Fall Divisionals

For most of our Wave swimmers, the Divisionals meet with Issaquah and EAST was their championship for the Fall season. Once again, our swimmers raced superbly, led by Sophia Gorveatt and Vien Pogue, both of whom earned A times and qualified to swim at PNS Champs. In addition, Vien won five gold medals to lead all Wave athletes! Aadhav Saravanan and Sophia followed with four golds apiece, while Olivia Liu, Vincent Ngo, and Kenshin Yokoyama all won three golds!

We also saw a boatload of new best times and new US Motivational Times. We had 54 swims with drops of 10+ seconds led by Greg Lee (an astonishing -56.17 in the 50 Back!), Arnold Tanto (-47.78 in the 100 IM), and Piper Weigand (-41.34 in the 100 IM). To top it off, Shayan Gavandi dropped an amazing 25.82 seconds in Finals in his 200 Breast from what he swam in Prelims!

Congratulations Wave swimmers on a superb Divisionals Champs meet!!

High School

Everyone had such a phenomenal meet, hard to say who had the best meet because the results look like everyone did! You all should be proud of how hard you've trained and how hard you swam! It's only down from here, the times speak for themselves. Can't wait to see the next meet!

• Ori Ami Ad: -2.65 in 100 Breast, -1.31 in 100 Free, -1.93 in 200 Free, and -1.09 in 50 Free
• Tanvi Bathe: Despite fighting a cold, she managed to drop time and swam great! -4.96 in 100 Fly and -0.50 in 100 IM.
• Zander Brumfield: -2.58 in 200 IM and -0.98 in 50 Free.
• Irina Burac: Had a phenomenal meet and dropped time in all but one event! -16.76 in the 200 Back, -9.17 in the 200 Fly, -7.85 in the 200 Free, -3.94 in the 200 IM, and -0.85 in the 50 Free
• Ian Chow: -2.90 in 100 Back, -0.90 in the 200 Free, and -0.47 in 50 Free
• Evan Galuska: -0.48 in 100 Fly and -0.72 in 50 Free
• Mutian Gao: -2.25 in 200 IM
• Margot Kleinpeter: She also fought a cold and still came out on top, dropping time in every event except one: -4.90 in 100 Breast, -1.54 in 100 Fly, -13.05 in 200 Breast, -2.08 in 200 IM, and -0.68 in 50 Free
• Chloe Lewis: -0.95 in 100 Fly, -16.40 in 200 Breast, and -0.77 in 50 Free
• Daniel Luckowski: -10.89 in 100 Back, -1.30 in 100 Free, -5.56 in 200 Free, and -1.87 in 50 Free
• Maya O’Neill: No time drops but were all fantastic swims!
• Ishana Pathak: -2.50 in 100 Breast, -2.24 in 200 free, and -1.55 in 50 free
• Aayona Pattanaik: -0.61 in 100 backand , -0.56 in 100 Breast, -7.97 in 200 Breast, -4.42 in 200 Fly
• Will Rinehart: -19.92 in 100 Breast
• Kamilla Shapiro: -0.26 in 100 Breast, -2.61 in 100 Fly, -3.35 in 100 Free, -5.88 in 200 Breast, and -1.35 in 50 Free.
• Maya Skakun: -1.06 in 100 Free, -0.26 in 200 Free, and -0.33 in 50 Free.
• Oliver Wang: -7.26 in 200 Breast, -6.89 in 200 IM, and -0.49 in 50 Free.
• Sarah Yi: -2.29 in 100 Breast, -0.16 in 100 Fly, and -0.19 in 200 IM

Senior 1

We had nine swimmers compete at Divisionals. It was an awesome first weekend of racing for us. Everyone showed up ready to step up and swim fast. Several swimmers made finals in at least one event and most in multiple events. Everyone left it all in the pool and turned in some blazing fast times. It was incredible to watch them compete and see all the hard work they have been putting in since September really pay off. With the success from this meet, I am very excited to see what the rest of the group can do at PNS Champs!

