2019 Black vs Purple Meet
2019 Black vs Purple Meet Recap
It was a hard fought battle for sure. The Black Team proved to be a worthy opponent, battling like a champion in each and every race. Grit and toughness were personified by the Black Team on this day! The Black Team athletes rose to the challenge with a roar heard across the mountains into Eastern Washington and beyond. But Purple won.
Thank you to all the parents who were able to help run this meet. We cannot do it without your support. Thank You!!!
New USA Swimming Motivational Times Achieved
Barun Acharya B time 50 Fly, B time 50 Free
Gwen Angus B time 100 Breast
Aditya Avadhanam B time 100 Fly
Allie Bai A time 100 IM, A time 50 Breast, BB time 50 Fly
Anouk Balog BB time 100 Breast, A time 100 Free, BB time 50 Free
Aidan Blackmon AA time 100 Breast
Simone Boczar BB time 50 Back
Boston Borg B time 100 Breast, B time 100 Free
Damien Bryant B time 100 Free
Daniel Chen B time 100 Free, B time 100 IM
Madeleine Cheng B time 50 Breast
Matthew Choy BB time 50 Back, BB time 50 Breast
Aidan Clarke BB time 100 Breast
Thomas Claux BB time 100 Free, BB time 50 Breast, BB time 50 Free
Hailey Crawford BB time 50 Fly
Grady Dunn B time 100 IM, B time 50 Fly, B time 50 Free
Lena Duryee B time 50 Breast
Ananiah Gashaw B time 50 Breast, B time 50 Free
Nethaniah Gashaw BB time 50 Breast, BB time 50 Free
Deming Gates B time 50 Back
William Goings B time 100 Free
Nathan Greenmun A time 50 Free
Hannah Ha B time 50 Fly
Hae-sun Han B time 50 Breast
Iris Huang B time 100 IM, B time 50 Free
Nicholas Imig BB time 100 Breast
Arnav Jha B time 50 Breast
Ella Johnson B time 100 Free, BB time 50 Breast, B time 50 Free
Maddy Kelly B time 100 Free, B time 100 IM, B time 50 Free
Pradhyot Kore B time 50 Breast
Surabhi Koundinya B time 100 IM, B time 50 Breast
Priyanka Kulkarni BB time 100 Free
Sophie Lai B time 100 Back, B time 100 Breast
Veico Lai A time 100 Breast
Julia Larsen A time 50 Breast
Owen Ledrick B time 100 Back, B time 100 Breast
Aiden Li BB time 50 Back, BB time 50 Fly
Kyle Li B time 50 Free
Anton Mazepa BB time 100 Back, BB time 100 Free, BB time 50 Back
Vidhi Mehrotra B time 50 Free
Olivia Meverden B time 50 Back, B time 50 Breast
Eleanor Miller B time 100 Back
Aleksandr Mkrtchyan B time 50 Back, B time 50 Breast
Abigail Mosset BB time 100 Back, BB time 100 Free
Ethan Na B time 100 IM, BB time 50 Fly, BB time 50 Free
Yana Nanda B time 100 Fly
Shir Netz B time 50 Breast
Vincent Ngo B time 100 Back, BB time 100 Free
Joseph Nguyen B time 100 Free
Lee Nguyen BB time 50 Breast
Blake Nilsen B time 100 Free
Cameron Piepkorn A time 50 Back, A time 50 Free
Zoe Piepkorn BB time 100 IM, BB time 50 Breast
Alexandru Popov BB time 100 Breast, BB time 100 Free
Ani Purkayastha A time 100 IM, BB time 50 Free
Ella Reedy B time 100 Breast
Aadhav Saravanan B time 100 Back
Maya Sawicka B time 100 Breast, B time 100 Fly
Daniel Sawicki B time 100 Back
Boris Shakhov B time 100 Back, B time 50 Free
Kamilla Shapiro B time 100 Breast, B time 50 Fly
Arlene Shergill B time 50 Free
Srianvika Siram B time 50 Breast
Shea Skarda BB time 50 Free
Artur Sobol B time 100 Breast
Jaiden Sreenivasan A time 100 Back, BB time 100 Breast, BB time 50 Free
Isaiah Taylor A time 100 Free
Steffen Teutsch BB time 100 Breast
Dylan Vu BB time 50 Free
Oliver Wang BB time 50 Free
William Wang B time 100 Fly, BB time 100 Free, BB time 50 Back
Zian Wang B time 100 IM, BB time 50 Fly, BB time 50 Free
Joshua Wu B time 100 Fly
Liya Wu B time 50 Back, B time 50 Breast
Daniel Xia BB time 100 Free
Kenneth Yang BB time 100 Breast
Matthew Yi B time 100 Breast
Sarah Yi B time 100 Free, B time 50 Free
Eva Yu B time 50 Fly
Rina Yuan B time 100 Free
Leo Zhu BB time 50 Back, B time 50 Free
Highlights by Practice Group
Black Group
Great first meet of the season for our Black Group athletes!
The coaches thought they did a terrific job of working through warm-up, checking in with the coaches, and getting to their races. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a very good start.
