Swimming Fast at the SAC Pumpkin Splash!

JoAnna Woodward

Gold Medal swimmers had lots of first time swims in the 500 and 1000 frees as well as many outstanding swims, way to go! Here are the results:

Age Group 2

AG2 had a great weekend with many first time and outstanding swims as well as best times. With all the best times that we achieved we still have a few technical components that we need to get more practice with!! The streamlines and kick-out were great. In the coming practice we will focus on speed of our transition turns from butterfly to back and some flutter kick on butterfly.
The overall results: 5 new State times 87 new Regional times and 179 Best Times.

Way to go AG2!!! Here are the results from the meet:

Kitt Agne - 2/6 Best Times.
Blake Albright - 6/6 Best Times with 2 Regional qualifying times.
Thais Apps - 6/6 Best Times with 5 Regional qualifying times.
Xavier Apps - 2/6 Best Times with 1 Regional qualifying time.
Danny Arredondo - 4/5 Best Times with 2 Regional qualifying times.
Tegen Arredondo - 5/5 Best Times with 4 Regional qualifying times.
Audrey Botsios - 4/6 Best times with 1 Regional qualifying time.
Edward Cai - 6/6 Best Times with 3 Regional qualifying times.
Ian Chantis - 3/5 Best Times.
Elan Chong - 3/6 Best Times.
Enung Chong - 6/6 Best Times.
Stella Daniels - 5/7 Best Times with 1 State qualifying Time and 2 Regional qualifying times.
Eric Gan - 6/6 Best times with 1 State qualifying time and 4 Regional qualifying times.
Mikaela Germie - 6/7 Best Times with 5 Regional qualifying times.
Angelina Gomez - 4/6 Best Times.
Malia Herring - 5/6 Best Times with 4 Regional qualifying times.
Davis Kaplan - 3/6 Best Times with 1 Regional qualifying time.
Bennet Kelly - 3/6 Best Times.
John Kim - 4/5 Best Times.
Elise Klucsarits - 5/6 Best Times.
Ashton Largent - 5/7 Best Times with 1 State qualifying time.
Soraya Lindsey - 5/6 Best Times with 3 Regional qualifying times.
Leo Mancuso - 2/2 Best Times with 2 Regional qualifying times.
Zephyr Narus - 6/7 Best Times with 4 Regional qualifying times.
Stella Olson - 3/7 Best Times with 1 Regional qualifying time.
Turner Pearson - 5/7 Best Times with 3 Regional qualifying times.
Ellie Pena - 6/6 Best Times with all 4 Regional qualifying times.
Elena Perez - 3/6 Best Times.
Leila Ross - 4/6 Best Times with 1 Regional qualifying time.
Luke Skousen - 4/4 Best Times with 2 Regional qualifying times.
Rachel Spresney - 4/7 Best Times with 1 State qualifying time.
Holly Swaninger - 1/7 Best Time.
Karly Thor - 6/7 Best Times with 3 Regional qualifying times.
Teagan Tolson - 2/7 Best Times with 1 Regional qualifying time.
Truitt Vandenbark - 4/6 Best Times with 3 Regional qualifying times.
Sophia Wang - 6/6 Best Times with 1 State qualifying time and 2 Regional qualifying times.
Ella Wilson - 3/7 Best Times.
Sydney Withem - 5/7 Best Times with 1 Regional qualifying time.
Angela You - 6/7 Best Times.
Ander Yu - 5/6 Best Times with 1 Regional qualifying times.
Gavin Zhu - 6/6 Best Times with 4 Regional qualifying times.

Age Group 1

AG1 had an amazing meet this past weekend! The group looked very strong across many of their ]events, and had great technique improvement over the first meet! As a group we had 89% best times across the board and 16 new State times!

 
Another quick note - as we start to get into the colder meet weather, please make sure the swimmers have multiple layers of warm and dry clothes as well as warm shoes and a warm hood/hat of some sort!
 
