TSC swimmer Zsofi Balazs just returned from 10km World Cup races in South America. Zsofi was the top Canadian female, this means she has been selected to attend the Olympic Marathon Qualifier in Portugal this June. Zsofi was 14th overall (only 20 seconds behind the leader). If she finishes in the top 15 in Portugal [...]]]>

TSC swimmer Zsofi Balazs just returned from 10km World Cup races in South America. Zsofi was the top Canadian female, this means she has been selected to attend the Olympic Marathon Qualifier in Portugal this June. Zsofi was 14th overall (only 20 seconds behind the leader). If she finishes in the top 15 in Portugal she will go to the Olympics.

On day one of Easterns, Zsofi placed 1st overall in the women’s 16&over 1500 Free with a time of 16:46.66. Congratulations Zsofi – You are truly an amazing leader and role model for our swimmers, and we want to wish you the very best leading up to the Olympic Trials!

13 Year Old Vanessa Gold (Silver 1) makes her first senior national time standard in 1500 Free 17:21.73 on day 1 of Easterns. Stay tuned for more exciting results!

Good luck to all swimmers!

This past weekend 72 swimmers represented our club at the 2012 Central Region Short Course Championships. Competition  took place from Thursday, February 9th to Sunday, February 12th at the Etobicoke Olympium. TSC placed SECOND OVERALL in the competition. It was a fantastic start to the short course championship season, with many new personal best times, very exciting [...]]]>

This past weekend 72 swimmers represented our club at the 2012 Central Region Short Course Championships. Competition  took place from Thursday, February 9th to Sunday, February 12th at the Etobicoke Olympium. TSC placed SECOND OVERALL in the competition. It was a fantastic start to the short course championship season, with many new personal best times, very exciting races and a number of new Provincial and Eastern Qualifiers.

Overall Team Scores
1. Oakville Aquatic Club 1096.00
2. Toronto Swim Club 872.00
3. Newmarket Stingrays Swim Club 744.00
4. Mississauga Aquatic Club 641.00
5. North York Aquatic Club 573.00

***New Provincial Qualifiers***
Audrey Goodman: 100 Breast 1:29.25, 200 Breast 3:12.76
Elias Anttila: 100 Free 54.79, 200 Free 1:58.81, 400 Free 4:19.72, 100 Back 1:03.20
Isabella Jamieson: 800 Free 9:31.82
Jacob Gray: 100 Breast 1:33.52
Lindsay Lauder: 100 Fly 1:07.15
Nicole Burwell: 100 Fly 1:15.66
Reese Wunsche: 800 Free 10:16.79
Ryan Smith: 100 Fly 1:05.43

***New Eastern Qualifiers***
Charles Kim 8:53.75
Lindsay Lauder: 100 Fly 1:07.15
***first time qualifiers***

Congratulations to ALL TSC Swimmers!

Central Region Result Report

National Oliver Straszynski

Gold 1 Joshua Gold, Kaitlyn Gervais

Gold 2 Camilo Deller-Borgono, Grant Crewe, Isabella Jamieson, Nathan [...]]]> The January 100% attendance list is attached. The TSC Coaches challenge EVERY SWIMMER to add their name to this list. All swimmers who achieve perfect attendance each month will have their name posted on the website and have a chance to win prizes!

National
Oliver Straszynski

Gold 1
Joshua Gold, Kaitlyn Gervais

Gold 2
Camilo Deller-Borgono, Grant Crewe, Isabella Jamieson, Nathan Boucher

Gold/Silver 4
Aleah Lyons, Cameron Wylie, Joshua Go, Madeline Northfield, Nassim Farhat, Spencer Higdon-McGreal

Silver 1
No swimmers this month

Silver 2
Kseniya Nechayev

Silver 3
Arianne Te, Elysia Te, Gabriel Popovic, Margaret Silverio Villalba

Bronze 1
Aidan Hull,Katja Pavicevic

Bronze 3
Brianna Kearney, Demirhan Ozel Trojan, Eleanor Hargraft, Findlay Murray, Jesse Hughes, Marcel Lawless, Martha LaFontaine, Niki Spiroff, Olivia Hill, Olivia Luka, Veronica Kurkjian

Bronze 4
Chiara Murialdo, Sarah Robinson, William Blair

Intro Riverdale
Chloe Ng, Claire Rollins, Evelyn Steacy, Isabella Antonio, Katherine Brown, Maya Kamath Patel, Scarlett Farr, Sean Gibb

If you are missing from the list please speak to your group coach.

A friendly reminder to all families – the session has been split into two. ALL 9&Under Swimmers Warm Up:1:30 (on deck at 1:15pm), Start: 2:00pm ALL 10&Over Swimmers Warm Up: 3:45pm [...]]]> Over 100 TSC Swimmers in Silver 3-4, Bronze 2-4 and Intro Harbord/Riverdale are set to race in the TRI-STAR #2 in Brampton today.  This meet is hosted by the COBRA Swim Club.

A friendly reminder to all families – the session has been split into two.
ALL 9&Under Swimmers
Warm Up:1:30 (on deck at 1:15pm), Start: 2:00pm
ALL 10&Over Swimmers
Warm Up: 3:45pm (on deck at 3:30pm)Start: 4:15pm

Following the TRI-STAR #2 a small group of Silver swimmers will compete in the GO the DISTANCE Meet.

Warm up: 5:50 (on deck at 5:45) Start: 6:30pm

Good luck to all TSC swimmers!

This past weekend all 12&Unders in Silver 1-4 and Bronze 1-3 groups competed at the Annual Jesse Coward Winterlude meet in Huntsville.

