On Nov 6 to 8, the Wilmot Aquatic Aces traveled to Barrie to compete in the 2009 Meridian Aquafest meet.

The swimmers rose to the occasion as they swam many personal best times. Most time off for the weekend went to Jacob Isaac. Isaac had an incredible meet, breaking six Waterloo- Oxford Association (WOA) records, and one WAAC record in the 10-and-under boys events. He won the 100 breast (br), 50 fly and 200 br, while being second in the 100 fly and 100 individual medley (Im), and fifth in the 50 freestyle medley (fr).

His point total was enough for second overall in the boys 10-and-under.

Not to be outdown, Alex Buehlow, 14, also had a great meet, finishing second overall in 13-14-year-old boys, winning the 1500 fr, 100 fly, 200 fly and 400 fr, and taking second in the 200 IM and 400 Im and 200 fr.

He also set WOA and WAAC records in the 200 IM, 200 fr and 100 fly.

Erica Buehlow is looking strong as she won the 800 fr for 15-and-over girls. She also finished fourth in 400 IM and 200 br, and was sixth in the 100 br.

Buehlow set new WOA records in 800 fr, 100 br, and 200 br.

Krista Crawford finished sixth in the 400 IM. Adriana Decker set a new WOA record in the 100 br and made her first final swims in the consolation final of the 100 br and 200 br. Celine Funk was eighth in the 200 br, Elise Funk picked up a seventh in the 800 fr, Ally Govier was fifth in the 400 IM, and Kristopher Sanders looked good finishing third in 100 br and fourth in the 200 br.

Mary Tilford had a great meet showing that even after being sick you can still race hard. She won the 100 bk, breaking both the WOA and WAAC club records. She also broke WOA records in 200 IM, 800 fr, 200 bk, 200 fr, 100 fr and 400 fr. Tilford also finished fourth in the 800 fr.

Other swimmers who dropped time and swam well were Vicky Whiteside, Kaitlyn Ulmer, Taffin Sekulin, Patricia Desrochers and Rachelle Cadman.

On Nov. 15 over 150 swimmers competed at the Aqua 7 meet in Ingersoll. Many swimmers had great swims during the meet. Seven-year-old Grace Cameron won the 100 fr for seven and eight-year-old girls, and broke the WOA club record in that event.

Isaac continued his assault on the WOA records by breaking the 100 bk record. Trevor Mains added two more records in the 100 fr and 100 br. Logan Monnikendam drop 32 seconds off his 100 IM record to break it and he also broke the 100 fr record. Zachary Sanders took the 100 br record.

Many swimmers had 100 per cent best times: Dylan Brenneman, Lucas Buggey, Meredith Clarke, Mikaela Elliott, Brooklyn Geltink, Cee-Jay Hodgson, Masha Kagolovskaya, Caley Klaassen, Victoria Lueddeke, Trevor Mains, Corinne McGaffey, Mary McGaffey, Caiti Meier, Zoe Monnikendam, Mackenzie Saar, Sammi Sekulin, MacKeely Shantz, Jakob Sitter, Matthew Smith, Whitney Stone, Iva Vidakovic, Lola Vidakovic and Madeline Woolvett. Vidakovic took off over 75 seconds to take off the most time for the team.