Rays LC Invite meet recap

Better than 80 Tidal Wave swimmers competed in the first long course meet of the season.  In fact, it was the first long course meet ever hosted at the Cherokee County Aquatic Center.  While there were some growing pains early in the meet, our swimmers performed well.  Nikolay Chernev jumped on the first meet, breaking team records in both 13-14 boys’ breaststrokes.  Nikolay’s new standards are 1:09.76 and 2:32.54 for the 100 and 200, respectively.  In total, we had eight swimmers establish new Tidal Wave All-Time Top 10 times.  A full list of those times follows:

8 & Under: Abigail Magouyrk: 100 free – 3^rd (1:28.80), 200 free – 3^rd (3:10.26), 50 breast – 10^th (58.98), 100 breast – 9^th (2:05.42), 50 fly – 4^th (45.89), 100 fly – 3^rd (1:42.86); 11-12: George Chernev: 50 free – 8^th (30.47), 100 free – 9^th (1:05.84), 50 back – 8^th (35.44), 50 fly – 8^th (32.29), 100 fly – 6^th (1:11.65); Tyler Hanna: 50 breast – 5^th (37.40), 100 breast – 9^th (1:23.96); Preston Hatcher: 400 free – 10^th (5:08.54), 50 back – 6^th, 100 back – 6^th 13-14: Keaton Gerda: 200 breast – 10^th (3:01.78); Nikolay Chernev: 100 breast – 1^st (1:09.76), 200 breast – 1^st (2:32.54), 200 IM – 2^nd (2:17.28), John Jones: 200 breast – 3^rd (2:40.32), 400 IM – 10^th (5:22.63); Senior: Kristine Lila: 50 free – 9^th (28.82).

Great job swimmers!