Durham synchro
club turns in top-10 performances
Jun 14, 2005
DURHAM - The Durham Synchro Club
competitive team wrapped up its 2004/2005 season with impressive results at
provincial and national championships in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario.
Earlier in June, the club's Tier 6 team, which consists of Katie LePage, Brianna MacLellan, Allie Mear, Carrie Mouck, and Julia Maclean of Ajax and Pickering's Alaina Wade, competed at the 2005 Canadian Espoir Championships in Saskatoon. The team placed fourth, missing the bronze by one-tenth of a point. For the Tier 6 15-and-under duet, LePage and MacLellan finished sixth, and Mouck and Maclean were seventh. In solo, Maclean was ninth.
In late May, the team participated at the 2005 Ontario Tier Championships in Waterloo, represented by Durham's masters team and the Tier 1, 3 and 4 rosters. The Masters team brought home the gold. In Tier 4 duet, Christina Bell and Christa Hutton placed fifth. The Tier 3 team of Bell, Stephanie Geller, Christa Hutton, Alexandra Opydo, and Pickering resident Ali Young finished second, while in Tier 3 duet, Opydo and Geller were fourth. In Tier 1, Lindsay Dawson, Alycia Halyk, Hannah Koke, Carla McCagherty, Rachel Nickerson, Amber Steele, Brooke Manson of Ajax and Pickering's Kayla Hunt placed fifth.
In early May, Durham's Tier 7 team swam to a ninth-place finish at the Canadian Open Synchronized Swimming Championships at the Talisman Centre in Calgary, Alberta. The four-member team consisting of Sophie Baetz-Dougan, Lindsay Maclean, Chelsey Matthews, and Ajax's Katie Cornish, placed in the top 10.
In other Durham Synchro news, Katie LePage was among 11 athletes chosen from a field of 189 Tier 6 swimmers from across Canada to represent the country in competitions in Greece this summer.