Synchronized swim team wins gold at international competition

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/synchro_swimmers.jpg” caption=”Six members of the McMaster Synchronized Swimming Team won gold at the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) 12th World Master’s Championships in Perth, Australia. File photo. “]The Ontario Synchronized Swimming Club comprised of six members of the McMaster Synchronized Swimming Team captured the gold medal at the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) 12th World Master's Championships in Perth, Australia held April 17 to 25.

The McMaster members of the 2008 FINA Masters World Aquatic Championships swim team include Charlotte Peer (Waterdown, ON), a fourth-year communication studies and multimedia student, Lindsay Maclean (Oshawa, ON), a third-year mechanical engineering management student, Carla Dilellio (Burlington, ON), a fourth-year human
resources management student, Carly Fairles, a second-year kinesiology student, Christa Schnarr (Hamilton, ON) and Melynda Saunders (Hamilton, ON), both fourth-year geography students.

The other four members of the team attend Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.

The McMaster trio of Charlotte Peer, Carly Fairles, Carla Dilellio and Lindsay MacLean earned a silver medal, and the McMaster duet of Christina Schnarr and Melynda Saunders came away with a bronze.

McMaster Synchronized Swimming Most Valuable Player Charlotte
Peer said the team was “shocked … but obviously very happy.”

The FINA World Masters Championship is held bi-annually in
even years. This year's event featured nearly 5,000 competitors from 80 national federations.