• Daniel Cho has been training very hard and it really showed as he dropped time in all his races and qualified for finals in all of them as well. He really showed how his breaststroke has improved by dropping 5 seconds in the 200 on Saturday then turning in a superb performance in the 100 Breast, dropping 2 seconds and winning the event.
• Aarohi Gandhi had a great weekend of swimming. She was right on her best times or dropped in all her races and made finals in five events. She had a killer swim in the 200 IM swimming right at her best time and making it into the A Final. Then in finals she dropped 1 second and went under 2:40 for the first time!
• Aditi Kandiah only swam on Saturday but made the most out of her swims, going a perfect 3-for-3 dropping time and making finals in everything she swam. In prelims of the 200 IM, she was right on her best time, then in finals she turned up the heat and turned in a huge 3-second drop, moving her up two places from prelims.
• Kyle Li has been working on his sprint speed at practice and that really stood out this weekend. He absolutely smashed his old times in the 50 Fly and the 50 and 100 Back as well as the 100 Free. His biggest drop of 6 seconds came in the 50 Fly on his way to absolutely destroying the competition in his finals heat.
• Vincent Ngo put on great displays of raw speed all weekend. He swam a super smooth 200 Free going a best time in the event as a warmup for his sprint races. He turned around and dominated the 50 Free and the 50 Back, winning both races by at least a body length.
• Joseph Nguyen was on fire all weekend turning in best time after best time. He had very exciting races in the 100 Fly where he dropped 3 seconds edging ever closer to breaking 1:00 in the event. He then turned around and blasted the 50 Free going 25 for the first time ever in the event.
• Sonny Nguyen was only able to compete on Saturday, but he made his single day worthwhile. He was right on his best times in all his races and swam a super clean and well split 200 IM. In finals of the 50 Breast, he showed his dominance on his way to winning his finals heat.
• Neha Phatak was all smiles all weekend as she had amazing swims and qualified for finals in several events. She has been working super hard and it really showed this weekend as she turned in four best times. Her most exciting race was the 100 Fly where she snuck into the A final then raced her heart out at finals, dropping 2 seconds and moving up a spot.
• Neil Rawal turned in a perfect performance, going best times in all his races. His biggest drop came in the 200 IM where he pushed himself throughout the entire race, improving by 4 seconds. He is eager to keep training and keep getting faster.

Senior Epic

Senior Epic had one swimmer compete in the meet. Aadhav Saravanan finished first in four events and dropped time in all but one. His training really showed as he executed his race strategies so well every time he dove in. He swam very smoothly and had even splits in all the races, but especially in his 200 Breast, Fly, and Back. He is eager to keep training so that he can keep crushing these events. It was super fun to watch him race on his way to achieving best times and several wins.

Black Group

As always, a big thank you to all the parents who:

• Got their swimmer to the meet on time with their E/H/L info on their arm
• Packed healthy snacks that their swimmer likes
• Helped run the meet in some way
• Helped with staging- getting the kids to their races
• All great stuff, thank you for this!!!

Congratulations to our athletes who successfully completed their first races:

• Adam Abdou 25 Breast, 25 Fly, 50 Free
• Claire Chen 25 Fly
• Mira Erdim 25 Fly
• Blakely Hansen 25 Breast
• Raya Hari 25 Breast
• Roohi Indurkar 25 Breast
• Yeim Jung 25 Breast, 25 Free
• Aarush Kakkar 25 Fly
• Vladislav Kalyuzhin 25 Breast
• Jackson Neurath 25 Breast
• Beatrix Pressman 25 Fly
• Aashay Rane 25 Breast
• Bianca Stanciu 25 Fly, 25 Free, 50 Free
• Dan Sun 100 IM, 50 Fly
• Max Sun 100 IM, 50 Breast, 50 Fly
• William Toole 25 Breast
• Owen Wilson 25 Back, 25 Fly
• Avani Yadav 25 Breast
• Aiden Ye 25 Fly, 50 Free

A few swims that the coaches were especially excited about:

• Adam Abdou 50 Free—first time swim but put in a super good effort and posted a nice first-time result.
• Quinn Braun 25 Back—she looked super in this swim and dropped almost ten seconds
• Yushi Chong 25 Breast—Yushi has really been working on her breast kick and has looked really good in practice
• Raihan Echevarria 25 Breast—he’s been doing a great job working on this stroke and it showed
• Mira Erdim 25 Fly—Mira had struggled with this stroke in the past, trying to get the rhythm and the arms down, but my gosh, she’s such a good kicker, which showed in this swim where she put things together and knocked the swim out of the park, finishing first in the event
• Madeline Godbout 50 Free—Madeline used improved breathing, kicking and body position to post a vastly improved time in this swim
• Roohi Indurkar 25 Free—Roohi used her length and strong kicking in this race which was fun to watch! As her dive continues to improve, this race and others will keep getting better
• Heim Jung 25 Free—Heim used his strong kick and better freestyle rhythm to break 20 seconds for the first time
• Owen Wilson: 25 Back—dude looked like a rocket ship for the first 18 yards, he’s a strong finish away from posting something spectacular in this race
• Kenshin Yokoyama 25 Breast—great rhythm in this swim, complementing his strong kick, Kenshin has done a great job in practice with his breast kick

