IMX/IMR Meet Recap

What a wild weekend! Our swimmers faced a big challenge swimming all four strokes + an IM and they stepped up big time! Many swam events they had never swum, or had not swum in a very long time, and they performed like rock stars! Special congratulations to our #1 Swimmers (based on average points per event): Kyle Fontelera (Select Team) and Adi Beibit (Sport Team)!!

For those who are unfamiliar with the IMX (IM Extreme) or IMR (IM Ready) formats, the goal is to swim five races (the 13&Over IMX swimmers swim six) and then add up the Power Points earned. Power Points is a method that US Swimming uses to rank swimmers based on age, gender, distance, stroke, and time. A minimum of 1.00 points is awarded for a legal swim. This allows swimmers to be compared despite age and gender differences. The Wave swimmer who scored the most points in a single event was Jaiden Sreenivasan (729.35 points in the 500 Free)!

Of special note, Anton Mazepa went 5-for-5 not just in best times, but in new US Swimming Motivational Times with two new AA and three new A times!!

Overall results will be sent in a separate email.

Top 10 Swimmers Overall (Average Points Per Event)

IMR (Sport Team)

1. Adi Beibit (314.74)
2. Oliver Wang (310.44)
3. Zander Brumfield (280.66)
4. Leo Zhu (254.33)
5. Aarohi Gandhi (168.68)
6. Daniel Cho (166.88)
7. Max Malinovskyi (160.35)
8. Jasmine Shi (156.41)
9. Lucy Broyles (156.26)
10. Maria Kokhan (155.85)

IMX (Select Team)

1. Kyle Fontelera (598.61)
2. Jaiden Sreenivasan (571.23)
3. Oleg Arlouski (554.97)
4. Lena Duryee (551.87)
5. Fredrik Larsen (544.69)
6. Andrea Wu (536.68)
7. Anton Mazepa (532.49)
8. Ellen Feng (491.49)
9. Melis Gursoy (491.01)
10. Alex Popov (488.23)

Top 5 Swimmers by Age Group (Total Power Points)

10&Under Girls (IMR)

1. Lucy Broyles (781.31)
2. Maria Kokhan (779.26)
3. Vedah Tuladhar (752.61)
4. Eleanor Lopez (593.80)
5. Emily Dong (578.68)

10&Under Boys (IMR)

1. Adi Beibit (1573.69)
2. Max Malinovskyi (801.76)
3. Landon Yuan (604.55)
4. Anu Bathe (232.36)
5. Adam Kantor (157.98)

11-12 Girls (IMR)

1. Jasmine Shi (782.05)
2. Molly Page (725.67)
3. Victoria Seto (626.41)
4. Jane Robinson (492.21)
5. Roshni Padmanabhan (490.91)

11-12 Boys (IMR)

1. Oliver Wang (1552.19)
2. Dario Giulani (548.58)
3. Arnu Jha (547.62)
4. Carlo Villanueva (436.89)
5. Kirill Kadich (431.32)

13&Over Girls (IMR)

1. Aarohi Gandhi (843.42)
2. Sarah Yi (460.97)
3. Maya O’Neill (349.75)
4. Aditi Kandiah (346.89)
5. Varshini Hari (281.77)

13&Over Boys (IMR)

1. Zander Brumfield (1403.30)
2. Leo Zhu (1271.65)
3. Daniel Cho (834.39)
4. Ori Ami Ad (760.47)
5. Julien Wang (635.60)

10&Under Girls (IMX)

1. Ellen Feng (2457.45)
2. Claire Gao (2249.75)
3. Prisha Parikh (1909.34)
4. Olivia Liu (1376.64)
5. Beata Sobol (1158.12)

10&Under Boys (IMX)

1. Bimu Beibit (2237.50)
2. Alex Lobdell (1833.90)
3. Isshin Yokoyama (1009.39)
4. Deniz Cankaya (742.79)
5. Andy Yang (511.70)

11-12 Girls (IMX)

1. Lena Duryee (2759.37)
2. Sophia Gorveatt (1686.61)
3. Lina Wu (1537.78)
4. Lasya Viswanadham (1532.05)
5. Kamilla Bugaitsova (1528.79)

11-12 Boys (IMX)

1. Kyle Fontelera (2993.07)
2. Oleg Arlouski (2774.84)
3. Anton Mazepa (2662.44)
4. Thomas Claux (2422.39)
5. Daniel Chen (1877.41)

13-14 Girls (IMX)

1. Anouk Balog (2716.15)
2. Cora Ledrick (2334.77)
3. Ani Purkayastha (2110.74)
4. Iris Huang (1299.94)
5. Nethaniah Gashaw (816.90)

13-14 Boys (IMX)

1. Dylan Vu (2498.50)
2. Ethan Na (1989.58)
3. Nik Brusilovski (1912.19)
4. Bill Wang (1860.75)
5. Boris Shakhov (1835.24)

15&Over Girls (IMX)

