Dolphins swim team brings home 35 medals from 2018 Niagara Long Course Championships

Posted 2018-07-22

The Dolphins Swim Team at the 2018 Niagara Long Course Championships

Team Dolphins athletes represented themselves exceptionally at Niagara Championships 2018, winning 35 total medals at the meet - 15 Gold, 8 Silver, and 12 Bronze. 90% of the events swam by Dolphins athletes ended in personal best times.

The top overall swimmer for Team Dolphins was 12 year old Sophia Lee who won 5 Gold medals and 1 silver medal. Not only did Sophia bring home 6 medals, she also broke a Niagara age group record by swimming 100 Freestyle in 1:00.07, and 3 club records in 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, and 100 Backstroke for girls 11-12.

The Dolphins men's team placed 4th in the meet, while the women's team placed 6th overall and the entire Dolphins team placed 6th overall. A full list of meet results can be found here.

A special congratulations to all of the finalists and medal winners, who are listed below:

Medal winners

Sophia Lee age 12- 5 Gold Medals 1 Silver, 1 Niagara record including club record.

Pavel Vorona age 12 2 Golds Medals 2 Silver 1 Bronze,

Alex Miao age 12 - 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze,

Kristina Steins - 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze,

Joanne Chiarotto 1 Gold, 1 Silver,

Ashley Hodge age 13 - 1 Gold, 1 Silver,

Aly El Shamy age 13 - 1 Gold,

Aidan Lee age 8 - 5 Bronze,

Victor Kosilkowski age 10 - 1 Silver,

Pranav Marthi age 10 - 1 Bronze

Vanessa Xia age 10 - 1 Bronze

Other Finalists

Helen Wu, Mark Blomberg, Ethan Chen, Yassin El Shamy, Melissa Er, Yassin Labib, Allan Lee, Kathleen Moore, Paige Moore, Mingxuan Wang, Dai Gao Wen,