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Aquatic Aces find success


Published on Dec 30, 2009

The Waterloo-Oxford Association held it last two meets of the 2009 year. In early Dec the Aces and Speed Sharks hosted St. Thomas in New Hamburg.

The team did very well with Grace Cameron (1), Josh Cober (2), Brooke Davidson (1), Jaime Doucet (1), Jacob Isaac (4), Trevor Mains (1), Logan Monnikendam (1), Veronica Wawryzn (1) and Damon Woolvett (1) all breaking Waterloo- Oxford club records.

Those with 100 per cent best times were Dylan Brenneman, Adrienne Debackere, Oliver Forrest, Brooke Holman, Hudson Holman, Jacob Isaac, Victoria Lueddeke, Whitney Stone, Lola Vidakovic, Albert Vo, Sarah Vo and Liberty Walker.

Josh Cober was the stand out of the meet with over 96 seconds off his time.

First place finishers included Nicholas Bailey, Brett Brenneman, Dylan Brenneman, Lucas Buggey, Grace Cameron, Georgia Clarke, Meredith Clarke, Josh Cober, Krista Crawford, Brooke Davidson, Jaime Doucet, Celine Funk, Elise Funk, J. Jay Funk, Ally govier, Caleb Isaac, Jacob Isaac, Tyler Kinzie, Victoria Lueddeke, Blythe Mackie, Meghan Mackie, Trevor Mains, Abagale Mathews, Natalie McDougall, Logan Monnikendam, Matthew Smith, Vanessa Start, Kaitlyn Ulmer, Kayla Vandescheur, Lola Vidakovic, Albert Vo, Liberty Walker, and Damon Woolvett.

Congratulations team on the win of the meet.

On the weekend of Dec 12-13, the Victoria Community Centre was hopping with swimmers from Brantford, Simcoe, New Hamburg, Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, Aylmer, Woodstock and St. Thomas.

The WOA swimmers had a great meet with Jacob Isaac and Hillary Elliott recording 100 per cent best times.

Alex Buehlow (2), Grace Cameron (1), Brooke Davidson (1), Hillary Elliott (2), Jacob Isaac (7) WOA and (3) WAAC, Trevor Mains (2), Mary Tilford (1) and Jade Vandescheur (1) association club records were broken.

The four 50’s are a special event at this meet. Each swimmer swims all four 50’s and the times are added together to get a cash prize. This year we had nine winners in the event. Damon Woolvett, Kaitlyn Ulmer, Hillary Elliott, Kayla Vandescheur, Alex Buehlow and Jaime Doucet were all second overall while Nicholas Bailey, Mary Tilford and Mikaela Elliott all recieved first.

High point winners in the meet were: 10-and-under Girls, Georgia Clarke third overall, 10 - nd-under boys, Jacob Isaac first overall and J. Jay Funk, second overall, 11-year-old girls Hillary Elliott, second overall, 12- year-old girls Vanessa Start, second overall, 13- year-old girls Mikaela Elliott, first, Meghan Mackie, second and Elise Funk, third.

In 14-year-old girls, Mary Tilford took second overall.

In 14-year-old boys: Nick Bailey first overall and Lucas Buggey second overall.

In 15-and-over girls, Krista Crawford won second overall and Patricia Desrochers third overall.

The meet was a great success and had the Community Centre very busy over the weekend.

In the new year the team will be getting ready for the Championship season in the month of Feb.

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