Our 2026 Championship Season

Nine Water Dragons swam championship meets this season. Regionals short course in Kingston in January, the Ontario Age Group Championships in Unionville in March, regionals long course in Ottawa in May, the Ontario Swim Championships in Toronto in July, and the Bell Canadian Trials in Montreal.

Across the two regional championships our swimmers recorded personal bests in 48 of 66 races. Seventy-nine percent of swims in January, sixty-nine percent in May. Those are the meets the whole championship squad swims, so that figure is everyone who went and not the fast end of it. It holds from a ten year old at his first regionals through to a swimmer racing at national trials.

All of it came out of four sessions a week in one pool.

What follows is each swimmer's season, in alphabetical order.

Alex Chudnovsky

Alex took 4.65 seconds off his 50 free and 1.21 off his 100 free, both personal bests. He did it at long course regionals in May, his first regionals, at ten years old. He also finished 6th in the 50 fly.

Dumebi Aniagu

Dumebi took 10.94 seconds off her 200 breaststroke in the final at long course regionals in May, and swam personal bests in five of her six races. She reached the 50 breaststroke final in 6th and finished 7th. The 200 final put her 9th.

Erik Chudnovsky

Erik swam a personal best in every race at short course regionals in January, and won the 50 free, the 100 IM and the 200 IM, with 2nd in the 100 fly and 3rd in the 100 free and the 200 free. In March he was the club's only qualifier for the Ontario Age Group Championships, placing 9th in both the 50 and the 100 backstroke. At long course regionals in May he took 1.81 seconds off his 50 backstroke and finished 5th in the final.

Ethan Church

Ethan swam personal bests in ten of his twelve races at long course regionals in May, including 12.95 seconds off his 400 free. He finished 5th in the 200 free, 6th in the 400, 7th in the 50 free and 8th in the 50 fly. In January he took 2.30 seconds off his 50 fly, with 7th in the 200 free and 9th in the 100 fly.

Fiona Brophy

Fiona finished 2nd in the 100 backstroke and the 200 IM at long course regionals in May, and 3rd in the 50 backstroke. In July she swam the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Montreal. She is from Carleton Place and swam here, and now competes for the McMaster Marauders, where she won OUA bronze in the 100m backstroke in her first university season. She still trains in the Carleton Place pool when she is home.

Helena Norlock

Helena took 4.54 seconds off her personal best in the 200 butterfly final at the Ontario Swim Championships in July, finishing 4th. She was the club's only qualifier there and swam five events. At long course regionals in May she was 2nd in the 50 backstroke and the 200 fly and 3rd in the 100 fly, and in January she was 2nd in the 50 backstroke and the 100 fly and 3rd in the 200 free and the 200 backstroke.

Isla Hahn

Isla took 5.22 seconds off her 50 free and 3.80 off her 50 breaststroke at long course regionals in May, finishing 7th and 8th. She swam personal bests in four of her five races. She also raced the 100 and the 200 breaststroke.

Juliet McGrath

Juliet took 14.83 seconds off her 200 breaststroke at long course regionals in May, the largest single improvement by any Water Dragon this season, and finished 9th. She was 10th in the 100 breaststroke with 5.76 seconds off, and swam personal bests in six of her seven races. In January she placed 9th in the 100 backstroke and 10th in the 50 backstroke.

Kaiden Stewart

Kaiden took 11.28 seconds off his 800 freestyle at long course regionals in May and finished 3rd. He was 6th in the 100 breaststroke with almost three seconds off, and 6th in his 200 breaststroke heat. In January he swam a personal best in every race, placing 7th in the 200 backstroke, 8th in the 200 free and 9th in the 100 breaststroke.

Registration is open for September. The first step is a complimentary evaluation with our head coach, which the club registrar will arrange for you, so get in touch with the club and we will sort out a time.

Every swim above came out of the same pool on Bridge Street.