www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, April 1, 2016 | 22 Kevin Nagel Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports q u a l i f i e r f o r r i o "Connected to your Community" G a m e s Some of the swimmers from the Oakville Aquatic Club who will be at the Canadian Olympic trials at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre next week were on hand for a rally at the Iroquois Ridge Community Centre on Tuesday. They include (from left) Tessa Cieplucha, Rosie Zavaros, Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba, Kristen Olvet, Maddison Murray, Mabel Zavaros, Aysia Leckie, Matthew Mac, Luka Tomic, Leon Qin and coach Sean Baker. | photo courtesy Anita Scheffel-Woo OAK swimmers ready for Olympic trials Twenty-eight members of the Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) are hoping for the swim of their lives when the Olympic trials are held in Toronto next week. The swimmers are hoping to qualify for the Olympic Games this summer in Rio de Janeiro. The trials are being held at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. Twin sisters Mabel and Rosie Zavaros, 16, have qualified for 11 events between them. Mabel will compete in seven events while Rosie has four. It's a huge accomplishment for the club's youngest members, students at Iroquois Ridge High School. Tessa Cieplucha, 17, currently ranked among the top five in the country in the 400-metre individual medley, has qualified in six events. She represented Canada at last year's FINA world juniors in Singapore where she placed 10th in her specialty. This fall, Cieplucha will head to the University of Tennessee and join the Volunteers swim team. Evan White, 20, a University of Michigan student, is currently ranked No. 1 in Canada in the 200m I.M. and has qualified in four events. At the Canadian swimming trials in 2014, White achieved a time of 1:59.84, just a few tenths of a second short of the Canadian record. Last summer he was fourth at the Pan Am Games in his signature event. "The athletes are coming off a great pre-season with a very good preparation camp in Barbados in March," Sean Baker, OAK head coach. "I know they will be walking on that pool deck with great attitudes and intentions. They will rise to the occasion and make us all proud regardless of whether they make the Olympic team or not." Also representing the Oakville club at the Olympic trials are Gamal Assad, Dominique Bouchard, Tessa Cieplucha, Mack Darragh, Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba, Matthew Fox, Annika Grewal, Kyle Haas, Mackenzie Hamill, Jacqueline Keire, Bryce KwiecienDelaney, Lauren Lalumiere, Aysia Leckie, Matthew Mac, Maddison Murray, Osvald Nitski, Marni Oldershaw, Kristen Olvet, Leon Qin, Abbey Saunders, Peter Serles, Luka Tomic, Katie Vanderbeek, David Whiteside and Connor Wilkins. The club is sending a contingent of young swimmers and families to cheer on and support the OAK swimmers. The trials will be held April 5-10, with most of the action telecast on CBC. Preliminary heats begin at 10 a.m. with finals starting at 7 p.m. each day. Tickets are available at https:// swimmingcanada.tickit.ca/ The annual Spring Golf Antique Trade Show's 2016 edition is scheduled for Sunday, April 3. The show is hosted by the Golf Historical Society of Canada and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. It's held at the Glen Abbey Golf Club at 1333 Dorval Dr. Organizers invite attendees to buy, trade and sell golf treasures, or have items appraised for free. Vendors will have a variety of collectable golf-related items for trade or sale. Doors open at 10 a.m. and the auction is set for 3 p.m. For more information, visit www.ghsc.ca. Spring Golf Antique Trade Show Sunday Eleven local speedskaters earn medals at E. Canadians Eleven of the 35 members of the Ontario team at the Eastern Canadian championships were members of the Oakville Speedskating Club, more than any other club in the Charlottetown, P .E.I. competition. Dania El Sammak led the locals with a five-medal performance. She won the gold in the 400-metre race, took three bronze medals in the 200, 1,500 and 3,000m races and added a silver medal as the second-highest points producer in her age group. Alex Giannotti and Alina Santostook were bronze medallists after they finished third in relay events. Others who represented the OSC included Ainsley These 11 athletes represented the Oakville Speedskating Club and Ontario at the recent Eastern Canadian championships in Charlotte- Little, Electra Halushak, Nicole Vrazinsoski, Jaden Lo, town, P.E.I., bought home medals, including a gold, three bronze and a silver by Dania El Sammak. Local skaters won seven medals in all. Daniel Giannotti, Tiago Lee Santos, Nicholas Kothleit| photo submitted ner and Ian Welsby.