2022 Border City Invitational Windsor Travel Swim Meet Recap

Irene Okeke

2022 Border City Invitational Windsor Travel Swim Meet Recap

Congratulations to all the swimmers who participated in the first travel meet of the 2022-2023 season. The trip to Windsor for the 2022 Border City Invitational was a lot of fun for the swimmers and the chaperones. 54 swimmers attended the meet from our club. Out of the 20 clubs at the meet our girls scored the third highest point and the boys came 7th, with a combined result finishing 5th. 

Special shout out to the following swimmers who had a great showing at the meet and qualified for new events at provincial level meets:

Festivals Qualifiers:

Alyssa Abate-Linklater - 50m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke 

Erica Rusu - 50m Freestyle 

 

Ontario Youth Junior (OYJ) Qualifiers:

Onna Okeke - 100m Breaststroke and 200m Breaststroke

Claire Dimitriadis - 200m Breaststroke

Isabella Sprogis 100 - 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle and 400 Freestyle

Taeden Miller - 1500m Freestyle and 800m Freestyle

 

Ontario Swimming Championship (OSC) Qualifiers:

Matteo Mancini - 100m Breaststroke

Bianca Iacoucci - 100m Breaststroke

Madison Russell - 200m Breaststroke

Lucas Amaral - 50m Freestyle and 100m Freestyle

Claire Thorne - 100m Fly

Eunice Cheung - 100m Freestyle

 

Congratulations to the following swimmers who received medals:

12 & under

Alyssa Abate-Linklater (11)

  • 50m Backstroke - 3rd

Hayden Cuerrier (12)

  • 200m Breaststroke - 3rd
  • 50m Breaststroke - 3rd

David Mikhalev (12)

  • 50m Fly - 3rd

Rohan Prashobh (12)

  • 100m Fly - 3rd

Erica Rusu (12)

  • 50m Breaststroke - 2nd
  • 50m Freestyle - 2nd
  • 100m Backstroke - 3rd

13-14

Eunice Cheung (14)

  • 100m Backstroke -  2nd
  • 50m Fly - 1st
  • 200m Individual Medley - 1st
  • 50m Freestyle - 1st
  • 100m Fly - 1st
  • 100m Freestyle - 1st
  • 200m Fly - 1st

Maja Collins (14)

  • 1500m Freestyle - 2nd

Stella Combrink (13)

  • 100m Backstroke - 3rd
  • 50m Backstroke - 2nd

Bianca Iacoucci (14)

  • 200m Breaststroke - 2nd
  • 50m Breaststroke - 2nd
  • 100m Breaststroke - 1st

Matteo Mancini (14)

  • 200m Breaststroke - 3rd
  • 50m Breaststroke - 3rd
  • 100m Breaststroke -  3rd

Taeden Miller (14)

  • 800m Freestyle - 1st
  • 1500m Freestyle - 1st
  • 400m Freestyle - 2nd

Onna Okeke (14)

  • 50m Breaststroke - 3rd
  • 100m Breaststroke - 3rd

Robert Rusu (14)

  • 100m Backstroke - 2nd
  • 200m Backstroke - 3rd
  • 50m Backstroke - 1st

Claire Thorne (13)

  • 200m Freestyle - 1st
  • 50m Fly - 1st
  • 200m Breaststroke - 1st
  • 50m Freestyle - 1st
  • 100m Fly - 1st
  • 1500m Freestyle - 1st
  • 100m Freestyle - 1st
  • 200m Fly - 1st
  • 400m Freestyle - 1st

15 & over

Lucas Amaral (15)

  • 50m Fly - 1st
  • 50m Freestyle - 1st
  • 100m Fly - 1st
  • 100m Freestyle - 3rd
  • 50m Backstroke - 2nd

Tyler Da Ponte (17 )

  • 50m Freestyle - 3rd

Tyler Greenwood (17)

  • 50m Fly - 1st
  • 200m Breaststroke - 3rd
  • 50m Freestyle - 2nd

Madison Russell (16)

  • 200m Breaststroke - 2nd
  • 200m Individual Medley - 3rd
  • 50m Breaststroke - 3rd
  • 400m Individual Medley - 1st
  • 100m Breaststroke - 1st

Isabella Sprogis (15)

  • 200m Freestyle - 3rd
  • 800m Freestyle - 2nd
  • 50m Backstroke - 3rd

Rylan Wilson (16)

  • 100m Backstroke - 2nd
  • 50m Fly - 3rd

Relays

  • 13-14 Girls 4x50 free (Cheung, Iacoucci, Klakov ,Thorne ) 1st
  • 13-14 Boys 4x50 free (Fowler, Miller , Sanchez, R.Rusu ) 3rd
  • 13-14 Girls 4x50 medley (Combrink , Iacoucci, Cheung , Thorne ) 1st
  • 13-14 Mixed 4x50 medley ( R.Rusu, Mancini , Cheung , Thorne ) 2nd

A special thank you to all our parent volunteers and chaperones who made this trip a success, the swimmers, families and coaching staff appreciate your essential contribution to making this trip a success!