Great Swim At AIA Swim Meet
Oct 11, 12, 2008
The 2008-2009 swim season started off with CDST participating in a Swim Meet at Chabot College last weekend. Over 35 CDST swimmers participated in the first meet of the season and swam to outstanding times. Although the results are too numerous to report in total, following are some great swims at the Alameda Island Aquatics meet:
Kevin Cui, age 9, may be young, but he’s breaking the record books, taking 1st place in the 100 Backstroke (new Western Zone [WZ] time of 1:18.12. Way to go Kevin, CDST first Far Western qualifier !!! Kevin also took 1st in the 100 Fly (1:25.64), 3rd in 100 IM (1:21.79), 1st in 100 fly (1:25.64), 5th place in Division A for 50 back (36.82)
Trista Ma, age 11, took 3rd place in 100 butterfly (1:09.58 -AA time), took 3rd place in 100 breastroke (1:20.58)
Eric Wu, age 8, won 3rd place with a new A time (40.58), 2nd place in 50 back (48.41)
Michael Sui, age 12, received 4th place in 100 freestyle with new JO time (1:03.15), 2nd place in 50 free (28.73)
Madellyn Joly, age 7, taking 3 place in 50 freestyle (42.42-new A time), 6th place with new A time in 25 breaststroke (24.98), 2nd place in 100 IM (1:48.75)
Catherine Chen, age 6, won 2nd place in 25 freestyle (21.23), 1st place in 50 breaststroke (58.64)
Jessica Liu, age 7, took 2nd in 50 freestyle (49.69), 2nd place in 50 breastroke (1:02.90)
Ariana Chen, age 9, won 2nd place in 100 freestyle (1:24.17), 2nd in 100 fly (1:42.94)
Emily Wang, age 10, won 2nd place in 50 free (49.20)
Diana Brightwell, age 12, won 1st in 50 freestyle (32.17), 3rd place in 100 freestyle (1:08.99), 3rd in 50 back (38.30), 1st place in 50 breaststroke (41.24)
Iris Bai, age 8, won 1st place in 100 freestyle (1:39.91), 2nd place in 25 breaststroke (27.76)
Shreya Ramani, age 7, took 2nd place in 50 back (53.80)
Dan-Anh Hoang, age 8, won 1st place in 50 back (53.62), 2nd plac in 100 freestyle with time (1:44.64)
Suri Yu, age 7, took 3rd place in 25 backstroke (24.83)
Clayton Lau, age 8, took 1st in 25 fly ((23.49)
Alexander Zhou, age 8, won 2nd in 25 fly (24.29, 3nd in 50 fly (53.07)
Matthew Lee, age 11, placed 3rd in 50 free (31.14), 2nd in 100 free (1:08.07), 3rd in 100 fly (1:26.81),
Jordan Vega, age 11, took 3nd in 200 free (2:18.13), 200 back (2:38.66)
Chris Yu, age 12, took 2nd in 50 back (37.61)
Plus all swimmers received their personal best. Way to Go CDST!!!
