2025 Ontario Masters Provincials Meet Highlights Our BTSC Masters team was back at the Markham Pan Am Centre from April 25-27 for the Masters Provincials swim meet. Alex Blechta, Maks Chaikouski, Kasey O’Grady and Joanna Palermo proudly donned their green Trojan caps for the weekend. They competed against swimmers from 48 other clubs. Athletes at this meet ranged in age from 18 to 91 years. Here are some swimming highlights from the weekend. Maks Chaikouski was the silver medallist for his age group in the 100M breaststroke. He had two...

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...

In partnership with USA Swimming, the Canadian Open Water Trials were held in sunny Sarasota, Florida from April 4 to 6, 2025. BTSC swimmers Taira Vroom and Laila Oravsky along with Coach Endi took part in this high-level competition. These trials along with 1500M race times will be used by Swim Canada to select the World Championship team. On April 4th, the 10km race took place where Taira finished 17th in a time of 2hr 10min.23 - to put this into context, this was only 6min off the first place...

ESWIM Grand Prix 2025 Meet Highlights After a break in competitions in March for some hard training, our BTSC athletes were back in the pool racing at the ESWIM Grand Prix April 4-6, 2025 in Etobicoke. The BTSC had 77 swimmers competing against swimmers representing 17 other clubs. Friday Sessions Distance events were swam on Friday with lots of great BTSC swims exemplified by swimmers touching the wall faster than their seed times. In the 800M freestyle, Kaia Hornby established a new Club record time of 9:20.49, finishing 2nd overall...

Stephen Forsey Masters 2025 Meet Highlights Our BTSC Masters team travelled to the Markham Pan Am Centre on March 23 to compete in the Stephen Forsey Masters swim meet hosted by the Thornhill Masters Aquatic Club. BTSC was represented by 12 swimmers racing in the morning and afternoon sessions. The Masters team participating in competitions continues to grow and it is fantastic to see. Alex Beland Alex Blechta Maks Chaikouski Sarah Darby Jason Devroom Sarah Hornby Emma Lambert Hannah Lord Manuela Lord Wayne Malcolm Joanna Palermo Carlos Vilchez It was...

Trojan Pentathlon 2025 Meet Highlights The BTSC hosted the Trojan Pentathlon over the weekend of Feb. 28 - Mar. 2. It is a unique meet where swimmers compete in 5 events the total time determines the winner. There were over 50 swimmers who were brave enough to compete in the ironman version of the pentathlon, swimming the longer distance events. Our swimmers raced against competition from the Oakville Aquatic Club, Lakeshore Swim Club, Orillia Channel Cats, the Orangeville Otters and the Goulbourn Sea Hawks. Over the weekend there were 2901...

Ontario Age Groups 2025 Meet Highlights The Barrie Trojans competed at the Ontario Age Groups meet Feb. 27 - Mar. 2, 2025. Our 14 year old and under swimmers raced at the Markham Pan Am Centre while our 15 year old and over and para athletes took to the waters of the The Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. BTSC had 59 swimmers qualify for the events, an amazing achievement. Day 1: February 27th The day 1 preliminary races featured some great BTSC swims leading to spots in the finals where...

The Barrie Trojan Swim Club are the Huronia Region champions determined by an exciting weekend of racing at the 2025 Huronia Short Course Regional Championships! Both the girls and boys teams topped the points standings. Bracebridge was the home of the 2025 Huronia Regional Short Course Championships from Feb. 7 to Feb. 9. BTSC had a large team of almost 120 swimmers competing against other teams within the Huronia region. All of these swimmers achieved the qualifying times required to gain entry into the meet. There were many highlights over...

ROC Masters Swim Meet Highlights On February 1st, a team of BTSC swimmers competed against 17 other Clubs from all over Ontario at the Region of Clarington Masters Invitational swim meet. It is great to see our Masters team competing at their first event of the year. Manuela and Hannah Lord, Kasey O’Grady, Joanna Palermo, Jason Devroom and Maks Chaikouski represented BTSC and had a great day of swimming. Here are some of the highlights from the meet. Manuela, Hannah, Jason and Maks formed a mixed 200M free relay team...

Elaine Thompson Memorial Swim Meet 2025 Highlights The Orillia Channel Cats hosted the Elaine Thompson Memorial swim meet Jan. 25-26. BTSC had over 40 athletes competing against the Orillia Channel Cats, Collingwood Clippers Swim Club, Peterborough Swim Club, Owen Sound Aquatic Club, Breakers Swim Team, Muskoka Aquatic Club, Lindsay Lightning Bolts and COBRA (Brampton). The Saturday sessions included morning preliminaries and evening finals for the 13 year old and over swimmers with timed finals in the afternoon for the 12 year old and under group. The afternoon session was highlighted...