MAC Winter Invitational Meet Highlights After the holiday break, the Barrie Trojans were back to competing, this time at the Markham Pan Am Centre in the long course pool on Jan. 18-20 as part of the Markham Aquatic Club Winter Invitational. The meet saw Sam Brundage set another Ontario provincial record. This time it was for the long course 50M breaststroke. BTSC swimmers continue to rewrite the Club record board with numerous new fastest ever Club swims. The competition schedule for the first day had the distance events. In the...

Mississauga Open Meet Highlights The Etobicoke Olympium was the venue for the Mississauga Open swim meet Dec. 13-15, 2024. The Barrie Trojans had a large contingent of athletes who took to the pool for the competition. The other teams competing were Oakville, Toronto, Richmond Hill, Etobicoke, Club Warriors, Burlington, Hamilton, RAMAC, York U and the host, Mississauga. Sam Brundage bettered her 12 year old 50M breaststroke provincial record with a time of 33.68! Friday The meet started on Friday evening with 400M events. Tate Devroom and Will McConachie were boys...

The Barrie Trojans participated at the Ontario Junior International competition held by Swim Ontario at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre Dec. 12 -12, 2024. There were 84 clubs participating at this prestigious meet. BTSC had 9 athletes who achieved the fast qualifying standards. Kate Smith Julia Denes Kaia Hornby Griff Sequin Lucian Vilchez Avery Knight Taira Vroom Ben Millar Alessa Darby Day One Alessa Darby swam her preliminary 200M IM in a provincial record setting time for the SM6 classification. Her time was 5 seconds faster than where she...

BTSC swimmer Kate Smith and Coach Sam Kuntz participated as part of a Swim Ontario tour team at the Ken Demchuk International Invitational that took place November 29-December 1, 2024 at the Markham Pan Am Centre. The purpose of the Swim Ontario tour team is to provide a high-level para swimming opportunity as part of the Swim Ontario International Podium Development project. This allows targeted swimmers to learn what it is like to be part of a national-level team as they pursue their goals towards these levels of competitions. Throughout...

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...

The Barrie Trojans participated at the Gus Ryder Memorial Cup hosted by Lakeshore Swim Club Nov. 15 - 17. BTSC swimmers continue to do amazing things in the water with many personal best times achieved and numerous finals appearances for swimmers representing many of our training groups. Congratulations team! Sam Brundage had a HUGE swim achieving a 12 year old provincial record time of 33.76 seconds for her 50M breaststroke! Sam now holds two provincial records. There were 15 more Club records broken by BTSC swimmers at the meet. Kaia...

Congratulations Kate and Coach Sam Kate Smith and Sam Kuntz have been selected by Swim Ontario to be members of the tour team competing at the Ken Demchuk International Invitational taking place at the Markham Pan Am Centre Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2024. Kate will be one of seven female swimmers on the team selected based on her highest point scoring event. Coach Sam will participate as part of the Swim Ontario coaching staff. The event provides a para swimming tour team opportunity as part of the Swim Ontario...

The East Bayfield Community Centre was the venue for some very exciting swimming Nov. 1 - 3 as the Barrie Trojans hosted Aquafest, our first home meet of the season. It was our pleasure to welcome eight clubs for a weekend of great competition. The Belleville Beast, Dorado Stars, Uxbridge Swim Club, Pickering Swim Club, Orillia Channel Cats, Lindsay Lightning Bolts, Muskoka Aquatic Club, and Barrie Trojans created lots of waves throughout the weekend. A huge thank you goes out to our meet organizers for leading a fantastic 40th edition...

The Barrie Trojans are back to racing for the 2024/2025 season! Our Junior, Senior Development, Senior, and High Performance groups kicked off the competition part of their schedule in Etobicoke at the Hall of Fame meet on October 19-20. It was a great start to the competition season with many personal best times and fast swims. Here are some of the results highlights from the meet. Podium Finishes Blayke Taylor came 1st in 100M free and 100M fly. She was the 2nd fastest in 200M IM and 3rd for 50M...

Congratulations to BTSC’s Head Coach Endi Babi for being named as a recipient of Swim Ontario’s 2024 World Class Coaching Award. Endi proudly accepted this award at the 2024 Swim Ontario Awards & Hall of Fame Induction Luncheon held during the annual Swim Ontario conference on September 21 in Toronto. The award reflects Endi’s significant coaching achievements in 2024. Please join us in congratulating Coach Endi on this well deserved recognition! As National Coaches Week wraps up, we would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our...