2010 Mako Invitational
The Potomac Marlins went swimming into Spring Break with a solid 58% best time team performance at the Mako Invitational held at GMU on March 27 & 28. Seventeen swimmers lead the team's "timedrop feeding frenzy" with 4 or more personal best swims.
Sean Jansen, Juliana Sampaio, and Rebecca "Becky" Burke took top time drop honors with a perfect 6 for 6 best times. Becky had a fantastic meet with significant drops in all of her 6 races totalling 21 seconds! Her most impressive swim coming in the 200 Backstroke. Way to go Becky! Juliana Sampaio had an outstanding meet performance resulting in impressive drops in all 6 of her races. Juliana's best race came in the 200 Free with over 7 1/2 seconds improvement. Congrats Juliana! Sean Jansen, coming off of a great Mini Meet season, took a bite out of 6 of his personal best times with his top two swims in the 25 Free and 25 Back. Great meet Sean!
Five Marlins swimmers smelled blood in the water and raced their way to 5 of 6 best times over the two day meet. Akanksha Alok, who continued her streak of great meets performances, swam her most impressive races in the 100 & 200 Free and the 50 Breast. Colin Kent had the meet's top time drop swim in the 200 Free with nearly 40 seconds improvement and almost as impressive, a time drop of 11.2 seconds in the 100 I.M. Da Lee had another great meet, with outstanding drops in 4 races with his best performance in the 100 Back with over 13 1/2 seconds drop. Sarah Padrutt's team leading 5 of 6 time drop performance was topped by her best two races in the 200 Free (- 4.77) and 200 Back (-3.65). Ciara Diederich's awesome meet performance was topped by two great races in the 100 Free and 200 Free with a 5.55 and 14.14 second improvements respectively. Congrats to the fabulous five!
Nine swimmers were spotted circling the perimiter of the frenzy awaiting their turn to dart in and sink their teeth into 4 of 6 solid time drop performances. Scott Baxter went in first, with his best performance in the 200 Free (-9.81). Dalton Chichester, having a banner season, followed close behind with a great swim in the 200 Free and the meet's second highest time drop swim in the 100 Fly (-22.30). Sinan Duran's best 4 of 6 swims came in the 100 Back (-2.00) and 200 I.M. (-3.63). Grace Fluharty had 4 personal best swims with impressive drops in each. Grace's best time drop swim came in the 100 Fly with an improvement of over 5 seconds. On her way to a 4 of 6 best time performance, Caroline Jin's recent 8 & under 500 Free team record, lead her to a very confident 200 Free race resulting in an impressvie 5.12 second drop. Sydney Loper chipped away at 4 of her Personal Bests with her top race coming in the 50 Fly (-3.36). Grace McCaffery had 4 very nice time drop swims over the two day meet with her biggest drops coming in the 200 Free (-13.28) and 100 Fly (-9.09). Jonathan Wen's best 2 races of his 4 time drop swims were the 50 Breast and 100 I.M. resulting in time drops of -3.78 and -3.24 respectively. Steven Yoon rounded out the school of nine with his best time drop swim in the 25 Breast (-2.68).
Attracted by the splashing, screams and chum of chomped time morsals, were 21 other Marlins swimmers who had very respectable 3 of 6 time drop swims over the weekend (see chart below). The meet's third top time drop performance came from Miraj Patel in the 100 Back (-15.44). A very well deserved congratulations to everyone! Hopefully after Spring Break, it will be safe to go back in the water.
"I think we're gonna need a bigger boat!"