Kailey Albright - new State time (1000 free) and 6/7 best times
Emma Antawirya - 6/7 best times and under 12:00 in the 1000 free
Braelyn Ballif - 2 great swims coming off of injury
Adam Botsios - 6/6 best times including a 12 second drop in the 50 fly
Tyler Carroll - new State time (50 free) and 6/6 best times
Evan Cho - new State time (1000 free) and 5/7 best times
Mackenzie Feirstein - 7/7 best times including 2 and 4 second drops in the 50 and 100 fly
Joselyn Franzone - new State time (1000 free) and 15 and 9 second drops in the 50 and 100 fly
Alaina Herrig - 3 new State times (50 fly, 50 breast, 100 breast) and 7/7 best times
Delaney Holm - 2 and 16 second drops in the 50 back and 100 IM
Evan Hong - 3 and 14 second drops in the 50 fly and 100 IM
Claire Horton - 3 second time drops in the 100 breast and 100 IM
Cullen Kelly - 32 second drop in the 500 free
Royce Kountz - 4/6 best times including 3 second drops in the 50 back and 100 IM
Catherine Kwilosz - 4/7 best times including a 7 second drop in the 100 IM
Abigail Lippert - half-second drop in the 50 free
Ember Marinello - 7/7 best times including 4 and 10 second drops in the 50 breast and 100 fly
Alexis Morley - 5/7 best times including 4 and 6 second drops in the 50 fly and 100 fly
Elliot Niemoth - 1 second drops in both the 100 free and 50 free
Hadley Nixon - 7/7 best times including 6 second drops in the 100 breast and 100 fly
Erica Perez - 4 and 5 second drops in the 200 IM and 200 free
Diego Quintana Spagnol - new State time (100 IM) and 5/6 best times
Leonardo Quintana Spagnol - 6/6 best times including a 6 second drop in the 200 free
Saranya Sistla - 2 best times coming off of injury
Ariella Strock - 6/6 best times including 9 second drops in the 50 fly and 200 free
Declan Tierney - new State time (1000 free) and 5/7 best times
Joelle Vandenbark - 5/7 best times including a 13 second best time in the 100 fly
Augustine Wilson - 6/6 best times including time drops in the 50 and 100 free
William You - 4 new State times (1000 free, 50 fly, 100 back, 50 back) and 6/7 best times
Addison Zius - 3 new State times (50 fly, 100 fly, 100 IM) and 7/7 best times

Blue

Well done Blue swimmers for outstanding swims at the SAC Pumpkin Splash! We had lots of best times and some new State cuts in the 1000 frees, congrats! Keep up the hard training, now on to smarter training…we will begin to focus on race strategy during practice while remembering our fundamentals...keep up the hard work!

Vaughn Ainsworth: BTs in 4 events; first ever state cut in the 1000 free!

Leah Bushko: BTs in 2 events; over 3 second time drop in the 200 back.

Alp Cetegen: BTs in 3 events; 7 second time drop in the 200 back and new state cut in the 1000 free.

Dana El-Rayes: almost 8 second time drop in the 200 fly.

Koryne Gantt: BTs in 4 events; almost 13 second time drop in the 400im.

Alexa Largent: BTs in 5 events; over 16 second time drop in the 1000 free.

Langston Lindsay; BTs in 3 events; almost 16 second time drop in the 400im

Greer Masing: over 2 second time drop in the 200 back.

Isla McMullan: BTs in 7/7 events!

Cyrus Mead: BTs in 6/7 events; new state cut in the 1000 free.

Grant Rathjen: BTs in 5/7 events; significant time drops in the 100 free, 200 im, and 200 free.

Katie Skarbek: BTs in 4 events; almost 12 second drop in the 1000 free.

Tim Skarbek: BTs in 5/6 event; 5 second drop in the 100im and almost 5 second drop in the 100 fly.

Marley Spray: BTs in 4 events; impressive first swim in the 1000 free with a time of 11:04.86.

Aiden Wang: BTs in 3 events; almost 9 second time drop in the 100 back and almost 4 seconds in the 200 breast.

Amberly Yu: BTs in 3 events; almost 4 second time drop in the 100 fly.

Senior 1

Senior One had some excellent swims at the SAC October meet.

Paige Downey-Junior National time in the 1000 free and best times in 100 free and 100 breast.

Reagan Uhlik-Best time in the 1000 free with a Sectional time.

Cedric Brooking-Junior National bonus time in the 1000 free and best times in 100 fly and 100 back.

Finn Conley-Best time in the 1000 free with a Sectional time and best times in 200 back and 100 breast and 100 free

Ellie Kayser-Best time in the 1000 free and just missing Junior Nationals.

Alex George-Best time in the 1000 free.

Sasha Volkova-Best time in the 1000 free and 100 fly.

Kyle Stocek-Best time in the 1000 free and 50 free.

Brynn Barr-Best times in 100 back and 50 fly