WAVE October Intrasquad #2

October WAVE 2nd Intrasquad Meet Recap

The Select Team took advantage of another chance to race at JAC this past Saturday in some longer events. The swimming was fun and fast, but better than that was the compliments the coaching staff received from the meet ref on behalf of the swimmers for doing a great job staying socially distant and wearing masks.

Thank you to all the volunteers that make these meets possible! The coaching staff is already looking forward to the next round of meets

New USA Swimming Motivational Times

Highlights by Group: 

Age Group

The AG Select Team did a fantastic job at the meet  this weekend.  Out of fifty three total successful races we had forty four best times and five more that within half a second of a best time. Our average drop per successful swim was 5.9 seconds.  We had some huge drops too with nine double digit time drops.  We also had our first new A time achieved this season with Zoe Piepkorn getting an A time in the 100 Fly.  We had four swimmers swim an event for the first time with Sophia, Ron, and Joshua swimming the 100 Fly, and Siana swimming the 100 Back.  Congratulations on expanding your swimming repertoire!

Here were the top 10 time drops from the meet:

• Ron Levin dropped -25.42 seconds in the 100 Free!
• Liya Wu dropped -23.83 seconds in the 100 Breast!
• Rahul Purkayastha dropped -19.49 seconds in the 100 Breast!
• Gwen Angus dropped -15.57 seconds in the 100 IM!
• Oliver Wang dropped -14.08 seconds in the 100 Fly!
• Karolina Pastusiak dropped -13.9 seconds in the 100 IM!
• Cora Ledrick dropped -13.09 seconds in the 100 Fly!
• Rahul Purkayastha dropped -11.26 seconds in the 100 IM!
• Kamilla Bugaitsova dropped -10.13 seconds in the 100 Free!
• Lasyapriya Viswanadham dropped -9.09 seconds in the 100 IM!

Keep up the great work swimmers!

SR Prep

Another great weekend of racing for Sr Prep in their follow up return to competition. 71% of swims from the 2^nd intrasquad meet were either first times completing an event or a best time! Highlights from the meet:

- Nik Brusilovski picked up a best time in both his races including a 19 second dorp in his 200 Free!

- Daniel Xia took off 12 seconds from his best 200 Breast time on his way to a B Time in the Event

- Hailey Crawford was exceptional in her 100 Fly, dropping nearly 9 seconds to move to a B Time for the event.

- Kyle Li dropped 3 seconds in his 200 Back to start the meet and followed that up with a stellar 9 second drop in his 200 IM

- Carter Drazich was on fire last Saturday, starting with a 10 second drop in his 200 Breast, then following up with a 2 second drop in his 100 IM, getting a BB Time in both events

- Taryn Han got the meet rolling by completing her first ever 200 Fly, where she got a B Time, and later on in the day dropped almost 5 seconds in her 200 IM for a new BB Time

- Veico Lai got 2 BB Times in his 2 swims, including a 4 second drop in the 200 Breast and a 2 second drop in his 200 IM.

Senior 1

The Senior 1 Group came strong for the second weekend of our Intrasquad Meet, and again, crushed their old times and set 26 new personal best times. Alexandru Popov had an excellent day and dropped 5 seconds in the 400 IM to get an A Time and also dropped 8.5 seconds in the 200 Breast. Owen Ledrick got a new A Time in the 200 Breast going 2.2 seconds faster than his old time. Melis Gursoy also got an A Time with a 3.5 seconds drop in the 400 IM getting closer to the 5:00 barrier. Kohki Kita had a fantastic 31 seconds drop in the 200 Fly while Raymond Chen dropped almost 17 seconds in the 200 IM. Aadhav Saravanan celebrated his birthday dropping 9 seconds in the 200 Fly and also swimming right at his time in the 400 IM. That’s a fancy celebration! Alex Claux dropped 9 seconds in the 200 Back and Ella Drazich finished strong to drop 6 seconds in the same event. Spandana Kannan has been working on different strokes and dropped 4.88 seconds in the 200 Breast. Tyler Zhang joined the 200 Fly crew and also dropped 3 seconds to swim a lifetime best. Lastly, a big shout-out to the athletes that swam a new event for the first time: Matthew Yi (1650 Free), Damien Bryant and Raymond Chen (200 Fly), and Carr Chellis (200 Breast). 

Senior Epic

The Epic kids had another strong weekend of swimming with some great time drops.  The recovery week heading into the meet really paid off and I am excited with where the kids are at mid-season.  

A few stand out swims:

Kyler Brumfield dropped 7 seconds in her 1650 Free.

Fred Larsen dropped 4.5 seconds to break 2 minutes in his 200 back and got a 2020 Summer Sectional Time.

Grace Liu dropped 4 seconds in her 200 fly.

Jack Skarda dropped just shy of 8 full seconds in his 500 free.

Great work to all the Epic Swimmers.

Congrats on another wonderful meet to the Select Team!

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