The Weekly Wave (2/1)

Feb 1, 2010
"One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
- Arthur Ashe

Once again we had a great January Open. Even though the weather outside was fine we created a “Blizzard of Best Times” inside, literally. We had a lot of new time standard improvements, 25 to be exact. Five team records where broken and many best times achieved. It was such a great meet to experience, seeing everyone doing what they have been working so hard on in practice was great! More swimmers achieved qualifying times for the upcoming championship meets and more became closer to achieving those times. One more swimmer achieved CLUB TSUNAMI status as well.

Lydia Qian’s swims at the January Open made the top 20 list in PVS in both the 50 and 100 fly coming in at 9th in all of PVS.

We broke 5 individual team records:

  • Lydia Qian crushed both of her previous records in the 9-10 50 fly (32.61) and 100 fly (1:16.16)
  • Marissa Coggins broke the 11-12 Girls record in the 50 back with a time of 33.22
  • Jack Morrisroe broke the Boys 13-14 100 free record with a time of 54.69
  • Brooke Graham broke the Girls 13-14 200 free record with a time of 2:13.32

The following swimmers achieved time standard improvements:

  • Kari Allen: B-Fly
  • Sean Bergmann: B-Free
  • Izzy Castorena: BB-Free
  • Fionn Desmond: B-Free
  • Madison Gupton: BB-Breast
  • Caroline Haines: A-Fly
  • Lexie Jimenez: B-Fly; BB-Breast
  • Rex Larrabee: BB-Back
  • Jackson Lucas: BB-Breast
  • Allie MacMillan: B-IM
  • Lizzy Mandrgoc: A-Breast; A-Free; A-IM
  • Megan Marshall: BB-Fly; BB-Free
  • Brennan Maxwell: BB-Fly
  • Rachel Mihalic: A-Back
  • Jessica Norrlinger: BB-IM
  • Kaitlyn Pollock: BB-Breast
  • Lydia Qian: AAA-Fly
  • Drew Scherer: B-IM
  • Megan Thiede: A-IM

New BRONZE Level in CLUB Tsunami:

  • Sean Bergmann: 1367
Championship Meet Qualifiers thus far:

14 & Under Junior Olympics

  • Grace Boyles: 50 Fly
  • Marissa Coggins: 50 & 100 Back
  • Brooke Graham: 100 Breast
  • Caroline Haines: 50 Fly; 50 & 100 Back
  • Rachel Mihalic: 200 & 100 IM; 50 & 100 Back; 100 Breast; 100 Fly
  • Elise Nguyen: 50 Back
  • Jessica Norrlinger: 50 Fly
  • Lydia Qian: 100 & 200 Free; 50 & 100 Fly; 100 & 200 IM; 50 & 100 Back
  • Megan Thiede: 100 & 200 Back; 200 IM; 200 Breast
  • Tori Webb: 50, 100 & 200 Free; 50 Fly; 50 Back
  • Jonathan Del Valle: 50 Fly; 50 Free
  • Jackson Lucas: 50, 100, 200 & 500 Free; 50 Fly; 100 IM; 50 & 100 Back
  • Jack Morrisroe: 100, 200, 500, 1000 & 1650 Free; 100 & 200 Fly; 200 & 400 IM; 100 & 200 Back

Senior Champs

  • Amber Kerico: 100 & 200 Breast; 100 Fly; 200 IM
  • Abby Pasztor: 100 Fly
Congratuations to our qualifiers thus far a championship party is in the works and details will be sent out soon.
 
The next meets on the calendar are the Winter Gator Mini Meet (2/13-14) and the 18 & Under Championships (2/19-21). Keep up the great work everyone!  Keep in mind the qualifying times for the upcoming championship meets you can find them here.

GO BLUE WAVE