White Group

White Group had a great short course divisional meet this last weekend, piling up some solid achievements: 62 swimmers at the meet dropped 670 seconds off personal best times in 189 events. We landed 75 events for the first time legally, we earned 27 new motivational times, and eight swimmers earned a first time on a new level: six Bs and two BBs! Congrats to all those who swam this weekend. Some swimmers had some even bigger wins:

MOTIVATIONAL GRADS:

• BB Firsts:
  • Henry Cheng 50 Breast (-2.7s)
  • Nika Svirydovich Jr 50 Breast (first legal!)
• B Firsts:
  • Alyssa Yang 50 Breast (-3.7s)
  • Tula Henkin 50 Breast (-5.7s)
  • Keshav Iyer 50 Breast (-7s)
  • Leo Steijn 50 Breast (-7s)
  • Joshua Hunter 50 Breast (-2.5s)
  • Andrew Zhu 50 Breast (-2.3s)

LOSS LEADERS: swimmers who dropped the most time

• Cut 20s+: Qiqi Cao (-21s), Jonah Lynn (-20.3s)
• Cut 25s+: Serena Zhang (-27.9s), Keshav Iyer (-27.7s), Coco Kleinpeer (-25.9s)
• Cut 30s+: Adam Kantor (-33.4s), Jayden Hor (-38.6s)
• Losingest Winner: Arnold Tanto (-48.9s)

FREE-FALLERS: the steepest improvements in the meet for White Group

• Albert O -19s in his 50 Fly since Roctober (1.5 months)
• Adam Kantor -4.9s in his 50 Fly since Rocktober
• Anishi Singh hit nothing but net; dropping 9s in 50 Free (Rocktober) and 10s in 50 Fly (July) and legalized her first IM!

MOST IMPROVED

• Mila Paulus dropped 20s off her 200 Breast in one day...between Prelims (in the morning) and Finals (in the evening)! She discovered the breaststroke gliiiiiiide!

100 IM-LEGAL:

• Be especially proud of legalizing an IMs-, there are 40+ ways to become an outlaw! It’s a mental test…during a physical test, and the following aced both: Nika Svirydovich Jr (B!), Han Sun (B!), Jayan Upadhaya, Anuraag Fadnavis, Andrew Zhu, Michael Zhou, Anishi Singh, Rishabh Mallya, Shatadru Roy Choudhury, Esha Bhatia, Rhea Dawani, Ira Banthia, and Rory Geitz!

ONES TO WATCH: these swimmers narrowly missed big motivational firsts this meet—they are often the most driven in the group!

• Della Govsheev dropped 1.5s off her 50 free (Sept) to land just 0.24s shy of her first B time!
• Derek Xu dropped another 1.35s off his 50 Breast to land just 0 .95s short of his first BB time!
• Adam Kantor dropped 5s off his 50 Fly, and now sits just 1.9s from a first B time as a 11-12!

Purple Group

A huge shoutout to all our Purple Group swimmers who finished out the year strong at our Divisionals meet!! The hard work you put into practice continues to show at meets with great swims. Some highlights include:

• Gahl Ami ad made finals in all six races, made B times in almost all his races, and dropped over 28 seconds in his 200 Back
• Arya Bhatt also swam all six races in finals and got a BB time in 50 Fly
• Lola Cheng dropped over 15 seconds in 200 Breast
• Evan Deng got a B time in 100 Breast and made finals for all his events on Sunday
• Emily Dong dropped over 12 seconds in 100 Back
• Shayan Gavandi dropped over 12 seconds in 100 IM and more than 31 seconds in his 200 Breast
• Jamie Jiang dropped over 14 seconds in 100 IM and over 11 seconds in 50 Breast
• Kirill Kadach broke the :30 in his 50 Free going a 29.85
• Greg Lee dropped over 56 seconds in 50 Back, the biggest drop on the entire team!
• Kaylan Li getting a B time in 100 IM and 50 Breast
• Richelle Li got a B time in 50 Breast
• Theresa Nguyen dropped over 27 seconds in 100 Fly and got a B time in 100 IM and 50 Free
• Roshni Padmanabhan got a B time in 100 Free and 100 IM
• Annika Spitze got a B time in 50 Back
• Raina Tuladhar got a B time in 100 Back and 50 Back
• Carlo Villanueva got a B time in 100 Breast
• Piper Wiegand has some of the biggest overall drops including 35 seconds in her 100 IM
• Landon Yuan dropped over 13 seconds in 100 IM and over 11 seconds in 100 Free
• Zachary Zeng dropped over 10 seconds in 50 Breast

Overall, our group had a solid meet with a lot of great swims. Congratulations to every swimmer at this meet who finished off the year strong and a special shout out to all the kids who made and swam finals as well!!

