Gold Medal Has Top Performances at Three Different Meets on the Same Weekend

Michael Chasson

Gold Medal Swimmers swam in three different meets this past weekend. Almost every swimmer on the team was involved in a meet. Once again there were so many outstanding swims, it will be impossible to mention them all, but this news story will hope to mention as many as possible.

From Coach Christine for Age Group 2/3:
 
This past week we had so many great achievements. They did a great job and performed exceptionally well despite being windy and cold.
 
Kailey Albright had 6 best times and achieved 6 JO qualifying times in the 100 FR, 50BR, 100BR,50FLY, 100FLY,and 100 IM.
 
Jordan Cruz had 4 best times and achieved 3 JO qualifying in the 100 FR, 200FR, and 50 FLY.
 
Mackenzie Feirstiein had 2 best times and achieved a state and JO qualifying times in 100BR and 100IM.
 
Grant Rathjen had 4 best times and achieved 2 state qualifying times in the 100BK, 100 IM and 2 JO qualifying times in the 100FR and 50FLY.
 
Madeline Riggle had 2 best time and achieved a state qualifying time in 50 FR and a JO qualifying time in 100 BK.
 
Marley Spray had 4 best time and achieved 4 state qualifying times in the 50BK, 100BK, 100BR, and 200IM.
 
Emerson Striet had 2 best times and achieved 2 JO qualifying times in the 50 FR and 100 FR.
 
William You had 3 best times and achieved a state qualifying time in the 100BR and 2 JO qualifying times in the 50BK and 100BK.
 
Ryan Beck had 5 Best times in the 50FR, 50BK, 50BR, 100BR and 50FLY.
 
Angelina Gomez had 4 Best times in the 50FR, 100FR, 50BK, 50FLY.
 
Abdi Hendricks had 4 best times and achieved 3 JO qualifying times in the 50FR, 100BR, and 100IM.
 
Cullen Kelly had a best time and achieved JO qualifying time in the 100IM.
 
Maya Stubbs had 2 best times in the 50 BK and 100BR.
 
Angela You had 3 best times in the 50 FR, 100FR and 50 BR.
 
Ander Yu had 2 best times in the 100 FR and 50 BK.
 
Addison Zius had a best time in the 100BK and achieved JO qualifying time. 
          From Coach Jens for Age Group 1:

 

Despite cold windy conditions this past week, we had several swimmers that had some notable achievements. 

 

In his first meet as a 13 year old, Matthew Weldy had 6 best times out of 7 swims, and achieved 3 new JO qualifying times  in the 200 IM, 400 IM, and 100 Free.

 

Carl DiGiovine had 5 best times out of 6 swims, and achieved a new State Qualifying time in the 100 Free.

 

Alexa Largent, Alp Cetegen, and Markus Crawford also had 5 new best times for the weekend.

 

New JO Qualify times were also turned in by Shea Braley-50 Breast, Zach Basha-50 Back, Evan Beck-400 IM, Markus Crawford-200 Breast, Bella Ross-400 IM.

 Peter Hendricks achieved his first 11-12 State Qualifying time in the 400 IM.

Pre-Senior Meet Review:

The pre-seniors swam at the Rio meet and the Mesa meet this past weekend. Except for four swimmers, they all swim mostly two events as they had swum more the previous weekend.

At the Rio meet Jason Sugihara had five best times and broke four Arizona State 11-12 boys age group records. He now has State records in the following events: 50 fly, 50 breast, 50 back, 100 breast, 400 IM, 100 fly, 100 IM, and 200 free. Reagan Uhlik also had four best times with an impressive 5:01 in the 400IM. She also swam a great 200 free along with Paige Downey, Ava Lucero, Dylan Rhodes, Ava Peterson, who all did best times in the event. Sara Spresney swam two best times as did Addison Henry. Ellie Kayser, Ava Lucero, and Paige Downey all broke a minute in the 100 freestyle for the first time.

At the Mesa meet Lawrence Wen achieved his first 13-14 State times in the 100 free with a 54.72 and the 400 IM with a 4:56.55. Amberly You recorded two best times as did Alex George and Joe Luken. Molly Hendricks achieved three best times with a 10 second improvment in the 400 IM and seven seconds in the 200 IM.

Senior Meet Review:

The SAC meet was a continuation of the MAC meet the previous week, and there many improvments over the previous weeks efforts. Leading the way was Finn Crawford with five best times and three new Sectional cuts in the 500 free, 200 fly and the 1650. Colin Campbell picked up a new Sectional cut in the 1650 and Reed Lucero broke a minute in the 100 breast for the first time. Clare Luken added a sectional cut in the 500 free as did Ryne Davenport in the 200 back. Jack Luken achieved a Futures cut in the 1650 and Max Nielsen missed the 100 back cut by .5. Reed had five best time and Clare had four to lead the way in that category. Over the two weekends, Kendall Alexander dropped her 200 breast time six seconds. Almost all the swimmers had at least one best time and went faster than the previous week's qualifying meet, which is an impressive achievment.

 

Overall, a very good weekend for Gold Medal Swim Club!!