MMSC November Invitational

Wave’s AG1, AG2 and Senior Prep swimmers journeyed up to Marysville for the first meet with relays to test US Swimming’s new motivational relay times and wow did our relay teams impress, including two AAAA times! A big shout out also to Ellen Feng, who earned her first 11-12 AAAA time in the 50 Fly (28.01)!

Age Group 1

The AG1 Athletes had a dominant meet at the Mighty Marlins Meet. The group had several kids pick up either their first Champs Cut of the season or added to their slate of events for the meet. We also had a tremendous showing in the Motivational Times department with a lot of new letters and even two boys on a AAAA Boys Relay. It was awesome to see the kids crush it at the meet and great to see their work in practice showing up in the pool competing. Standout Swims of the Meet:

• Arifin Capiral had a very great meet with time drops in five events. It’s hard to pick between his 100 IM and 100 Free for standout swim, but the 100 IM stands out the most since the stroke technique in all four events really showed through, resulting in a 3-second drop.
• Hayley Chou crushed the weekend dropping more than a minute between all six swims. She had an amazing 200 Free where she went out fast, stayed fast, and finished fast to drop 37 seconds in the event. Wow!!!
• Siena Stahlkopf had a great meet dropping time in four events. Her standout swim was her 200 Free where she dropped 13.5 seconds in the event. She showed some great development in her ability to swim the whole event with a very strong finish.
• Claire Wang had an awesome weekend of swimming, going a best time in four events and completing her first legal 100 IM. Her 50 Back stood out the most with a 5-second drop and a great turn at the wall for a strong swim.
• Avani Yadav had a tremendous weekend of swimming going 6/6 in best times. She gets a double shoutout: – first her 100 IM where she dropped 24 seconds and second her 200 Free where she dropped 19 seconds. Both swims were awesome and showed the hard work she has been putting into practice.

Great work to all the AG1 athletes!

Age Group 2

AG2 crushed the MMSC meet, with several new Champs cuts and a boatload of time drops. Two of the boys even swam on the AAAA Boys Relay! It was great to see them put in all that hard work we’ve been doing on swimming strong in the back half of our 100s and 200s. Standout Swims of the Meet:

• Max Sun helped lead the way for AG2 with a new AAA and two AA swims as well as being a member of the AAAA relay (on his birthday, even!). His standout swim was his 100 IM where he perfectly paced each stroke with great technique and blasted home on his freestyle leg to drop 11+ seconds to earn an 11-12 Champs cut and a new AAA time.
• Anna Ventura has really turned up her workout ethic and it paid off big time with three new BB times and five best times. Her standout swim was her 100 Fly where she went out fast and finished with a strong back half, scoring 5^th place. She’s worked hard on her technique and is turning into an excellent flyer.
• Alex Yang has been working hard on smoothing out his free and back technique and it really showed at the meet as he earned a new B time and his first BB time with his relay team. His standout swim was his 200 IM, where he showed great improvement in his weaker strokes (fly and breast), nailed his turns (especially his streamlines off his turns), and dropped 29 seconds.
• Stas Black had an amazing meet, which reflects his growing confidence in practice at how hard he can push himself and went 5/6 best times including a 24.6-second drop in his 200 Free. His standout swim was his 500 Free, where he showed off all that hard work by dropping 1:38 (98 seconds!). He willed himself to swim hard no matter how uncomfortable in became and shattered the 8:00 mark, going 7:13!
• Norah Braun is another athlete who has really discovered the joy of hard work in practice and went 6/6 best times, including an 18-second improvement in her 500 Free. Her standout swim was her 200 IM, where she took her vastly improved butterfly and capitalized on it to chop 9 seconds off her previous best and just miss breaking the 3:00 mark.

Well done, all AG2 athletes!

Senior Prep

The SR Prep athletes came to race! It was awesome to see all their hard work at practice show up in the pool at the meet. We had a number of fast swims throughout the weekend highlighted with multiple new champs cuts (and three first cuts of the year), many new letter cuts (highlighted by AAAA relay and AAAA individual swims), and many best times. Great job to all the swimmers!!! Excited to see the success continue through the AGI Meet and Champs Season. Standout Swims of the Meet:

• Lucy Broyles had a great meet with some strong time drops in all her events. Her standout event was her 100 Free where she kept her stroke long and dropped more than 4 seconds in the event.
• Kamilla Bugaitsova crushed all six events with some awesome swimming all weekend long (and a smile on her face). Her standout swim was her 500 Free where she dropped almost 5 seconds in the event and picked up her Champs Cut!!!
• Caden Grey had a very strong showing at the meet this past weekend with some solid time drops. His standout swim was his 200 Free, where he training showed through with a very strong back 100 half and a strong race into the finish for a 6-second drop.
• Kumail Mukadam had a great weekend of swimming with time drops in four swims. His standout swim was easily his 200 Breast where he dropped an awesome 15 seconds by keeping his stroke long and holding onto that strong technique throughout the swim.
• Grace Zhang had an awesome meet weekend with time drops in four events. She crushed her 200 IM dropping more than 7 seconds and really showed the improvements she has been working on in practice for all four strokes.