Overall meet highlights: - All 73 swimmers in attendance raced and represented TSC with pride - First time in TSC history we filled 2 buses to Huntsville - Excellent leadership demonstrated by all 12 year olds in [...]]]>  

This past weekend all 12&Unders in Silver 1-4 and Bronze 1-3 groups competed at the Annual Jesse Coward Winterlude meet in Huntsville.

Overall meet highlights:
- All 73 swimmers in attendance raced and represented TSC with pride
- First time in TSC history we filled 2 buses to Huntsville
- Excellent leadership demonstrated by all 12 year olds in Silver
- 400+ personal best times
- Many new Central Region&Provincial standards achieved
- TSC had 8 High Point Award Winners
- 2 New Club Records
- Amazing energy and cheering
- An unforgettable time on the snow tubing slopes
- A big THANK YOU to the Chaperones: Adriana, Alison, Kerry, Marcia and Vesna and all of the TSC parents that helped officiate at the meet

High Point Winners
10&Under girls: 1st place Katja Pavicevic
10&Under boys: 1st place Aidan Hull
11-12 year old girls: 1st place Aleksa Gold, 2nd place Lucy Straszynski, 3rd place Reese Wunsche
11-12 year old boys: 1st place Jacob Rothery, 2nd place John Stoyan, 3rd place Graeme Goodman

Congratulations to Adian Hull who set 2 new club records in the 50 Back(34.90) and 100 Back (1:15.81).

Frankly, TSC has the SPIRIT!

Over the weekend several swimmers competed at the Ontario Cup meet held at the U of T pool. This was a long course racing tune up for several Olympic trials hopefuls and a taste of senior swimming for our younger swimmers moving up in the ranks. TSC swimmers were well represented throughout the meet in [...]]]>

Over the weekend several swimmers competed at the Ontario Cup meet held at the U of T pool. This was a long course racing tune up for several Olympic trials hopefuls and a taste of senior swimming for our younger swimmers moving up in the ranks. TSC swimmers were well represented throughout the meet in both senior and youthful ranks.

Top of the podium swims were posted by Tobias Oriwol-200 fr, Warren Barnes-100 and 200 breast, Frank Despond- 400 fr, Zach Summerhayes- 200 IM, Jeremie Holdom- 400 IM, Heather Maitland- 200 and 400 fr and Vanessa Treasure- 200 fly. Other medal swims were posted by Mike Smerek- 2^nd 50-100 fly, Andrea Jurenovskis- 2^nd 50 fr, 3^rd -200 fr, 50-100 back, Austin Rockett 2^nd 200 fly as well as Oliver Straszynski 2^nd – 400-1500 fr. Oliver also qualified for Olympic trials with his 1500 time!

Other younger swimmers of note were Tyler Tong-McDermott (200 breast), Vanessa Gold (400-800 fr) and Cino Ling (200 back) who all were very close to hitting their Olympic Trials standards. These efforts are especially encouraging being it’s the middle of January and the midst of heavy training portion of the championship run. Strong training swims were posted by Edward Liu (100-200 fr), Nathalin Moy (100-200 fly), Lukasz Kosiorek (100 fr), Simone Cseplo (100 fr, 100 back), Jillian Stoyan (100 breast, 200 IM), Edgar Flores (100 fly), Bronwyn Colford (200 fr and 400 IM), Zoe Rivard-Aslin (50 fr) and David Riley (100 breast).

3 new Club Records
Oliver Straszynski (Boys 15-17) 1500 Free: 16:35.04
Tyler Tong-McDermott (Boys 13-14) 100 Breast 1:09.55
Tyler Tong-McDermott (Boys 13-14) 200 Breast 2:28.30

From here the groups will be preparing for championship meets such as OUA’s and CIS’s for the Varsity group. Eastern Canadian’s and Provincials will be next for the high school and younger groups while our Training Centre swimmers head to Missouri for a US Grand Prix event. After that it is off to the Big O for the Candian Olympic Trials. Ohh Baby!

Racing highlights from Coach Dave Ling & Coach Laura McPhie

Over the weekend in Oakville we brought swimmers from S1, S2, G1, and G2/3 to represent TSC. After 3 days of racing and a number of new personal best times, we had a lot of exciting results…

- Congratulations to 1st time FINALISTS at any meet – Dana Sherrard, Emma [...]]]>

Racing highlights from Coach Dave Ling & Coach Laura McPhie

Over the weekend in Oakville we brought swimmers from S1, S2, G1, and G2/3 to represent TSC. After 3 days of racing and a number of new personal best times, we had a lot of exciting results…

- Congratulations to 1st time FINALISTS at any meet – Dana Sherrard, Emma Gomes, Kate Hull,Christien Kelly and Alex Konson
- Congratulations to new Easterns qualifiers Isabella Jamieson (1500FR) and Curtis Li (200BR)
- TSC event winners… Jacob Rothery, Allison Martin, Madeline Noble,William Morely, Gabby Arbic Lloyd, Luis Rodriguez, Ryan Smith, Courtney Cowan, Kaitlin Gervais, Kate Lyne, Nathan Boucher, Josh Gold, Curtis Li,Elias Anttila
- plus plenty of additional medalists and Finalists
- Congratulations Jacob Rothery. Jacob set a new 11-12 boys club record in 1500 Free in a time of 18:22.44

Thanks to all the swimmers who helped out Dave and Laura this weekend, with a large group that was easily manageable, highly spirited, and showing the best of what TSC is about!