Senior Challenge Meet

While most of Wave was racing in the Rocktober Special, most of our Senior team was plunging into the Snohomish pool for the Senior Challenge Meet and churning out one outstanding swim after another!

Senior 1

Senior 1 had 12 swimmers up at Snohomish. Everyone put their game faces on and raced incredibly well. We had tons of best times across the board. This group has been training incredibly hard this season and it was amazing to see the swimmers perform so well so early in the season. We are ready to keep putting in the hard work and crushing swims for the remainder of the season.

Highlights

• Nik Brusilovski had some truly stellar performances at the meet. He stepped up and competed hard and the times reflect that. His biggest swim came at the end of the first day where he dropped more than a minute in the 1650 Free, swimming a great race!
• Rik Brusilovski turned in some great swims achieving best times in five of his six races. His biggest drop of the meet was in the 200 Breast where he had an awesome swim dropping 5 seconds. He is looking forward to keeping up his training and dropping more time!
• Daniel Cho had a very successful meet dropping time in the majority of his races. He has been putting in the work doing breaststroke training and it is really paying off as he had an awesome 200 Breast, crushing his old best time by 7 seconds!
• Henry Geitz was on fire all weekend, achieving best times in all of his races. He had some very dominant performances in his mid distance events. The best swim of the meet for him was the 200 Back where he dropped 8 seconds and won the event for his age group!
• Iris Huang showed up with her game face on and turned in great swims dropping time in all of her races. Her biggest drop came in the 200 IM where she beat her best time by 2 seconds. She also turned in a very exciting 100 Free where she almost broke the 1:00 barrier for the first time!
• Kyle Li has been training very well this season and raced very hard at the meet. He was right on his best times in all of his races, going within 1 second of his best time in all but two of his events. His best race was the 200 Free where he was right at best time, swimming an incredibly strong race!
• Ethan Na was right on his best times in his events on Saturday and then came back Sunday with a vengeance, dropping time in all his races. He had a great swim in the 200 IM where he swam strong from start to finish and dropped almost a full second!
• Joseph Nguyen was right on his best time or better in all his races. He had a great 100 Fly, dropping 2 seconds. He is eager to get back to training and working on his closing speed so he can continue to improve in his 100 yard events!
• Sonny Nguyen only swam on Saturday and made the most out of his swims. He has been training very well this year and it is really showing in his racing. He had a monster swim in the 100 Breast, dropping 3 seconds and going under 1:10 for the first time!
• Dylan Vu showed that he has incredible opening speed and can hang on when the races get tough. His best race was his 100 Free where he dropped a second edging himself closer and closer to going sub :50 in the event. He had great 200 and 500 Frees as well, going out in a :26 the first 50 then hanging on the remainder of the race dropping 3 seconds in the 200 and 10 seconds in the 500!
• Rina Yuan continues to improve all aspects of her racing. She has been working hard in her sprint events and that showed as she dropped another second in the 100 Free. She has also been working on her aerobic training to get better at some of the longer races and that showed as well when she dropped 6 seconds in the 200 Free and a minute in her 500!

Senior Epic

Senior Epic had a stunning weekend in Snohomish. Our group had many amazing swims and tons of best times!! We are in a very intense phase of our training program and it was exciting to watch their races and their improvement on things we have been working hard at practice such as underwater dolphin kicks and kicking in general. Great job, Epic swimmers! Enjoy some highlights from our group: 

• Renee Yin swam only one day at the meet and had a solid 200 Back with consistent underwater dolphin kicks! 
• Alex Werth challenged himself and swam the 1650 Free for the first time and held a consistent pace for the whole race!
• Andy Wang was inspired and went five personal best times with an outstanding 100 Fly where he dropped more than 2 seconds to earn an A time!
• Jaiden Sreenivasan came strong and swam four of five best times. Both his distance events were his strongest swims and he had one of the most exciting races at the meet, swimming the 500 Free neck to neck until the very last stroke. Excellent kick work at the end!
• Noah Sattari dropped time in two events and swam right at his times in the other races. His biggest time drop came in the 200 Free (- 6 seconds) where he looked strong the entire race!
• Aadhav Saravanan went four best times with his most outstanding swims being the 200 and 400 IMs. Aadhav has been improving in all his strokes in order to boost his IM!
• Alex Popov got two best times in the 400 IM and 100 Back. Popov has been working hard on his underwater dolphin kicks and did a great job executing them at the meet!
• Owen Ledrick also did the 1650 Free for the first time and crushed his race pushing himself the entire time, almost breaking the 18:00!
• Fredrik Larsen swam all four strokes at the meet. His strongest events were the 200 Breast with a fantastic last 50 and the 100 Back with powerful and consistent underwater dolphin kicks!
• Tyler Kong dropped 4 seconds in his 100 Back and also had great swims on both the 100 and 200 Breast, swimming right at his best times and demonstrating solid technique!
• Jenna Kimborowicz dominated the 1650 Free, swimming strong from the beginning, holding her pace, and sprinting her way to the end!
• Kyler Brumfield activated her sprint mode and dropped almost 2 seconds in the 100 Back, earning an AA Time and getting close to breaking the 1:00 barrier!
• Boston Borg went 3-of-3 personal bests, crushing all his swims. He earned his first AA Time with a massive 12-second drop in the 500 Free and breaking the 5:00 barrier for the first time (4:55.17). He also dropped 6 seconds in the 200 IM demonstrating great improvement in all his strokes!
• Anouk Balog has been dedicating herself to distance training and swam a very consistent 1650 Frees, going only a few seconds off her best time!

Congrats to all Senior swimmers for the fantastic meet! Let's keep up the good work!

New US Motivational Times

AAA

• Jaiden Sreenivasan: 100 & 200 Fly

AA

• Boston Borg: 500 Free
• Kyler Brumfield: 100 Back
• Nik Brusilovski: 1650 Free
• Dylan Vu: 50 & 200 Free

A

• Boston Borg: 200 IM
• Nik Brusilovski: 100 Back
• Henry Geitz: 200 & 500 Free
• Iris Huang: 50 Free
• Owen Ledrick: 1650 Free
• Noah Sattari: 200 Free
• Andy Wang: 100 Fly, 50 Free

BB

• Tyler Kong: 100 Back
• Joseph Nguyen: 200 Breast
• Sonny Nguyen: 100 Breast
• Alexandru Popov: 100 Back
• Alex Werth: 1650 Free
• Rina Yuan: 100 Back, 500 Free

B

• Tyler Cho: 100 Back, 200 Free, 200 IM
• Andy Wang: 100 Back

WAVE ON 3!!