Condors Fall Festival Recap

Kevin Carney

The 13 and over swimmers had a FAST weekend of swimming at the Condors Fall Festical in West Nyack, NY. The swimmers faced off against elite teams from NY and NJ in the first invitational meet of the season. The swimmers were present, focused and ready to swim fast! Besides several top 8 finishes amongst all the events we had MANY personal best swims and higlights over the weekend.

Hannah Wilson broke a 21 year long standing record in the 100 back. Hannah swam a 59.51 to narrowly break the old standard of 59.52.

There were several amazing time drops over the course of the weekend with many swimmers shattering their old times by over 5 seconds.

Derek Knoll had a perfect weekend swimming 6 events and earning new best times in all 6 events. Including a 29 second drop in the 100 fly!

Other massive over 10 second drops included:

Alejandro Aldana dropping 26 seconds in his 100 breast

Maddy Ball dropped 22 seconds in her 400 IM

Sloane Garrity dropped 17 seconds in the 100 back and 100 free

Henry Herbst dropped 10 seconds in the 400 IM

Clarissa Kong dropped 11 seconds in the 200 free

Balazs Kontes dropped 45 seconds in the 400 IM and 20 seconds in the 100 fly

Caroline Kopytek dropped 16 seconds in the 200 IM

Ben Midland dropped 17 seconds in the 200 breast