The past several weeks we've been working on a lot of legal finishes for backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly, and I'm glad to see the kids incorporating those skills in their races! I would like to shout out Max Malinovskyi for dropping nearly 20 seconds in his 50 backstroke! -Coach Jason
The turns and finishes that we’ve been practicing we’re looking exceptionally legal. Highlights would have to include Theresa Nguyen handily winning the 8&u 100 Br on her first swim of the event ever! (She was the youngest by 2 years). -Coach Robin
During the meet we had some exciting swims, including some really nice 50 Fly swims from Gahl Ami ad, Hannah Ha and Eva Yu. Kiara Kiem had one of my favorite races with her 50 Free, sticking with her breathing pattern the whole way which really impacted her overall race. Great execution Kiara! -Coach Erin
White Group
The White group had a fantastic meet at the Purple vs Black meet. There were over 250 successful timed results by the White group swimmers on Sunday with over 230 best times and 10 swims that were within a half second to a hundredth of a second off their best time. The average time drop per race for the white group was 3.4 seconds, and we had an average improvement of 5.28% per race as a group. 92% of our swims were best times! This shows that the group has really learned a lot in the first few weeks of the swim season and perhaps they have grown a lot too. I did not count DQ swims for these calculations as there was no official timed result to compare the original best time against.
I wanted to highlight the top 10 biggest improvements at the meet. Surabi Koundinya dropped over 26 seconds in her 100 Free! Ian Chow dropped over 20 seconds in her 100 Back! Aleksandr Mkrtchyan dropped just under 18 seconds in his 50 Fly! Aarush Kapoor dropped over 13 seconds in his 100 Free! Thomas Claux dropped 12 and a half seconds in his 100 Free! Lavanya Sharma dropped over 12 seconds in her 100 Back! Radha Shriram dropped 11 and a half seconds in her 50 Fly! Shailja Tyagi dropped almost 11 seconds in her 50 Breast! Daniel Chen dropped over 9 seconds in his 100 Free! Srianvika Siram dropped over 9 seconds in her 50 Breast! I also wanted to give a big congratulations to our swimmers that tried a new event at this meet. Gwen Angus, Anton Mazepa, Kamilla Shapiro, and Alex Shibalov all swam an event for the first time at the swim meet! Wonderful swimming White Group!
Purple Group
There were so many outstanding achievements by Purple it's impossible to list them all! Purple's swimmer of the meet was Allie Bai with 2 new A times, both of which were PNS Champs cuts. Her 50 breast was less than 1 second from an AA time! Special mention also to Annie Purkayastha, who got her first-ever A time, which was also a PNS cut. Other first-time standards included Leo Zhu's BB time in the 50 back, Arlene Shergill's B time in the 50 free, and Sophie Lai's B times in the 100 back and 100 breast! Other notable swims included Hailey Crawford, Anouk Balog, and Ethan Na all breaking the 30-second barrier in the 50 free as well as Itai Ami ad's 21-second drop in the 100 IM, Rashmi Joshi's 12.5-second drop in the 100 IM, Neha Phatak's 12.5-second drop in the 100 free, and Paolo Villanueva's 10-second drop in the 100 free.
SR Prep
Raymond Chen swam great at the Black v Purple meet, dropping at least 6 seconds in both his 100 Free and 100 IM, while also swimming in the 100 Fly for the first time. Ella Drazich dropped in all 3 of her swims, including an 11 second drop in her 100 Fly! Taryn Han looked great in her 50 Breast with a 4 second drop, and Julia Larsen followed that up with a 3 second drop in her 50 Breast, picking up an A time in the event. In all 3 of his events, Veico Lai dropped at least 2 seconds, including an almost 8 second drop in his 100 Breast on his way to an A Time. Owen Ledrick dropped 8 seconds in his 100 Back, 3 in his 100 Breast, and nearly 10 in his 100 Fly. Maja Loeser’s underwater dolphin kicks looked great in her 100 Back, helpling herself to an 8 second drop, while both Daniel Luckowski and Vidhi Mehrotra shaved 12 seconds off their best time in the 50 Fly. Finally, Joseph Nguyen dropped over 12 seconds in all of his swims, including a 23 second drop in his 100 Butterfly!
Senior
Senior had an amazing swim meet with lots of fast swims and a number of best times in the first short course meet of the season. The group was led by Alexander Werth going 3 out of 3 personal best times with almost 3 seconds drop in the 100 Fly. Alexandru Popov, Vincent Ngo, Eleanor Miller, and Damien Bryant joined the “club” and also swam lifetime bests in all 3 events this weekend. Nicholas Imig had a fantastic 21 seconds drop in the 100 Breast while Maya Sawicka dropped 13 seconds in the 100 Fly. Kohki Kita had a standout 8 seconds drop in the 100IM. Isaiah Taylor recovered from a broken collarbone a couple of months ago to drop a full second in the 100 Fr. William Goings came strong to drop 6 seconds in the 100 Fr while Ameya Madhugiri and Graham Petersen shaved off another 2 seconds each in the same event. Other notable swims include Blake Nilsen (6 seconds drop), Yana Nanda (4 seconds drop), and Aditya Avadhanam (3 seconds drop) in the 100 Fly; Ella Reedy (3 seconds drop) in the 100 Breast and Abagail Bissett with a 2 second drop in the 100 IM.
Senior Elite
The Senior Elite kids had a very strong meet at the Purple V Black Meet. The group started off the morning with a very challenging morning workout, and the focus in the evening practice was to swim with a strong focus on technique and a high level intensity. The kids knocked it out of the park with some strong swims and it was great to see a lot of the technique changes coming along in a race setting.
The Senior Elite kids also did an amazing job leading both the Purple and Black Team practices and cheers. The kids stepped up big time in developing team cheers for each group and did a great job teaching the rest of their team. Also, we had some SR kids working with and coaching the younger kids over the weekend, it was great to see the older kids passing along their knowledge to the younger kids.
Great Job to the Senior Elite group. And great work to the whole Black Team for putting up a good meet. And congrats to the Purple Team on the Victory.
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