The Atlanta Rainbow Trout won eight individual medals and three team medals during the recent International Gay & Lesbian Aquatics Championships in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy Atlanta Rainbow Trout)
MORE INFO Atlanta Rainbow Trout www.atlantarainbowtrout.com Atlanta Rainbow Trout results 2008 IGLA Championships Individual Medals Alex Bailey: Gold, 50 Freestyle Kevin Mylod: Silver, 100 Fly Nicole Giles: Silver, 200 Fly; silver, 1500 Freestyle; bronze, 400 Freestyle Sean McKinley: Silver, 100 Backstroke Ande Timpeiro: Bronze, 100 Freestyle Brad Willard: Bronze, 50 Freestyle Water Polo Trout “A”: Bronze with 5-1 record Trout “B”: 1-5 record Team Small Team Division: fourth place Mixed 160 Freestyle Relay: Silver (Alex Bailey, Ande Timpeiro, Scott Friedlander, Nicole Giles) Men’s 100 400 Meter Freestyle Relay: Silver (Brad Willard, Steve Schessler, Russell Porter, Sean McKinley) Men’s 800 Freestyle Relay: Silver (Russell Porter, Eric Love, Cliff Miller, Sean Fitzgerald) Men’s 120 400 Medley Relay: Bronze (Sean McKinley, Alex Bailey, Kevin Mylod, Brad Willard)
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Jul 11, 2008  |  By: MATT HENNIE  | COMMENTS |   |  

THE ATLANTA RAINBOW Trout brought home a bag full of medals from the recent gay swimming championships, continuing the strong performance they logged a year ago at the international event.

Some 37 members of the gay swimming club competed at the International Gay & Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) Championships in Washington, D.C., last month, winning eight individual and four relay medals. The Trout also fielded two water polo teams, with the top team winning the bronze medal for the second consecutive year.

“Things went really well,” said Sean Fitzgerald, the Trout’s president, who has attended IGLA championships since 1995. “I don’t think we could have done better on the swimming or polo side.”

Fitzgerald was one of three Trout members who won medals for at least the second consecutive year. Last month, he picked up silver in the Men’s 800 Freestyle Relay and last year, he won silver in the 50 Freestyle.

Ande Timpeiro won bronze in the 100 Freestyle and silver in the Mixed 160 Freestyle Relay last month, adding to the three medals she received at the 2007 event. Cliff Miller joined Fitzgerald in the Men’s 800 Freestyle Relay; last year, he medaled in the Men’s 4 x 50 Freestyle Relay.

WITH WATER POLO, the Trout took 21 athletes over two teams to the IGLA competition. Its top team was looking to repeat its third-place finish from 2007, its highest-finish ever after several years of losing in the quarterfinals. That team jumped out to a 4-0 start before losing to the Queer Utah Aquatic Club and rebounding to defeat Team New York Aquatics in the bronze medal game.

The Trout’s second team finished 1-5.

Matt Hennie blogs on Atlanta’s gay sports scene at www.gaytlsports.com.