Daffodil Classic Meet Recap

Wave's Sport Team and several members of the Select Team trekked down to Tacoma to swim the first day of the Daffodil Classic. A big shout out to all our parents for making the drive to support their kids, and an even bigger shout out to the parents who stepped up and volunteered to time!

Senior Prep

Sr. Prep had seven swimmers swim at the Daffodil Classic, and they did outstanding. We just had one day of racing with seven swimmers and had 17 successful races. Our average time drop per race was 4.85 seconds! An absolutely amazing drop that I have to call out is Arya Bhatt who dropped 46+ seconds in the 100 Fly to go a 1:18.1! Shout outs to Molly Mayfield and Kaylan Li for achieving new motivational time standards! Great job Sr. Prep!

Top 5 Time Improvements:

• Arya Bhatt dropped 46.75 seconds in the 100 Fly!
• Rachael Rose dropped 18.92 seconds in the 100 Fly!
• Molly Mayfield dropped 6.53 seconds in the 100 IM!
• Gahl Ami ad dropped 3.00 seconds in the 200 IM!
• Kaylan Li dropped 2.05 seconds in the 100 IM!

Age Group Select

AGS sent 10 swimmers to Tacoma and everyone had at least one fantastic swim. Big shout out from Coach Jay to Coach Ryan for covering all the AGS swimmers!

• Arjun Bhate had a solid swim meet. He swam his first 100 Fly and got a solid time of 1:50.04. His 100 Back and 50 Breast looked really strong!
• Ahana Bhattacharya looked very strong in the water, dropping time in all three events with her best swim being the 50 Breast where she dropped 4.85 seconds to get a new best time of 50.74! She’s also just 0.35 seconds away from her first 11-12 B time in the 50 Free!
• Ryder Hsu had a good swim meet with his best swim being the 100 IM where he dropped 0.64 seconds!
• Yuzuki Ishizuka had great swims across the board with her best swim being the 100 Fly where she dropped 8.36 seconds and touching just 1 second from a B time!
• Lainey Meyer had an amazing swim meet this weekend. She dropped time in all her events by at least a second. Her biggest drop of 3.29 seconds came in the 100 IM, leaving her just 0.25 seconds away from her first 11-12 B time!
• Andy Nguyen swam incredible, scoring three best times including a 5.5-second drop in his 100 IM and a nearly 4-second drop in his 50 Breast for his first 11-12 B Time!
• Irene Qu had a great meet. Her biggest time drop was in the 100 Fly dropping nearly 23 seconds!
• Max Stevenson had a good meet he was right around his best times the whole meet, including a new best time in his 100 IM!
• Andy Yang had a solid swim meet dropping time in both his 100 IM and 50 Free and right on his best time in the 50 Breast!
• Kyra Yuan looked solid in all her strokes with excellent technique and earning a new best time in her 50 Free!

Senior 1

We sent two swimmers to Tacoma with fabulous results! Way to represent Senior 1, ladies!

• Rashmi Joshi swam a best time every time she dove in! Her best swim was a 6.39-second drop in the 200 IM to go along with a 1.67-second drop in the 100 Back and a 0.60-second drop in the 100 Fly!
• Neha Phatak did not have any best times, but raced hard and gave a great effort!

High School

This was a great meet for so many! The best swim of the day was watching Irina Burac race and chase down everyone on the last 25 of her 100 Fly. It was a phenomenal swim, maybe even her best swim ever!

• Ori Ami ad: No time drops but all great swims! Raced hard!
• Tanvi Bathe: -1.63 in 50 Breast and -1.64 in 50 free for her first BB time!
• Zander Brumfield: -1.07 in 50 Breast!
• Irina Burac: -3.47 in 100 Fly, -1.28 in 50 Breast, and -0.05 in 50 free!
• Shayan Gavadi: -2.68 in 100 Back and swam 100 Fly for the first time!
• Chloe Lewis: -1.07 in 50 Breast!
• Daniel Luckowski: -8.56 in 200 IM and -14.05 in 50 Breast!
• Vera Lundy: This was her first USA meet! Swam 200 IM, 50 Breast, and 50 Free for the first time!
• Joshua Myles: -2.87 in 100 Back, -1.66 in 50 Free and swam 200 IM for the first time!
• Will Rinehart: -6.86 in 50 Breast!
• Will Rose: -1.86 in 50 Free!
• Ron Saveliev: -5.38 in 200 IM and -0.66 in 50 Free!
• Tyler Zhang: -0.01 in 100 Back, -1.71 in 200 IM, and -1.28 in 50 Free!

Purple Group

Purple group had some solid wins as we trekked to Tacoma for the Daffodil Classic. Some highlights include:

• Lola Cheng got a B time in her 50 Breast going a 42.56!
• Dario Giuliani broke the 30 in his 50 Free going a 29.75!
• Kirill Kadach dropped over 19 seconds in his 200 IM!
• Anna Kosseff dropped over 19 seconds in her 100 IM!
• Charlie Page dropped over 9 seconds in 100 IM!
• Raina Tuladhar dropped over 24 seconds in 200 IM!