1. Andrea Wu (3220.07)
2. Melis Gursoy (2946.07)
3. Kyler Brumfield (2447.95)
4. Jenna Kimborowicz (2237.72)
5. Lola Reynolds (1842.20)

15&Over Boys (IMX)

1. Jaiden Sreenivasan (3427.36)
2. Fredrik Larsen (3268.15)
3. Alex Popov (2929.37)
4. Tyler Kong (2521.13)
5. Aarjav Jain (1953.14)

Meet Recaps

Black Sport

First and foremost, Coach Erin and Coach Lysie want to acknowledge the athletes who swam all five races this past weekend (100 Free, 100 IM, 50 Fly, 50 Back, 50 Breast), and completed them legally without any disqualifications. All five have been doing a terrific job in practice working on things and the coaches were excited to have their efforts pay off! Awesome work!!!

• Tula Henkin
• Joy Huang
• Rinat Maksyutov
• Benji Ovendale
• Kenshin Yokoyama

Some other highlights:

• Madeline Godbout swam a legal 50 Breast as a 6-year-old. She’s been working super hard to get the skills down on that stroke, so we were pumped to see this happen for her!
• Blakely Hansen swam a legal 50 Breast just one week after turning 7…and after only 2 months on the team!
• Zoey Harmetz – We loved how she worked super hard to focus on her breaststroke kick and hold it legal for her 50 Breast race.
• Lexie Watrous, turned 7 in December, also put together a legal 50 Breast after lots of hard work!
• Ethan Pan popped onto the scene this weekend with a fantastic swim in his 50 Back and put all the skills together he’d been working hard on to swim his first legal 50 Breast.
• Olivia Horng really emphasized her kick in her 50 Fly, and she dropped almost 8 seconds in that race. She also did really well on the 100 Free, showing some good flip turn skills and posting her best performance in that one so far!
• Kaito Falk had his first meet with us and did well on the 100 Free. There was just a little hiccup midrace thinking he was done, but he jumped back into it and swam hard while sticking with breathing every 3 strokes for the full race!
• Rinat Maksyutov raced strong from the start of his 100 IM, but his 50 Breast looked really great as he really used his kicking skills to power his stroke!

These were some longer races for some of the athletes but many of the kids earned legal times in the 100 IM and 100 freestyle, making the coaches proud of them for knocking those out. Also of note, the kids are showing improvement with their butterfly strokes, both in the 50 Fly and the fly leg of the IM.

We had some wonderful 50 Back swims over the weekend from a whole bunch of kids: 40 total either first-time swims or new best times in that event. The kids showed some improved wall skills and kicking overall, which was great to see. Here’s the list of names from that event:

50 Back	Time	Athlete	Age	Swim Date	Meet Name
1	1:25.87Y	Arora, Navya	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
2	1:03.39Y	Beazer, Aria	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
3	1:19.96Y	Bhatt, Aman	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
4	55.47Y	Chan, Sebastian	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
5	1:13.55Y	Dauletbaev, Timur	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
6	1:01.24Y	Deng, Chufan	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
7	52.57Y	Dunn, Berit	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
8	58.80Y	Erdim, Mira	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
9	1:08.88Y	Falk, Kaito	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
10	56.27Y	Fernandez, Tyler	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
11	1:01.18Y	Gao, Ella	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
12	1:17.52Y	Garg, Avni	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
13	1:45.49Y	Godbout, Madeline	6	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
14	1:09.16Y	Hansen, Blakely	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
15	1:13.34Y	Hari, Raya	6	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
16	1:06.63Y	Harmetz, Zoey	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
17	53.88Y	Henkin, Tula	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
18	59.21Y	Huang, Joy	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
19	1:21.71Y	Indurkar, Roohi	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
20	57.25Y	Jiang, Bella	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
21	55.71Y	Jiang, Elaina	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
22	1:03.61Y	Jones, Owen	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
23	1:04.56Y	Jung, Haim	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
24	1:02.54Y	Kleinpeter, Colette	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
25	1:10.26Y	Koc, Ruzgar	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
26	49.39Y	Maksyutov, Rinat	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
27	1:09.10Y	Munjal, Suhani	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
28	55.79Y	Ovendale, Benjamin	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
29	53.68Y	Pan, Ethan	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
30	1:23.63Y	Rane, Aashay	6	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
31	1:15.95Y	Ritscher Osorio, Alexander	6	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
32	1:19.05Y	Sakin, Ata	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
33	55.51Y	Spitze, Keira	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
34	55.55Y	Stevenson, Clara	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
35	1:11.54Y	Wang, Landon	6	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
36	1:03.88Y	Watrous, Alessandra	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
37	1:15.45Y	Xu, Lucas	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
38	1:06.99Y	Yang, Alyssa	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
39	1:05.78Y	Ye, Amelia	8	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In
40	55.00Y	Yokoyama, Kenshin	7	05/01/2022	2022 PN Wave Spring IMX-IMR In

Thank you to families for sticking with the meet rules. We started off a bit rough in terms of getting the kids where they needed to be in the first race on Saturday, but we were able to make corrections, get everyone into that race, and things went much smoother from there.

