Members of the Estevan Golden Eels Swim Club brought home 11 medals from two swim meets held this weekend.
Forty-eight Eels participated at a Combination Event swim meet in Regina last Saturday, where 10 swimmers rated as overall high-point winners in their age categories. The Eels also took the top points award with a total of 974.5, or 597 points higher than second place Weyburn.
The Eels’ Denver Sehn followed up the glorious Saturday results by heading to Melfort for a swim meet the next day where he finished with a bronze medal in the nine-to-10-age boys category.
Akeela Jundt, coach of the Eels, said a Combination Event swim meet helps keep things interesting for the kids involved because it incorporates the regular race lengths of 50 to 200 metres with shorter higher power races of 25 metres. She said the Estevan swimmers raced against members of teams from across Southern Saskatchewan at the meet as they tried to qualify for a place at provincials held later this summer.
“They did really well,” said Jundt. “Overall, we’re continuing to see a lot of improvement in our swimmers.”
Jundt said this upcoming weekend should be busy as the Eels next meet occurs at Assiniboia on Saturday with a second meet to follow in Weyburn on Sunday. She said 21 swimmers will be heading to the Assiniboia meet, while 46 would be going to Weyburn.
Medalists from this past weekend include: William Duncan (gold); Emily Tarnes (silver); Josephina Andrist (bronze); Denver Sehn (silver at Regina, bronze at Melfort); Hannah Mantei (gold); Josh Wilson (gold); Carson Wheeler (bronze), Jack Megeough (gold); Hayley Greening (bronze); Samuel Beahm (silver) and Thomas Wakely (bronze).
