2025 SCS June Age Group Championship Recap

2025 JAG Championship Recap: A Resounding Success!

The 2025 SCS June Age Group Championships (JAG) was an absolute triumph for MAX! Despite the long sessions – with some morning prelims events like Raylan’s 400 and 800 free extending until 3:00ish in the afternoon – and the hot weather, our swimmers brought the heat! Their incredible performances and numerous personal bests made waves, demonstrating how all their hard work and dedication paid off. The energy was electric throughout the meet. Congratulations to all our amazing MAX swimmers!

Meet Highlights: Record-Breaking Growth

We're thrilled to announce a record high in JAG qualifiers! Here's our impressive progress since 2022:

• 2022: 2 individual qualifiers; no relay team
• 2023: 3 individual qualifiers; no relay team
• 2024: 6 individual qualifiers; 5 relay events
• 2025: 10 individual qualifiers; 6 relay events 
  - 50 individual events 
  - 19 advancing to finals
  - 5 new club records 
  - 3 senior cuts!

Relay Team Triumphs - Our 15 swimmers/3 relay teams truly shone at JAG:

• Strength and Dedication: Special recognition goes to Alanis Sandoval. Amidst the tough personal loss of her grandmother the day before the race, her decision to still swim with the team showed her strength, dedication, and true team spirit. It meant a great deal to everyone.
• 15 & Over Relay Returns! A significant highlight was the formation of our first 15 & Over relay team in a long time! Annika Lao, who will be heading to college this coming school year, anchored a fantastic 200 free relay alongside first-time JAG qualifiers Sarah Lao, Olivia Maldonado, and Alanis Sandoval. This team posted impressive personal bests (PBs) across the board.
• Boy 13-14 200M Free relay team was formed by Marcus Lee, Aiden Kwan, Raylan Hong and Andy Chen swam their best time 1:58.44 with 2.55 drop in time.
• First-Ever 11-12 Boys Relay: Our first-ever 11-12 boys relay team, comprised of Dyllan Tran, Elijah Noji, Kurt Gartland, Ray Zhang, and Zander Kwan, swam the 200 Free Relay  (2:05.85), 200 Medley Relay (2:22.69) securing an impressive 11^th place and 14^th place respectively.
• Consistent Teamwork: Brooklyn Ameela, Kalea Canton, Maxine Gonzalez, and Zoey Zhou once again demonstrated strong teamwork, achieving personal bests (PBs) in both the 200 Free Relay and 200 Medley Relay.

Outstanding Individual Events

MAX swimmers qualified for an impressive 50 individual events at JAG, with 19 events/swimmers advancing to finals! Nearly every swimmer posted personal bests, and we are thrilled to announce that 5 new club records were established and two 13 years old girls made 3 senior cuts!

Below are highlights of the finalist (unofficial time): 

Boy 11-12

Dyllan Tran –

50M Br 39.49, 15^th place

50M Free 29.43, 7^th place

Kurt Gartland -

200M Free 2:17.84, 8th place, new club record

100M Fly 1:08.89, 5^th place, new club record

200M IM 2:34.93, 7^th place, new club record

50M Fly 31.26, bronze, new club record!

100M Br 1:22.99, 12^th place, new club record

Zander Kwan -

200M Free 2:20.36, 14th place,

100M Fly 1:08.89, 8^th place,

200M IM 2:42.93, 17^th place

100M Free 1:05.99, 15^th place

50M Fly 32.61, 13^th place

Boy 13-14

Marcus Lee –

100M Br 1:16.70, 14^th place

200M Br 2:45.11, 11^th place

Girl 13-14

Brooklyn Ameele - 

200IM 2:47.49, dropped 1.25s in this event, lowering her best again in 2 weeks from last meet at Downey. 

Maxine Garcilita Gonzalez -

100M Fly 1:09.46, 8th place, made SCS SD cut!

Zoey Zhou -

400M IM 5:34.48, 12^th place, made SCS SD cut!

200M Fly 2:42.66, 12^th place

200M Back 2:35, 10^th place

100M Back 1:11.48, 5^th place, made SCS SD cut!

Boy 13-14

Raylan Hong -

800M Fly 10:23.67, dropped 10.53s from Downey meet 2 weeks ago. 

We are eagerly awaiting the official final JAG results to be posted and will share more detailed individual achievements soon. Stay tuned for further updates on our swimmers' incredible performances! GO MAX!