The Hollandia Invitational serves as an excellent tune up for future championship meets in June and July.

The 12 & Under contigent includes:

Hannah Forster (10) swam 100% best times in all five of her events. Liam Gibson (10) finished first in the 200 and 400 freestyles as well as second in the 100fly and 4^th in 200 Individual Medley and the 100 freestyle and backstroke. His brother Connor (12) dropped over 50 seconds in his 400 freestyle and 38 seconds in his 200 backstroke. Madison Heggie (11) also finished 7^th in the 200 butterfly and 200 IM. Jessi Higgins (11) placed 4^th in the 200 freestyle and 5^th in the 400 as well as 7^th in the 100. Sebastian Paulins (11) shed 75 seconds from his 400 freestyle previous best and swam best times in all of his events. Tanner Robinson (12) placed 5^th in the 400 freestyle, 6^th in the 200 backstroke and 7^th in the 100 back, 200 freestyle and 400IM. Tyler Robinson (10) finished 7^th in the 400 freestyle and swam 100% best times. Kennedy Russell (13) swam best times in five of her 6 events. Andrew Vallee (12) was 4^th in the 400 freestyle and 7^th in the 200IM as well as 8^th in the 200 freestyle.

The 13 & Over swimmers participated in the preliminaries in the morning and most returned to swim at night. Their results:

Siena Calarco (14) finished 3^rd in the 50 butterfly and 100 freestyle. She was also 4^th in the 50 breastroke and 5^th in the 50 freestyle. Rachael Dudley (14) shed over 45seconds off of her previous best in the 400 freestyle and nearly 10 seconds in the 200. Sydney Harrington (16) placed 3^rd in the 100 freestyle and 200 backstroke as well as 4^th in the 50 back, 50 fly, 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke. Garrett Heggie (13) finished 7^th in the 100 and 200 butterflys. Katie Jagus (16) took off over 20 seconds from her personal best in the 200 backstroke and swam PBs in her other three events. Her sister Lauren (14) swam best times in all five of her events. Following that trend Rachel Lynne-Davies (13) also swam to 100% best times at the meet. Kaitlyn Mitchell (15) finished 4^th in the 800 freestyle and 5^th in the 100 and 6^th in the 200. Marc Muise (16) finished 5^th in the 400IM and 6^th in the 100 butterfly as well as 7^th in the 200IM. Alex Paulins (14) finished 1^st in the 50 butterfly and 2^nd in the 50 freestyle and 3^rd in the 200 backstroke. His older sister Beth (16) dropped over 50 seconds in the 800 freestyle and went on to swim personal bests in six of her seven events. Derek Quick (18) was 4^th in the 100 and 200 freestyle and 6^th in the 100 and 200 backstrokes. Alex Siuda (17) was 5^th in both the 100 and 200 backstrokes as well as 7^th in the 100 breastroke and 100 freestyle.

Overall the Brantford Aquatic Club finished 5^th in team scores improving significantly from their 13^th place finish last season.

Next up for BAC is the HOBB Finale in Oakville June 5, 2010 and the Western Region Championships in Brantford at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre June 11-13, 2010.