PIRANHAS WIN GOLD, BREAK RECORDS AT SCS CLUB CHAMPS

The Southern California Swimming Club Championships took place last weekend at East LA College hosted by the Rose Bowl Aquatic Club.  To qualify you had to have one of the top 32 fastest times in your age group over the last year compared to other Southern California Swimmers.  7 Piranhas qualified for the meet that was overall a great success for the Piranha Swimmers.  

Kat Wickham (Palm Springs High School)  lead the Piranha Swim Team with 3 Gold medals.  She swept the distance races by earning Gold Medals in the 500 (4:53.8), 1000 (10:05.2), and 1650 (16:59.5)  freestyle while swimming lifetime bests in all three.  Kat also brought home a Silver medal in the 200 free (1:50.0) and finished 8th in the 100 free (51.9), both also lifetime bests.  12 year old Kelli Andrade won a Gold medal in the 50 Break Stroke (32.2) while also breaking the SCS Champs Meet record and the Piranha Team record.  In addition to the 50 Breast Stroke Kelli earned medals in the 50 fly (28.0) (3rd), 100 breast (1:10.5)  (6th)-both best times, and 100 IM (6th).

Faith Travis (Palm Springs High School)  broke the 15-18 and Open Team Record in the 200 backstroke (2:01.2) while finishing second.  She also took second in the 100 backstroke (56.1) and 4th in the 400 IM (4:27.8), all also lifetime bests.  Shelby Andrade (Xavier High School)  medaled in the 100 fly and Alexa Wasserman (Palm Springs High School) earned a medal in the 400 IM.  The Relay team of Kat, Faith, Shelby, and Alexa had an outstanding meet.  The four girls broke the team record in the 400 Medley Relay finishing 4th while also finishing 4th in the 400 Free Relay, 5th in the 800 free relay, and 6th in the 200 free relay.

Next up for the Piranhas is the Eastern Committee Championships.  Good luck to our swimmers.  With our Club Championsip Swimmers not eligible to swim their best events, look for our swimmers preparing to be the next level of Club Championship medalists take the lead and our best swimmers show versatility in off events.  

GO PIRANHAS!!!!