Washington State Champs Recap

What an exciting three days of racing to cap off the short course season for our 11-18-year-olds! Once more, Wave swimmers put up some fantastic times with several swimmers scoring. The team finished 8^th out of 31 teams from across the state.

Purple Sport

Alex Shibalov was the only swimmer from the Sport team to qualify for the State Champs and what a meet he had, with two official best times, including a 17-second drop in the 100 Back and only two breaths in his 50 Free to jump from a 35 to a 31!

Age Group Select

Led by Ella Tulanon’s fabulous 14^th place finish and 36-second time drop in the 1650 Free, AGS put together another amazing weekend of swimming, with every swimmer having at least one superb swim. Here are highlights for the other AGS swimmers:

• Ethan Chan dropped 9 seconds in his 100 Free, coming from behind in the second half to win his heat convincingly!
• Sophia Gorveatt broke the 1:19 barrier for the first time in the 100 Fly after several close calls!
• Tommy Henderson had four best times, highlighted by a 9-second drop in his 200 Back, and picked up three new B times!
• Nora Herman swam a beautifully paced 200 Free, dropping more than a second and just missed breaking the 2:30 barrier, going 2:30.01!
• Karolina Patusiak had four best times, highlighted by an incredible 200 Breast where she chopped off nearly 4 seconds after working hard the past month on improving her technique!
• Amelia Pletosu blasted her way to a 13.5-second drop in her 200 Back, executing flawless turns and perfect race strategy!
• Vien Pogue dropped time in five races, including a massive 15-second drop in her 200 Back!
• Aayush Rane had struggled to beat his best time in the 200 Back for several months, but he shattered that time, dropping more than 4 seconds!
• Ella Tulanon—in addition to her huge time drop in the 1650—also cut 31 seconds off her best 1000 Free time!
• Lasya Viswanadham swam her best 200 Breast ever in a beautifully executed race and was a key member of both medley relay teams!
• Kailyn Wing dropped nearly 7 seconds in her 200 Breast and picked up a B time in the race!

Senior 1

Senior 1 sent five swimmers to the State Championships this past weekend. I had a blast at the meet watching our swimmers obtain new best times and finish their season swimming well. All our swimmers qualified for finals in at least one event and were right on or achieved new best times. It was a fantastic start to the post-season for this group and I am excited to see what the next two meets have in store for us.

• Anouk Balog started off the meet with a huge bang dropping more than 2 seconds in the 200 Fly and qualifying for finals. She looked so smooth and strong in the water in such a tough race. In finals, she raced well and although was slightly slower than in prelims still went the second fastest time she ever has in the race.
• Alex Claux stepped up and made the trip down to participate in the 400 Medley and Free Relays. He swam a strong lead off leg of the 400 Free Relay going right at his best time and helping the team to a top 8 finish.
• Hailey Crawford had a very strong showing. She has been working on back and free at practice and it really paid off as she managed to drop 2.84 seconds in her 100 Back and 1.40 seconds in the 200 Free. She had a great lead off leg of the 400 Free Relay as well, going under 57 seconds for the first time.
• Taryn Han was right on her best times in all the races she swam. She started off the meet with a strong 100 Back, qualifying her for finals. In finals, she was able to race well and moved up a place from her prelims showing.
• Cameron Piepkorn finished the season on an absolute heater. He managed to post new best times in all but one race and qualified for finals in all his races. His biggest moment of the meet came in the 100 Breast final where he won the race and qualified for Senior Sectionals.

Senior Epic

The Senior Epic group sent two swimmers to the State Meet this past weekend. Both swimmers had amazing performances at the meet, achieving new best times and qualifying for finals. It was a great way for the group to start our post-season swimming and I am excited to see what the rest of the group can do moving forward.

• Owen Ledrick started the meet off with a strong swim in the 100 Breast that qualified him for finals; he would then go on to move up a spot in a great finals race. His biggest swim of the meet came in the 200 Breast where he dropped a half second, qualified for finals, and went under the 2:20 barrier, something he has been working towards all season.
• Noah Sattari was all business this weekend and it really showed in his swimming. He started off the meet with an awesome 200 fly dropping another 1.50 seconds, qualifying for finals, and having a super smooth and strong swim. He finished the meet on with another bang in the 100 Fly, dropping 1.47 seconds and earning his first Senior Zones cut.

Senior Prep

We had an outstanding State Champs Meet. The group had 108 successful swims where 61 swims were best times, which is 56% of all our races. We had another 19 swims that were within a 0.01 to 0.50 second of our best time. The average time drop for all swims was 2.1 seconds per race! This average includes anything we successfully swam and had swum before, including swims were swimmers added time. Really solid meet results, we had some impressive achievements in new AAA time qualifiers for Lena and Oleg, and new AA qualifiers for Anton, Joshua, and Cora!