The kids did a good job of noting what heat was running and getting to their start position for their races. They actually did really well with this. I’m certain the timers had a hand in that, so if you were timing and helping get kids to their heats, thank you.

Some of the kids didn’t like camping out behind the blocks for 20 heats, but 50s run fast and this allowed the coaches to be able to watch the swims instead of constantly herding individual heats from one end of the pool to the other. This also allowed the coaches to check heats as they were stepping forward to make sure everyone was there. There were just a couple miscues, but again, with the help of our officials and timers, we were able to get the kids into a subsequent heat.

Senior Prep

We swam so well at the IMX/IMR meet! We had 164 successful swims with 124 best times and 17 first-time swims (included as best times). We also had 7 more swims that were within 0.01 to 0.50 off the swimmer's best time. The average time drop per race for the group was -4.1 seconds per race! We also updated a significant amount of very old times.

Top 20 time drops from the IMX/IMR meet:

• Bill Wang dropped 41.26 seconds in the 500 Free & 19.47 seconds in the 200 Breast!
• Alex Shibalov dropped 33.65 seconds in the 200 IM, 14.56 seconds in the 100 Back, & 13.23 seconds in the 100 Fly!
• Lina Wu dropped 26.69 seconds in the 500 Free
• Rahul Purkayastha dropped 23.22 seconds in the 400 IM
• Olivia DeAmicis dropped 22.41 seconds in the 500 Free
• Ron Levin dropped 22.24 seconds in the 500 Free
• Lauren Hizzey dropped 19.61 seconds in the 500 Free & 15.55 seconds in the 200 IM!
• Liya Wu dropped 18.49 seconds in the 500 Free
• Sophia Gorveatt dropped 18.05 seconds in the 500 Free
• Tanay Boda dropped 17.69 seconds in the 200 Breast
• Nethaniah Gashaw dropped 16.34 seconds in the 400 IM
• Anindita Purkayastha dropped 14.33 seconds in the 500 Free
• Karolina Pastusiak dropped 12.20 seconds in the 200 IM
• Radha Shriram dropped 12.08 seconds in the 100 Fly
• Oleg Arlouski dropped 11.10 seconds in the 200 IM

First Time Swims:

• Barun Acharya swam the 200 Fly for the first time
• Tanay Boda swam the 400 IM & 200 Fly for the first time
• Ananiah Gashaw swam the 400 IM & 200 Fly for the first time
• Penelope Hepkin swam the 400 IM, 200 Fly, & 200 Back for the first time
• Cora Ledrick swam the 200 Fly for the first time
• Shir Netz swam the 100 Fly for the first time
• Ani Purkayastha swam the 200 Fly for the first time
• Rahul Purkayastha swam the 200 Fly for the first time
• Tandisse Rahimi swam the 100 Breast, 100 Fly, & 500 Free for the first time
• Alex Shibalov swam the 500 Free for the first time
• Bailey Tang swam the 200 Fly for the first time
• Lasya Viswanadham swam the 500 Free for the first time
• Daniel Xia swam the 400 IM for the first time

Fantastic swimming Senior Prep!

Age Group Select

AGS showed up ready to race, with our newest swimmers especially revving it up. We had a great meet, outperforming even The Avengers with lots of first-ever events and a slew of best times. However, we also had more DQs than normal, mostly backstroke flip turns and illegal pulls on butterfly, so it’ll be back to the ol’ drawing board the next couple of weeks!

Tony Stark Awards

Two of our swimmers—Nora Herman and George Urselenko—came to the meet straight out of quarantine with no practices in the last two weeks to perform tremendously, thus earning Iron Man status. Not only did they race well, they both managed a big time drop (Nora dropped 7.5 seconds in the 200 IM and George dropped 5.16 seconds in the 200 Free)!

Captain Marvel Awards

Ally Yuan, Kyra Yuan, and Prisha Parikh would let nothing stand in their way as all successfully swam two new events without DQs (with Ally swimming three). Of those seven first-time swims, five were B times and one was a BB time!

Captain America Awards

Speeding faster than Captain America can hurl that vibranium shield, these athletes went a perfect 5-for-5 in best times, earning their Avengers star: Ellen Feng, Claire Gao, Olivia Liu, Prisha Parikh, Irene Qu, Aayush Rane, Audra Whitbeck, and Ally Yuan!!

Guardians of the Galaxy Awards

Swimming faster than Rocket can make a wisecrack, these swimmers earned their First BB Caps, all in the 100 Breast: Andy Yang, Grace Zhang, and Irene Qu!! Special mention to Beata Sobol for also achieving it in the 100 Breast via a massive drop!

