Pickering Winter Swim Fest Pickering Winter Swim Fest was a massive success across the board for the Stingrays. The team gained a ton of NEW and additional qualifying swims for B-Champs and Festivals that sprinkled across Saturday and Sunday which kept races exciting for everyone watching. A few of our younger swimmers tried new events they have never been entered in before; including DEV2’s first attempt at a 100Fly! We dominated podium spots and snagged gold medals in almost every event where there was a Stingray swimming. Coach Jordan and...

Ontario Junior International 2023 The Ontario Junior International meet provides an opportunity for high performance swimmers to showcase their skills and talent in the pool. Their hard work and dedication to the sport of swimming is commendable. This year 77 clubs sent their best junior swimmers to Toronto to compete. Athletes from Great Britain and Moldova measured themselves up with the best Canadian swimmers. Multiple British and Canadian National and Provincial records were broken Four swimmers represented the Newmarket Stingrays in this prestigious event. Below is a summary of their...

Pickering Lisa Flood and York Santa Meet December 8th 58 Stingrays swimmers attended a swim meet in Pickering. All of the under the age of 10. As always, the meet delivered so many fast swim and fun relays. The coaches were proud to see that Provincial and Reginal qualifications were made and many personal best times were broke. The York Santa Meet took place in Toronto on the 17th of December. Fifteen swimmers from the Wave group were heading out in the rain that weekend to swim some fast times...

2023 Border City Invitational Windsor Travel Swim Meet Recap The Stingrays had a great weekend in Windsor at the Border City Invitational meet.  Super fun bus ride and so many exceptional races to cheer for. Thank you so much to our chaperones for all their hard work which made this trip superb! Here are some stats of the meet # Teams – 20 (Stingrays finished 5th overall) # Swimmers – 1010 (68 swimmers from Newmarket) # Officials/ Volunteer positions - 560 # Swims (including relays) - 7604 # of Best...

The Newmarket Stingrays hosted the first Stingrays hosted meet of the 2023-2024 season at the Magna Center where 137 Stingrays Swimmers represented the club. Three years ago, the meet was named after Alan Swanston who is the mastermind in the success of the Newmarket Stingrays, a club that grew from about 35 swimmers to more than 200 ranging from ages 5 to 18, novice to Olympian. Alan is the longest serving head coach in any sport in Newmarket history! Special thank you to all the people who made this event...

Rhac Fall Classic 2023 The RHAC Fall Classic meet was held at the Markham Pan Am center this past weekend and by all accounts it was great success. Sixty-three Stingray swimmers participated and did a fantastic job racing. Congratulations to all of our swimmers and coaches for the amazing performances. Below some of the highlights of our swimmer’s outstanding achievements: Congratulations to Lucas Amaral for breaking the Club Record in the 15&16 boys 50 m Butterfly event with the time of 25.50 and also for making the OSC standard for...

Speedo Canadian Swimming Championships is an annual event that provides swimmers from Canada and around the world with the opportunity to showcase their elite skills and abilities and compete for international recognition. It was held in Toronto from August 1 to August 6; a remarkable display of talent and determination from athletes across the nation. Eight swimmers represented the Newmarket Stingrays Swim Club at this prestigious event. Lucas Amaral's standout performance was one of the highlights of the competition on Day 1. Lucas led the national rankings in the 50...

Congratulations to all the swimmers who participated at the Ontario Swimming Championships. Fifteen swimmers represented the Stingrays at the highest-level provincial competition. Seventy-four clubs attended the championships and the Stingrays finished 16th on the overall team scored board. We had many personal best times, multiple final appearances and three fantastic podium performances. It was a great ending of the 2022/23 Provincial season. Incredible proud of our swimmers stepping up and again diving in fearlessly and leaving everything they got in the pool representing our team. Below is a summary of...

2023 Summer Ontario Youth Junior Championships Congratulations to the 12 swimmers who represented the Newmarket Stingrays at OYJ’s last weekend in Markham: Molly Browne, Stella Combrink, Isabell Cuddihy, Claire Dimitriadis, Nathan Fowler, Bianca Iacoucci, Pola Klakov, Taeden Miller, Onna Okeke, Ava Sprogis, Isabella Sprogis and Rylan Wilson. It was an exciting peak event for these swimmers who turned in many best times and showed their racing skill and tenacity over the course of this 4 day provincial championship. Especially exciting was a spectacular win by our 14 & Under Girls...

An opportunity for our younger athletes to compete at TPASC does not come around very often, so we could not turn it down. The swimmers were excited and did a great job. The kids enjoyed swimming in the pool where world records were broken. Here are the highlights, GOLD MEDAL Armelle Cheung 50Br & %0Fly Sadie Fischer 100Fr Cole Kelly 50Fr & 50Bk Carnegie Kingsland 50Bk Taylor Miller 100Fr, 100Br & 50Fr Brenton Semeniuk 50 Fly SILVER MEDALS Armelle Cheung 100Bk Cole Kelly 100Fr David Mikhalev 100Fly Taylor Miller 50Bk...