18 Special Olympic Athletes Medal In First Swim Meet of the Season
/The Peterborough Special Olympic Swim team saw 18 members medal in their first official swim meet this year in Pickering on Sunday.
Photo courtesy of Peterborough Special Olympics.
They competed in the Special Olympic Swim Team DIVE into the 2025 Durham Swim Meet.
Along with the 18 swimmers who finished in the top three of their respective events, several also achieved their personal bests.
The following are the medalling swimmers:
Lisa Butler:
1st place – 50-metre Butterfly
1st place – 100-metre Butterfly
1st place – 100-metre Freestyle
1st place – 200-metre freestyle
Steve Caban:
1st place– 100-metre Backstroke
1st place - 100-metre Freestyle
1st place - 100-metre Breast
1st place – 100-metre I.M.
Danielle Clarkson-Bulgar:
1st place – 25-metre Freestyle
2nd place – 25-metre Backstroke
3rd place – 50-metre Freestyle
Crystal Cochrane:
1st place – 25-metre Backstroke
3rd place – 25-metre Freestyle
3rd place – 50-metre Backstroke
Mark Crowder:
1st place – 25-metre Freestyle
1st place – 50-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 25-metre Backstroke
3rd place – 50-metre Freestyle
Jasmine Davis:
1st place – 50-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 25-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 50-metre Freestyle
Nick Gardiner:
1st place – 25-metre Butterfly
2nd place – 25-metre Freestyle
2nd place – 50-metre Freestyle
3rd place – 25-metre Backstroke
Hannah Goode:
2nd place – 25-metre Backcrawl
2nd place – 50-metre Backcrawl
Meagan Glaeser:
1st place – 50-metre Freestyle
2nd place – 50-metre Backcrawl
Nicole Hewitt:
1st place – 50-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 25-metre Freestyle
3rd place – 50-metre Freestyle
Carly Hopkinson:
1st place – 25-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 25-metre Freestyle
Mercedes Laking:
1st place – 25-metre Butterfly
2nd place – 100-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 100-metre Breaststroke
Breanne Mackenzie:
3rd place – 25-metre Freestyle
3rd place – 25-metre Backstroke
3rd place – 50-metre Backstroke
Gillian McHugh:
1st place – 25-metre Freestyle
1st place – 100-metre Freestyle
2nd place – 25-metre Butterfly
2nd place – 50-metre Backstroke
Miriam McHugh:
1st place – 25-metre Backstroke
1st place – 50-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 25-metre Freestyle
3rd place – 100-metre Backstroke
Kacee Quinlan:
1st place – 25-metre Fly
1st place – 50-metre Freestyle
Tessa Scates:
1st place – 200-metre Freestyle
2nd place – 100-metre Freestyle
2nd place – 50-metre Freestyle
3rd place – 50-metre Backstroke
Dominic Wichmann:
1st place – 25-metre Backstroke
1st place – 50-metre Freestyle
2nd place – 50-metre Backstroke
2nd place – 25-metre Freestyle
