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Tammy Hoffmeier

Senior Champ Meet Recap: On Friday, July 19 - Sunday, July 21, we had 5 senior swimmers represent GTSA at the Florida Swimming Championships Meet in Ocala. GTSA did an amazing job in all events including some nice time drops in the relays! Congrats to our GTSA swimmers... · Sander Izzi · John Jansen · Alex Medina · Matthew Szulga · Joey Trevino Top Individual Times: GTSA achieved top times in 8 of 12 events (long course meters). ALEX MEDINA · 50 Freestyle - 26.03 · 50 Butterfly - 28.76...

Tammy Hoffmeier

FLAG CHAMPIONSHIP MEET RECAP: Impressive weekend for our FLAG championship team, July 12 - 14. Derbes & Graham made it back to finals and our relays were rocking as well. Top finishes were DERBES, 16th in 50 Freestyle & 30th in 50 Backstroke while GRAHAM, 24th in 50 Backstroke. Our relays, CHANDLER, DERBES, GRAHAM & TURNIPSEED placed 25th in 200 Freestyle, 29th in 400 IM & 26th in 400 Freestyle. Congrats to our GTSA Swimmers.... · Campbell Chandler · Lydia Derbes · Molly Graham · MaKenzie Turnipseed Top Times (Long...

Tammy Hoffmeier

Berkeley Swim Meet Recap, June 22 & 23 Congratulations to all the GTSA swimmers who participated in Berkeley B Championship Meet, June 22 & 23. Many of our GTSA swimmers performed really well and came home with several meet medals. Way to go GTSA! Top Individual Performances (SCY)... · Avery Cox: 2nd place - 25 Breaststroke, 5th place - 25 Backstroke & 25 Freestyle · Perry Henson: 4th place - 50 Backstroke, 6th place - 50 Breaststroke · Elysian Kiner: 1st place - 25 Backstroke, 25 Breaststroke, 25 Freestyle &...

Tammy Hoffmeier

CAT Swim Meet Recap - Escape the Heat, June 8 - 9 Top Finishers.... · Avery Graham - 1st place - 400 free & 800 free, 2nd place - 200 free, 100 breast & 100 free · Molly Graham - 1st place - 200 IM, 2nd place - 50 back, 50 free, 100 free & 50 breast, 4th place - 50 fly · Olivia Lefler - 3rd place - 200 back, 4th place - 100 breast · Alex Medina - 2nd place - 50 free, 50 fly, 3rd place -...

Tammy Hoffmeier

SPA Swim Meet Recap – May 17 - 19 This past weekend GTSA competed at the St. Pete Long Course swim meet. We had 26 athletes compete and compiled 63 top times. A big congratulations to all our GTSA swimmers who continue to win heats and improve times this early in the long course season. NEW GTSA RECORD ALERT: Brody Tindoll set a new team record in the 13-14 Boys 200 Meter Long Course Backstroke with a time of 2:25.08 taking 3 seconds off the previous record. Congratulations Brody! TOP...

Tammy Hoffmeier

New Tampa Y & Berkeley Meet Recap – May 4 & 5 New Tampa Y Meet – This was our first long course meet of the season. GTSA had 87 swims with 34 top times. Largest Time Drops: Darwin Walker - 100 Breaststroke, 28.07 time drop Avery Graham - 200 IM, 21.13 time drop Evelina Walker - 100 Freestyle, 10.42 time drop Swimmers With Top 3 Finishes In The Meet: Alex Medina –100 Freestyle 3rd place, 50 Freestyle 3rd place, 400 Freestyle 3rd place, 800 Freestyle 2nd place Sander Izzi...

Tammy Hoffmeier

GTSA TYR Championship Meet Recap: GTSA had 83 swimmers participate in the TYR Championship meet last weekend. GTSA placed 6th out of 18 teams in last weekend’s swim meet at Bobby Hicks Pool. The men scored 1025 points while the Women scored 994 points respectively. While both groups scored nearly the same number of points 13-year-old Brody Tindoll and 12-year-old Molly Graham both placed 3rd in their respective age groups for high point award. Point wise, GTSA was led by…. Brody Tindoll (13-years-old) with 151 points on the men’s side....

Todd Hoffmeier

What a great way to end our Senior Champ short course season! Our GTSA qualifying swimmers were highly motivated and came each day with great personalities and ready to conquer each race. Our swimmers performed and raced and earned personal top times and set a few new team records at the championship meet. On Thursday, March 7 th , the first event for GTSA was the men’s 800-yard freestyle relay (Tindoll, Parmer, Medina, Izzi) where our team had a massive time drop of 18 seconds. The next day, the men...

Tammy Hoffmeier

Berkeley Aquatics Time Trial Recap, February 22nd The Greater Tampa Area Swim Association recently competed at the Last Chance Time Trial hosted by Berkeley Aquatic Club. The GTSA swimmers continued to shine from the previous weekend at Berkeley. The last chance swim meet is offered to swimmers who are trying to make qualifying times for upcoming spring championship meets. The following GTSA swimmers participated with the results next to their name. ~Molly Graham 11-12 Girls, 100 yard Backstroke - 1st Place 11-12 Girls, 50 yard Backstroke, - 1st Place (1.41...

Tammy Hoffmeier

MEET RECAP – February 16 - 18 The Greater Tampa Swim Association competed at the Last Chance Swim Meet hosted by the Berkeley Aquatic Club. The GTSA had 50 plus swimmers attend the meet. Attached are the complete meet results. Senior swimmer Brody Tindoll achieved 100% best times in 8 events highlighted by first place finishes in the 50 fly, 200 back and the 200 freestyle. All of Brody’s times are qualifying times for the senior championship meet. Congratulations to all of the swimmers who achieved new championship times. Molly...