Ontario Swimming Championships 2025 Highlights Barrie Trojan athletes were racing through the TPASC water July 9-13 at the Ontario Swimming Championships for 2025. BTSC had 44 competitors who achieved the high qualifying standards required to earn entry into the meet. Our team was one of 92 Clubs representing all parts of the province competing at the event. The meet format consisted of open age categories with traditional preliminary and finals sessions and youth age groups with timed finals. Here are the many BTSC highlights from five days of swimming at...

Collingwood Clippers June Invitational 2025 Highlights The BTSC TOP, Novice and Provincial Development groups were in Collingwood on June 21-22 to race in the CCSC June Invitational meet. There were 13 clubs participating in the four sessions over the weekend. Here are the highlights. The following swimmers raced to top 3 finishes. Esther Kim touched 1st in 100M free, 2nd in 200M IM and was 3rd fastest in 100M fly. Raman Chaikouski used a 8.9 sec. best time to place 2nd in 200M IM. Dylan Jackson came 3rd in the...

Bell Canadian Swimming Trials 2025 Highlights The Barrie Trojans were in Victoria, BC from June 7-12 participating in the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials. Swimming took place at the beautiful Saanich Commonwealth Place facility. BTSC was represented by 12 athletes who achieved the qualifying standards and earned the right to swim against the best swimmers in Canada. Sam Brundage Sydney Colquhoun Kaia Hornby Avery Knight Ben Millar Laila Oravsky Griff Seguin Scotty Sutton Clara Vilchez Jordi Vilchez Lucian Vilchez Taira Vroom ***Jordi Vilchez won 3 silver medals and earned a spot...

Huronia Region Long Course Team Challenge 2025 Highlights A BTSC team of 40 athletes traveled to Brock University June 5-8 to compete in the Huronia Region Long Course Team Challenge. Our team raced with the Huronia Region Clubs along with the host, Brock, and Belleville. This meet is unique in that overall team points are important and individual swimmer and relay results (top 8) contribute to the team point total. A new addition for this year included a team challenge where various teams competed with each other. BTSC was matched...

Age Group International 2025 Highlights The Age Group International swim meet was held at the Etobicoke Olympium June 5-8. BTSC entered 20 athletes who competed with swimmers from 24 other clubs. Thursday swimming consisted of the distance events. Marissa Battrick and Kaelyn Vroom claimed gold medals in the 1500m freestyle. Maggie McConachie and Rydaar Watt placed 6th in their respective races. In the 800M freestyle racing, Will McConachie was the gold medal winner while Keira Hornby earned a silver medal and Evan Beatty used a 12 second best time to...

GHAC Summer Invitational 2025 Highlights The Golden Horseshoe Aquatic Club hosted their Summer Invitational swim meet at the McMaster University pool May 31-June 1. BTSC had 9 swimmers from our TOP group competing at the meet with 10 other clubs in the long course format. The Saturday order of events consisted of 100m freestyle, 50M backstroke, 200M butterfly, 100M breaststroke, 50M freestyle, 200M backstroke, 50M butterfly and 200M individual medley. Awards were given for the 10 year and under, 11 year old and 12 year old age categories. Racing in...

Alessa and Kate at Niagara 2025 Ontario Parasport Development Clinic On May 31, Alessa Darby and Kate Smith, along with their coaches, Joe and Sam, participated in Swim Ontario’s Race Ready Clinic at the Niagara 2025 Ontario Parasport Games. The games, taking place in the Niagara region, is a multi-sport (11 sports) competition. The 2025 games are the 44th edition with over 750 participants. This is the first time that swimming has been featured in the games after a 13 year absence. Alessa, Kate, Joe and Sam were able to...

MAC Spring Invitational 2025 Highlights The Barrie Trojans were at the Markham Pan Am Centre May 15-18 racing at the MAC Spring Invitational swim meet. BTSC had 92 athletes competing against 22 other clubs including four from Atlantic Canada. ***The girls 11-12 year old 4x50M medley relay team of Blayke Taylor, Sam Brundage, Raevyn Maule and Avah-Skye Miller set a new National record with a time of 2:07.70.*** ***Alessa Darby bettered her own provincial record for the 200M IM sm6 classification with a time of 4:24.45.*** Here are some more...

Top Cup 2025 Meet Highlights The Etobicoke Olympium was the venue for Top Cup 2025 May 9-11. This meet is unique in that it is for 10 year old and under swimmers only. There were 21 Clubs competing, including clubs from Quebec. BTSC had 17 athletes swimming over the weekend. Andia Hakimian Dylan Jackson Esther Kim Ainsley Kiser Lucas Klajn Sarah Leahy Emma Mackie Kenzie Marshall Boyd Miller Nya Nurse Sydney Paquet Callum Round Chase Turner Kayla Yao Olivia Bowen Raman Chaikouski Kloe Gervais-Osmond On Friday evening, Emma Mackie had...

BTSC Spring Off the Blocks 2025 Ontario Meet Highlights BTSC hosted our last meet for the 2024/2025 swim season on May 3 - 4, 2025. Spring Off the Blocks was a great success with 6 clubs participating. We welcomed Mississauga Aquatic Club, Newmarket Stingrays Swim Club, Peterborough Swim Club, Variety Village Aquatic Club and Whitby Swimming to the East Bayfield Community Centre for a great weekend of competition. Over 400 swimmers participated in the racing. Here are some of the highlights from the weekend starting with the Saturday sessions. BTSC...