12U Champs Meet Re-cap

Age Group Champs Re-Cap

Age Group Champs for 12 & unders was also at WKCAC and lasted 3 full days with prelims & finals each day. Swimming personal best times in the morning sessions was the goal to create the best chance to make it back for finals to earn points for BISC. For every best time in the morning sessions, a post-it note went up on the wall and as our design on the wall grew so did our swimmer’s confidence and our team points. BISC, with only 18 swimmers, finished in 11th place out of 31 teams narrowly missing a team trophy.

Earning personal best times and a post it on the wall were: Bennett Atchison (1500 Fr, 100 Bk, 400Fr, 200 Fr, 200BK, 400 IM & relays) JJ Borovsky (200 IM & relays), Avery Britt (50 Brst, 200 Fr & relay) Margot Crawford (50 Bk, 100 Fr, 50 Brst & relay) Jonathan Fort (200 Brst & relay) Chloe Frederickson (50 Bk, 100 Fr, 50 Fly, 100 Bk, 100 Brst, 50 Brst & relays) Surya Jain (200 Fly, 200 Brst, 50 Fr, 400 Fr, 200 Fr, 400 IM & relays) Bailey LeMaster-Donahue (relays) Louis McKibbin (200 Fly, 400 Fr, 200 Bk & relays) Mika Moskin (100 Fly & relays) Emma Pocekovic (relay) Skylar Richardson (50 Brst, 200 Fr & relay) Spencer Slowik (50 Fr, 200 IM, 200 Fr) & Winston Williams (1500 Fr, 50 Fr, 200 IM, 200 Bk, 400IM & relays)

Making it back for finals &/or placing top 16 were: Bennett (6th 1500 Fr, 10th 400 Fr relay, 15th 400 Medley relay & 10th 200 Fr relay) JJ (15th 200 Medley relay) Jonathon (10th 200 Medley relay) Chloe (11th 100 Brst, 15th 200 medley relay), Surya (5th 200 Fly, 12th 200 Brst, 10th 400 Fr relay, 7th 50 Fr, 7th 400 Fr, 15th 400 Medley relay, 10th 200 Fr relay, 8th 200 Fr, 7th 400 IM), Bailey (15th 200 medley relay) Louis (6th 200 Fly, 10th 400 Fr relay, 10th 50 Fly, 13th 100 Bk, 15th 400 Fr relay, 10th 200 medley relay, 10th 200 Fr relay, 10th 100 Fly,& 9th 200 Bk) Mika (15th 200 Medley relay) Spencer (10th 50 Bk, 5th 50 Fr & 9th 200 Fr) & Winston (5th 1500 Fr, 10th 400 Fr relay, 11th 50 Fr, 15th 400 Medley relay, 10th 200 Medley relay, 10th 200 Fr relay & 13th 200 Bk)  At this meet there were medals through 8th place and ribbons through 16th place and they are in your swim folder athe pool if you haven’t gotten them yet.

Special shout outs to: Winston Williams for winning a most memorable and exciting 50 Fr swim off and for swimming his final meet as a Bluefin, earning 24 points for his team. Moses Wang who swam his events and then flew to Germany that afternoon, Larry Killigrew who had been at a state baseball tournament who returned for the meet, Jay Kowren, Bailey LeMaster-Donahue & Emma Pocekovic whom made it possible to have several relays, and Skylar Richardson who swam in the morning and was in a musical back on Bainbridge that same afternoon. Congratulations as well to Surya Jain whose meet performances led to his selection for the PN Zone team which will compete in CA, August 9th & 10th . He will be with Bluefins: Spencer Slowik, William Browning, Aria Michael, Rylee DuPont, Tessa Hurguy & Wyatt Majors along with the PN’s best swimmers from other teams.

What were our key take aways? Every swim & every swimmer matters. When we show up as a full team we do well. Championship meets are long and exhausting and that is why we practice like we do. You can never be too prepared as we still had some DQ’s.(practice matters.) We thrived with great on deck positive energy (thank you 12 year olds for your leadership), BISC parent volunteer timers were awesome (thank you for hours of timing) and our officials (Kay & Travis) were incredible as always (Thank you for hours served) If you are interested in becoming an official please reach out we could always use more.