2025 Brantford Aquatic Club LC Spring Invitational Highlights

Mark Oatway

2025 Brantford Aquatic Club LC Spring Invitational Highlights

BTSC athletes were in Brantford from April 11 -13, 2025 to compete in the Brantford Aquatic Club Long Course Spring Invitational meet. There were 27 BTSC swimmers competing against 7 other clubs. Here are the highlights from a great weekend of swimming.

The following BTSC swimmers were medallists.

Maddy Scott-Nichols: gold 200M IM, silver 100M fly, 100M back, 200M back, bronze 50M free, 400M free
Rhys Serre: gold 200M breast, silver 200M IM, 200M fly, bronze 100M fly
Dorothy Dong: gold 400M IM, silver 200M free, 400M free, bronze 200M IM, 50M free
Avah-Skye Miller: gold 100M fly, silver 200M back, bronze 200M free, 200M IM
Julia Logan: silver 50M fly, 400M IM, bronze 100M breast, 200M breast, 100M back

Below is a summary of top 10 finishes.

Rhys Serre: 4th 100M breast
Julia Logan: 4th 200M IM, 6th 50M free, 7th 100M free
Maddy Scott-Nichols: 4th 50M fly, 5th 100M free
Maelle Clarke: 4th 400M free
Claire Pretty: 4th 100M back, 5th 200M free, 5th 100M fly, 6th 400M free, 7th 50M back
Dorothy Dong: 4th 100M free, 5th 100M breast
Andrew Bin: 4th 100M breast
Joelle Louis: 5th 200M fly
Lily Oliver: 4th 400M IM, 5th 400M free, 10th 200M free
Sienna Bin: 7th 50M back
Anika Escobar: 9th 50M free
Davis Kozanczyn: 6th 100M fly
Reicher Santoso: 8th 200M free, 9th 100M free
Juliana Palermo: 7th 50M breast, 10th 50M back
Douglas Sutherland: 7th 400M IM

Here are some other fun facts and notable swims from the meet.

Congratulations to Avah-Skye Miller for achieving 12 year old OSC qualifying times in 100M butterfly and 200M freestyle.

There were 12 BTSC swimmers who established new personal best times in all of their races. They are:
Brooklynne Buckingham
Maelle Clarke
Anika Escobar
Anabel Hache
James Mancini
Norah Moschenross
Douglas Sutherland
Elainah Grimaldi
Avah-Skye Miller
Juliana Palermo
Brook Ross
Lyla Snell

Of all of the BTSC swims, a whopping 80% were personal best times!

Below is a summary of some individual swimmer notable best times.

Davis Kozanczyn: 23 sec 200M free, 12 sec 100M breast, 14 sec 100M fly, 24 sec 200M IM, 59 sec 400M free
Brooklynne Buckingham: 26 sec 200M free, 20 sec 100M fly, 29 sec 200M IM, 40 sec 400M free, 37 sec 200M back, 14 sec 50M fly, 8 sec 100M free
Joelle Louis: 50 sec 100M fly, 1:13 sec 200M fly, 18 sec 400M free, 14 sec 200M back, 24 sec 50M fly
Emma Guthrie: 7 sec 200M free, 31 sec 100M fly
Anika Escobar: 7 sec 50M fly
Ziggy Knutson: 56 sec 200M free, 14 sec 100M fly, 29 sec 200M IM, 31 sec 400M free, 21 sec 100M back, 34 sec 200M back
Douglas Sutherland: 26 sec 200M free, 10 sec 50M back, 25 sec 200M IM, 59 sec 400M free, 37 sec 200M back, 27 sec 400M IM, 8 sec 100M free
Maelle Clarke: 8.6 sec 100M breast, 28 sec 200M breast, 9 sec 100M free, 1:10 sec 400M free
Norah Moschenross: 6.6 sec 100M breast. 8 sec 100M fly, 14 sec 200M IM, 40 sec 400M free, 13 sec 200M breast, 14 sec 200M back
Lily Oliver: 6 sec 200M free, 56 sec 200M IM, 6.4 sec 50M free, 11 sec 400M free, 6 sec 50M fly
Julia Logan: 15 sec 200M IM, 28 sec 100M back
Anabel Hache: 23 sec 200M breast, 14 sec 50M fly, 16 sec 100M free
Sienna Bin: 24 sec 100M back
James Mancini: 12 sec 50M free, 11 sec 100M back, 60 sec 400M free, 36 sec 200M back, 31 sec 100M free
Lyla Snell: 18 sec 100M free, 13 sec 100M back, 10 sec 200M back, 46 sec 200M free
Reicher Santoso: 42 sec 100M free, 26 sec 100M back, 13 sec 50M back, 53 sec 200M free
Andrew Bin: 14 sec 100M free, 8 sec 100M back, 5 sec 100M breast
Quinn Harris: 10 sec 100M free, 6 sec 50M back, 23 sec 200M free
Brook Ross: 15 sec 200M breast, 12 sec 100M back, 23 sec 200M free
Elainah Grimaldi: 6.5 sec 200M breast, 17 sec 100M back
Avah-Skye Miller: 10 sec 100M fly, 28 sec 200M back, 23 sec 200M free, 34 sec 200M IM

Congratulations swimmers and coaches.

Thank you as always to our Club sponsors for their support for our swimmers. They are Brandy's Cove Yachting Centre, Georgian BMW, and Jackson’s Toyota.

Go Trojans!