Thor’s Hammer Awards

Our men saw several stupendous time drops, as if Thor’s Hammer was smashing away all resistance. Aayush Rane led our drops, crushing off 31.8 seconds in his 500 Free as he finally blasted past the 8:00 barrier as well as -12.22 in the 200 IM. He was closely followed by Bimu Beibit (-22.62 in the 100 Fly), Ethan Chan (-17.22 in the 100 Fly), Isshin Yokoyama (-12.04 in the 200 Free), Kumail Mukadam (-15.46 in the 500 Free), Andy Yang (-14.62 in the 200 Free and -10.96 in the 100 Fly), Deniz Cankaya (-12.01 in the 200 Free), Alex Lobdell (-3.00 and a new A time in the 100 Back), Tommy Henderson (-10.78 in the 200 IM), and Alex Arlouski (-11.37 in the 100 Breast).

Black Widow Awards

Swimming so fast, it’s almost as if you never saw these amazing women! Claire Gao was our champion of time drops, slashing off -16.90 seconds in the 100 Back, -18.03 in the 100 Fly, and -22.63 in the 200 IM to go with two new A times! Joining her in the quest were Olivia Liu (-12.21 in the 100 Back, -13.40 in the 200 Free, and -11.80 in the 200 IM), Irene Qu (-11.34 in the 100 Breast, -18.26 in the 200 Free, and -11.45 in the 200 IM), Yuzuki Ishizuka (-18.35 in the 200 Free and -11.26 in the 100 Back) Kamilla Bugaitsova (-8.56 in the 100 Fly), Ellen Feng (-11.34 in the 200 IM), Abby Gray (-16.12 in the 200 Free), Olivia Henaire (-16.15 in the 200 IM), Dami Jung (-17.47 in the 100 Back and -14.15 in the 200 Free), Molly Mayfield (-6.25 in the 100 Breast), Lainey Meyer (-8.04 in the 200 IM), Theresa Nguyen (-12.05 in the 200 IM), Rachael Rose (-20.53 in the 200 Free), Navya Sainani (-20.88 in the 200 Free), Sanvi Shrivastava (-8.89 in the 200 IM), Beata Sobol (-18.25 in the 100 Breast and -11.23 in the 100 Back), Alison Wang (-9.90 in the 200 Free), Audra Whitbeck (-11.19 in the 100 Fly), Kailyn Wing (-6.88 in the 500 Free), and Yihan Li (-3.19 in the 100 Breast).

Way to go, Age Group Avengers!

Purple Sport

We had a great weekend as a group with great swims! Coach Aili is very proud of how all the swimmers hard work leading up to the meet and how they took that hard work and executed it in their races. Great job on fabulous swims, Purple Group!!

Some of our highlights are:

• Sachi Akers dropped 6.46 seconds in 100 IM
• Tvesa Bansal dropped over 10 seconds in 50 Back
• Neel Borate dropped over 8 seconds in 50 Fly
• Ian Chow dropped 14.20 seconds in his 200 Free
• Mutian Gao dropped 23.84 seconds in his 200 Free and 16.81 seconds in his 200 IM
• Shayan Gavandi dropped over 12 seconds in his 200 Free and 100 Breast
• Abby Han dropped just under 14 seconds in her 100 Back
• Jonathan Kong dropped 11.44 seconds in his 200 Free
• George Kosseff dropped 15.54 seconds in 50 Fly
• Surabhi Koundinya dropped 11.04 seconds in 100 Fly
• Alizeh Kurji dropped just over 12 seconds in her 200 Free
• Ela Sakin dropped over 16 seconds in her 200 Free
• Ekansh Verma dropped over 19 seconds in his 100 Fly
• Carlo Villanueva dropped over 52 seconds in his 200 Free

With many more fantastic swims and time drops, these are only a few, Great work to all!!

White Sport

Congrats to all those who swam this weekend! We won! White Groupers piled up some impressive numbers: our 57 swimmers at the meet dropped a collective 944 seconds off personal best times over the course of 14,000 yards. If that were a relay, it would be 8 miles long! We landed 31 events for the first time legally, we earned 27 new motivational times, and 10 swimmers earned a first time on a new LEVEL (8 Bs and 2 BBs!). We also had another 6 swimmers qualify for the May Flowers Long Course meet: Emma Henry, Veronika Fedotova, Lucy Broyles, Fiona Herman, Eleanor Lopez and Emily MacDonald!

 

New COMPETITIVE Swimmers - We graduated 9 swimmers, to competitive swimmers in their first swim meet ever: congrats to Reagan Edwards, Jasper Huang, Ilia Maksimchuk, Aanya Sharan, Rachel Siu, Yan Wang, Olivia Wu, Arjun Yadav, and Henry Cheng who slam-dunked 4 of his 5 events legally. He only missed the 100 IM by a breast kick in fly. A first swim meet can be a bewildering and stressful experience so thanks also to the teammates who helped them figure it out.

MOTIVATIONAL GRADS:

BB Firsts:

• Maria Kokhan and Max Malinovskyi charged the 50 Back, both whittling down recent times to land in BB time territory…just! Maria snuck in 0.13 under the cut, and Max, a scant 0.03 in!

