Gold Medal Swim Club won the State Age Group Championships by over 1600 points. The team missed the all time scoring record by less than 30 points. High Point Winners Langston Lindsey-First 11-12 boys Finn Conley-Second 11-12 boys Owen Phelps-Third 11-12 boys Paige Downey-Third 13-14 girls Jason Sugihara-First 13-14 boys Cohen Gunsalus-Second 13-14 boys Relay Winners 11-12 boys-won all five relay in their age group-Finn Conley, Langston Lindsey, Owen Phelps, Alp Cetegen 13-14 boys and girls mixed medley-Tori Nguyen, Dylan Rhodes, Jason Sugihara, Grant Kellis 13-14 boys-won all five relays...

Highlights From The Senior State Meet Most outstanding females: Haley Mueller- New Futures cut 200 back best time 100 back Ava Elliott- New Futures 1650 best time in the 500 free and new Sectionals in 200 free. Most outstanding male: Caleb Wehmeir- Four best times and first sectional cut in 200 back Trey Hesser-Futures cut in the 500 free Other New Sectional Cuts Sydney Marinello 500 free Karson Levitt 1000 free Michael Johnson 200 free Third place high point at the meet. Evan Nail and Jack Luken Landon Driggers had...

Gold Medal Swim Club Honored the Following Swimmers of the Month for February Age Group 2 Ahwatukee: Rachel Spresney-With a positive attitude and perfect attendance Rachel achieved her goal of qualifying for State in the 100 Breast. She set a new PR and earned her State cut at the Regional meet. Congratulations Rachel! Chandler: Hadley Nixon-Hadley has displayed a great attitude and consistent effort at practice, had near perfect practice attendance and achieved her first four State cuts in the 50/100BR, 50FR, 100IM. Age Group 1 Kileigh McCarthy - Kileigh...

Gold Medal competed in two meets in mid to late February. Age Group One Lost Dutchman Meet Hailey Babcock - 5 best times, 2 finals swims Leah Bushko - 3 best times, 2 finals swims Mackenzie Feirstein - 3 best times Alaina Herrig - 6 best times, 6 finals swims Brooke Horton - 5 best times Cyrus Mead - 4 best times, 2 finals swims Laney Phelps - 6 best times Grant Rathjen - 6 best times, 3 finals swims Madeline Riggle - 4 best times, 1 finals swim Tim...

Gold Medal Swim Club added to the team total of State Age Group qualifying times with many great performances at the Regionals this past weekend. There were many times that just missed qualifying in addition to the 35 new times that were achieved. Congratulations to all the swimmers for a great meet. Friday Hadley Nixon - 50 Free, 50 Breast Isla McMullan - 50 Free Angela You - 50 Fly Emma Antawirya - 1000 Free Katie Skarbek - 1000 Free Saturday Evan Beck - 200 Back Jonathan Zinger - 100...

Gold Medal Swim Club Swimmer of the Month Age Group Two-Ahwatukee Cullen Kelly Cullen has excelled by engaging in our team training principles of attitude, attendance, and achievement during the month of January. Cullen kicked off the month of January representing Gold Medal on the Arizona All Star Team in Yuma. While in Yuma he set three new PRs and followed up this performance in Yuma with three additional PRs at the Phoenix Dual Meets. You can find Cullen ready to race and cheer for his teammates. Age Group Two-Chandler...

We had several outstanding performances at the SAC/MAC/GM Tri-Meet this past week, many Life Best Times and a couple new State qualifying times. Senior Three: Alex Gonzales had 4 LBT’s in 5 events and his 2nd state qualifying time in the 100 Breaststroke. Jacob Basha went 6 for 6 LBT’s, culminating in a :09.1 second drop in his 6th event of the weekend in the 200 IM. Chris LaPrath was 2 for 2, dropping more than :02 seconds in the 100 Free and 100 Fly. The highlight of the weekend...

Senior One and Blue Group Tri Meet Wrap-up The Senior One and Blue Groups are large, so there were many outstanding performances. Four new Sectional times and many best times in a meet where the primary competition was among our own swimmers. Caroline Grimsley and Sydney Prentice qualified for Sectionals for the first time with outstanding efforts in the 1650. New Sectional Times Kendall Alexander 1650 18:15.33 Caroline Grimsley 1650 17:56.88 Sydney Marinello 1000 10:42.07 Sydney Prentice 1650 18:06.95 Hunter Helsten 500 free 4:40.96 Jason Sugihara 500 free 4:47.78 Outstanding...

Swim Meet News For The Tri Meet Senior Two: Best overall performances: Evan Beck had 5 LBT’s in 6 events and 1 new State Qualifying time in the 500 Free. He also had drops of 6 seconds in the 400 IM and 10 seconds in the 200 Back, which put him very close to SQ in those events. Markus Crawford also performed well with 5 of 6 LBT’s, including a 12 second drop in the 200 fly and 8.6 seconds in the 100 Fly. Micah Driggers was the 3rd swimmer...

Senior One and Blue January Wrap-up There was a lot of racing in January with the Dual Meet Champs and those that participated in the All Star meet against San Diego swimming. The swimmers in both groups really raised their level of performance on Monday for the championship session and the 1000 yard freestyles. Kendall Alexander qualified for her first Sectionals with an outstanding 1000 freestyle. Jason Sugihara qualified for Sectionals in three more events. Top Swims From Arizona vs San Diego All Star Meet Dylan Rhodes 4:43.74 400 IM,...