Great Job to all the SR Prep athletes.

New US Motivational Times

 AAAA 

• Ellen Feng – 50 Fly
• 11-12 Girls A 200 Medley Relay (Irene Qu, Olivia Henaire, Ellen Feng, Dami Jung)
• 10&U Boys A 200 Medley Relay (Alex Wang, Max Sun, Owen Wilson, Aman Bhatt)

 AAA 

• Addy Clarke – 100 IM, 50 Back
• Ellen Feng – 100 Free
• Olivia Henaire – 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Dami Jung – 50 & 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Andy Nguyen – 50 & 100 Breast
• Irene Qu – 50 Back, 50 Free
• Max Sun – 100 IM
• Alex Wang – 50 Back
• 10&U Girls A 200 Medley Relay (Addy Clarke, Elaina Jiang, Adele Bokach, Lingyi Li)

 AA 

• Addy Clarke – 100 Breast
• Ellen Feng – 50 Breast, 500 Free
• Olivia Henaire – 100 Free, 50 Fly
• Vivian Hu – 50 Back
• Dami Jung – 50 Back
• Lingyi Li – 100 Free
• Irene Qu – 50 & 100 Fly, 200 IM
• Dan Sun – 50 Back
• Max Sun – 50 & 100 Back
• Owen Wilson – 100 IM
• Isshin Yokoyama – 50 Fly, 50 Free
• Kenshin Yokoyama – 50 Fly
• 10&U Girls B 200 Medley Relay (Vivian Hu, Finley Wiegand, Clara Stevenson, Beatrix Pressman)
• 11-12 Boys A 200 Free Relay (Andy Nguyen, Deniz Cankaya, Aaron Chakraborty, Isshin Yokoyama)

 A 

• Kamilla Bugaitsova – 500 Free
• Deniz Cankaya – 200 & 500 Free, 200 IM, 50 Fly
• Hayley Chou – 50 & 100 Back
• Olivia Henaire – 100 Back
• Fiona Herman – 50 Fly, 200 IM, 500 Free
• Vivian Hu – 100 IM, 50 Fly
• Elaina Jiang – 100 IM
• Yihan Li – 50 Free
• Olivia Liu – 200 IM
• Andy Nguyen – 100 & 200 Free, 200 IM
• Siena Stahlkopf – 50 Breast
• Clara Stevenson – 50 Fly
• Han Sun – 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Nika Svirydovich – 50 Breast
• Alex Wang – 100 IM
• Natalie Whitbeck – 50 Fly
• Owen Wilson – 100 Free
• Andy Yang – 200 IM
• Isshin Yokoyama – 200 IM, 50 Back
• 11-12 Girls B 200 Medley Relay (Maria Kokhan, Rhea Dawani, Berit Dunn, Emma Lu)
• 13-14 Boys A 200 Medley Relay (Caden Gray, Landon Yuan, Max Smagley, Andy Yang)
• 10&U Girls A 200 Free Relay (Natalie Whitbeck, Finley Wiegand, Hayley Chou, Siena Stahlkopf)
• 10&U Boys A 200 Free Relay (David Rondel, Kenshin Yokoyama, Haim Jung, Dan Sun)
• 13-14 Girls A 200 Free Relay (Nora Herman, Kamilla Bugaitsova, Karina Maksyutov, Piper Wiegand)
• 13-14 Boys A 200 Free Relay (Caden Gray, Max Smagley, Landon Yuan, Victor Lyakhovitski)

