Canada Cup Highlights

December 1st, 2008 | Stingray Office Manager | Stingray News

Newmarket Stingrays at Canada Cup

Etobicoke Olympium

Nov. 28-30th, 2008

4 members of the Newmarket Stingrays raced at the prestigious Canada Cup meet this past weekend. This was a Senior National level meet featuring all of Canada’s 2008 Olympic Team ,as well as an extremely strong women’s team from Stanford University in California. The major highlight of the meet was when Stanford swimmer, Julia Smit broke the world record in the 400 IM in a blistering time of 4:25.87! 

The Newmarket Stingrays finished an incredible 14th place overall!

Here are some highlights, as well as our results in the top 16:

 

Lindsay Seemann

800 freestyle bronze 8:41.8

200 backstroke  4th   2:09.59

400 freestyle     6th    4:12.76 ( 4:11.48 prelim)

400 IM               9th    4:43.33

100 backstroke 15th  1:04.52 (1:03.42 prelim)

200 IM             15th   2:20.06 (2:19.43 prelim)

 

Matthew Swanston

200 backstroke   gold 1:55.47 Provincial and National age group record

100 backstroke bronze 54.24 Provincial and National age group record

50 backstroke     9th       26.48

100 butterfly       9th       54.49

 

Brandon Kingston

800 freestyle       7th       8:18.11

400 freestyle       14th     3:59.62

1500 freestyle     16th    16:11.25

 

 Neta Yokev swam a very strong 200 butterfly, fast enough to get into the “B” final, but unfortunately was disqualified.

 Matthew Huetl, became the 4^th leg of the boys 4 X 100 freestyle relay which broke the Provincial record for boys 15-18, finishing 8th in a time 3:27.43.
The other relay members were Matthew Swanston, Neta Yokev, and Brandon Kingston.

 At the conclusion of the meet, Matthew Swanston was awarded the  backstroke award, which is given for the highest scoring backstroke swim at the meet. He received this award for his 200 backstroke swim which earned 911 points on the FINA points chart.

Congratulations to all of our swimmers.