Senior Two Meet Wrap-ups

The S2 Swimmers of the Month for March are Grace Lane and Kevin Foley! 

Grace started off in S3 and came to many of the S2 workouts. In February, she decided to make the jump, up her commitment, and join S2. Since then, she has continued to work hard very hard - making almost all practices and having great focus during workout. At Regionals, Grace dropped in the 50 and 100 FR, 100 BK and 100 BR. We're so excited to have Grace in the group and I know more drops will come with all of her hard work. 

Kevin is one of the hardest workers on the group and always asks questions on how to improve. Every day after practice he stays late just to work on his underwaters. This hard work paid off and he had a very successful February and March getting his first Sectional cut at Dutchman in the 1650 and getting under 17:00. He then went on to AG State where he got first in the event and ended up scoring 89 points putting him in the top 5 for 13-14 boys. He continued to swim great at Sectionals where he had a huge drop in his 800 FR getting another Sectional cut. 

Congratulations Grace and Kevin!

Congratulations to Senior 2 on a great February meet season! Starting with Lost Dutchman, S2 had a marathon of meets with many swimmers competing every other weekend. Throughout the month, we worked on practicing great habits during the meets (proper nutrition, sleep, warming up/down, etc.), racing in prelims to put ourselves in a great position for finals, and stepping up for the team on relays. Congratulations to all of the swimmers who achieved best times, won their heats, and got new cuts! 

Lost Dutchman

New Sectional Cuts

Porter Ellsworth - 200 FR (1:45.53)

Kevin Foley - 1650 FR 16:77.63

New State Cuts

Piper Jones-Campbell - 500 FR (5:22.09)

Alexa Largent - 100 BR (1:10.91)

Katie Plank - 200 FR (1:59.21)

Tim Skarbek -  500 FR (5:18.67)

Other Outstanding Performances: 

Evan Beck - 4 sec drop in the 100 FL

Alex Bushko - 3 sec drop in the 100 FL

Benji Hames - 7.5 sec drop in the 200 IM

Brooke Horton - 4 sec drop in the 100 BR

Regionals

New State Cuts

Tim Skarbek - 100 BR (1:11.25)

Other Outstanding Performances

Ben George - 100% Best Times; 2 sec drop in the 3 sec drop in 200 FL, 14 sec drop in 200 IM, 47 sec drop in the 400 IM

Dylan George - 1.6 sec drop in the 100 BK going under 1:00 for the first time

Brooke Horton - 8 sec drop in the 400 IM, 1.3 sec drop in the 200 FR

Grace Lane - 3 sec drop in the 100 BR and 1.5 sec drop in the 100 BK

Dylan Lebedies - 5/7 best times, 31 sec drop in the 400 IM, 4.7 sec drop in the 200 IM

Senior State

New Sectional Cuts: 

Benji Hames - 1650 (16:57.91), 1000 FR (10:02.17)

Jeremiah Boyer - 100 FR (47.76)

Kyler Tolson - 1650 FR (17:11.73)

Other Outstanding Performances: 

Vaughn Ainsworth - 4/5 best times; 6 sec drop in the 1000 FR, 2.5 sec drop in the 200 BK, 51 sec drop in the 1650

Alex Bushko - 4 sec drop in the 200 BR 

Porter Ellsworth - 2 sec drop in the 100 FR, 3 sec drop in the 200 BK

Dylan George - 100% BT; 2 sec drop in the 500 FR, 33 sec drop in the 1650 FR

Alex Gonzales - BT in the 100 BR and 100 FR

Mark Khokhlov- 14 sec drop in the 1000 FR, 2.3 sec drop in the 200 IM

Katie Skarbek - BT in the 500 FR

Julia Thomas - Season best in the 100 FR and 100 FL

Tila Tometich - BT in the 100 FL, 100 FR, and 200 IM

Lawrence Wen - BT in the 100 FR, 50 FR, and 100 BK

Age Group State

New Cuts Achieved: 

Alexa Largent - Sectionals in the 200 FR (1:56.01), 400 IM (4:35.02), 200 FL (2:10.21), 500 FR (5:08.73), and 1000 FR (10:35.44)

Katie Plank - Sectionals in the 50 FR (24.91)

Other Outstanding Performances

Kevin Foley - State Champion in the 1650 FR, top 8 in all events, and scored 89 points

Brooke Horton - 50 sec drop in the 1650 FR and 2 sec drop in the 1000 FR, scoring 11 points

Piper Jones-Campbell - Top 8 in the 100 FL and 200 FL, broke 2:00 in the 200 FR and dropped almost 3 seconds in the 200 FL and is now less than half a second off of the Sectional, scoring 22 points

Alexa Largent - Top 3 in the 200 FR, 500 FR, and 1000 FR, scoring 87 points

Langston Lindsey - First place in all events, scored 120 points, and was the State High Point winner. 

Katie Plank - Top 8 in the 100 FL, 50 FR, 100 BK, 200 BK, and 200 IM scoring 68 points

Tim Skarbek - Top 8 in the 1650 FR (14 sec drop) and 1000 FR (16 sec drop) scoring 22 points

Marley Spray - First place in all events scoring 120 points and was the State High Point winner. Best times in the 100 FL, 100 BK, and 200 IM

Alex Schultz