 BB 

• Alex Arlouski – 100 Free
• Aman Bhatt – 100 IM
• Lucy Broyles – 100 Free
• Kamilla Bugaitsova – 200 IM
• Aaron Chakraborty – 200 Free
• Leo Chen – 200 IM, 50 Fly
• Henry Cheng – 200 IM
• Hayley Chou – 100 Breast, 200 IM
• Rhea Dawani – 100 Breast
• Evan Deng – 100 Back
• Berit Dunn – 200 IM
• Mira Erdim – 100 Free
• Kaito Falk – 50 Back
• Rihit Gandhi – 100 & 200 Free
• Abby Gray – 100 Free
• Caden Gray – 200 IM
• Blakely Hansen – 200 Free
• Olivia Horng – 100 Free
• Yuzuki Ishizuka – 200 IM
• Haim Jung – 100 Back, 100 Free
• Eva Kalacinski – 200 IM
• Arvin Kandiah – 100 Breast
• Maria Kokhan – 50 Fly
• Yihan Li – 200 Free, 200 IM
• Jonathan Liu – 50, 200 & 500 Free; 50 Back
• Olivia Liu – 50 Back
• Victor Lyakhovitski – 200 Breast
• Yuna Ma – 100 IM
• Rinat Maksyutov – 50 Fly
• Max Malinkovskyi – 50 Fly
• Beatrix Pressman – 100 & 200 Free, 100 IM, 50 Fly
• Siena Stahlkopf – 200 Free
• Leo Steijn – 100 Breast
• Dan Sun – 100 Free
• Han Sun – 200 Free
• Nika Svirydovich – 100 Free
• Anna Ventura – 50 & 100 Fly, 200 IM
• Maja Wang – 50 Back
• Finley Wiegand – 100 Back, 100 Breast
• Arjun Yadav – 100 Free, 100 Breast
• Andy Yang – 100 Fly, 200 Back
• Aiden Ye – 50 Breast
• Isshin Yokoyama – 100 Fly
• Ally Yuan – 50 Fly
• Grace Zhang – 100 Fly, 200 IM
• 10&U Boys B 200 Medley Relay (Tyler Fernandez, Arifin Capiral, Aiden Ye, Kenshin Yokoyama)
• 11-12 Boys A 200 Medley Relay (Rinat Maksyutov, Henry Cheng, Leo Chen, Arvin Kandiah)
• 13-14 Girls A 200 Medley Relay (Kamilla Bugaitsova, Lola Cheng, Nora Herman, Piper Wiegand)
• 13-14 Girls B 200 Medley Relay (Yuzuki Ishizuka, Karina Maksyutov, Lainey Meyer, Anika Razdan)
• 13-14 Boys B 200 Medley Relay (Roman Byelykh, Evan Deng, Bryan Lin, Kumail Mukadam)
• 10&U Girls B 200 Free Relay (Maya Razdan, Mira Erdim, Akira Andhare, Ella Gao)
• 10&U Girls C 200 Free Relay (Sophie Liu, Avani Yadav, Maggie Zhou, Blakely Hansen)
• 10&U Boys B 200 Free Relay (Kaito Flak, Yeim Jung, Steven Wang, Alex Wang)
• 11-12 Boys B 200 Free Relay (Leo Steijn, Alex Yang, Han Sun, Maksim Nikitenko)
• 13-14 Girls B 200 Free Relay (Anika Razdan, Lainey Meyer, Lola Cheng, Emily MacDonald)

 B 

• Norah Braun – 100 Back
• Kamilla Bugaitsova – 100 Fly
• Arifin Capiral – 50 & 100 Free, 100 IM
• Leo Chen – 100 Breast, 100 Free
• Henry Cheng – 100 Free
• Rhea Dawani – 100 Free, 200 IM
• Lucas Deng – 50 Back
• Evan Deng – 200 Back
• Mira Erdim – 50 Fly
• Kaito Falk – 200 Free
• Tyler Fernandez – 100 IM, 50 Fly, 200 Free
• Rihit Gandhi – 50 Fly
• Abby Gray – 200 IM
• Olivia Horng – 200 IM, 50 Back
• Yuzuki Ishizuka – 100 Breast
• Zhizhi Ji – 100 IM, 50 Back
• Yeim Jung – 100 IM
• Eva Kalicinski – 50 Back
• Arvin Kandiah – 200 Free
• Sophie Liu – 100 Back
• Emma Lu – 100 Back
• Yuna Ma – 50 Fly
• Emily MacDonald – 100 Breast, 200 Free
• Karina Maksyutov – 200 IM
• Max Malinovskyi – 100 Fly, 200 Free
• Kumail Mukadam – 50 Free
• Maksim Nikitenko – 200 Free, 50 Back
• Tim Rakovchuk – 100 Back
• Max Smagley – 100 Back
• Leo Steijn – 50 & 500 Free, 50 Back, 50 Fly
• Nika Svirydovich – 200 IM
• George Ursulenko – 200 Free
• Anna Ventura – 100 Breast
• Aditeya Verma – 50 Back, 50 Fly
• Claire Wang – 50 Back, 50 Breast
• Maja Wang – 100 Breast
• Steven Wang – 100 Back, 100 Fly
• Piper Wiegand – 100 Breast
• Arjun Yadav – 100 Back
• Avani Yadav – 50 Back, 50 Breast
• Alex Yang – 50 Back
• Bella Zhang – 100 Free
• Grace Zhang – 50 Fly
• 11-12 Boys B 200 Medley Relay (Stas Black, Andrew Zhu, Aditeya Verma, Albert O)
• 13-14 Boys B 200 Free Relay (Andy Yang, Adam Kantor, Arjun Bhate, Evan Deng)

WAVE ON 3!!