Age Group Select

We had a fantastic meet with many excellent swims and new cuts. One swim really stood out for me and is proof that you do not need a best time to have a great swim. In Finals, Kyra Yuan started the final lap of her 100 Breast in fourth place but put on her game face to run one swimmer down, then finish perfectly in the final 5 yards to pace another swimmer to earn second in the B Final by 0.10! Another big shout out to Rachael Rose, who swam a flawless 50 Breast in Prelims, dropping 4.8 seconds, then came back in the B Final and dropped another 0.4 and won by two body lengths! Our Ironman Award goes to Andy Yang, who swam the 100 Breast B Final, then came back just three heats (less than 10 minutes!) later to earn the bronze medal in the 200 Back while our Ironwoman Award goes to Molly Mayfield, who swam finals in all six races, including a silver medal in the 200 Back. Not bad for their first-ever Finals!

• Alex Arlouski won the 100 IM with a 4-second drop
• Arjun Bhate had five best times, and finished 8^th in his first-ever Finals swim in the 200 Free
• Ahana Bhattacharya had two best times and finished 3^rd in the 50 Fly
• Bani Bhuyan had a massive 7-second drop in her 100 IM
• Lucy Broyles cut off 8.73 seconds in the 100 IM to earn 4^th
• Rihit Gandhi blasted his way to a bronze medal in the 100 IM with a 5.73-second drop and a new B time
• Abby Gray overcame a recent cold to a big drop in her 100 IM to go with three silver medals
• Fiona Herman picked up two first places and an excellent 2.56-second drop in her 50 Free
• Ryder Hsu picked up B times in two first-ever swims and won the gold medal in the 50 Breast
• Sawyer Hsu cut off 1.01 in his 50 Breast to win 4^th place
• Yuzuki Ishizuka swam her first-ever Finals in three events and dropped timed in all but one race
• Arvin Kandiah placed Top 5 in two races, dropping 3+ seconds in both
• Maria Kokhan had huge time drops in all three races, and earned a silver medal in the 50 Back
• Yihan Li picked up three best times and earned bronze medals in two of them, both of which were new BB times
• Olivia Liu won gold every time she dove in + three new best times
• Eleanor Lopez had three excellent swims, highlighted by a fifth place in the 50 Fly
• Lainey Meyer snuck into finals in the 100 IM on Sunday night and proceeded to drop 4 seconds from her Prelims time…after dropping 7 seconds that morning!
• Kumail Mukadam had a fantastic first-ever Finals, scoring in four events, including an amazing 200 IM where he moved up 4 places!
• Sanvi Shrivastava was another first-ever Finals swimmer, scoring in five races and making the A Final three times, including dropping an extra 2 seconds in the 200 IM final to move up to 5^th place
• Navya Sainani picked up several best times, including her first 11-12 BB time, and dropped time in all but one race
• Max Stevenson finaled three times, including two in swims he had never competed in: the 200 Back and the 200 Breast…and he won the silver medal in the 200 Back!
• Vedah Tuladhar picked up a 4^th place in the 50 Back
• George Ursulenko snagged the bronze medal in the 50 Free
• Alison Wang earned medals in all three races, including the gold in the 100 IM
• Audra Whitbeck grabbed 4^th place in the 50 Fly
• Ally Yuan earned gold in both the 100 IM and 50 Back to go with a shiny silver medal in the 50 Fly
• Grace Zhang dropped almost 2 seconds in her 100 IM and earned a 5^th place in the 50 Breast

Well done AGS, and congratulations on a fantastic Fall 2022!

