World’s Warmup Meet Results, June 27th:
Charlie Lane:

Probably our tiniest meet ever, but many good results despite the short rest between events.

Only 22 members swam, exactly half the total swimmers but many other members worked the meet.
Kudos to Steve Goodwin- meet manager, Al Cox- social director, Juli Petrone & Rob Novak- coaches.

Individual honours- 13 ER’s (Etobicoke Records) by 8 members
John Twohig (new member)- 3 ER’s!
Cindy & Tineke Bertelink, Charlie Lane- 2 ER’s each
Liz Dineen, David Goodwin, Chris Nagy, Bud Seawright- 1 ER each

Relay honours- 6 ER’s including 2 CR’s (Canadian Records), 3 OR’s (Ontario Records), and…still waiting to hear if maybe 1 or 2 WR’s (World Records)!
ER, OR, CR- Mixed 100+ 800m free- Cindy Bertelink, Stephen Kesler, Anna Orzechowska, Chris Nagy.
ER, OR, CR- Mixed 120+ 800m medley- Steve Sweetman, Mark Forsyth, Anna O, Cindy B
ER, OR- Men 160+ 800m free- Mark F, Michael Macpherson, Bud Seawright, Tom Naylor
ER- Men 160+ 400m free- Michael M, Mark F, David Goodwin, Tom N
ER- Mixed 100+ 200m medley- David G, Cindy B, Anna O, Stephen K
ER- Mixed 100+ 400m medley- Stephen K, Cindy B, Anna O, Chris N

Well done swimmers and thanks to all who volunteered their time.

The EOMAC 2010 awards were presented at the annual barbeque on June 13, 2010 to the following worthy recipients:
The Pluntke-Lutman award for ‘outstanding competitive excellence’ to Cindy Bertelink.
The Wavelengths award presented by the head coach to EOMAC’s most improved swimmer of the year to Chris Nagy.
The Syd Fagan award elected by the membership to the person most exemplifying the Masters’ motto of Fun, Fitness, Friendship and contributing to the well-being of EOMAC to Dawn Orr.
Masters Swimming Canada awards were also presented to Sylvia Eisele and Kalis Rasmussen as Canadian age group winners.
Congratulations to our new award winners!

Brent Aquino is in his 3rd season as Head Coach of EOMAC. His athlete centered approach has helped develop many swimmers to achieve success through self-discipline and goal setting.

Born and raised in Toronto, Brent started his swimming career in North York. He eventually moved to the Etobicoke Swim Club, where he finished his club career and received a scholarship to the University of Arkansas.

After his swimming career finished in Arkansas, Brent became the head medley and distance coach at the University of Arkansas for one year. After returning to Canada, he spent 8 years with the Mississauga Aquatic Club before moving over to the Etobicoke Swim Club. Brent has helped produced 28 National Age Group and 45 Provincial records, and has helped graduate 55 athletes to Universities in North America. Brent was honored in 1992-1993, 1994-1995 and 1996-1997 as the Age Group Coach of the Year.  

Robert Novak is in his 3rd year with EOMAC. His extensive swimming experience and easy-going demeanor make his swimmers feel at ease while training.

Rob is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He started competitive swimming at 12 years of age for the Winnipeg Wave Swim Club. He qualified for the Provincial Championships in 1994, and was ranked top five in 13 & 14 TAG in the spring freestyle and backstroke events. He moved to the Manta Swim Club at the age of 14, and broke a number of provincial relay records. During this time, Rob also competed in many national, youth, and junior national swim meets including the 1997 Canada Games in Brandon, Manitoba where he made top 10. After the Canada Games, Rob took two years off of swimming to focus on his studies and evaluate his goals as an athlete. Nonetheless, he was back in the water in 2000, swimming for the University of Manitoba swim team. During this time, Rob competed in the 2001 Canada Games in London, Ontario. After the 2001 Canada Games, Rob decided to retire from swimming and began to coach.

Rob started coaching in the 2001-2002 season for the Winnipeg Wave Swim club. The Wave won Manitoba’s Junior Provincials in 2004 – the first time in ten years! Wave also place 5th at the 2004 Manitoba/Saskatchewan Provincials. Rob has also coached a number of athletes to top 10 in Manitoba and also had two swimmers ranked in the top 10 in 11 & 12 TAG. He is currently the Head Age Group Coach with the Etobicoke Swim Club.

Juli started swimming competitively at the age of 9. At the age of 10 through 12 she placed top 3 at the Argentinean age group nationals, wining the 400 free and the 100 free and placing second in the 200 back and 50 free.

She joined the Etobicoke swim club at the age of 12 at the Elite level. She then swam for two years in the Junior National group, coached by Tom Langridge before moving on to the National development group where she was coached by Brent Aquino for 3 years. She then competed for the University of Toronto for a year.

Juli is currently in her third year at U of T studying economics and political science. This is her first full year coaching with EOMAC. She is also the Junior A Group Coach for the Etobicoke Swim Club.

As of April 22, the water temperature in the Olympic pool is still hovering around 70 Fahrenheit. The pool will be used for a swim meet this coming weekend and normal schedules should be in place starting Monday April 26th. Full repairs to the pool bubbler system are still scheduled to take place from August 9th to September 19th. The Board is actively reserving alternate pool space during the Olympic pool shutdown.

EOMAC is hosting a long course meet on the morning of Sunday June 27th to be followed by a barbeque on the patio. The timing is perfect for those swimmers heading to the World Championships in Sweden, and will be the last chance for those club members who have not fulfilled their meet requirements for continued membership. Details will be announced when available.

The EOMAC summer barbeque will be held on Sunday June 13th after the swim practice. Bud and Graciela Seawright will again be hosting this event at their home. The annual club awards will be presented at the barbeque. Details will be posted when available.

Friday May 7th is EOMAC’s bowling night. Bowling will be after our practice at 8:30pm. The location is Planet Bowling, 5555 Eglinton Avenue West, just west of Centennial Park. Let Al Cox know if you are coming (al.cox@rogers.com) and how many people will be bowling.

August was a good ’summer month’, 4 swimmers in the top twenty and 50 members logging their metres. EOMAC retained first place amongst all Masters swim clubs in Canada with 1.625 million metres and Westmount Y was second with 1.430 million metres, with no other club above 1 million metres.

Our logging leaders were Cindy McLeish 85K (4th in Canada), Colleen Shields with 81K (10th in Canada), Mark Hunter 73K (16th) and Michael Macpherson with 69K (20th). Cindy now leads the club in metres logged (3.7 million) having overtaken Mark Forsyth. Well done Cindy!