14 & Under JO Qualifier
Cub Run Rec. Center - February 13 & 14, 2010
"BLIZZARD WIZARDS"
Despite two historical back-to-back snow storms and 7 days of subsequent cancelled practices (and school), the Potomac Marlins swimmers proved to everyone that there is "no business like snow business". Lead by Grace Liu with 5 new JO cuts, eighteen Marlins swimmers established brand new Junior Olympic Qualifying times in one or more events which is a new team record in itself! Also topping the Marlins team performance were swimmers Ben Barbee, Luis Aguirre, and Caleb Yoo who each had tremendous snow-blinding performances during the meet resulting in 3 new JO cuts each. Katie Dingman, Zoe Campbell, Abigail Young, and Akansh Alok scored 2 new JO cuts, and Kyle Major, Jason Gerber, Anne Merrill, Karina Kolb, Jon MacDonald, Reid Penzler, Andrew Laffosse, Maxine Clifford and Madisyn Graham added to their JO line-ups with one new swim each. Excellent job everyone!
8 year old, Caroline Jin, marched through the mole-hills of snow and melted a mountain of time off of one of the OLDEST Marlins team records on the books. Caroline swam the 500 Free and broke the 12 year old mark set in 1998 by 2 minutes and 45 seconds. AWESOME! This new record represents the largest amount of time ever shaved off of a Marlins team record. Who says 8 & unders only like 25's and 50's. I wonder what else can be accomplished by those who are not intimidated by the longer swims?
In addition to our new JO Qualifiers, the meet also proved to be a HUGE success once again for individual time drop performances. Leading the chilling time drop charge, and between periodic steaming Hot Chocolate breaks, were swimmers Madeleine Doyle, who also had 5 top swims, and Kayleigh Gillis with 4 top swims. The marshmallow-ladened duo each had top performances in the 100 I.M. with 15 & 16 second time drops respectively. Setting thier mukluks aside in favor of lycra suits and bare feet, Kali Adams and Matthew Guo joined the sumit team with 4 outstanding top time drops of greater than 3 seconds each. Kali's top performance came in the 100 Fly with a 24 second time drop and Matthew's came in the 100 Back with a 25 second time drop. WAY TO GO!
Eight other Marlins had 3 top time drop performances, 23 others had 2 top time drops and 30 more had 1 top 3 second or greater time drop. Of special note were the top 3 time drops for the meet which came from John Kost's amazing 3:53 time drop in the 1650, Ben Barbee's 40 second time drop in the 500 Free, and John MacDonald's 36 second drop in the 1650 Free. Many other impressive individual time drops were accomplished at the meet which can be reviewed below on the chart. Note: In order to record time drops in the longer events one has to swim them at least twice (no kidding!)
A little bit of CABIN FEVER seems to have had a positive effect on many swimmers at this meet. The challenge will now be to re-focus on gaining back any conditioning base that may have been lost during the week off practice. We hope to be able to do this quickly and in time to take advantage from an actual "planned" TAPER in contrast to one administered by mother nature. Work hard. Work often. Have fun.
GREAT MEET EVERYONE.
-Coach Barry
Thanks to Coach Bill for the meet photos at the bottom!
New J.O. Qualifiers
| Swimmer Name | Event |
| Grace Lui | 50 Free |
100 Fly |
|
100 Free |
|
50 Fly |
|
50 Breast |
|
| Ben Barbee | 50 Free |
200 I.M. |
|
500 Free |
|
| Caleb Yoo | 50 Back |
100 Free |
|
200 I.M. |
|
| Louis Aguirre | 100 I.M. |
100 Back |
|
200 I.M. |
|
| Katie Dingman | 200 Back |
100 Back |
|
| Abigail Young | 100 Breast |
200 Breast |
|
| Zoe Campbell | 100 I.M. |
100 Free |
|
| Akansha Alok | 50 Fly |
100 Back |
|
| Kyle Major | 50 Free |
| Jason Gerber | 50 Back |
| Anne Merrill | 200 Free |
| Karina Kolb | 100 I.M. |
| John MacDonald | 1650 Free |
| Reid Penzler | 100 Free |
| Andrew Laffosse | 200 Fly |
| Jonah Chang | 200 I.M. |
| Maxine Clifford | 200 Breast |
| Madisyn Graham | 500 Free |
Top time drop performances greater than 3 seconds
.
