Age Group Nationals Highlights!
18 members of the Newmarket Stingrays were in Calgary last week, for the Age Group National Championships, which were held from July 24th- 27th.
Representing the Stingrays were:Â Megan Barrack, Ania Batko, Graham Burlton, Emily Rose Creighton, Shannon Cumiskey, Cameron Edling, Matthew Huetl, Paulyne Kilty, Brandon Kingston, Cameron Kingston, Joo Hun Lee, Alister Lui, Selin Ozturk, Anthony Pelosi, Jessica Pietrusiak, Tanawan Sukonthapanich, Jeffrey Swanston, and Matthew Swanston.
The Newmarket Stingrays finished a very respectable 14th place overall, out of over 180 teams from all over Canada.
Congratulations to our new National Age Group Champions Jeffrey Swanston and Matthew Swanston!
Here are all our performances in the top 8, with medal winning performances in bold:
Girls 12 & under:
- 100 freestyle  1:03.66 5th     Megan Barrack
Boys 13 & under:
- 50 freestyle       26.64 Bronze  Graham Burlton
- 100 freestyle     58.48 Bronze  Graham Burlton
Girls 13:
- 50 freestyle         28.28  7th     Shannon Cumiskey
- 100 freestyle    1:00.76  6th     Shannon Cumiskey
- 200 freestyle    2:15.34  8th     Shannon Cumiskey
- 50 backstroke      32.14 Bronze Selin Ozturk
- 100 backstroke  1:10.51 8th     Selin Ozturk
- 400 IM               5:23.46 5th      Selin Ozturk
Boys 14:
- 50 backstroke      29.21  Gold    Jeffrey Swanston
- 100 backstroke   1:02.80 Silver   Jeffrey Swanston
- 200 backstroke  2:15.77 Silver   Jeffrey Swanston
- 400IM               5:02.64 Bronze  Jeffrey Swanston
Girls 16-18:
- 200 breaststroke  2:43.34 4th     Emily Rose Creighton
- 200 breaststroke 2:47.55 7th      Paulyne Kilty
- 200 butterfly       2:20.37 Bronze Jessica Pietrusiak
- 200 butterfly       2:29.10  8th       Paulyne Kilty
- 200 IM                2:31.08 8th      Emily Rose Creighton
Boys 17-18:
- 50 freestyle          24.16   6th      Matthew SwanstonÂ
- 200 freestyle      1:56.36    5th      Matthew Swanston
- 400 freestyle     4:06.26  Silver   Brandon Kingston
- 800 freestyle     8:40.03  Bronze Brandon Kingston
- 50 backstroke       26.80  Gold      Matthew Swanston
- 100 backstroke     57.49  Gold     Matthew Swanston
- 50 butterfly          25.88  4th      Matthew Swanston
- 100 butterfly        57.34  6th      Matthew Swanston
- 400 IM              4:49.03  7th      Brandon Kingston
16-18 year old boys relay:
400 medley relay       4:07.54    8th Jeffrey Swanston, Brandon Kingston, Matthew Swanston, Matthew Huetl
