Kingco Champs - High School Boys

A whole slew of our boys represented their high schools last weekend at the Kingco Championships. The boys have been training very hard since returning from the holiday break and it is starting to show in the their racing. The boys all competed very hard and many achieved new best times in their races or were right off of their best times. Special shout outs go to Joseph Moore, who not only competed as a diver for Eastlake, but won KingCo, and to Fredrik Larsen, who won the 200 IM! Congrats Wave Swimmers!

Senior Epic

• Fredrik Larsen (Lake Washington) dominated his events at KingCo. He swam the 200 IM, 100 Bk, 200 Free Relay, and 400 Free Relay. Fredrik came ready to race for the podium in his individual events and so he did! He won a gold medal in the 200 IM setting a personal best time (again) after dropping in this event 3 weeks ago. He also had a strong swim in the 100 Back  bringing home a silver medal. Fred helped his team to place 2nd in both 400 Free and 200 Free Relays.
• Tyler Kong (Lake Washington) is having an amazing season. He swam the 100 Breast, 200 IM, 200 Free Relay, and 200 Medley Relay. Tyler went a best time in the 100 Breast dropping almost a full second and missing the Sectionals cut for only 0.30 tenths of seconds! He placed 5th in finals. Besides that, he went a personal best in the 200 IM, dropping 1.5 seconds and finishing in 8th place. He joined Fred in the 200 Free Relay finishing in 2nd place and helped the team to win bronze in the 200 Medley Relay.
• Owen Ledrick (Lake Washington) swam the 100 Breast, 200 Free, and the 200 Medley Relay at KingCo. His outstanding swim was the 200 Free where he went 1.5 seconds off his best time swimming with a steady and consistent pace. Besides his individual events he helped the team to qualify for finals in the 200 Medley relay with a strong Breaststroke leg in the prelims.
• Blake Nilsen (Lake Washington) swam the 200 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Free Relay, and 400 Free Relay. He had a solid meet and went only a second off his best time in the 200 Free with a strong finish. In addition to his individual events, Blake helped the team to qualify the 200 Free and 400 Free Relays for finals.
• Jaiden Sreenivasan (Redmond) is doing his first HS Season this year and he is off to a great start. He swam the 200 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Medley Relay, and 400 Free Relay. Jaiden placed 6th in both individual events with solid swims and helped the team to finish in 3rd place in the 400 Free Relay.
• Noah Sattari (Redmond) is also doing his first HS Season this year. He swam the 200 IM, 100 Free, 200 Medley Relay, and 400 Free Relay. He had solid swims, especially the 200 IM where he went less than a second off his best time putting together a strong first 100 and  finishing in 8th place. Noah also helped his team to place third in the 200 Medley Relay.
• Suhas Kannam (Redmond) swam the 100 Back, 200 Free, 200 Medley Relay, and 400 Free Relay. He qualified for finals in the 100 Back finishing in 12th place and joined his teammate Jaiden in the 400 Free Relay to grab the 3rd place in finals.
• Alex Popov (Woodinville) swam the 100 Breast, 200 Free, 200 Free Relay, and 400 Free Relay last weekend. He went out fast in his 100 Breast and finished the race only half a second off his best time with another solid swim this season. Popov also helped his team to place 5th in both the 200 Free and 400 Free Relays.