Name |
Event |
Time drop |
|---|---|---|
Jenna Adams
|
200 Free
|
-4.48
|
100 Back
|
-7.58
|
|
200 I.M. |
-11.86 |
|
| Kali Adams | 100 Fly |
-24.34 |
200 Free |
-8.38 |
|
100 Back |
-6.31 |
|
200 I.M. |
-19.37 |
|
| Luis Aguirre | 200 I.M. |
-29.75 |
| Akansha Alok | 100 I.M. |
-4.43 |
100 Back |
-8.77 |
|
| Evan Baker | 200 I.M. |
-9.79 |
500 Free |
-3.11 |
|
| Nicole Baker | 100 Fly |
-4.36 |
200 I.M. |
-5.44 |
|
200 Breast |
-5.50 |
|
| Ben Barbee | 200 I.M. |
-3.63 |
500 Free |
-40.25 |
|
| Scott Baxter | 100 Free |
-7.08 |
50 Fly |
-5.40 |
|
| Jillian Bracaglia | 100 Breast |
-7.34 |
100 Free |
-3.66 |
|
| Austin Bundy | 200 Back |
-10.33 |
| Rebecca Burke | 100 Fly |
-3.29 |
| Sky Carlson | 100 Fly |
-20.77 |
200 Free |
-8.89 |
|
| Jonah Chang | 200 I.M. |
-6.45 |
| Dalton Chichester | 200 Free |
-16.32 |
100 Free |
-9.64 |
|
200 I.M. |
-22.84 |
|
| Connor Clendenin | 200 I.M. |
-27.27 |
| Maxine Clifford | 200 Fly |
-9.42 |
200 Breast |
-3.02 |
|
| Katherine Dingman | 200 Back |
-3.90 |
400 I.M. |
-9.52 |
|
| Garrett Downs | 100 Free |
-3.27 |
| Madeleine Doyle | 50 Free |
-3.30 |
100 Breast |
-8.93 |
|
100 I.M. |
-15.37 |
|
100 Free |
-3.75 |
|
50 Fly |
-3.39 |
|
| Maggie Eaton | 500 Free |
-19.55 |
| Theodore Ellis | 100 Free |
-3.71 |
| Julia Faist | 200 Free |
-5.67 |
200 I.M. |
-9.78 |
|
| Arjun Ganesh | 100 Free |
-6.94 |
| Jason Gerber | 100 I.M. |
-3.61 |
| Kayleigh Gillis | 50 Free |
-3.93 |
50 Back |
-3.01 |
|
100 I.M. |
-16.12 |
|
100 Free |
-5.66 |
|
| Madisyn Graham | 500 Free |
-7.15 |
| Kelly Guerrero | 200 Free |
-3.30 |
400 I.M. |
-16.78 |
|
500 Free |
-3.60 |
|
| Matthew Guo | 50 Back |
-9.65 |
100 Breast |
-16.01 |
|
100 Back |
-25.72 |
|
50 Breast |
-9.25 |
|
| Sarah Hargett | 100 Free |
-3.66 |
| Jessica Heise | 100 Breast |
-4.13 |
100 Back |
-8.14 |
|
| Louise Hicks | 100 Breast |
-16.02 |
| Hannah Kang | 100 Free |
-9.55 |
| Colin Kent | 50 Back |
-3.55 |
| Audrey Kim | 50 Back |
-9.54 |
| Karina Kolb | 200 Free |
-3.23 |
500 Free |
-19.51 |
|
| John Kost | 1650 Free |
-3:53.13 |
200 I.M. |
-4.49 |
|
| Max Kuranda | 100 Free |
-10.65 |
| Andrew Laffosse | 200 Fly |
-17.24 |
| Grace Lang | 100 I.M. |
-8.04 |
| Da Lee | 100 I.M. |
-4.31 |
200 I.M. |
-5.73 |
|
| Sarah Lui | 200 I.M. |
-9.97 |
| John MacDonald | 1650 Free |
-36.32 |
| Kyle Major | 100 Breast |
-5.96 |
200 I.M. |
-9.71 |
|
50 Breast |
-3.44 |
|
| Elana Mannion | 100 Free |
-8.97 |
| Blake Marcey | 50 Free |
-3.61 |
100 Free |
-9.19 |
|
| Cole McCrannie | 200 Free |
-4.79 |
100 Free |
-3.48 |
|
| Collin McCrannie | 50 Free |
-6.29 |
100 Free |
-9.67 |
|
| Haley McLean | 200 I.M. |
-3.37 |
| Anne Merrill | 100 Breast |
-8.78 |
200 Free |
-8.34 |
|
| Meredith Miller | 50 Free |
-3.56 |
| Michaela Miller | 200 Back |
-6.06 |
500 Free |
-16.85 |
|
| Cameron Morey | 100 Free |
-6.73 |
| Kaityn Nguyen | 200 Free |
-9.19 |
100 Free |
-3.44 |
|
| Grace Obando | 100 Breast |
-7.47 |
100 Back |
-3.68 |
|
500 Free |
-11.55 |
|
| Natalie Obando | 200 I.M. |
-3.50 |
| Sarah Padrutt | 200 Free |
-10.01 |
100 Back |
-14.75 |
|
| Reid Penzler | 100 Free |
-3.22 |
200 Breast |
-16.33 |
|
| Asher Smith | 100 Breast |
-5.95 |
100 I.M. |
-5.59 |
|
100 Free |
-4.61 |
|
| Alexander Stein | 50 Free |
-3.46 |
| Caroline Sullivan | 50 Free |
-5.91 |
| Mary Evelyn Weaver | 200 Back |
-7.25 |
100 I.M. |
-7.86 |
|
100 Back |
-4.24 |
|
| Johnathan Wen | 100 Breast |
-7.20 |
100 Free |
-4.62 |
|
| Kathryn Wolfteich | 200 Free |
-13.19 |
| Caleb Yoo | 50 Back |
-7.52 |
| Charles Yu | 50 Free |
-4.13 |
100 Breast |
-8.87 |