Gold Medalists

• Gahl Ami ad – 200 Back
• Alex Arlouski – 100 IM
• Daniel Cho – 100 Breast
• Mira Erdim – 25 Fly
• Sophia Gorveatt – 100 & 200 Fly, 50 & 200 Free
• Tula Henkin – 50 Breast
• Fiona Herman – 50 Fly, 50 Free
• Nora Herman – 100 Free, 50 Fly
• Ryder Hsu – 50 Breast
• Lingyi Li – 25 Breast, 50 Free
• Olivia Liu – 50 Breast, 50 Fly, 50 Free
• Shir Netz – 100 Back
• Vincent Ngo – 50 Back, 50 Fly, 50 Free
• Andy Nguyen – 50 Back
• Vien Pogue – 50, 100 & 200 Breast, 100 & 200 IM
• Aadhav Saravanan – 100 & 200 Fly, 200 Back, 200 IM
• Alex Wang – 25 Back, 25 Free
• Alison Wang – 100 IM
• Kenshin Yokoyama – 25 Breast, 25 Fly, 50 Free
• Ally Yuan – 100 IM, 50 Back

New US Motivational Times

A

• Sophia Gorveatt – 100 Fly, 200 Free
• Vien Pogue – 100 Fly

BB

• Barun Acharya – 200 Free
• Ori Ami ad – 50 & 100 Free
• Arya Bhatt – 50 Free
• Zander Brumfield – 200 IM, 50 Free
• Irina Burac – 50 Free
• Henry Cheng – 50 Breast
• Daniel Cho – 200 Breast
• Sophia Gorveatt – 200 Fly
• Penelope Hepkin – 100 Breast
• Fiona Herman – 50 Free
• Nora Herman – 100 Back, 50 Fly, 50 Free
• Maria Kokhan – 50 Breast
• Yihan Li – 100 IM, 50 Free
• Max Malinovskyi – 50 Free
• Andy Nguyen – 50 Breast, 50 Back
• Joseph Nguyen – 100 Fly
• Karolina Pastusiak – 200 IM
• Neil Rawal – 50 Free
• Navya Sainani – 50 Free
• Aadhav Saravanan – 200 Back, 200 Breast
• Nika Svirydovich – 50 Breast
• Bailey Tang – 50 Breast
• Ella Tulanon – 100 Free, 200 IM
• Oliver Wang – 50 Free
• Kailyn Wing – 100 IM, 50 Breast, 50 Fly
• Ally Yuan – 100 IM

B

• Gahl Ami ad – 100 Breast, 50 & 100 Free, 200 Back
• Arya Bhatt – 100 Breast
• Tanay Boda – 100 Breast
• Lucy Broyles – 50 Free
• Irina Burac – 200 Free
• Maddie Cheng – 200 IM
• Evan Deng – 100 Breast
• Emily Dong – 100 Back
• Berit Dunn – 100 IM
• Rihit Gandhi – 100 IM
• Ananiah Gashaw – 200 Free
• Tula Henkin – 50 Breast
• Penelope Hepkin – 100 Back
• Jayden Hor – 50 Breast
• Ryder Hsu – 100 IM, 50 Back
• Joshua Hunter – 50 Breast
• Yuzuki Ishizuka – 50 Back
• Keshav Iyer – 50 Breast
• Elise Kabakci – 100 IM, 50 Back, 50 Free
• Kirill Kadach – 50 Free
• Aditi Kandiah – 100 Back
• Arvin Kandiah – 50 Free
• Maria Kokhan – 50 Free
• Kaylan Li – 100 IM, 50 & 200 Breast
• Daniel Luckowski – 100 Back, 200 Free
• Elizabeth Luo – 100 IM
• Max Malinovskyi – 50 Breast
• Molly Mayfield – 100 Back, 200 Free, 50 Fly
• Andy Nguyen – 50 Fly
• Theresa Nguyen – 100 IM, 50 Free
• Roshni Padmanabhan – 100 Free, 100 IM
• Neha Phatak – 100 Fly
• Tandisse Rahimi – 100 Fly
• Rachael Rose – 50 Breast
• Navya Sainani – 100 Free, 100 IM, 50 Back
• Radha Shriram – 100 Back, 200 IM
• Sanvi Shrivasatva – 200 IM, 50 Back
• Annika Spitze – 50 Back
• Leo Stejin – 50 Breast
• Han Sun – 100 IM, 50 Back, 50 Free
• Nika Svirydovich – 100 IM, 50 Free
• Bailey Tang – 100 Fly
• Raina Tuladhar – 50 & 100 Back
• Carlo Villanueva – 100 Breast
• Oliver Wang – 200 IM
• Kailyn Wing – 200 Free, 100 Breast
• Alyssa Yang – 50 Breast
• Serena Zhang – 100 IM, 50 Back
• Andrew Zhu – 50 Breast

WAVE ON 3!! Congrats on a fantastic season!