Senior 1

• Kyle Li (Eastlake): had a great showing at his first high school championship meet. Put in a great 200 free going a half second under his best club time. Was a strong relay swimmer leading off both the 200 and 400 free relays right at his best times.
• Shaur Shrivisttava (Eastlake): proved himself a valuable member of both the 200 medley and 200 free relays helping both teams qualify for finals. He had great success in his 100 back as well, he managed to sneak into finals then stepped up huge, going under the 1:00 mark for the first time.
• Vincent Ngo (Juanita): had a very busy weekend swimming. He qualified for finals in the 100 free and helped both his 200 free and medley relays qualify as well. He had strong showings in all his races going right at his best time in both the 100 and 50 free.
• Boston Borg (Lake Washington): had an amazing meet. He was right on his best time in the 200 free and managed to drop in prelims of the 500 free qualifying for finals, he then dropped again in finals going under the 5:10 mark. 
• Carr Chellis (Lake Washington): competed in the 50 free and 100 back posting strong swims in both races. He was within half a second of his best in the 50. He looks to continue regaining stamina and swimming faster as the meets progress.
• Sonny Nguyen (Lake Washington): had a big meet swimming in four races. Swam right at his best time in the 200 IM and dropped almost a full second in the 100 free going under 55 for the first time. Valuable member of both his 200 medley and 400 free relay posting a new best time in the 50 free.
• Alex Claux (Redmond): posted strong swims in both the 100 fly and 100 breast. He went just off his best time in the 100 fly and posted his fastest high school time of the year in the event. He just missed making finals in the event finishing as the first alternate.
• Grant Gallagher (Redmond): had a great showing at the meet making finals in both the 100 breast and the 100 fly. In prelims of both races he was just a half second off his best time. He looks to continue to perform well heading into the next stage of meets.
• Aarjav Jain (Redmond): proved to be a valuable member of his team swimming two individual events and two relays. Strongest swim came in the 200 free relay as the anchor leg he managed to post a personal best time. 
• Ben Lam (Redmond): selected to swim two individual events and two relays. He didn’t have as much speed as he had hoped in his individual races but more than made up for it in the relays as he posted personal best times in both the 50 and 100 free.
• Joseph Nguyen (Redmond): competed very well at the meet and posted some great times. He was able to achieve a new personal best in the 100 breast and led off the 200 free relay right at his best 50 free time.
• Dane Padgett (Redmond): had a busy weekend making finals in the 50 free and helping his 200 free relay team to a 4th place finish. Posted new best times in both the 100 fly and the 50 free and looks to swim even faster this weekend at Divisionals.
• Aadhav Saravanan (Redmond): took on the challenge of swimming the 500 free. In prelims he had a huge 15 second drop that qualified him for finals. In finals he stepped up even more and dropped 2 more seconds from his prelims swim. He will race it again this weekend and plans to drop even more time.
• Andy Wang (Redmond): continued to swim very well at meets. He had amazing performances in the 200 free, dropping almost a full second then turning in a wonderful 100 fly breaking 1:00 for the first time ever.

High School Sport

• Daniel Cho (Redmond): 100 back seeded 24th entry time at 1:11.77 finished 33rd with 1:10.12. 100 breast seeded 25th and entry time is 1:16.29 finished 43rd with 1:22.24. 
• Will Goings (Lake Washington): 50 free seeded 21st entry time 25.81 finshed 46th with 26.31. 100 Fly seeded 20th entry time 1:05.31 finished with 1:06.67 at 24th place. Also, swam third in the 400 yard relay with a time of 1:00.36.
• Nathan Greenmun (Redmond): 200 IM seeded 12th entry time 2:22.02 and finished 18th with a time 2:18.24. 50 free seeded 7th entry time 24.49. He finished placed 22nd with a time of 25.04.
• Evan Mao (Redmond): 50 Free seeded 25th entry time 26.15 and finished placed 39th with a time of 26.08. 100 breast seeded 12th entry time 1:10.22 and finished with a time of 1:11.15 placed 28th. He also swam the breast in the 200 yard medley with a time of 31.72. Swam as lead in the 200 yard free relay with a time of 26.26.
• Mihail Popov (Juanita): 200 IM seeded 5th entry time 2:10.68 and finished with a time of 2:08.93 in 9th place. 100 breast seeded 11th entry time 1:10.05 and finished with a time of 1:07.94 in 10th place. Swam third in the 200 yard free relay with a time of 23.93. 
• Samuel Yi (Lake Washington): 200 Free seeded 17th entry time 2:11.29 and finished with a time of 2:09.76 and placed 32nd. 100 back seeded 25th entry time 1:12.20 and finished with a time of 1:11.14 placed 35th. 
• Joesph Moore (Eastlake): Boys 1 mtr diving finishing with 1st place and a score of 283.60. 50 free seeded 12th entry time 25.01 and finished with a 25.00 at 24th place. Also, swam the lead in the 200 yard medley relay with a time of 28.68.

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