BBST Final Summer Splash Meet Recap

Nearly 50 Wave swimmers trekked up to Bellingham for their final meet of the season, turning in many impressive swims and a boatload of Top 6 finishes. Way to go Wave!

Black Group

Black Group had 22 swimmers at the meet. A few made it up for one of the days and a bunch were there for both days. I’m super proud of how the swimmers handled the early morning warm-up (7:00 am in the pool!) and thank you to all the parents who made sure to have your swimmer there on time!

There were many good things the swimmers did in their races, showing the coaches the growth they’ve been learning in practices.

• Quinn Braun had an excellent meet with big improvements in her 50 Breast, 100 Breast, and 100 Free. She raced really hard and finished 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd in those races respectively while throwing in a 4^th place finish in her 100 IM
• Arthur Dauletbaev showed some improved skills in his 25 Back and 25 Free, and completed the 50 Back and 50 Free for the first time in a meet!
• Jennifer Ji does a really good job at practice and excelled at the meet by completing three new races—100 Breast, 100 Free, 50 Back—and stroking hard to some big improvements in her 100 IM and 25 Back. She finished 1^st or 2^nd in all her events
• Advika Krishnan was just there for one day and finished the 100 Back successfully for the first time, and used some long, strong strokes to swim a really nice 50 Free
• Sindy Liu did an awesome job at the meet with some fantastic swims in her 50 Free and 25 Back, plus some new swims in the 25 Fly and 50 Back
• Chen Yuan was there just one day but was all legal with two new personal bests in the 25 Fly and 25 Free plus a new event completed in the 50 Back! Awesome job!
• Naomi Zhao had a strong meet with four new personal best times including a nicely improved stroke for her 25 Fly, and a brand-new first-time success in the 100 IM

Purple Group

Purple had seven swimmers in total at the meet but those few athletes had an excellent weekend of racing!

• Amarissa Chandra was just there one day but posted two new best times 
• Ross Gawthrop was all best times including a new B time in the 50 Free—twice! He swam near identical times both in his individual race as well as leading off the relay.
• Justin King is pretty new to swimming but gained some valuable meet experience and swam a strong 100 Free.
• Aditi Koppal had several new best times and did an excellent job racing tough in some longer races- 200 Breast and 200 Free.
• Thomas Ovendale looked long and smooth, stroking his way to a really nice swim in his 200 Free. His 50 Free and 200 Breast races were also well done.
• Mahetzi Rebolledo looked smooth in the water while racing hard throughout the meet. This was good meet experience for her!
• Sushrut Yearva had some nice races including a strong effort in his 200 IM that put him into a 4^th  place finish in that race

High School

• Andy Wang — -1.39 in his 200 Fly for a BB time! -1.61 in his 200 Free for another BB time. He is on his way to some great time drops with his hard work and training
• Mike Nikitenko — -0.30 in his 200 IM. -2.27 in his 100 Fly
• Vera Lundy — Swam 100 IM for the first time. Had some great races for just coming back from a knee injury
• Feynman Chen — -0.14 in his 50 Free. Had some great races

AG1

• Steven Wang — -26.78 in his 100 Back. -1.79 in his 100 Breast. -24.23 in his 100 Free. Some great racing and effort here

White Group

• Kanav Acharya — Swam 100 Breast for the first time and scored 3^rd place
• Shreyan Acharya — -2.00 in 100 Free. -0.74 in 50 Breast
• Agastya Agrawal — -12.63 in 100 Free. -2.71 in 50 Back. -11.71 in 50 Fly
• Ziad ElGamal — Swam 100 Back and 100 Breast for the first time! -2.70 in 100 Free
• Viyan Gupta — -1.30 in 50 Free. -2.46 in 100 Back. -4.76 in 100 Free. -0.23 in 100 IM. -2.25 in 50 Breast. -13.50 in 50 Fly
• Aarush Kakkar — Swam 100 Breast for the first time
• Melanie King — -22.31 in 100 Back for a B time. -6.90 in 100 Free for a B time. -2.47 in 50 Back for a B time. -1.14 in 50 free for a B time
• Patrick Long — -20.79 in 100 Free. -7.74 in 50 Breast

New US Motivational Times

 B 

• Ross Gawthorp – 50 Free
• Melanie King – 50 & 100 Free, 100 Breast, 50 Back

WAVE ON 3!!