12 & Under Swim Meet Review

Middlesex Admin

12 & Under Swim Meet Review

Middlesex Swimming would like to congratulate all of our age group swimmers that raced in the 2025 12 & Under swim meet held this past weekend in London!!!     

This past weekend we had over 19 swimmers in action making waves in the pool again against swimmers from across southwestern Ontario!!!

 

At the swim meet 100% of our swimmers achieved at least one or more personal best times... And an outstanding 10 of our 19 swimmers (Omar Al-Buhaisi, Sunsanne Barill, Manuela Cifuentes, Alexandra Haffner, Youssef Hashad, Charlotte Li, Olivia Michaud, Aria Nedeljkovic, William Palma, Beatrice Thompson) swam best times in every single race that they competed within - Congratulations all of you on your performances!!! We also had a handful of swimmers continue to get even closer to making the upcoming Short Course Regional Championships and Tessa Gritke qualify for her first Regional Championships on the last day of the competition in the 50m backstroke lead off position of the 9-10 girls relay by 2secs! Many more swimmers took on new races (which ranged from new strokes to longer distances), which was also excellent to see.

There is still lots of room for improvement for all of our swimmers as the continued to move forward within swimming, but Coach Mackenzie was happy to see that each swimmer took on putting their best races down and in the event that some of the athletes received disqualifications, that they are determined to correct either their technique or skills to ensure that they become the best swimmers that they can be in the water. Everything both in the pool and out of it is learnable, but Coach Mackenzie hopes that with some of the lessons learned from this past weekend that every swimmer and their supporter continues to understand that the necessary journey to get to the destination that a person (or in this case a swimmer) wishes is not the one that is always understood but it is the one that is required. Thus, each swimmer and their supporters need to be thankful and embrace the obstacles, challenges, and tests that life presents them with, as it will lead each athlete to where they want to be... or go!

Aside of the performances in the pool our swimmers had fun playing games with one another, enjoyed challenging/beating up Coach Mackenzie in games of Ninja, and most importantly did an outstanding job of supporting not only their fellow teammates, but also swimmers from other clubs to do their very best (whether by saying encouraging words to help another swimmer, giving out high fives, or handshakes at the end of races) these acts of kindness and sportsmanship were truly remarkable to see yet again from our athletes.

You guys made your supporters, the coaching staff, and the club very proud with how you all carried yourselves this past weekend at the swim meet - Way to go everyone!!!

The club would like to ensure that we provide our many thanks to the London Aquatic Club (LAC) and all of the volunteer officials for helping to run such an excellent competition for our swimmers this past weekend! 

 

FULL RESULTS & TOP 8 PERFORMERS RECOGNITION

A full breakdown of results from the swim meet can be found within the below link if you are interested in seeing in detail how everyone made out in the water this past weekend: 

12 & Under Swim Meet - RESULTS LINK

TOP 8 PERFORMERS

 

Our club would again like to recognize our athletes who were top 8 performers from this past weekend swim meet in London 

  • Omar Al-Buhaisi
    • 5th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • Wynn Banner
    • 4th place performances = 1
    • 6th place performances = 1
    • 7th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 2
  • Nevaeh Bennewies
    • 3rd place performances = 3
    • 5th place performances = 3
  • Ellen Butler
    • 3rd place performances = 1
    • 6th place performances = 1
    • 7th place performances = 1
  • Manuela Cifuentes
    • 7th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • Ashirya Dastidar
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • Sadie Francis
    • 3rd place performances = 1
    • 4th place performances = 1
    • 6th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • Tessa Gritke
    • 1st place performances = 1
    • 2nd place performances = 3
    • 4th place performances = 2
  • Youssef Hashad
    • 4th place performances = 1
    • 6th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 2
  • Charlotte Li
    • 3rd place performances = 1
    • 6th place performances = 1
  • Lawrence Li
    • 6th place performances = 1
  • Olivia Michaud
    • 2nd place performances = 2
    • 4th place performances = 1
    • 5th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • Aria Nedeljkovic
    • 2nd place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • ​​William Palma
    • 7th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • Finn Reid
    • 3rd place performances = 1
    • 4th place performances = 2
    • 5th place performances = 1
    • 7th place performances = 2
  • Michael Sitko
    • 5th place performances = 1
    • 8th place performances = 1
  • Beatrice Thompson
    • 1st place performances = 1
    • 2nd place performances = 1
    • 3rd place performances = 1
    • 4th place performances = 3
  • 4x50m 9-10 Girls Free Relay (Olivia, Ellen, Aria, Wynn)
    • 6th place performances = 1
  • 4x50m 9-10 Girls Medley Relay (Tessa, Sadie, Nevaeh, Manuela)
    • 6th place performances = 1
  • 4x50m 9-10 Girls Medley Relay (Olivia, Ellen, Wynn, Alex)
    • 6th place performances = 1

Our club now looks forward to our next 2 competitions/swim meets that we have on the go during the 1st weekend of February where both some of our age group and masters swimmers will be racing in Clarington & Guelph.

Keep up the wonderful work everyone and the club continues to forward to see what our athletes can do 2025!

MIDDLESEX SWIMMING