Here are the top 20 time drops from the meet:

• Anton Mazapa dropped 42.5 seconds in the 1650 Free and 20.29 seconds in the 500 Free
• Kirsten Hau dropped 31.85 seconds in the 1650 Free
• Deming Gates dropped 25.18 seconds in the 1650 Free and 8.3 seconds in the 400 IM
• Lena Duryee dropped 24.37 seconds in the 1650 Free and 7.84 seconds in the 500 Free
• Oleg Arlouski dropped 13.31 seconds in the 200 Free, 10.92 seconds in the 500 Free, 9.89 seconds in the 200 Free, 8.2 seconds in the 200 Fly, 2.53 seconds in the 100 Fly, and 2.68 seconds in the 50 Fly
• Cora Ledrick dropped 9.65 seconds in the 500 Free
• Nik Brusilovski dropped 6.16 seconds in the 200 IM
• Barun Acharya dropped 5.35 seconds in the 200 Breast
• Adrian Juco dropped 4.56 seconds in the 200 IM and 3.59 seconds in the 100 IM
• Ani Purkayasthia dropped 3.61 seconds in the 100 Fly
• Kyle Fontelera dropped 3.05 seconds in the 200 Free

Great job Senior Prep!

Top 16 Finishes

The following swimmers scored points for Wave in our race to finish in the Top 10, led by Cameron Piepkorn’s win in the 200 Breast!

• Oleg Arlouski: 5^th (200 Fly), 6^th (200 Free), 7^th (100 Fly), 10^th (500 Free), 14^th (100 Free & 50 Fly)
• Anouk Balog: 15^th (200 Fly)
• Hailey Crawford: 14^th (100 Breast), 16^th (200 Breast)
• Lena Duryee: 4^th (500 & 1650 Free), 7^th (400 IM), 10^th (50 & 200 Back), 12^th (100 Back)
• Kyle Fontelera: 7^th (50 Fly), 8^th (200 Free), 10^th (400 IM), 9^th (100 Fly), 13^th (100 Free), 15^th (50 Free)
• Deming Gates: 13^th (200 Free), 14^th (1650 Free), 15^th (500 Free)
• Taryn Han: 14^th (100 Back)
• Kirsten Hau: 15^th (1650 Free)
• Adrian Juco: 10^th (50 Breast), 12^th (100 Breast)
• Cora Ledrick: 7^th (100 & 200 Free), 9^th (500 Free)
• Owen Ledrick: 7^th (200 Breast), 11^th (100 Breast)
• Anton Mazepa: 7^th (50 Back), 10^th (200 Back), 9^th (500 Free), 12^th (1650 Free), 13^th (400 IM)
• Cameron Piepkorn: 1^st (100 Breast), 3^rd (200 Breast), 12^th (100 Fly), 15^th (100 Back)
• Zoe Piepkorn: 6^th (1650 Free), 11^th (500 Free)
• Noah Sattari: 5^th (200 Fly), 10^th (100 Fly)
• Joshua Tang: 11^th (50 & 100 Breast), 12^th (200 Breast), 15^th (200 IM)
• Ella Tulanon: 14^th (1650 Free)
• 11-12 Girls Relays:
  • 200 Free (4^th) & 400 Free (8^th): Cora, Lena, Zoe & Bailey Tang
  • 200 Medley (10^th) & 400 Medley (13^th): Cora, Lena, Zoe & Lasya Viswanadham
• 11-12 Boys Relays:
  • 200 Free A (5^th) & 400 Free A (6^th): Oleg, Joshua, Kyle & Thomas Claux
  • 200 Free B (13^th) & 400 Free B (11^th): Adrian, Deming, Anton & Daniel Chen
  • 200 Medley A (5^th): Anton, Adrian, Kyle, Thomas
  • 200 Medley B (9^th): Daniel, Joshua, Oleg, Deming
  • 400 Medley A (5^th): Kyle, Joshua, Oleg, Thomas
  • 400 Medley B (11^th): Anton, Adrian, Daniel, Deming
• 13-14 Girls Relays:
  • 200 Free (13^th), 400 Free (13^th), 200 Medley (13^th), 400 Medley (12^th): Hailey, Anouk, Taryn & Ani Purkayasthia
• 15-18 Boys Relay:
  • 400 Free (7^th): Noah, Owen, Cameron & Alex Claux

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AAA

• Oleg Arlouski: 100 Fly
• Lena Duryee: 1650 Free

AA

• Oleg Arlouski: 100 & 200 Free, 50 & 200 Fly
• Kyle Fontelera: 200 Free
• Cora Ledrick: 500 Free
• Anton Mazepa: 50 Back, 1650 Free
• Zoe Piepkorn: 1650 Free
• Noah Sattari: 100 Fly
• Joshua Tang: 50 Breast

A

• Anouk Balog: 200 Fly
• Nik Brusilovski: 200 IM
• Hailey Crawford: 100 Back
• Deming Gates: 400 IM
• Zoe Piepkorn: 100 Breast
• Ani Purkayasthia: 50 Free
• Joshua Tang: 100 IM

BB

• Barun Acharya: 200 Breast
• Iris Huang: 100 Back
• Karolina Patusiak: 100 Breast
• Vien Pogue: 100 Breast, 200 Back
• Ella Tulanon: 1000 Free

B

• Tommy Henderson: 100 & 200 Free, 200 Back
• Amelia Pletosu: 200 Back
• Ani Purkayasthia: 100 Fly
• Alex Shibalov: 50 Free
• Kailyn Wing: 50 & 200 Breast

Wave on 3!!