Overall, there were a lot of drops big and small across the board! The walls were reported by the athletes as being slippery but with that, we saw some great improvements of their swim techniques and not just times drops. Congratulations to all Purple group kids who made the trek and swam their hearts out!!

White Group

White group had a great Daffodil classic meet, riding some Lezak anticipation to some steep improvements. We got to ‘crown’ three swimmers for their first B time in the 50 Free alone! In the 100 IM, we had three swimmers land it legally for the first time. Of those who could drop time, most did…and they dropped big! Seven swimmers even dropped time in the double digits (>10s). So much to be proud of!

MOTIVATIONAL GRADS: first ever B times at this meet

• Kennedy Carlos (50 Free) dropped 3.6s, landing halfway to a BB time with a fast start and seriously smooth speed
• Mudit Singh (50 Free) dropped 1.7s in just one month, with a longer stroke and a stretch finish
• Michael Zhao (50 Free) cut 11.6s for his first B time in his last meet before turning 11! He got his head in line and his breath-count down and turned his splash into forward speed.

LOSS LEADERS: total time dropped at the meet

• Cut 15s+: Siena Stahlkopf (-19.9s), Rhea Dawani (-18.9s), Abby Ranson (-16.4s)
• Cut 20s+: Shtatadru Roy Choudhury (-23.8s), Aman Bhatt (-21.2s)
• Cut 25s+: Alyssa Yang (-25.25s), Navya Arora (-26.8s) including -19s off her 100 Back in one month
• Losingest Winner: Rory Geitz (-33.4s) was on fire, dropping big in every event, off recent times. On his 100 IM, alone, he dropped 26s in two months. His dive looks like he’s flying even before he hits the water!

ACES: they swam all their events legally and faster than ever - nothing but net.

• A: Anu Fadnavis, Shatadru Roy Chaudhury, Alyssa Yang, Mudit Singh
• B: Siena Stahlkopf, Roohi Indurkar, Abby Ronson, Navya Arora, Rory Geitz

INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY FIRSTS: 40+ ways to DQ, and they landed it legally for the first time.

• Navya Arora
• Thomas Godbout
• Roohi Indurkar

BREAKTHROUGH: Katie Yi de-flop-ed her breaststroke kick for BOTH her 100 IM and 50 Breast! It has been a long mind-over-muscle battle, but Katie won.

ONE TO WATCH: Andrew Ouyang has another almost-B time. He burned 9.6s off his 100 IM to land 0.8s from a first B. For those keeping score, he is less than 1.5s away from a first B time…in seven different events!

Black Group

As was mentioned in my group email, a big thank you to all the parents who got their kids to the meet on time on Saturday, as well as adjusting to not having a heat sheet ahead of time like we do for most WAVE hosted meets. This made my job much easier to do and allowed me to keep my focus mostly on what was going on in the pool. In addition, the athletes did a good job of helping me get them to their events.

Some successful first-time swims from:

• Aaradhya Bharadwaj - 25 Back, 25 Breast, 25 Free
• Quinn Braun - 25 Fly
• Arifin Capiral - 25 Fly
• Tony Chen - 25 Fly
• Mira Erdim - 100 Back
• Kaito Falk - 100 Back
• Eric Feng - 100 Back
• Jason Gao - 100 IM
• Viyan Gupta - 25 Breast, 25 Fly
• Vivian Hu - 25 Breast, 25 Fly
• Rosemary Huang - 25 Back, 25 Breast, 25 Free
• Aarush Kakkar - 100 Back
• Ruzgar Koc - 25 Fly
• Elvis Lu - 25 Breast, 25 Fly
• Jackson Neurath - 100 Back, 25 Fly
• Aashay Rane - 50 Breast
• Lexie Watrous - 100 Back
• Owen Wilson - 100 IM
• Owen Yan - 25 Back, 25 Breast, 25 Free
• Naomi Zhao - 25 Breast, 25 Fly
• Maggie Zhou - 25 Breast

Super exciting part of the meet- the Daffodil Derby!

The 25 Free was the first event of the session. Everyone in Black age 8&U was entered into this event. They then took the fastest six swims from each gender and had them race again at the end of the session. We had two athletes racing in finals: Natalie Whitbeck and Eric Feng! They were both understandably a little nervous, but they did great and raced with really good effort. Congratulations you two!

My favorite event at this meet was…

The 50 Breast! We had a bunch of really nice swims from the kids that were both legal and I thought the kids raced really well here. Quinn Braun, Avni Garg, Blakely Hansen, Beatrix Pressman, Aashay Rane, Natalie Whitbeck and Owen Wilson all did terrific in this race and looked much improved with the stroke.

New US Motivational Times

BB

• Tanvi Bathe: 50 Free
• Kaylan Li: 50 Breast

B

• Irina Burac: 100 Fly
• Kennedy Carlos: 50 Free
• Lola Cheng: 50 Breast
• Dario Giuliani: 50 Free
• Daniel Luckowski: 200 IM
• Molly Mayfield: 50 Free
• Andy Nguyen: 50 Breast
• Rachael Rose: 100 Fly
• Mudit Singh: 50 Free
• Landon Yuan: 100 IM & 50 Free
• Michael Zhou: 50 Free

WAVE ON 3!!