Oktoberfest Meet REPORT
Outstanding opening meet for Gold & Silver groups for the 2925-2026 season! So much excitement with new swimmers, wins,
best times, new events and strokes, and humongous drops!
Welcome Marco Xiong, Pehar Randhawa ( first 100 fly, 3 bests), Penelope Lincoln, ( 4 best times), Sumner Ethier-Wood ( first 100 free) , Mannat Randhawa ( 2 first places), and Henry Hodes (five first places) to the team for their first swim meet under ESC!
Also welcome and congrats to Ben Ackerman, Levi Detty, Runa Gaunci, Brooks Turner, and Olivia Snipes for competing in their first ever swim meet.
We look forward to your improvement!!
Our “Swim of the Meet” goes to Evan Babis. Evan swam a very super determined race in his 50 Freestyle— dropping a whopping 36 seconds from last year! Evan also had four other best times during the meet. Way to go Evan!
Other GIANT drops came from:
Lily Wolf ( 6 personal beats and -9 100 back & -8 100 fly),
Isaac Soo (5 -13 100 IM, -9 100 free),
Andrew Johnston ( also 5 bests with -22 100 breast and -25 200 free), Zerina Idrizovic (five bests as well -24 100 IM, -12 100 free), Cece Ware (five too! With -12 100 fly, -11 50 breast, -15 200 free), Ava Vessels (again all five! With -16 200 free, -6 100 IM).
Also, Conrad Ware ( -44 100 free, -34 50 back!), Hannah Vessels (-26 100 free, 2 first places), John Murray ( -36 50 back, -26 100 free), Faris Kruscica ( -23 50 back, -22 50 fly), Brenden Macleod (-11 100 free), Greg Signalov (-8 50 back), Daphne Jones (-17 200 free, -39 100 free!, -30 100 fly!, Alice Thompson (-8 100 free, 3 best times),
Victoria Campbell ( -10 50 breast), and three best times.
Avery Cutting (-9 100 breast), Julia Calhoun ( -9 50 free), Atlas Erdem ( -7 50 breast), Ryan Holguin (-11 200 free), Andre Kateby Kashy (—8 50 free), Abby Carlson (4), Aiden Lee (3), Madison Hunter (3), and Janith Khadka (2).
Congrats to all and let’s keep the improvement going strong!!
-ESC