B Firsts:

• Anu Bathe 50 Back
• Lucy Broyles 100 IM, 50 Back
• Veronika Fedotova 100 IM, 50 Back, 50 Breast
• Emma Henry 100 Free, 50 Back, 50 Fly
• Fiona Herman 50 Back
• Adam Kantor 100 IM, 50 Breast, 50 Back
• Eleanor Lopez 50 Back (the wolf)
• Emily MacDonald 50 Fly (nicest girl on earth)

LOSS LEADERS:

• Lost 40s+: Landon Yuan (-43 seconds) and Emma Henry (-43)
• Lost 50s+:Katie Yi (-52.5) and Veronika Fedotova (-52)
• Losingest Winner: Emily Kehm (-65 seconds) led the pack by dropping more than 20 off both her 100 Free and 100 IM!

TIME FREEFALLER: Serena Zhang dropped 37 seconds off times that were less than 2 months old! They still had that ‘new time smell’. At this rate, she’ll be Olympic caliber in a year or two.

CLOSEST CALLS:

Vedah Tuladhur (50 Back) and Adi Beibit (50 Fly) landed only a couple kicks short of their first BB times (<0.5 away). Joshua Xia dropped 1.36 in his 50 Back to land 0.03 from his first B time. That’s just a finishing stretch!

SQUEAKY CLEAN: 5 swims, 5 times, no DQs, no ‘no shows’, no dramas…they have it together! Anika Arvan, Katie Yi, Vedah Thuladur, Jonah Lynn, Maria Kokhan and Fiona Herman.

ON FIRE: Michael Han, Landon Yuan, Elizabeth Luo, Karina Maksyutov, Eleanor Lopez, Adi Beibit, Lucy Broyles, Emma Henry hit nothing but net, landing every event legally and with time losses. Even off the young times! Even off the already fast times!

100 IM-LEGAL: Be especially proud of legalizing an IM, there are 40+ ways to become an outlaw! It’s a mental test…during a physical test…and they aced both: Michael Han, Elise Kabakci, Sepanta Rahimi, Rayona Saraswat, Derek Xu, and Ilia Maksimchuk (in his first meet ever!) Epic win, guys.

STRANGEST DQ: Emily MacDonald in her 50 Breast earned a DQ that I have never seen in a WAVE meet before! Her BR was ‘out of cycle’, because she pushed off the wall and did a BR kick before her first pull. Why 1-hand-touch when there are bigger, better and weirder DQs possible!?

BRAVEST DQs: Sepanta Rahimi, Ilia Maksimchuk, Jonathan Liu DQ’d their backstroke flip turn, turning onto their stomach a bit early. It’s brave, because backstroke flip turns are optional, yet much faster (done well). Better to dare greatly and fail the flip, than to rank with the poor spirits who never even try.

POWER FINISHERs: 100s swimmers who barely slowed down on the second 50.

• Amber Jiang dropped 5s in her second 50 of the 100 Free! She sped up when she got tired!
• Esha Bhatia only gained 0.77 in the second 50 of her first ever 100 Free, not giving up, or letting off even when muscles are maxed out!

Senior 1

The Senior 1 group had 19 swimmers compete at the IMX/IMR meet this past weekend. This group showed up ready to compete and they did an absolutely amazing job at racing hard through tough events. We saw a ton of time drops and had several swimmers trying out new races for the first time, many of them performing well in those races. We have been training super hard so far this season and to see the results from just a few short weeks have me incredibly optimistic about what this group will accomplish this season. We started off on a great note and I expect to just keep the ball rolling into our next meets.

