Ontario Open Championships Recap
Our athletes had a jam-packed weekend to close out the 2020-2021 competitive season!
The athletes have put so much work into Dryland training and have really improved over the year- it showed with the technical ability the athletes brought to this dryland routine competition. We also loved seeing the athlete’s unique choreography.
As always, there were many parents, siblings and furry friends around cheering their athletes on. We also got to see some new competition locations with the warmer weather- our athletes competed on lawns, outdoor decks, and even a boat!
After all of the events were over, we were joined by the one and only Stacey Umeh to lead our athletes through an end-of-year dance party. Even though it was 6:00am in her home of Perth, Australia, Stacey brought so much energy and life and got our athletes (and even some parents) up on their feet! We closed out the year with our Virtual Ontario Championships Banquet to highlight our competition awards, club awards for the year (volunteer, coach, and athlete of the year) and thank all of our OAS family for a fantastic season. We were so happy to see over 250 smiling faces join us to end out the year in style.
As we close out a virtual season, we are so proud of our athletes, coaches, officials and volunteers for a year of adapting and hard work. We can’t wait to see you all on a pool deck near you once again.
Here’s the list of club award winners:
Volunteer of the Year
Burlington Synchro – Jodie Near
Durham Synchro – Shawn Turpin
Kawartha Trent – Crystal Lyons
London – Beth Heinrichs
Nepean – Gail Brennan
Royal City – Deb Chartrand
Sudbury – Christine Fink
Toronto – Tracy Greenfield
Waterloo – Angela Gubasci
York – Pavel Shkolnikov
OAS – Erika Lindner
Coach of the Year
Burlington – Elly van Fleet
Burlington – Candice Larochelle
Durham – Meagan Caulfield
GO Capital – Kristina Anagnosti
GO Capital – Maryia Kazartsava
Granite – Adriana Ermter
Granite – Alyssa Leithwood
Kawartha Trent – Dani Smith
London – Olivia Amaral
London – Sabrina Young
Mississauga – Morgan Armstrong
Mississauga – Caroline Martyn Belchior
Nepean – Elise Bordeleau
Nepean – Rachel Enns
Olympium – Stephanie Breiigem
Olympium – Delaney Klein
Royal City – Hannah Wiley
Royal City – Brenna Thompson
Sudbury – Emily Binks
Toronto – Christa Plumley
Toronto – Katherine Alexander
Waterloo – Kelly Hogan
Waterloo – Samantha Kowalski
York – Selina Lee
York – Debbie Stanton
Athlete of the Year
Burlington – Maya Mahmoud
Burlington – Macy Maitland
Durham – Kaitlyn Switzer
Durham – Charlotte Bennett
GO Capital – Frederique Desjardins
GO Capital – Lillyan Malek
Granite – Camellia Xu
Granite – Alexa Swales
Kawartha Trent – Kirsten White
London – Yuejia Su
London – Tessa Hinz
Mississauga – Joanna Zeng
Mississauga – Eliana He
Nepean – Evelyn Wille
Nepean – Dilara Baysal
Olympium – Chris Neihaus
Olympium – Francesca Seed
Royal City – Katie Slater
Sudbury – Chloe Zinck
Sudbury – Lana Squires
Toronto – Nadalin Greenfield
Toronto – Madeline Knibbs
Waterloo – Sydney Lavigne Bushko
Waterloo – Danica Penner
York – Joy Jeon
York – Victoria Kelly