The Weekly Wave (1/6)

Jan 6, 2010

I HOPE THE HOLIDAYS WERE RESTFUL AND MEMORABLE TO ALL BLUE WAVE FAMILIES . . . and that the break in our normal schedule meant that a few more family meals were shared. We got our long awaited White Christmas even if that simply meant snow leftover on the ground. But we are geared up and ready for the rest of the year. The championship phase of the season is nearly upon us. It is worth reminding BLUE WAVE families that our coaching staff regards the next phase of the season to be the most productive phase year after year. Swimmers must be present to win. 

Awesome swimming and competition continued over at the Providence Recreation Center at the Reindeer MINI Meet while the Tom Dolan Invite was going on. The younger WAVES got to show their stuff. You could really tell that everyone has been working hard at practice as all of it showed through with the great streamlines off of the walls and awesome use of the underwaters. Out of 212 splashes we achieved 51 best times, 75 of those splashes were first time swims. Everyone did 50's for the first time, and most swimmers even did a 100 free.  Everyone came together to swim some really fun relays. The boys set the team standards in the 8 & Under relays and the girls bettered the relay records achieved at this meet last year. The coaches were very proud of all of the swimmers that swam!  Even though there was some snow that day we are happy that most people were able to make it to the meet.

We broke 5 relay records at the Reindeer MINI Meet:

  • Girls 7 & Under 100 Med Relay crushed the previous team record by 12 seconds with a time of 1:45.76 by Ellie Desmond, Katie Winklosky, Caroline Mandrgoc, and Nicole Winkloskly.
  • Girls 8 & Under 100 Free Relay bettered the previous record achieved last year at this same meet with a time of 1:07.84 by Elise Nguyen, Lauren Bowers, Campbell Lucas, and Lauren Mandrgoc.
  • Girls 8 & Under 100 Med Relay bettered the previous record from last year with a time of 1:20.65 by Campbell Lucas, Lauren Bowers, Elise Nguyen, Lauren Mandrgoc.
  • Boys 8 & Under 100 Free Relay set the team’s standard with a time of 1:22. 55 by , Leo Silpacharn, Ethan Krauss, Arya Saravanan,Justin Lee.
  • Boys 8 & Under 100 Med Relay set the team’s standard with at time of 1:39.24 by, Ethan Krauss, Julian Burbano, Justin Lee, and Ian Lupisella.

The following swimmers achieved time standard improvements:

  • Justin Lee: B in Back
  • Campbell Lucas: BB in Back; B in Breast; B in Fly
  • Lauren Mandrgoc: B in Back; B in Breast
  • Caitlin Nee: B in Back
  • Elise Nguyen: BB in Free
  • Karleigh Pollock: B in Fly
  • Lizzy Thornton: B in Back
  • Peyton Webb: B in Free; B in Breast
The Turkey Clause Championships was the following weekend. This meet was a great prelims final meet for our swimmers that haven’t yet achieved Tom Dolan qualifying times. We came in 7th out of 17 teams and we had 2 swimmers break into the top eight list of high point swimmers, Megan Patterson, 8th for the 9-10 girls and Megan Thiede, 7th for the 11-12 girls. Our team couldn’t have made it to a 7th place finish without the swimmers who achieved a place in finals. 
  • Megan Patterson (1st-100 bk; 6th-100-fly; 6th-200 IM)
  • Holly Williams (1st-100 fr)
  • Madison Gupton (7th-200 fr)
  • Jonathan Del Valle (3rd-50 fr; 3rd-50 fly)
  • Megan Thiede (14th-50 fr; 1st-100 bk; 3rd-200 bk; 7th-100 fly; 3rd-200 IM)
  • Caroline Haines (4th-100 bk; 4th-50 fly; 3rd-100 fly; 4th-200 IM)
  • Marissa Coggins (3rd-100 bk; 6th-50 br; 8th-100 fly; 6th-200 IM)
  • Sean Bergmann (2nd-200 bk)
  • Sarah Ashley (16th-500 fr; 7th-200 br)
  • Brennan Maxwell (11th-100 bk)
  • Kyle Albers (14th-100 br)
  • Rex Larrabee (4th-200 br; 13th-200 IM)
  • Justin Allen (10th-200 fly)
Everyone swam very well and the ones that came back to finals on average bettered their time and/or their place. Very exciting meet and a great showing of things to come!

We broke 1 individual record and 2 relay records at Turkey Clause:

  • Megan Thiede broke her teammates record in the 100 back which was just earned the weekend prior at Tom Dolan with a time of 1:11.88
  • Girls 13-14 400 Med Relay set the team standard with a time of 5:14.04 by Emily Jimenez, Sarah Ashley, Sammy Wahl, and Kelsey Hupert
  • Boys 11-12 200 Free Relay set the team standard with a time of 2:14.45 by Jonathan Baba, Calvin Chenault, Sean Bergmann, and Austin Chen

The following swimmers achieved time standard improvements:

  • Kyle Albers: B in Free; BB in Breast
  • Sean Bergmann: BB in Back
  • Jonathan Del Valle: BB in Fly
  • Fionn Desmond: B in Free
  • Madison Gupton: BB in Free
  • Kyle Hamilton: BB in Free; B in Breast
  • Taylor Harper: BB in Back
  • Emily Jimenez: B in Back
  • Jessica Norrlinger: BB in Free
  • Erica Park: BB in Free
  • Megan Patterson: A in Back
  • Katie Schaefer: B in IM
  • Drew Scherer: B in Free; B in Back
  • Megan Thiede: A in Free
  • Jordan Wenner: B in Free
  • Holly Williams: A in Free
The Month of December was a great month of competition for BLUE WAVE. Everyone really stepped it up and raced and let the hard work shine. Thank you and
GO BLUE WAVE

Next installment we move onto the Distance meet as well as recap of all that has been posted on the website…as well as our new CLUBTSUNAMI Members.