Highlights

• Anouk Balog has been working on improving all her strokes and that really showed this weekend. She had an awesome 200 Back, dropping 3.65 seconds, and followed that up with an even better performance in the 400 IM, dropping 8.36 seconds.
• Boston Borg is coming off some knee issues that plagued the end of his last season. He has not let that stop him from working hard and turned in some awesome swims. He had monster drops in the 200 Back and 200 Breast, dropping 34 and 16 seconds respectively.
• Nik Brusilovski just moved up into the group and saw the increased training load pay off instantly as he put up several best times at the meet. He had a great 200 Fly, dropping more than 6 seconds. He wasn’t done yet though as he posted a massive 21-second drop in the 400 IM.
• Carr Chellis continues to work on recovering from some setbacks that have occurred at the end of last season and into the start of this season. Regardless, he still managed to turn in some incredible swims. He had an awesome 200 Back, dropping more than 12 seconds. His biggest drop of the meet came in the 500 Free where he had a huge improvement of more than 1 minute on his way to breaking the 6:00 mark for the first time.
• Ray Chen has been working incredibly hard in practice especially at aerobic freestyle sets. The hard work they have been doing certainly paid off as they posted best times in the 200 Back, 200 Breast, and 500 Free. The biggest drop came in the 200 Breast, where they dropped more than 9 seconds.
• Alex Claux has been very busy preparing for AP testing at school but has still managed to find time to keep up with his training in the pool. He has been working on increasing his aerobic capacity and being able to perform better in non-sprint events. The work clearly showed as he dropped 4.48 seconds in the 200 Breast.
• Henry Geitz, another newcomer to the group, had an absolutely fantastic meet. He showed up ready to swim and managed to drop time in every event he swam. His biggest swim of the meet was the 400 IM, which he swam for the first time and posted a BB time in the event.
• Kyle Li is a classic case of someone who comes to practice every day works very hard and sees the payoff at meets. He had a great meet, dropping time in the 200 Breast, 200 IM, and 500 Free as well as swimming the 400 IM for the first time. His most exciting race was the 500, an event he has specifically been working on, where he dropped 6 seconds and broke the 5:30 barrier for the first time.
• Vidhi Mehrotra had a great meet, posting huge time drops in the 500 Free and 200 Back. Her most impressive races were the 400 IM, which she tackled for the first time and did an incredible job. She's ready to continue to swim the race and work to improve.
• Ethan Na had a great meet across the board dropping time in all but one race. He posted a monster swim in the 200 Fly, dropping almost 5 seconds and breaking the 2:20 barrier. He also turned in a huge 200 Back, just barely missing breaking that same 2:20 barrier. 
• Vincent Ngo has refound his fire and passion in the pool and it has shown in both his practice habits and meet performance. While he mostly fancies the sprint events, he gladly took on the longer races and saw some great success. His best race was the 200 Back where he dropped 5.84 seconds, while his biggest drop of 14 seconds came in the 500 Free.
• Sonny Nguyen continued his streak of dropping time in at least one race at every meet. He turned in some stellar performances and is ready to get back to work to keep getting faster and faster. He had massive drops of more than 4 seconds in the 200 Back, 200 Breast, and 400 IM.
• Leon Oks competed in his first meet as a Wave swimmer and made quite the splash in the process. He has been training very hard and has been showing improvement in the pool each week. He swam the 200 Breast, 200 IM, and 500 Free. He is excited to have some times on the board and is looking forward to improving upon those moving forward.
• Aadhav Saravanan has been working on training for the IM events and that training is starting to show. He posted a wonderful 1.37-second drop in the 200 IM. Not satisfied yet, he is ready to keep working on those events and working towards his goals.
• David Sersanti Fasulo competed at his first meet as a Wave swimmer. He has some things we need to work on to avoid DQs, but he swam very hard and raced well. He posted an official time in the 500 Free.
• Boris Shakov had an absolutely fantastic meet, dropping time in every event that he swam. His short time with the group has been very positive for him as he is training hard and seeing that training pay off in the pool right away. His best race was the 400 IM where he dropped 9.67 seconds and just missed breaking the 5:00 barrier. Next time out he will crush that mark.
• Shaur Shrivastava has been working on improving his aerobic endurance and has been looking for success in some longer races. This work has clearly paid off as he turned in best times in the 200 IM, 400 IM, and 500 Free. His biggest drop was a monster 41 seconds in the 500.
• Artur Sobol has been busy with school preparing for upcoming AP tests. This meet was a good experience for him to gauge where his training is at. He is prepared to get back to work and get himself back to top form.
• Dylan Vu had a fantastic meet, dropping time in several events and even taking on a new race. He posted amazing 16-second drops in both the 200 Fly and the 200 Breast. Even more impressive was his 400 IM, swimming it for the first time and breaking the 5:00 barrier. I’m looking forward to seeing what the rest of the season brings.
• Andy Wang trains hard and it is so wonderful to see his hard work pay off in the pool. In preparation for this event, he has been working more on breaststroke, that work clearly paid off as he dropped 13.09 seconds in the 200 Breast. That work also helped him in his 400 IM where he dropped 25 seconds and broke the 5:00 mark. 

Senior Epic

Senior Epic trained hard through our first meet of the long course season where the athletes were more focused on swimming strong and being competitive in all events, including their off events. The meet was very positive to our group with many lessons learned and some excellent performances during the whole weekend. Enjoy some highlights from each event:

200 Fly

• Kyler Brumfield held the stroke together until the end of the race and dropped 5 seconds in her first event of the weekend.
• Grant Gallagher had a late start this season but managed to swim almost 9 seconds faster than his previous best time.

200 IM

• Melis Gursoy pushed herself to swim strong from the beginning and dropped more than 3 seconds in one of her favorite events.
• Alex Popov was inspired last weekend and had fantastic swims in many events. His strongest performance came in the 200 IM where he dropped 2.5 seconds achieving a Summer Zones cut.

500 Free

• Andrea Wu swam a strong 500 Free holding a solid pace the whole race and dropping almost 23 seconds.
• Tyler Kong has been improving his endurance at practice and the result was a 6.5 second drop in the distance event.

200 Br

• Jaiden Sreenivasan dominated the 200 Breast, dropping almost 8 seconds and missing the Sectionals cut by only half second.
• Blake Nilsen was able to improve his breaststroke and dropped 2.5 seconds taking good advantage of his pullouts.

