Black and Purple Meet part 2

Jay Pearson

Black Group

The Black Group had almost 70 athletes in total at the meet, and a number of them were experiencing their first swim meet.

The coaches were very proud of how the athletes handled the meet and were able to get up and race. To the best of our knowledge, no one missed a race. Special thanks to our volunteers and Coach Lysie who worked together to get the kids in place for their events.

Just as important, almost all the athletes had their events written out on their arms before they arrived at the meet and they had a sense of when their races would happen. Thank you to all the families who took care of that for their athletes.

In the pool, the kids did terrific and showed TONS of improvements. By my count, there were ten swims where the athletes improved by 10 seconds or more--and that was just counting the 25-yard races.

We thought the kids raced hard throughout, and that the 25 Free was an especially fun race to watch. The kids really went for it. Those that have been with us did a great job of using a solid breathing plan, keeping their head still and turning on their motorboat legs. Almost half of the swims were :25 or faster with a couple swims getting under :20 seconds: Natalie Whitbeck and Clinton Jussel both posted :19 on that race!

Black Group athletes had a number of first-time successful swims from:

  • Adam Abdou 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Quinn Braun 25 Breast
  • Yushi Chong 25 Breast
  • Hayley Chou 25 Back, 25 Breast
  • Timur Dauletbaev 25 Back, 25 Breast
  • Ann Ding 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Raihan Echevarria 25 Back, 25 Breast
  • Eric Feng 25 Fly
  • Tyler Fernandez 25 Breast, 25 Fly
  • Jason Gao 25 Back, 25 Breast
  • Viyan Gupta 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Alex Hor 25 Fly
  • Roohi Indurkar 25 Back
  • Ira Joshi 25 Breast
  • Haim Jung 25 Fly
  • Yeim Jung 25 Back
  • Clinton Jussel 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Aarush Kakkar 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Vladislav Kalyuzhin 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Abhay Kasavajhala 25 Fly, 25 Free
  • Perrie Lam 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Jinhan Li 25 Free
  • Miya Ma 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Anna Makovski 25 Free
  • Gemma Moore 25 Back, 25 Fly
  • Jackson Neurath 50 Back
  • Ethan Pan 25 Fly
  • Beatrix Pressman 25 Back, 25 Breast
  • Bianca Stanciu 25 Back, 25 Breast
  • Dan Sun 25 Back, 25 Breast
  • Max Sun 50 Free
  • William Toole 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Nathan Wang 25 Free
  • Finley Wiegand 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Lucas Xu 25 Breast
  • Naomi Zhao 25 Back, 25 Free
  • Maggie Zhou 25 Back, 25 Free

A few other swims of mention:

  • Lingyi Li made a B time in her 100 Free and her time put her 10th in Wave history for that event
  • Owen Jones’ swim in the 25 Breast put him less than a second off the 16th place time in Wave history in that event
  • Alex Wang’s swim in the 25 Back put him in 12th in Wave history for that event

Congratulations to all of our athletes who competed in this meet. There are a ton more swims that the coaches were super excited about than what was mentioned above. Mostly, we just love to see them race with energy and passion.