A Splash of Excitement: Little Caesars 2025 Winter Fun Meet & Goldfins Shamrock Showdown Swim Meet Preview

The Saskatoon Goldfins Swim Club is excited to host the 2^nd annual Little Caesars 2025 Winter Fun Night & Goldfins Shamrock Showdown of the 2024-2025 swim season. This event is dedicated to our youngest Goldfins swimmers and promises an evening filled with exciting races and joyful moments! Junior Goldfins swimmers competing in Bronze, Silver and Gold events will strive to enhance their personal best times while showcasing their competitive techniques and skills. We are also excited to include the G1 and G2 swimmers to showcase their skills!

This unique competition includes bell heat prizes, door prize packages, and, of course, plenty of PIZZA! The Goldfins extend their gratitude to Lana NIro and her team at Little Caesars for their unwavering support of our Junior Goldfins program. Lana generously provides pizza for over 200 swimmers and volunteers, ensuring this swim meet is infused with extra “Pizzazz”!

The Fun Meet schedule is as follows:

Swimmers arrive on deck: Bronze 5:30 PM and Silver and Gold 5:15 PM

Warm-Up and Group Meetings: 5:30-5:55 PM

Competition Starts: 6:00 PM

Little Caesars 2025 Winter Fun Night Events:

Swimmers are required to be pre-registered to participate in this event.

Please notify us of any registered swimmers cannot attend the Meet, as their absence leads to empty lanes and can delay the events’ timeline.

Thank you to these Junior Goldfins swimmers who have registered to compete in the FUN Meet:

Bronze: Olivia Catte, Archer Chalmers, Abby Choo, Anouk Dyck, Alexia Effa, Madeline Forseth, William Forseth, Gemma Friggstad, Sibelle Ghouzail, Michael Goncharov, Kristina Goncharov, Kaley Hack, Rayna Haver, Mackinnon Johnson, Maddox Katsiris, Luka Li, Ezra Munshaw, Elias Reiter, Arian Rezaei, Kate Seto, Selvan Shah, Maisie Smela, Talia Smith, Violet Taylor, Sonny Taylor, Thomas Waldner, Kip Waldo, Ella Williams, Sienna Wilson, Aiden Zeng, and Lucia de Boer.

Silver: Audrey Anderson, Hudson Austin, McKinley Bowman, Qualen Flemming, Maeve Friggstad, Shae Frith, Adda Fu, Abed El Karim Ghouzail, Freya Halfinger, Olive Horner-Uhyn, Sara Horvath, Kyra Jackson, Ivan Kays, Alandria Kimbley, Hazel Klassen, Ruby Kolla, Andy Ma, Rory Mah, Wesley Mah, Elizabeth McIntyre, Florence Mitchell, Violet Murray, Belle Pasion, Keeli Pocock, Madi Rusnell, Owen Saganski, Kenzie Shwydiuk, Jack Smela, Bracken Takagi, Yvie Walz, Ethan Wang, Jessica Wang, Winnie White, Isaac Willick, and Evelina Zawadowski.

Gold: Kendrick Brewster, Jake Brookman, Ellie Chasse Wolfson, Diana Chen, Mia Choo, Flavie Costa, Austin Davis, Eleanor Davis, Piper Dickson, Myla Dirk, Emmett Dyck, James Ellis, Scarlett Elson, Alice Fu, Kassia Gartner, Aoife Gibbons, Steven Goncharov, Summer Gullacher, Leilani Hitchings, Ellie Jana, Ronan Lange, Owen McKnight, Oscar Metz, Viet Tri Nguyuen, Stone Phippard, John Preiss, Micah Rajakumar, Emmett Reddekopp, Alice Saganski, Caitlyn Samonte, Madison Scharback, Jenny Sun, Abigail Takagi, Aruke Uzbekova, Liam Veikle, Simrin Virdi, CiCi Xu, Hannah Yonkman, Bella Zhang, Grace Zhang

The Goldfins G1 & G2 Groups will come together to participate in the Goldfins Shamrock Showdown on March 14 & 15, 2025. Swimmers from G1 & G2 have been divided into two teams – GREEN vs GOLD – as they compete for the coveted POT of GOLD!

Goldfins Shamrock Showdown Teams Announcement:

GOLD: Ethan Zbytovsky (Captain), Naomi Liu, Ben Nesteroff, Monica Lin, Gracie Munshaw, Sienna Weber, Cori Biberdorf, Aiden Sereda-Wosminity, Aliyah Aubut, Abigail Gauld, Kamlyn Dyck, Sidney Goodwin, Will Sothilingam, Farrah Aitken, Anton Magsuci, Hannah Larson, Zoe Gursky, Summer Grajo, and Kyla Butterworth.

GREEN: Oliver Wruck (Captain), Phillip Shorte, Harper Bear, Carsyn Busa, Lan Nguyen, Sadie Burrows, Ava Gursky, Emmy Hoffmann, Mateo Jarcan, Kasey Biberdorf, Miller Gotto, Cohen Veikle, Gillian Grayston, Lennox Armstrong, Vanessa Godbout, Jacob Findlay, An Nguyen and Mila D'Souza.

On March 14, 2025, G1 and G2 Groups will arrive for Warm-Up at 4:15 PM, with the session running from 4:30 PM to 5:20 PM. Swimmers will participate in the Shamrock Showdown events during the Little Caesars 2025 Winter Fun Meet.

G1 & G2 swimmers will compete in three events scheduled for Friday night: the 100M Individual Medley, 50M Fly, and 50M Freestyle Kick.

Racing will continue on Saturday, March 15, 2025. Swimmers should arrive by 7:00 AM, with Warm-Up from 7:15 to 8:00 AM, and racing starting at 8:05 AM until 10:30 AM.

G1 & G2 swimmers will choose four events, while all participants will compete in the 200M Individual Medley Event. To Top of The Morning, there will be an exciting 8 X 25M Medley Relay to Top off this exciting event. 

Swimmers will select their events, aiming to earn as many points as possible for their team.

** This is a non-sanctioned event; results will be compared to the Goldfins swimmers’ best times as previously achieved through non-sanctioned/testing events for improvement comparison purposes.

Junior Goldfins Swimmers should bring the following items to the swim meet:

Tight fitting bathing suit, goggles, Goldfin cap, 2-3 towels, Junior Goldfins blue shirt or Goldfins attire, warm sweatpants or shorts, deck shoes, small and easy to eat snack, water bottle, pizza take out container.

Swimmers should bring all of their stuff in an identifiable bag that has their name on it to keep all of their stuff in.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the parents who have volunteered to officiate at this meet. Your support is greatly appreciated. Parent officials are requested to check in at the on-deck classroom by 5:30 PM. A special thank you goes to the Goldfins senior swimmers who will be lending a hand at this event.

Please note that parents and spectators are required to sit in the designated seating area located in the mezzanine bleachers. Parents will not be allowed to sit on the deck.

Meet Information and Results will be found on the Meet Mobile App

Follow the Goldfins updates and results will be posted on the Goldfins Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Pages.   

Due to the swim meet, there will NOT BE any regularly scheduled training sessions held on Friday, March 14, 2025, for the Goldfins’ White 3 or for the B1 & B2 Groups.

Please note that the Donated Pizza is for Swimmers and Volunteers Only 

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