AWESOME RESULTS!!
Charlottetown Bluephins win nine medals at
the 2010 East Coast Long Course Championships.
Seventeen Bluephins travelled to St. John’s, Newfoundland to
compete against more than 250 athletes, at the recent (July 1-4)
four-day meet. Long course meets are
held in 50-metre pools such as the Aquarena in St. John’s. The CARI
facility in Charlottetown is a 25-metre pool for short course
competitions. Bluephins finished eighth
overall, against 26 teams from PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario.
Bluephin
Alison MacEachern led the team. The fourteen-year-old won four
individual medals and two relay medals at the Championship. MacEachern won gold in the in the 50 and 100-metre butterfly, for
her age group. She also won a silver medal in the 400-metre freestyle
and bonze in the 50-metre backstroke.
MacEachern,
along with relay team-mates (seen in photo) Hannah Jenkins, Emma Smith and Laurel
White, won gold medals in the girls 13-14, 200-metre freestyle relay and
the 200-metre medley relay.
Bluephin head coach
Bill Calhoun says the relay events were the highlight of the weekend.
“The swimmers really had a killer instinct in these races,” says
Calhoun. “ The relay wins for the girls set us up as a regional
powerhouse in that age group.”
Rhea Hurnik
brought home two medals. The seventeen-year-old team captain won gold in
the 50-metre butterfly and bronze in the 100-metre butterfly.
Laurel White, 14, won a bronze medal in the 50-metre
breaststroke.
Calhoun says the team
recorded 75 percent best times in their swims, and most qualified to
swim in finals.
Also on deck representing
the Bluephins were Kyle Bryenton, Katie Hooper, Rudi Hurnik, Joël
Legault, Emily MacLennan, Reba Milton, Katie Murray, Matthew Smith,
Joseph Sulaiman, Rooske Wagemakers, Erin White and Sarah Williams.
Next up for the Bluephins is the 2010 Age Group Nationals in
Winnipeg, July 21-26th.
The team will send it’s
largest squad ever to a National meet. Bryenton, Nigel Champion, Paige
Crowell, Rhea Hurnik, Rudi Hurnik, James Profit, Sulaiman, and Laurel
White will compete against the fastest young swimmers in the country.