Several Wilmot Aces headed to PEI recently to compete in the East Coast Swimming Championships.

Eight members of the Aces and Seven members of the Speed Sharks combined as WOA to compete at the East Coast Swimming Championships in Charlottetown PEI.

The team finished an impressive 9th out of 29 teams and had some spectacular swims.

Kristopher Sanders who just turned 15 competed in the challenging 15 and over category. Racing at times swimmers 7 years old them him,

Sanders took off the most time at the meet for the Aces and finished with a best result of 9th in the 200 br. His 800 fr time set a new club record. Brooke Davidson broke three club records on way to some great swims.

Davidson was second in the 100 fly and fell just short of making the Olympic cut time. She was also third in the exciting 50 fly final that had all swimmers within 10ths of a second of each other. Her other placing included 7th in 100 bk, 4th in 200 fly and 200 bk, and 6th in 50 bk.

We congratulate Davidson on setting such a hard goal and in a year going from being a Regional swimmer to making her first Junior and Senior Provinical meets, first Eastern National meet and first Age Group National meet.

We know she will make the Olympic Standard, if not this year for sure in four years from now. Alex Buehlow races in a very fast 13-14 age group.

Buehlow was third in the 1500 fr, third in the 50 fly, second in a great 200 fly swim that has him ranked fourth in Canada as a 13 year old, fourth in 100 fly, fifth in 100 fr and sixth in 200 fr.

He set a new club record in the 200 fly.

Our final medalist in able bodied of the meet was 12-year-old Blythe Mackie.

Blythe swam the partners in pain events twice in one day finishing third in the 200 fly and seventh in the 400 IM.

She was also fourth in the 50 fly, and 5th in 800 fr. Both the 100 fly and 200 fly were new club records.

Erica Buehlow swimming some SWAD finals picked up two gold medals in the 50 fr and 50 bk. Erica broke her first club record in the 50 br and finished 12th overall in the event.

Buehlow also had a 5th place finish in the 1500 fr. Lindsay Gutoskie rose to the occasion with some incredible swims, narrowly missing finals she had a best finish of 10th in the 50 bk. Dylan Riddell set a goal of qualifying for this meet and had his first appearance at a national level meet.

Riddell had a best finish of 18th in the 100 and 200 back, Sarah Sine had some great swims as well, doing many best times and having a best finish of 19th in the 200 back.

Next for the Aces is the last regular season Aqua 7 and Team Champs.