish in the 200m Butterfly B final.
Dominik Kwiecien at his second Championship set two lifetime bests in the 200m & 400m freestyle and finished 10th in the 800m Freestyle and put a strong performance in the 1500m Freestyle putting him in contention for open water tours and teams next season.
Marissa Laurin at her third time of competing at this level qualified for 200m Backstroke junior final, achieving a best time and finishing a close 3rd to rank 5th best Junior in Canada under the Junior Pan Pacific consideration standard.
Oliver Dawson competing in the Breaststroke events swam to 5th place finish in the A final of the 100m event claiming the junior gold medal in a new age group provincial record and just missing the Olympic team by 0.50 seconds! In the 200m Breaststroke Oliver went one better and became the men’s Canadian Champion in a new Canadian Junior record time under the consideration time for the Junior Pan Pacific team.
Coach Alex was also recognized for the swimmers performance during the competition by being named coach of the day by his peers!
Congratulations to all the team members on their results!
