2009 Masters Swimming Ontario Championships

Nepean hosted a fantastic meet at their Sportsplex and the small BEAST Team enjoyed great success. The meet also saw Alex Baumann’s return to competitive swimming, in my age group no doubt. Click to read an article on Alex from the Ottawa Citizen.

The 50m Pool at Nepean.

 BEAST was represented at the meet by Gen Charette, Sarah Spencer and Don Bauer.

Don, Sarah and Gen

 Here’s a rundown of the BEAST Swimmer Results:

Gen Charette 35-39

• 50m Freestyle – 34.62 for 9th place
• 100m Freestyle – 1:18.17 (splits 37.35 + 40.82)  for 14th place
• 50m Backstroke – 40.88 for 3rd place
• 100m Backstroke – 1:29.26 (splits 43.97 + 45.29) for 7th place
• 100m I.M. – 1:28.99 (splits 41.27 + 47.72) for 7th place

Sarah Spencer 30-34

• 200m I.M. – 3:14.02 (splits 43.01 + 49.84 + 54.42 + 46.75) for 8th place
• 400m I.M. – 7:05.90 (splits 46.76 + 58.37 + 54.23 + 53.21 + 56.25 + 57.59 + 50.40 + 49.09) for 6th place
• 200m Breaststroke – 3:25.79 (splits 47.45 + 52.36 + 53.57 + 52.41) for 5th place
• 800m Freestyle – 13:43.19 (100m splits 1:33.86 + 1:42.77 + 1:43.44 + 1:44.81 + 1:45.88 + 1:46.48 + 1:43.85 + 1:41.96) for 6th place

Don Bauer 45-49

• 50m Freestyle – 28.77 (splits 13.1 + 15.67) for 8th place … PB is 28.52 QC ’08
• 100m Freestyle – 1:03.99 (splits 30.46 + 33.53) for 12th place … and a New PB (old was 1:04.40 QC ’08)
• 50m Backstroke – 34.08 for 3rd place … PB is 33.74 QC ’08
• 100m Backstroke – 1:14. 67 (splits 36.58 + 38.09) for 3rd place … PB is 1:14.20 Winn ’07
• 50m Breaststroke – 36.62 for 3rd place … PB is 36.23 QC ’08
• 100m I.M. – 1:14.82 (splits 34.76 + 40.06) for 5th place … and a New PB (old was 1:19.75 NY ’08)

Eric Travis 35-39 (our past President, whom we claim as our own … Eric officially swam for CFST-ON)

• 100m Freestyle – 1:05.41 (splits 31.62 + 33.79) for 16th place
• 1500m Freestyle – 21:52.21 (100m splits 1:19.97 + 1:25.27 + 1:25.60 + 1:26.98 + 1:27.67 + 1:28.05 + 1:27.63 + 1:28.90 + 1:29.26 + 1:29.06 + 1:28.45 + 1:28.52 + 1:30.13 + 1:28.98 + 1:27.04) for 3rd place
• 100m Backstroke – 1:19.30 (splits 38.93 + 40.37) for 6th place … and a New PB … first time Eric has race the event.
• 100m I.M. – 1:14.06 (splits 35.23 + 38.83) for 10th place
• 200m I.M. – 2:39.00 (splits 33.06 + 41.88 + 46.75 + 37.31) for 10th place

Many thanks to Cathie Bass for doing such a great coaching job and preparing us so well for the Ontario’s.

Let’s put our efforts into getting as large a team as possible to the National’s in Etobicoke! Participation is the KEY. We’d like to have two to three relay teams and support for split timing and video recording.