Senior II Trial & Final Meet

CDST's Elite group did a great job at last weekend's Senior II Trial & Final Meet at Concord. This meet used the championship format, so swimmers swim their prelims and finals if they are qualified. Relay events also swam in this meet. We haven't had a championship format meet in the last two years. We were glad to see 8 CDST Elite swimmers back in the championship meet again. 

50 Free
Ray Cillo, Justin Ely, Leo Gao are first-time sub 24 seconds in 50 free. Ryin Ruaboro had 22.78 personal best and first time sub 23 seconds. Jasper Wu had his first meet in 2 years and posted a 21.88 in 50 free prelims and 22.78 in finals. 

100s
Ryin joined the sub 50 club in 100 Free, and his time was 49.74. Justin(50.22), Leo(51.19), Eric Meng (53.65) got their personal best in 100 Free. Eric dropped more than 2 seconds in this event. Medha Raghuraman had a significant drop on her 100 Back with the new best time, 1:02.77, and won the heat. Ryin and Leo posted best times in 100 Fly, with 56.17 and 59.43, respectively. 

200s
Most Elite swimmers posted best times in 200 Free. Among them, Ray dropped 5 seconds with the new best time of 1:55.16. Edward Huang also updates his best 200 Free times to 1:46.56 in prelims. Medha also dropped nearly one second in her 200 IM. 

500s & Up
Jasper posted a sub 5 minutes performance in 500 Free and made the final.  Ryin improved 5 seconds in 500, and his time was 5:11.23. 

Relays
Justin, Ryin, Jasper, and Edward participated in the 400 Y Freestyle Relay. A big challenge of this relay was that Edward Huang was swimming his 100 Backstroke Final 3 minutes before the relay. The boys cheered each up and made the Sectional Cut at this meet. Their goal is shaving another 2-3 seconds together to reach the Future Cut.