Royal Wins High Point Award at Sectionals with 6 Individual Team Records and 7 Relay Records

Val Bagri
These past 4 days, Royal competed at the 2025 Sectional Championships. Lots of finals, team records, and team accomplishments this week. What a great way to end the year!
 
Highlights:
- 13 Royal swimmers competed (New record!!!)
- Royal broke 6 individual team records and 7 relay records
- Royal scored the most points in the small team category with 540.5 points, scoring over 156 more points than 2nd place. New Royal record!!!
- Royal won most points for Women's small team with 256.6 points, scoring 18.5 points more than 2nd place.
- Royal placed 14th/71 teams that scored at sectionals
- Women placed 14th/54 teams that scored points 
- Men scored 17th/59 teams that scored points
- Amy Okada scored 146.5 points & Jordyn Hale 6 points 
- Pavel Romanov scored 99 points & Nico Bagri 51 points 
- First time Sectional Swimmers: David Banco, Maksym Bekhter, Eowyn Daines, Marco Sampaio, Rowan Sellers
 
Top 3 Swims:
- Amy Okada: 50 FLY (1st), 100 FLY (2nd), 50 BR (3rd)
- Pavel Romanov 50 BR (2nd), 100 BR (2nd), 200 BR (2nd)
 
Team Records:
- Pavel Romanov: 50 BR, 100BR, 200 BR
- Amy Okada: 50 BR, 50 FLY, 100 FLY (8 year old record held by Amy)
- Womens 4x 50 FREE relay (18th): Jordyn Hale, Eowyn Daines, Elise Kao, Addison Lowe
- Women's 4x 50 MEDLEY relay (11th): Jordyn Hale, Amy Okada, Elise Kao, Addison Lowe
- Women's 4x 100 FREE relay (19th): Jordyn Hale, Eowyn Daines, Elise Kao, Amy Okada
- Men's 4x 50 FREE relay (10th): Nico Bagri, Marco Sampaio, Pavel Romanov, Bogdan Vychuzhanin
- Men's 4x 50 MEDLEY relay (12th): Will Ryan, Pavel Romanov, Nico Bagri, Bogdan Vychuzhanin
- Men's 4x100 FREE relay (26th): Nico Bagri, Marco Sampaio, David Banco, Bodhan Vychuzhanin 
- Men's 4x 100 MEDLEY relay (17th): Will Ryan, Pavel Romanov, Nico Bagri, Bogdan Vychuzhanin
 
What a great meet to end the year. So many great experiences and learning opportunities. We only go up from here.
Great job everyone, and have a safe and blessed holiday season.

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