{"id":11858,"date":"2015-09-09T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:05:47","slug":"mayors-breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-ducks-swimming-takes-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/mayors-breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-ducks-swimming-takes-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor\u2019s Breakfast of Champions Spotlight: Ducks Swimming takes Charge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kelly Huges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soorna Choheili was Ducks Swimming\u2019s top performing male for the 2014-2015 season.<br \/>\nSoorna captured gold in all five of his individual events at the Division II Provincial Team Championships, as well as two relay wins in the Boys 13-14 age category.<br \/>\nSoorna also qualified for the 2015 Speedo Eastern Canadian Open in the Boys 16 &#038; Under Category, while only 14 years of age. He placed 16th at the event, with only one other 14 year old boy ranking ahead of him.  In addition, he achieved 4 finalist performances at the Provincial Age Group Championships in his individual events this season; as well as 2 finalist performances on relays teams in the Boys 13-14 age category.   <\/p>\n<p><em>Hayden Spiers<\/em><br \/>\nHayden Spiers turned in a gold medal performance in the 200 m Butterfly at the Division II Provincial Team Championships. Hayden also captured a silver medal in the 1500 m freestyle, as well as two relay wins in the Boys 13-14 age category at the Provincial Team Championships.<br \/>\nHayden achieved two finalist performances at the Ontario Age Group Championships as a member of the Boys 13-14, 4 x 50 m Freestyle Relay and the 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay.  He was also a Finalist in the 200 m Butterfly, Boys 15, at the Provincial Age Group Championships held in Nepean in July 2015.  Hayden successfully met the 2015 Speedo Eastern Canadian Open qualification standard for Boys 16 &#038; Under in the 200 m Butterfly.<\/p>\n<p><em>George Zizakovic<\/em><br \/>\nGeorge Zizakovic won two gold medals and a bronze medal at the Division II Provincial Team Championships in the Boys 10 Years Category for the 50 m and 100 m Breaststroke and the 200 m IM, respectively.<br \/>\nGeorge was also a member of two winning relay teams at this provincial championship event; the 4&#215;50 m Freestyle Relay and the 4&#215;50 m Medley Relay. He captured gold at the Central Regional Long Course Championships in the 800 m Freestyle and silver in the 100 m Breaststroke in the Boys 11 Years Category.<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F11858&#038;t=Mayor%E2%80%99s%20Breakfast%20of%20Champions%20Spotlight%3A%20Ducks%20Swimming%20takes%20Charge%21&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F11858&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F09%2F2015-09-10-13.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Mayor%E2%80%99s%20Breakfast%20of%20Champions%20Spotlight%3A%20Ducks%20Swimming%20takes%20Charge%21\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F11858&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Mayor%E2%80%99s%20Breakfast%20of%20Champions%20Spotlight%3A%20Ducks%20Swimming%20takes%20Charge%21&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F11858\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kelly Huges Soorna Choheili was Ducks Swimming\u2019s top performing male for the 2014-2015 season. Soorna captured gold in all five of his individual events at the Division II Provincial Team Championships, as well as two relay wins in the Boys 13-14 age category. Soorna also qualified for the 2015 Speedo Eastern Canadian Open in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-10-13.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-35g","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 09:08:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}