Trojan Cup Meet Highlights

Brandon Oevering

 

The Barrie Trojans hosted Trojan Cup Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2024 and welcomed the Orillia Channel Cats, Wilmot Aquatic Aces, Orangeville Otters, and Markham Aquatic Club to the East Bayfield Community Centre pool. 

 

The weekend was filled with great swimming and highlighted by the eliminator events where eight swimmers started until only one winner was left.

 

Congratulations to the eliminator winners. All four eliminators were won by BTSC swimmers. The eliminator “survivors” are presented below:

  • Emma Vaughan - girls 12 year old and under 
  • Tate Devroom - boys 12 year old and under
  • Ameliya Suleimanov - girls 13 year old and over
  • Scotty Sutton - boys 13 year old and over

Congratulations to Kennedy Jackson for setting a new 400M freestyle Club record in a time of 5:15.56!

 

There were many BTSC swimmers who were event winners:

 

Freestyle

  • 50M   Tori Carlesimo, Ainsley Kiner, Alexa Mackie, Edwin Huang
  • 100M   Marissa Battrick, Ameliya Suleimanov, Ainsley Kiner, Blayke Taylor, Tate Devroom
  • 200M   Harper Ferguson, Ameliya Suleimanov, Kylie Sarabura, Shea Gillespie, Madeleine Devroom, Sophie Bowen, Sam Brundage, Chase Turner
  • 400M  Marissa Battrick, Ameliya Suleimanov, Kylie Sarabura, Sarah, Hankin, Will McConachie, Kennedy Jackson, Leigh Sugden, Emma Vaughan, Tate Devroom, Molly Robinson, Karaline Gregoric
  • 800M   Kennedy Jackson, Blayke Taylor, Harper Ferguson, Dorothy Dong, Chase Turner, William Rupay, Tate Devroom, Robert Palermo
  • 1500M   Emma Vaughan, Marissa Battrick, Molly Robinson, Kaelyn Vroom, Sam Takacs, Matt Creasor, Namid Khan, Dylan George

Backstroke

  • 50M     Ainsley Kiser, Esther Kim, Youmei Zhao, Blayke Taylor, William Rupay
  • 100M    Avelyn Gregoric, Ameliya Suleimanov, Ainsley Kiner, Dylan Jackson, Alexa Mackie, Maggie Taylor, Chase Turner
  • 200M    Keira Hornby, Molly Robinson, Sam Takacs, Eva Beaudry, Vladislava Schneider, Raman Chaikouski, Chase Turner, Nathan Orava

Breastroke

  • 50M    Ainsley Kiser, Jessica Enright, Alexa Mackie, Edwin Huang
  • 100M   Tori Carlesimo, Eva Mankarios, Kaelyn Vroom, Matt Creasor, Cole Harrison, Daniel Eperjessy, Andia Hakimian, Quinn Barrett-Hamilton, Blayke Taylor, William Rupay, Rydaar Watt    
  • 200M   Tori Carlesimo, Eva Mankarios, Kaelyn Vroom, Will McConachie, Nathan Vaughan, Emma Beland, Kennedy Jackson, Blayke Taylor, William Rupay

Butterfly

  • 100M    Avelyn Gregoric, Maddy Scott-Nichols, Dylan George, Kennedy Jackson, Sam Brundage, Tate Devroom    
  • 200M    Keira Hornby, Taira Vroom, Robert Palermo, Nathan Vaughan, Scotty Sutton, Raevyn Maule, Ben DePiero

Individual Medley

  • 100M     Kennedy Jackson, Alexa Mackie, Sam Brundage, Tate Devroom
  • 200M     Avelyn Gregoric, Maddy Scott-Nichols, Griff Seguin, Madeleine Devroom, Alexa Mackie, Sam Brundage, Edwin Huang
  • 400M     Keira Hornby, Kylie Sarabura, Avery Knight, Will McConachie, Nathan Vaughan

 

Thank you to Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, Booster Juice, Precision Mold Technologies, and Dairy Queen (Bradford St. and Bayfield Mall locations) for being meet sponsors for Trojan Cup and helping to create a great experience for the participants. 

 

A big thank you also to our Club sponsors Jackson’s Toyota, Brandy’s Cove Yachting Centre, and Georgian BMW. We are very thankful for their support of the Barrie Trojan Swim Club.

 

Thank you to all of the volunteers and officials who gave their time over the weekend in support of the competition. This includes the meet manager, Stephanie Tavitian-Guthrie, competition coordinator, Cathi Brown, and the club officials coordinator, Erinn Rupay. Of note, the referees for Trojan Cup were all BTSC members. They are Christy McConachie, Laura Vaughan, Amy Watt, Mark Vaughan, Stephanie Tavitian-Guthrie and Kelly McCrae, who all did a great job running each of the sessions on the deck. Thank you to Sean Smyth from the Orangeville Otters who supported our officials with his mentorship throughout the weekend.

 

Congratulations team! Go Trojans!