Victoria Culp of Vineland won gold in the 1,500 freestyle with Halucha of grabbing bronze in the same event.

Ronan Healey of St Catharines took bronze in the 800 freestyle.

Twenty-two Brock club swimmers took part in the event, which serves as the season-ending championship for most of the club's young swimmers.

Halucha, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student at Churchill, has swam with Brock for the past four years. She trains seven times a week and has shown steady improvement competing in the freestyle event at distances from 400-1,500 metres. Halucha will compete next month at a meet in Buffalo as well as competing at the Ontario Provincial Open Water championships, where she will be racing five kiolmetres for the first time. The meet is being held at Professor's Lake in Brampton.

Like many members of the Brock team, Halucha earned her water wings close to home. "We had a pool and I was always swimming, so my dad asked me why I didn't try swimming competitively? So I did, and I really like it," said Halucha after an early morning practice Tuesday.

Other Brock swimmers placing in the top eight in Brantford were: Boaz Allon of Fonthill who was seventh in the 50- and 100-metre butterfly, Jamie Halucha fourth in the 800 freestyle, Ronan Healey was fifth in the 50 metre freestyle, Andrew Hrycusko of Fonthill fifth in the 100-metre breaststoke, Shabana Jamani, of St Catharines, eighth in the 100-metre butterfly and Ryan Zacharias of St Catharines who was seventh in the 50-metre breaststoke and eighth in the 100-metre breaststroke.