Four BAD swimmers to take part in the Ontario Swimming Championships

By Gazette Staff

July 8th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

Four swimmers from the Burlington Aquatic Devilrways Swimming Club (BAD) will be taking part in the  Ontario Swimming Championships next week in Scarborough.
Hamilton-based Golden Horseshoe Aquatic Club (GHAC) will be sending ten members.  Of the ten GHAC is sending, four were former BAD members.

BAD Coach  Sergei Soloukhin with 15-year-old Ella Markowsky. The boys, each 11-year-olds, are from the left: Seamus Hilson, Remi Jacquemart and Heinrich Meissner-Roloff during a practice session earlier today.

Coach Soloukhin said these four swimmers are the start of the competitive rebuild the club has been going through ever since the city of Burlington changed pool allocation times, which resulted in a huge hit on the BAD club membership

Soloukhin explains that it takes a lot of time and patience to grow a young swimmer.  Many of them find that if they cannot get the pool time they need with one club that will move to another area club.

“These are very competitive young swimmers who work very hard to reach their best time in the sport they have chosen.  I’m proud to have them with the club.”