January Blitz!

In our first of two back-to-back weekends in Montgomery,  our ‘Cudas traveled to Valley Central High School for the New York Sharks’ January Blitz, and our swimmers didn’t hold back.

We had a large turnout at this meet, and our swimmers had drops galore. Out of our 117 individual splashes, an incredible 55 were Personal Bests. And many were substantial drops, like Riley Bacinski’s 200 Fly (-6.85); Carter Bambara’s 100 Back (-5.19) and 100 IM (-9.76); Molly Bellflowers’ 50 Fly (-5.26); Brooklyn Davis’ 100 IM (-19.22); Brielle Greenwood’s 200 Free (-22.18); Jonathan Kern’s 500 Free (-7.51); Maddie Meyler’s 100 Free (-18.69); Kaylee Moss’ 100 Breast (-5.61); Channing Muller’s 100 Breast (-8.32); Ethan Rodriguez’ 100 IM (-5.29) and 50 Back (-6.06); Briella Selby’s 200 Free (-14.27); Samantha Taylor’s 100 Free (-11.94); and Zoe Thaller’s 50 Back (-5.09); just to name a few.

Many of these great swims yielded top places by our crew, with them outswimming some fast competition with First Places by Molly Bellflowers (25 Back, 25 Free); Reese Berg (400 IM, 100 Breast, 200 Back, 200 IM); Ty Hollar (200 Back, 200 Free, 50 Free, 500 Free); Chris Jaromski (100 Fly); Jonathan Kern (100 Back, 100 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 200 Free, 50 Back, 50 Breast); Nathaniel Kern (400 IM, 100 Free, 200 IM); Channing Muller (50 Fly); Brandt Peerbroom (25 Breast); Ethan Rodriguez (50 Breast); Hannah Wilson (1650 Free, 100 Free, 200 Back); and our boys 14&Under 400 Free Relay (Hollar, C. Muller, Trout, J. Kern) . All told, NJB touched in 52 top-3 finishes!

For their efforts, new Team Records were set by Jonathan Kern (50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Breast) and Hannah Wilson (1650 Free)! 

Congrats to all, and we return next weekend for some Prelims/Finals action at the Hawks Trials & Finals meet.