Emily Mayer earns award, wins four gold at junior provincials
Mar 25, 2008 - 09:00 AM
PICKERING -- A young Pickering swimmer earned the 'Iron Man' Swimmer Award after a solid session in the pool at the Junior Provincial Short Course Championships in London recently.
The Pickering Swim Club sent 22 athletes to the short course (25-metre pool) at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre. Those athletes swam 76 best times, shaved a cumulative 286 seconds from previous times and broke 19 club records while in the pool.
Emily Mayer, 11, earned the award in the 11-year-old girls' age group based on her times in the 800-metre freestyle and 400m individual medley.
Overall, Mayer produced four gold medals after wins in the 100m free, 800m free, 200m IM and 400m free. She also captured silver medals in the 50m free, 400m IM and 200m backstroke.
Michael Foster, 14, also earned a gold medal to go along with two silver medals. He was golden in the 100m back, while posting silver-medal swims in the 200m free and 50m free. He also finished fourth in the 100m butterfly and 400m free, sixth in the 100m back and seventh in the 200m back.
Caroline Gomba, 12, posted a silver-medal effort in the 800m free and also collected a bronze in the 400m free. She was also seventh in the 200m free.
Adam Gomba, swimming in the 15-17 year boys' age group, swam to a bronze medal in the 200m free. He was also fifth in the 100m free and seventh in the 400m free.
Other PSC results:
- Jaime Baylon, 12, seventh, 200m butterfly;
- Jose Baylon (15-17 boys) eighth, 400m IM; eighth, 200m breaststroke;
- Allison Foster (15-17 girls) fourth, 1500m free; 10th, 800m free;
- Carleen Ginter, 13, eighth, 1500m free;
- Alison Russell, 14, fifth, 1500m free; ninth, 800m free;
- Amy Smith, 10, fifth, 100m breast;
- Meghan Toswell, 13, eighth, 100m fly; fifth, 400m IM; 10th, 800m free; seventh, 100m free; ninth, 200m IM;
- Kate Webster, 14, seventh, 400m IM; sixth, 200m fly.
Other club athletes who competed were: Ainsley Corkum, Reanna Corkum, Kayla Ginter, Danielle Gomba, Emily Goodwin, Rayah Gugliotta, Alex Lee, Kent Leng, Robert Masters, Hollie Smith and Michelle Spencer.
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