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Silver Sharks dominate masters swim meet

The Red Deer Silver Sharks dominated the annual Red Deer masters swim meet at the Michener Pool during the weekend.Bryan Iliscupidez led the way, winning six events while setting a provincial record in the 18-24 year-old 200-metre breaststroke in a time of two minutes 38.48 seconds.

The Red Deer Silver Sharks dominated the annual Red Deer masters swim meet at the Michener Pool during the weekend.

Bryan Iliscupidez led the way, winning six events while setting a provincial record in the 18-24 year-old 200-metre breaststroke in a time of two minutes 38.48 seconds.

He also won the 100m Individual Medley in 1:06.25, the 50m butterfly in 28.45 seconds, the 100m freestyle in 57.80 seconds, the 200m I.M. in 2:43.84 and the 100m breaststroke in 1:17.92.

Catherine Alcorn, competing in the women’s 18-24 year-old division, won the 800m freestyle in 11:44.33, 100m I.M. in 1:24.97, 50m butterfly in 34.84 seconds, the 200m I.M. in 2:52.46, the 400m freestyle in 5:34.81 and the 100m butterfly in 1:14.42.

Also in the men’s 18-24 year-old age class, Elliott Moskowy won the 200m freestyle in 2:33.11 and 100m backstroke in 1:26.86 and finished third in the 50m butterfly and 100m I.M. Trevor Langvand came second in the 100m I.M, 50m breaststroke and 25m butterfly and third in the 25m freestyle.

Gillian Parker won the 100m breaststroke in 1:31.47 and the 50m butterfly in 36.45 seconds in the 25-29 year-old women’s category while also earning silver in the 100m freestyle and 200m I.M. Dorothy Makin was a triple winner, taking gold in the 50m backstroke in 43.79 seconds, the 100m I.M. in 1:33.24 and the 25m butterfly in 19.71 seconds. She also won bronze in the 100m freestyle.

Michael Miller won the 100m breaststroke in 1:28.21, the 100m freestyle in 1:06.47 and the 25m freestyle in 13.64 seconds in the 25-29 year-old men’s category. He was second in the 50 and 200m breaststroke.

In the 30-34 year-old division, Kelly Cameron won the 50m breaststroke (46.95) and 25m butterfly (19.98) and was second in the 100m freestyle. Julia Vallance won the 25m backstroke (26.64), was second in the 100m I.M., 50m breaststroke, 25m freestyle and 25m butterfly and third in the 100m freestyle.

As well Jillian Staniec won the 100m breaststroke (2:01.35) and 25m freestyle (20.43) and was second in the 25m backstroke and 50m freestyle.

Brian Dand won the 30-34 year-old men’s 50m butterfly (33.06), 200m I.M. (2:48.63) and 100m freestyle (1:06.21). Teammate Brian Gallaway won the 25m backstroke (16.84), the 100m I.M. (1:20.76) and the 50m backstroke (37.11) and was second in the 200m I.M. and 50m butterfly.

Chantal Boos was a triple winner in the 35-39 year-old women’s division, capturing the 25m butterfly in 17.94 seconds, the 25m breaststroke in 22.20 seconds and the 100m I.M. in 1:37.85. She was second in the 200m butterfly.

Heidi Wild won all five of her races in the 40-44 year-old division, winning the 100m breaststroke (1:58.14), 25m breaststroke (24.49), 25m backstroke (23.55), 25m butterfly (24.50) and the 100m freestyle (1:36.71.).

The women’s 45-49 year-old group saw Karen Watt win the 25m breaststroke (22.51), 25m butterfly (17.05) and 25m backstroke (20.23) while taking second in the 25m freestyle, 50m backstroke and 50m freestyle. As well Dawn Detarando finished second in the 100 and 200m freestyle and 25 and 50m butterfly while taking third in the 50m freestyle.

Russell Hillis won all six of his races in the 45-49 year-old men’s division. He was first in the 800m freestyle (14:55.91), 50m breaststroke (50.10), 25m backstroke (29.35), 200m freestyle (3:28.10), 400m freestyle (7:14.04) and 100m freestyle (1:27.53).

In the 50-54 year-old women’s category Shirley Simpson won the 200m backstroke (4:12.61), 100m freestyle (1:42.97), 100m backstroke (1:53.69), 25m freestyle (23.30) and the 25m backstroke (23.87).

Brian Madill won the 100m breaststroke (1:35.12) and the 25m butterfly (16.2)0 in the men’s 50-54 year-old class while finishing second in the 50m breaststroke and the 100, 200 and 400m freestyle.

Jane Davies won the women’s 55-59 year-old 50m breaststroke (1:03.73), 25m backstroke (39.01), 50m freestyle (54.24) and 25m freestyle (23.13) while taking second in the 100m freestyle and 25m breaststroke.

The club had four competitors in the men’s 55-59 year-old division.

Anthony Williams won the 100m I.M. (1:33.74), the 100m freestyle (1:16.96) and the 25m freestyle (15.22) while taking second in the 25m butterfly. Paul Stewart won the 50m breaststroke (39.52) while Roy Van Der Sluis won the 50m freestyle (30.96) and 25m butterfly (16.62). Andy Lamb captured the 25m backstroke (20.92) and 200m freestyle (3:20.59) and was second in the 50 and 100m freestyle, 50m breaststroke and 100m I.M.

Steve Davies won the men’s 60-64 year-old 25m freestyle (17.79) and 25m backstroke (28.98) to go with silver in the 100m freestyle and bronze in the 50m freestyle and 50m backstroke.