200 Back

• Lola Reynolds performed very good underwater dolphin kicks and went a best time dropping 1.3 seconds.
• Owen Ledrick raced hard and managed to swim 5 seconds faster than his previous personal best.

400 IM

• Alex Werth has been improving his technique in all strokes and the result was a very fast swim where he dropped 17 seconds.
• Aarjav Jain pushed hard on his last race of the weekend and dropped almost 8 seconds swimming strong until the last 25.

Congrats to all swimmers in the group for stepping up to the challenge and making the most out of it!

High School Sport

You all did fantastic this weekend! I am so proud of all the hard work you all have put in lately. I know practices have been tough, but the effort and hard work shows! You all performed so well! Some of you swam events for the first time or for the first time in years! Every one of you dropped endless amounts of time!

• Arnav Agnihotri: Dropped -6.50 in 200 Free and -4.13 in 200 IM!
• Ori Ami Ad: Dropped -3.22 in 100 Back, -2.27 in Breast, -2.91 in 100 Fly!
• Tanvi Bathe: Dropped a whopping -9.46 in 200 Free and -11.31 in 200 IM!!!
• Lucas Blat-Phillips: -0.41 in 100 Fly
• Zander Brumfield: -3.14 in 100 Back, -0.64 in 100 Breast, and -1.49 100 Fly
• Irina Burac: -3.87 in 100 Back, -2.12 in 100 Breast, a crazy -16.07 in 100 Fly, -10.28 in 200 Free and another -7.06 in the 200 IM!!
• Cayden Chan: Dropped -6.50 in 100 Back and -5.00 even on 100 Fly!
• Daniel Cho: -3.86 in his 100 Back, -1.35 in 100 Breast, a whopping -8.59 in 200 Free and swam 200 IM for the first time!
• Felix Deng: -4.68 in 100 Breast, -7.24 in 100 Fly, a whole -12.36 in 200 Free, and dropped another -11.34 in the 200IM!
• Kaler Duryee: -3.18 in 100 Back! -6.69 in 100 Breast! -6.88 in 100 Fly! -1.82 in 200 Free! -1.20 in 200 IM!
• Aarohi Gandhi: -3.80 in 100 Back, -0.88 in 100 Breast, and -8.81 in the 200 Free!!
• Varshini Hari: -1.89 in 100 Back, -1.09 in 200 Free, and -2.06 in 200 IM
• Rashmi Joshi: -2.38 in 200 IM
• Aditi Kandiah: -4.74 in 100 Breast and -0.96 in 200 IM.
• Margot Kleinpeter: -5.69 in 100 Back! -4.14 in 100 Breast! -5.10 in 100 Fly! -4.62 in 200 Free! And a whopping -11.14 in the 200 IM!!
• Rhiannon Kowalski: -6.64 in Back! -5.33 in 100 Fly! -5.35 in 200 Free!
• Maya O’Neill: -1.02 in 100 Back, -2.69 in 100 Fly, -1.53 in 200 IM, and -6.01 in the 200 Free!
• Ishana Pathak: -6.09 in 100 Back and -2.36 in 200 Free!
• Aayona Pattanaik: -2.70 in 100 Breast and -1.43 in 100 Fly!
• Ron Saveliev: -3.59 in 200 Free and -1.96 in 200 IM!
• Maya Skakun: -3.27 in 100 Fly and -0.31 in 100 Back
• Anaya Teredesai: -1.71 in 100 Back and dropped a crazy -25.30 in 100 Fly!!!
• Paolo Villanueva: -1.08 in 100 Back, -3.70 in 100 Fly, -3.05 in 200 Free, and -3.54 in 200 IM.
• Julien Wang: -2.75 in 100 Back! -2.35 in 100 Breast! -3.56 in 100 Fly! -9.88 in the 200 Free! -3.66 in 200 IM!
• Samuel Yi: -0.98 in 100 Back
• Leo Zhu: -1.49 in the 100 Back! -7.01 in the 200 Free! -6.92 in the 200 IM!!

New Motivational Times

AA

• Oleg Arlouski: 100 Fly, 200 IM, 500 Free
• Lena Duryee: 100 Fly, 200 IM
• Kyle Fontelera: 500 FreeW
• Adrian Juco: 100 Breast
• Anton Mazepa: 100 Back, 500 Free
• Jaiden Sreenivasan: 200 Breast

A

• Anouk Balog: 400 IM
• Thomas Claux: 100 Back
• Kyle Fontelera: 100 Breast
• Claire Gao: 100 Back, 200 IM
• Kyle Li: 500 Free
• Alex Lobdell: 100 Back
• Anton Mazepa: 100 Fly, 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Alex Werth: 500 Free
• Andrea Wu: 400 IM, 500 Free

