Division 3 swimmer Octavia Lau led the Burnaby Barracudas to 12th place at the B.C. Summer Swimming championships in Coquitlam last weekend.
Lau won the girls' 50-metre freestyle race and also brought home three bronze medals in the 50m butterfly, 100m free and 100m individual medley.
Lau also teamed up with clubmates Deanna Dang, Maria Sulaver and Lauren Chong for two more gold in the 200m free and medley relays. Sulaver also earned an individual gold in the 50m breaststroke. Dang and Chong made finals in the fly and breast, respectively.
Leo Shen won a pair of gold in Div. 6 boys 100m breast and 200m IM. Shen added two bronze medals in relays to the 'Cudas medal chest along with Randy Ho, Ricky Dang and Montavi Kidd.
Jakub Vincalek also finished first in the Div. 7 boys' 100m breast. Vincalek also shared a silver medal in the medley relay with Marco Elezovic, Brian Huynh and Henry McKenzie.
Rowan Cheung was also a multi-medallist, winning a silver medal in the Div. 4 boys' 50m free and a bronze at 100m. He also won relay gold in freestyle with Garrett Yeo, Nicholas Tran and Edward Wong and a silver in the medley with Yeo, Wong and Kurtis Li. Yeo picked up an individual bronze in the 50m breast.
Nicole Ticea and Paige Catlin both picked up silver medals in the Div. 4 100m back and Div. 6 100m breast, respectively.
Chris Toy also earned a bronze in Div. 8 in the 50m fly.
Also making individual finals for the Barracudas were Xavier Lau, Cayden Liang, Emi Wong, Martina Blazevic, Katrina Heinonen and Alessia Marquez, who also placed runner-up in the girls' 13/14 one metre diving final.
Amy Kang also earned a silver in the eight-and-under girls' one-metre event, while Isabella Cesareo placed seventh in the 11/12 girls' one-metre event.
