Nepean-Kanata Barracudas swimmer Mia Zahab won the girls’ 14-year-olds 1,500-metre freestyle race by over 16 seconds as her club hosted the March 3-6 Ontario Long-Course Spring Provincial Swimming Championships at the Nepean Sportsplex.
Zahab’s winning time of 18 minutes, 1.86 seconds qualified her for the summertime senior-level Canadian Swimming Championships at age 14. She also collected a medal of each colour from the 800 m free (gold), the 200 butterfly (silver) and a pair of bronze from the 200 & 400 individual medley.
A month earlier, Zahab earned the individual high point award in her age group as her NKB club took the top team honours at the Eastern Ontario regionals.
Also winning youth-level provincial titles were NKB’s Raeleigh Mooij (girls’ 15-year-olds 50 m free), Dylan Byers of the Greater-Ottawa Kingfish (boys’ 15 200 free), Ravens of Carleton’s Jo Storm (girls’ 13-and-under 400 IM), NKB’s Katie Breault (girls’ 16-17 400 IM), and NKB relay teams featuring Breault in the 200 medley and Mackenzie Houston in the 200 free, and Chuchu Yang, Victoria McKendry and Jessica Yu in both.
GO Kingfish’s Keaton Zhou set 10-and-under boys’ club records in winning the 50 and 100 breast races at the Feb. 20-21 Ontario Winter Short Course Festival in Markham.
NKB’s David Quirie won both the 200 free and 200 back at the same event.
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