BB

• Bimu Beibit: 100 Fly, 200 IM
• Boston Borg: 200 Back, 200 Breast
• Kamilla Bugaitsova: 500 Free
• Carr Chellis: 200 Back
• Olivia DeAmacis: 100 Back, 500 Free
• Lena Duryee: 100 Breast
• Grant Gallagher: 200 Fly
• Claire Gao: 100 Fly
• Deming Gates: 100 Fly
• Henry Geitz: 200 & 400 IM
• Sophia Gorveatt: 100 Fly, 500 Free
• Melis Gursoy: 200 Back
• Lauren Hizzey: 200 IM
• Iris Huang: 200 Back
• Yuzuki Ishizuka: 100 Back, 200 Free
• Adrian Juco: 100 Back
• Jenna Kimborowicz: 200 Fly
• Maria Kokhan: 50 Back
• Tyler Kong: 200 Back
• Cora Ledrick: 200 Back
• Ron Levin: 100 Breast, 200 IM, 500 Free
• Kyle Li: 200 & 400 IM
• Max Malinovskyi: 50 Back
• Vidhi Mehrotra: 400 IM, 500 Free
• Ethan Na: 400 IM
• Vincent Ngo: 200 Back, 200 IM
• Lee Nguyen: 200 Breast
• Prisha Parikh: 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Alex Popov: 200 Fly, 200 Back
• Ani Purkayastha: 500 Free
• Irene Qu: 100 Breast
• Navya Sainani: 200 Free
• Noah Sattari: 200 Breast
• Alex Shibalov: 200 IM
• Radha Shriram: 100 Back
• Beata Sobol: 100 Breast, 100 Back, 200 IM, 200 Free
• Dylan Vu: 200 Fly, 200 Breast, 400 IM
• Oliver Wang: 50 Back
• Bill Wang: 400 IM, 500 Free
• Andy Wang: 200 Breast, 400 IM
• Andrea Wu: 200 Back, 200 Breast
• Lina Wu: 500 Free
• Andy Yang: 100 Breast
• Isshin Yokoyama: 100 Breast, 200 Free
• Grace Zhang: 100 Breast
• Leo Zhu: 100 Back, 200 Free, 200 IM

B

• Barun Acharya: 200 Back, 400 IM
• Alex Arlouski: 100 Breast, 100 Fly
• Anurag Bathe: 50 Back
• Adi Beibit: 100 IM
• Tanay Boda: 200 Back, 200 Breast, 400 IM
• Lucy Broyles: 100 IM, 50 Back
• Zander Brumfield: 100 Back
• Nik Brusilovski: 200 Fly
• Carr Chellis: 200 Breast, 500 Free
• Taehee Cho: 100 Back, 200 IM
• Olivia DeAmacis: 100 Breast
• Emily Dong: 50 Breast, 50 Fly
• Veronika Fedotova: 100 IM, 50 Back, 50 Breast
• Aarohi Gandhi: 100 Breast
• Nethaniah Gashaw: 400 IM
• Henry Geitz: 200 Breast
• Sophia Gorveatt: 100 Back
• Abby Gray: 200 Free, 200 IM
• Quinn Hagen: 50 Back
• Tommy Henderson: 100 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM
• Emma Henry: 100 Free, 50 Back, 50 Fly
• Fiona Herman: 50 Back
• Nora Herman: 200 IM
• Lauren Hizzey: 100 Breast
• Yuzuki Ishizuka: 200 IM
• Dami Jung: 100 Back, 100 Fly
• Kirill Kadach: 50 Back
• Adam Kantor: 50 Back
• Emily Kehm: 50 Breast
• Kyle Li: 200 Breast
• Olivia Liu: 100 Back, 200 Free
• Eleanor Lopez: 50 Back
• Emily MacDonald: 50 Fly
• Karina Maksyutov: 100 Free, 100 IM, 50 Breast
• Max Malinovskyi: 100 Free
• Vidhi Mehrotra: 200 Back
• Shir Netz: 100 Breast
• Lee Nguyen: 200 Fly
• Theresa Nguyen: 100 Back
• Maya O’Neill: 200 Free
• Prisha Parikh: 100 Fly
• Vien Pogue: 100 Fly
• Ani Purkayastha: 200 Fly
• Rahul Purkayastha: 400 IM
• Irene Qu: 100 Back, 200 IM
• Tandisse Rahimi: 100 Fly, 500 Free
• Elizabeth Reedy: 200 Fly
• Rachael Rose: 100 Fly
• Jasmine Shi: 100 IM
• Alex Shibalov: 100 Back, 100 Fly
• Radha Shriram: 200 IM
• Shaurya Shrivastava: 400 IM
• Vedah Tuladhar: 50 Fly
• Ananya Varadarajan: 50 Breast
• Lasya Viswanadham: 100 Fly, 500 Free
• Julien Wang: 100 Fly, 200 IM
• Bill Wang: 200 Breast
• Audra Whitbeck: 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Lina Wu: 100 Fly
• Liya Wu: 100 Fly
• Daniel Xia: 400 IM
• Andy Yang: 100 Fly
• Isshin Yokoyama: 100 Fly
• Ally Yuan: 100 Breast, 200 Free, 200 IM
• Kyra Yuan: 100 Fly, 200 IM

Wave on 3!!