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SWIMMING GLORY: Members of the Merritt Otters Swim Club took to the pool competitively for the first time since 2019 at the recent Golden Dolphin swim meet. Over 60 finals swims were raced by Otters between the A and B finals. A few club records were broken over the weekend.
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Golden Dolphin results
Aggregate Winners (most points per division)
Tenley Post – Division 1 Girls – 1st
Brayden Black – Division 4 Boys – 1st
Isaac Asselstine – Division 5 Boys – 1st
Paige Asselstine – Division 6 Girls – 1st
Delbert Black – Division 6 Boys – 2nd
Laura Lefebvre – Division 8 Girls – 1st
Julia Rosec – Division 8 Girls – 3rd
Rahul Chhabra – Division 8 Boys – 3rd
Meet Records
A Final Swims (by name)
Delbert Black – Division 6 Boys 50m Freestyle – 2nd 200m Individual Medley – 2nd 50m Butterfly – 2nd 100m Breaststroke – 2nd 100m Freestyle – 2nd
Brayden Black – Division 4 Boys 50m Freestyle – 4th 50m Butterfly – 5th 200m Individual Medley – 2nd 100m Backstroke – 1st 100m Breaststroke – 4th 100m Freestyle – 2nd
Gavyn Black – Division 2 Boys 50m Freestyle – 5th 50m Backstroke – 5th 100m Freestyle – 3rd
Paige Asselstine – Division 6 Girls 50m Freestyle – 1st 100m Butterfly – 1st 200m Individual Medley –
1st
Laura Lefebvre – Division 8 Girls 50m Freestyle – 2nd 100m Butterfly – 1st 50m Butterfly – 2nd 100m Backstroke – 1st 100m Breaststroke – 1st 100m Freestyle – 2nd
Koren Lefebvre – Division 8 Girls 50m Freestyle – 6th 100m Breaststroke – 2nd Tenley Post – Division 1 Girls 100m Individual Medley –
1st
50m Butterfly – 1st 50m Freestyle – 1st 50m Backstroke – 2nd 50m Breaststroke – 2nd 100m Freestyle – 1st
Relays
Division 8 Boys Medley – 1st Delbert Black Brayden Black Rahul Chhabra Isaac Asselstine
Division 5 Girls Medley – 3rd Evi Slanzi Abigail Thoms Olive Ware Maddison Waltho
Rahul Chhabra – Division 8 Boys 50m Freestyle – 3rd 50m Butterfly – 2nd
Julia Rosec – Division 8 Girls 50m Freestyle – 3rd 50m Butterfly – 3rd
Olive Ware – Division 4 Girls 50m Butterfly – 5th 50m Freestyle – 4th 200m Individual Medley – 5th 100m Backstroke – 5th 100m Freestyle – 6th
Evi Slanzi – Division 4 Girls 50m Butterfly – 4th 200m Individual Medley – 3rd 100m Backstroke – 4th 100m Freestyle – 3rd Division 8 Girls Medley – 2nd Laura Lefebvre Koren Lefebvre Julia Rosec Helen Asselstine
Division 8 Girls Freestyle – 2nd Julia Rosec Koren Lefebvre Janis Post Laura Lefebvre
Division 6 Boys Freestyle – 2nd Delbert Black Gavyn Black Brayden Black Isaac Asselstine
Division 6 Girls Freestyle – 2nd Abigail Thoms Ryleigh Friesen Tenley Post Paige Asselstine
Abigail Thoms – Division 5 Girls 50m Freestyle – 6th 100m Butterfly – 5th 200m Individual Medley – 5th 100m Backstroke – 6th 100m Breaststroke – 5th 100m Freestyle – 6th Merritt Otters Swim Club
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