Gold Medal Starts the Short Course Season With Great Swims at the September SAC Meet

In their first meets swimming with Gold Medal, Soraya Lindsey, Stella Olson, Kitt Agne, Sydney Withem, and Ella Wilson combined for 23 best times, with 17 out of those 23 swims being Regional times. Here are the individual breakdowns - 

 

Cullen Kelly - 3 new State times, 7 best times

Alexis Morley - 2 new State times, 1 new Regional time, 7 best times

Dante Apps - 1 new State time, 5 best times

Soraya Lindsey - 7 new Regional times, 7 best times

Stella Olson - 4 new Regional times, 4 best times

Angela You - 4 new Regional times, 4 best times

Kitt Agne -  3 new Regional times, 4 best times

Rachel Spresney - 2 new Regional times, 6 best times

Thais Apps - 2 new Regional times, 4 best times

Sydney Withem - 2 new Regional times, 3 best times

Xavier Apps - 1 new Regional time, 6 best times

Ella Wilson - 1 new Regional time, 5 best times

Ander Yu - 5 best times

Maya Stubbs - 4 best times

Angelina Gomez - 3 best times

 

Age Group 1

AG1 did an outstanding job at the first short course swim meet of the season.  Even in the rain!  As a group, we had 84% LBT’s (life best times).  I was most proud of the improvements we made on our walls.  Turns, streamlines, kickouts, and pullouts were significantly improved. 

Of the 19 swimmers from AG1 that participated, 10 swimmers had 100% LBT’s:  Kailey Albright, Bruss Bowman, Jordan Cruz, Isla McMullan, Cyrus Mead, Laney Phelps, Grant Rathjen, Madeline Riggle, Marley Spray, and Addison Zius.

As a group, we had 20 new SC State Qualifying times and 18 new Regional/JO Qualifying times:

Cyrus Mead achieved 5 new SQ times:  500 Free,100 Back, 200 Free, 50 Back, 50 Free

Mackenzie Feirstein – 3 SQ times:  100/200 Free and 100 Back

Alexa Largent – 3 SQ tiems:  200/500 Free and 100 Back

Marley Spray – 3 SQ times:  100 Back, 100 Breast, and 100 IM

Laney Phelps – 2 SQ times:  100 Back and 100 Breast

Bruss Bowman – 1 SQ time:  100 Back, and 1 Reg/JO time:  500 Free

Danielle Fulton - 1 SQ time:  50 Fly, and 1 Reg/JO time:  100 Back

Grant Rathjen - 1 SQ time: 100 Back, and 1 Reg/JO time:  200 IM

Alp Cetegen – 1 SQ time:  50 Fly

Isla McMullan – 3 Reg/JO times:  500 Free, 100 Back, and 100 Fly

Zach Basha – 2 Reg/JO times:  500 Free and 200 IM

William You – 1 Reg/JO time:  100 Fly

 

I would also like to welcome our newest AG1 members who moving up this month from AG2:

Kailey Albright achieved 5 new Reg/JO times: 500 Free, 50/100 Breast, 50 Fly, and 200 IM

Addison Zius achieved 4 new Reg/JO times:  50/100/200/500 Free

 

Pre-Senior/Senior

There were many improvements since the groups hadn't swam short course since April, but each swimmer had an outstanding performance to start the season. Many of these swims were in the 500 free, which everyone in the group swam.

Finn Conley. 500 free 5.15.97 A 30 second improvement

Paige Downey 500 free 5:13.81 A 17 second improvment and just missing the Sectional cut.

Cohen Gunsalas 500 free 5:16.16 A seventeen second improvement

Addison Henry 200 free 2:04.90 A six second improvment

Ellie Kayser 500 free 5:14.34 A nine second improvement and just missing the Sectional cut.

Langston Lindsey 100 free 54.88 A three second improvement

Joe Luken 200 IM 2:17.60 A six second improvement

Tori Nguyen 200 free 2:08.07 A four second improvement

Adia Peterson 200IM 2:26.41 A two second improvment

Owen Phelps 200 free 2:05.50 A five second improvement

Dylan Rhodes 500 free 5:30.01  A eleven second improvement

Jason Sugihara 500 free  4:54.49 A 14 second improvement

Tila Tometich 100 back 1:05.22 A five second improvement

Reagan Uhlik 500 free 5:26.46 A twelve second improvement

Sasha Volkova 100 beast 1:12,80 A two second improvement and 500 free 5:33.85 a fourteen second improvement

Amberly Yu 100 fly 1:16.28 A three second improvement

Jonathan Zinger 200 free 2:02.24 A four second improvment

Abby Raclaw 200 back 2:20.68 A six second improvement

Overall, a great first short course meet of the year.