DCST National Results Day 5

DCST National Results (Day 5)

 

                Day 5 concluded the YMCA National Championship with DCST achieving its highest finish ever in both the men’s (6 ^th place) and combined team scoring (tied for 9 ^th place) divisions. The DCST women finished the meet in 15 ^th place. On the day, DCST had 7 individual career best times out of 9 individual swims which brought the meet total to 33 career best times out of a total of 47 individual swims. Moreover, all four of DCST’s relays dropped significant time on Friday. All ten DCST relay swims for the meet were well under their seed times. One item which DCST likes to stress in its training is swimming faster in finals. At this meet, DCST had an impressive 16 time improvements for the second swim of the day out of a total of 21 second swims.

DCST’s men 400 medley relay of Grant Alef, Michael Gordon, Kei Ishimaru and Chad Thompson earned DCST’s highest placing for relay at the meet with a 3 ^rd place finish. This relay went almost 8 seconds under their seed time. In the women’s 400 medley relay, Emily Launer, Valerie Jones, Sharron Isola and Casey Jepsen dropped over 5 seconds on the day to place 12 ^th. Emily set a new DCST team record in the 100 Backstroke with her lead off split from the preliminary session. All 8 relay swimmers achieved National All-American honors for their efforts. This was the first time Sharron was named an All-American.

In the individual events, Grant was named a National All-American for the second time on the day with his 11 ^th place finish in the 50 backstroke. His time was 0.2 seconds under his seed time. Michael Gordon also had a nice day in the 100 Breaststroke. He lowered his previous DCST team record by 1.2 seconds. He finished in 18 ^th place.

DCST’s other time improvements on the day were: Women’s 200 Free Relay consisting of Sharron Isola, Valerie Jones, Casey Jepsen, Emily Launer (4.6 seconds), Men’s 200 Free Relay consisting of Chad Thompson, Cory Page, Grant Alef, Michael Gordon (3.2 seconds), Sharron Isola – 200 Butterfly (0.8 seconds), Kei Ishimaru – 200 Butterfly (1.6 seconds), Chad Thompson – 50 Backstroke (0.2 seconds), Marc Dubrick – 50 Backstroke (1.4 seconds), Valerie Jones – 100 Breaststroke (3.0 seconds).

                Listed below are the meet highlights for each swimmer. Note career best times include some lead off splits.

 

Grant Alef – Named National All-American 8 times, set 3 team records, had 4 career best times

Marc Dubrick – Had 1 career best time

Tara Gidaszewski – Named National All-American 1 time, had 1 career best time

Michael Gordon – Named National All-American 5 times, set 2 team records, had 3 career best times

Katie Hallenbeck – Named National All-American 1 time

Kei Ishimaru – Named National All-American 3 times, set 1 team record, had 4 career best times

Sharron Isola – Named National All-American 1 time, had 5 career best times

Casey Jepsen – Named National All-American 3 times, had 4 career best times

Valerie Jones – Named National All-American 3 times, set 1 team record, had 4 career best times

Emily Launer – Named National All-American 7 times, set 4 team records, had 4 career best times

Cory Page – Had 2 career best times

Ryan Schultz – Had 1 career best time

Sam Seneczko –Named National All-American 1 time, had 1 career best time

Grace Waller – Named National All-American 1 time, had 2 career best times

 

 

Complete DCST Results from Day 5

 

Women’s 200 Freestyle Relay

                Sharron Isola, Valerie Jones, Casey Jepsen, Emily Launer – 1:54.77 (24 ^th)

 

Men’s 200 Freestyle Relay

                Chad Thompson, Cory Page, Grant Alef, Michael Gordon – 1:41.04 (19 ^th)

 

Women’s 200 Butterfly

Katie Hallenbeck – 2:30.76 (29 ^th)

Sharron Isola – 2:33.18 (38 ^th)

 

Men’s 200 Butterfly

                Kei Ishimaru – 2:19.36 (35 ^th)

 

Women’s 50 Backstroke

Tara Gidaszewski – 33.41 (56 ^th)

 

Men’s 50 Backstroke

                Grant Alef

                                Prelims – 28.39 (Tied for 11 ^th)

                                Finals – 28.07 (11 ^th) – National All-American

                Chad Thompson – 29.15 (28 ^th)

                Marc Dubrick – 33.44 (110 ^th)

 

Women’s 100 Breaststroke

                Valerie Jones – 1:18.52 (31 ^st)

 

Men’s 100 Breaststroke

                Michael Gordon

                                Prelims – 1:09.45 (20 ^th) – New DCST Team Record

                                Finals – 1:09.35 (18 ^th) – New DCST Team Record

 

Women’s 400 Medley Relay

                Emily Launer, Valerie Jones, Sharron Isola, Casey Jepsen

                                Prelims – 4:34.69 (10 ^th)

                                                Emily’s lead off 100 split was a New DCST Team Record

                                Finals – 4:32.64 (12 ^th)

                All 4 swimmers earned National All-American honors

 

Men’s 400 Medley Relay

                Grant Alef, Michael Gordon, Kei Ishimaru, Chad Thompson

                                Prelims – 4:03.75 (7 ^th)

                                Finals – 4:02.41 (3 ^rd)

                All 4 swimmers earned National All-American honors

 

Team Scoring

                Women – 15 ^th place

                Men – 6 ^th place

                Combined Men and Women – Tied for 9 ^th Place