Gold Medal Continues Huge Improvements at President's Day Meets!
President's Day Weekend Meets Review
Senior Group
The stars of the Senior Group were:
Taylor Downey with five best times, including two new State times in 50 and 100 free and bi improvements in 100 and 200 back and 200 free.
Abby Raclaw with four best times including her first Sectional qualifying time in the 1650 free. Her other best times came in the 100 and 200 fly and 200 free.
Kinsey Miller with three best times in 100 back, 200 back, and 200 free. Her 200 free was the best split 200 free by any Senior swimmer this year and just missed the Sectional cut by hundredths.
Kaiden Lippy with eight best times including a Senior State cut in the 1650.
Dylan George with four best times and a near miss of his first State time in the 1650
Other notable improvements or top swims:
Bobby Sander-200 fly improvement by almost a second.
Colorado Stanley-Tied best taper times in the 100 and 200 back and big drop in 100 fly.
Clare Luken-Nine second improvement in the 400 IM, just missing a Sectional time.
Reed Lucero-Big improvement in 100 fly and close to his best time in 200 IM.
Colin Campbell-Big improvement in 100 fly.
Ava Elliot just missing her best time in 100 fly and a best time in 50 free.
Markus Quillinan and Kendall Alexander with best times in the 1650.
Jack Luken- Best time in 50 free.
Pre-Senior Group
.The Stars of the Pre-Senior Group:
Tori Nguyen-Ten best times out of ten swims
Reagan Uhlik-Ten best times with wins in five events and won the 11-2 Pentathlon.
Cohen Gunsalas-Nine best times and first place in the 400 IM.
Paige Downey-Nine best times with wins in two events.
Jason Sugihara-Eight best times with ten first places and eight new State records, and won the 11-12 Pentathlon.
Addison Henry-Eight best times and three new State times in 100IM, 500 free, and 200 free.
Adia Peterson-Eight best times and a new State cut in 50 back
Other Notable improvements or top swims:
Ellie Kayser-Three best times and a new State time in the 500 free and a 17 second improvement in the 1650.
Finn Conley-Eight best times in his first meet on a new team.
Dylan Rhodes-Five best times with a first place in 100 fly and 200 IM.
Myra Streit-Four best times in her final 11-12 meet.
Ava Lucero-Four best times and a new State cut in 50 fly.
Lawrence Wen-Four best times and new State cuts in 200 free and 200 fly.
Age Group 1
AG1 had another great weekend in the pool, swimming at both the Lost Dutchman Meet and the Mesa President’s Day Invite. AG1 swimmers achieved 101 life best times on 184 attempts for 55%. As a group we had 8 new State Qualifying times and 10 new JO Qualifying times.
Outstanding Individual Performances
Alp Cetegen had 9 best times in 11 events and achieved 3 new State Qualifying times in the 50, 100, and 200 freestyle events. He also placed 3rd among 11 year olds in Monday’s Pentathalon.
Sasha Volkova achieved 10 best times in 11 events and was the #1 highest placing 11 year old in the Pentathalon
Peter Hendricks achieved State Qualifying times in the 200 Butterfly and in the 1650. It was also his first attempt at swimming the 1650.
Danielle Fulton achieved best times in every event she swam, and had 5 new JO Qualifying times in 50 Back, 50 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 Free, and 200 IM
New State Qualifying times:
Carl DiGiovine 200 Freestyle
Ben George 200 IM
Tila Tometich 100 Butterfly
New JO times:
Shea Braley 200 Back/200 Breast
Aidan Feirstein 100 Back/200 Fly
Cyrus Mead 200 Breast
Age Group 2/3
Lost Dutchman / MAC Meet Summary
Kailey Albright - New state time 100 FLY, 6 JO qualifying times - 7 Best times.
Ryan Beck - 4 Best times.
Jordan Cruz - 6 JO qualifying times - 6 Best times.
Mackenzie Feirstiein - 4 Best times.
Angelina Gomez - 3 Best times.
Abdi Hendricks - 3 JO qualifying times - 7 Best times.
Cullen Kelly - New state 100 FLY, 1 JO qualifying times - 5 Best times.
Alexis Morley - 9 JO qualifying times- 9 Best times.
Grant Rathjen - 4 Best times.
Madeline Riggle - New state time 500 FR - 4 Best times.
Eli Ross - 2 JO qualifying times - 7 Best times.
Marley Spray - New state time 50 FLY, 500 FR - 4 Best times.
Emerson Striet - 1 JO qualifying time - 4 Best times.
Maya Stubbs - 4 Best times.
Ander Yu - 4 Best times.
William You- New state time 50 FLY, 50 FR - 6 Best times.
Angela You- 2 JO qualifying times - 5 Best times.
Addison Zius - 8 Best times.
