Piranhas Shine at Junior Olympics!
Monterey Park - The Junior Olympics have ended and "it was a great meet for all Piranha swimmers" says Coach Adam Schmitt, "We had many event finalists and lifetime best times!" Congratulations to all of the Piranhas who represented our team at one of the biggest and highest level meet in Southern California Swimming. This past weekend, the “older” JO meet had the Piranha girls finishing in 10th place overall in Southern California Swimming. Our small team beat out many of the bigger teams in the region, and was ranked 2nd in our Eastern Section!
The great swims were numerous and it started at the “younger” JO’s with Kelli Andrade and Emma Johansen. Here are their results, places and times:
Event Place Pre-Seed Final
50 Breast 2nd Andrade, Kelli 35.99 35.73
100 Breast 2nd Andrade, Kelli 1:19.17 1:15.38
100 IM 6th Andrade, Kelli 1:11.96 1:11.43
200 IM 6th Andrade, Kelli 2:35.35 2:34.04
100 Free 19th Andrade, Kelli 1:03.38 1:04.45
100 Back 40th Johansen, Emma 1:18.90 1:17.81
The younger girls finished in 28thplace with 2 swimmers!! Great job girls!
The “older” meet had some great swims as well, as mentioned before; the Piranhas accumulated a lot of final swims and points. Here are the results for the meet:
Event Place Prelim/Seed Final
1000 Free 2nd Wickham, Kat 10:26.52 10:09.72
17th Wasserman, Alexa 11:04.70 10:42.88
800 Fr Rel. 4th 7:45.48 7:41.30
1) Ceranic, Indira 2) Wickham, Kat
3) Wasserman, Alexa 4) Travis, Faith
200 IM 34th Wasserman, Alexa 2:13.06 2:13.45
8th Shaw, Adam 1:56.41 1:57.34
500 Free 5th Wickham, Kat 4:58.03 4:56.48
17th Travis, Faith 5:04.78 5:06.56
29th Ceranic, Indira 5:06.50 5:13.32
100 Breast 20th Shaw, Adam 59.16 1:01.00
200 Back 8th Travis, Faith 2:05.91 2:07.41
44th Letellier, Lexie 2:20.21 2:23.40
50 Free 3rd Ceranic, Indira 23.97 23.87
12th Andrade, Shelby 25.33 25.20
25th Sobrero, Joseph 22.70 22.30
400 MR 11th 4:05.47 4:06.36
1) Travis, Faith 2) Wasserman, Alexa
3) Wickham, Kat 4) Ceranic, Indira
100 Back 8th Travis, Faith 58.90 59.90
29th Ceranic, Indira 59.69 1:01.85
15th Shaw, Adam 53.65 53.58
200 Free 5th Ceranic, Indira 1:51.91 1:52.83
7th Wickham, Kat 1:52.44 1:53.26
32nd Koochaki, Alissah 2:02.01 2:01.88
100 Fly 5th Andrade, Shelby 58.64 58.93
400 IM 8th Travis, Faith 4:31.22 4:31.74
8 th Shaw, Adam 4:08.92 4:11.46
22nd Wasserman, Alexa 4:42.21 4:39.00
25 th Andrade, Shelby 4:47.52 4:50.91
32 nd Letellier, Lexie 4:54.65 4:55.30
200 FR 6th 1:42.91 1:39.75
1) Wickham, Kat 2) Ceranic, Indira
3) Wasserman, Alexa 4) Travis, Faith
200 MR 14th 4:05.47 1:53.43
1) Travis, Faith 2) Wasserman, Alexa
3) Wickham, Kat 4) Ceranic, Indira
100 Free 8th Ceranic, Indira 52.54 53.04
13th Wickham, Kat 52.79 52.92
20th Andrade, Shelby 55.90 55.16
42nd Koochaki, Alissah 56.58 57.18
200 Breast 41st Wasserman, Alexa 2:33.09 2:34.81
Exh Shaw, Adam 2:05.93 2:09.06
1650 Free 5th Wickham, Kat 17:19.23 17:13.07
11th Travis, Faith 17:32.71 17:35.84
26nd Wasserman, Alexa 18:31.45 18:16.97
200 Fly 4th Travis, Faith 2:05.56 2:05.44
11th Andrade, Shelby 2:13.34 2:10.45
15th Wickham, Kat 2:09.11 2:09.72
38th Letellier, Lexie 2:22.03 2:21.96
400 FR 9th 3:38.88 3:37.48
1) Ceranic, Indira 2) Wickham, Kat
3) Wasserman, Alexa 4) Travis, Faith
1. Canyons Aquatic Club 1047 2. Aquazot Swim Club 979
3. Irvine Novaquatics 786 4. Rose Bowl Aquatics 629
5. Mission Viejo Nadadores 563 6. Brea Aquatics 501
7. Golden West Swim Club 500 8. The Claremont Club 324
9. Class Aquatics 283 10. Piranha Swim Team 275
As their coach, I am really proud of the team and how they performed. As our team continues to learn and grow as swimmers, I can only imagine more great meets ahead! Great Job Piranhas, now we can get ready for next season and set new goals for 2012!


