DURHAM -- For the first time in the club's 30-year history, Durham Synchro's Tier 7 Jr. team has returned home with medals from the 2006 Eastern/Atlantic Divisionals in Quebec City.

Facing powerhouse teams from Quebec, Ontario and the Atlantic provinces, Durham Synchro's Christa Hutton (Whitby), Katie LePage (Whitby), Julia Maclean (Ajax), Brianna MacLellan (Whitby), Chelsey Matthews (Uxbridge), Allie Mear (Whitby), Carrie Mouck (Scarborough) and Alaina Wade (Pickering) placed fourth in a field of 10 Tier 7 Jr. teams.

Durham swimmers also placed extremely well in figures, duet and solo events at Synchro Elite's Centre Sportif Lucien-Flamand.

In Tier 6, 15 and Under figures, Julia Maclean won the bronze medal in a field of 145 competitors. In Tier 7 Jr. figure competition, Katie LePage was 23rd (8th in Ontario), and Chelsey Matthews was 25th (10th in Ontario).

In Tier 6, 15 and Under duet competition, Julia Maclean and Carrie Mouck won the silver medal in a field of 21 competitors and will compete at the 2006 Canadian Espoir Synchronized Swimming Championships in June at Etobicoke Olympium.

In Tier 7 Jr. duet competition, Katie LePage and Chelsey Matthews finished 10th in a field of 22 duets. Their top-10 finish qualifies them to compete at the Canadian Open Championships in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in May.

In Tier 6, 15 and Under solo competition, Maclean won her second bronze medal of the meet, and also moves on to Nationals.