Coach Barry Marlin
3 or more time drop performances
Name |
Event |
Time drop |
|---|---|---|
 |
25 Back | -2.58 |
| 25 Free | -1.22 | |
| 50 Breast | -.42 | |
| 50 Free | -1.01 | |
| 25 Fly | -.48 | |
| 25 Breast | -.89 | |
 |
50 Fly | -1.46 |
| 50 Breast | -1.24 | |
| 100 Free | -2.18 | |
| 100 I.M. | -2.63 | |
| 100 Fly | -1.52 | |
| 200 Free | -7.62 | |
 |
200 Free | -4.68 |
| 100 Back | -1.96 | |
| 50 Free | -.54 | |
| 200 I.M. | -4.31 | |
| 200 Back | -7.79 | |
| 100 Free | -1.95 | |
 |
100 Free | -3.05 |
| 50 Breast | -3.30 |
|
| 100 I.M. | -1.02 | |
| 50 Back | -1.33 | |
| 200 Free | -5.89 | |
| Colin Kent | 50 Fly | -1.84 |
| 50 Breast | -.61 | |
| 100 I.M. | -11.21 | |
| 50 Free | -.39 | |
| 200 Free | -39.83 | |
| Da Lee | 100 Back | -13.69 |
| 50 Breast | -3.78 | |
| 100 Fly | -.44 | |
| 100 Breast | -5.62 | |
| 100 Free | -3.13 | |
 |
200 Free | -4.77 |
| 100 Back | -2.69 | |
| 200 I.M. | -1.16 | |
| 200 Back | -3.65 | |
| 100 Free | -.53 | |
 |
100 Back | -.62 |
| 100 Free | -5.55 | |
| 100 Fly | -1.23 | |
| 100 Breast | -1.28 | |
| 200 Free | -14.14 | |
 |
50 Fly | -1.76 |
| 100 Free | -.83 | |
| 50 Free | -.91 | |
| 200 Free | -9.81 | |
 |
50 Fly | -2.08 |
| 50 Free | -1.72 | |
| 100 Fly | -22.30 | |
| 200 Free | -6.75 | |
 |
100 Back | -2.00 |
| 50 Free | -.04 | |
| 200 Fly | -.01 | |
| 200 I.M. | -3.63 | |
 |
50 Fly | -1.08 |
| 50 Free | -3.16 | |
| 100 Fly | -5.08 | |
| 50 Back | -2.96 | |
 |
50 Fly | -1.26 |
| 50 Free | -.78 | |
| 50 Back | -1.11 | |
| 200 Free | -5.12 | |
| Sydney Loper | 50 Fly | -3.36 |
| 25 Back | -.16 | |
| 25 Free | -.25 | |
| 50 Free | -.05 | |
 |
100 Free | -2.90 |
| 50 Free | -2.27 | |
| 100 Fly | -9.09 | |
| 200 Free | -13.28 | |
 |
50 Fly | -.71 |
| 50 Breast | -3.78 | |
| 100 I.M. | -3.24 | |
| 50 Free | -.32 | |
 |
25 Back | -1.54 |
| 25 Free | -.67 | |
| 25 Fly | -.35 | |
| 25 Breast | -2.68 | |
| Elizabeth Ashley | 100 I.M. | -.61 |
| 100 Fly | -5.84 | |
| 50 Back | -3.14 | |
| Ben Barbee | 50 Fly | -.82 |
| 100 Back | -1.84 | |
| 100 I.M. | -2.18 | |
| Daniel Berry | 50 Fly | -1.59 |
| 100 I.M. | -4.35 | |
| 50 Back | -2.93 | |
| Austen Bundy | 50 Free | -.36 |
| 200 I.M. | -10.19 | |
| 100 Free | -.06 | |
| Tae Chang | 100 Back | -5.59 |
| 50 Breast | -04 | |
| 100 Breast | -2.52 | |
| Connor Clendenin | 200 I.M. | -8.27 |
| 100 Free | -.73 | |
| 100 I.M. | -1.20 | |
| Katherine Dingman | 200 Free | -.39 |
| 200 Breast | -.54 | |
| 50 Free | -.25 | |
| Garrett Downs | 100 Back | -3.34 |
| 50 Back | -.17 | |
| 100 Breast | -.42 | |
| Ozan Duran | 200 Breast | -10.01 |
| 100 Fly | -2.83 | |
| 200 I.M. | -5.36 | |
| Han Gu | 50 Fly | -1.82 |
| 100 Back | -.22 | |
| 50 Breast | -.88 | |
| Matthew Guo | 100 I.M. | -2.28 |
| 100 Breast | -2.46 | |
| 50 Back | -2.22 | |
| Vikram Iyer | 200 I.M. | -11.30 |
| 50 Breast | -.34 | |
| 100 I.M. | -1.89 | |
| Lee Jacoby | 50 Fly | -.34 |
| 100 Free | -.05 | |
| 200 Free | -5.36 | |
| Catherine Jin | 200 I.M. | -6.39 |
| 100 Back | -2.35 | |
| 100 Free | -1.22 | |
| Karina Kolb | 50 Breast | -3.34 |
| 100 Fly | -3.67 | |
| 200 Free | -6.22 | |
| Carolyn Lemons | 50 Breast | -.83 |
| 50 Back | -5.23 | |
| 100 Breast | -5.52 | |
| John MacDonald | 200 Free | -.51 |
| 100 Fly | -5.14 | |
| 100 Free | -.43 | |
| Sean McCrone | 200 Free | -1.99 |
| 100 Fly | -.52 | |
| 200 Back | -.68 | |
| Carolyn Murphy | 100 Back | -1.93 |
| 100 Fly | -.33 | |
| 200 I.M. | -3.52 | |
| Andrew Pickup | 50 Fly | -.83 |
| 100 Free | -5.37 | |
| 100 I.M. | -4.91 | |
| Julia Zhou | 100 Back | -1.10 |
| 100 Fly | -1.06 | |
| 100 Free | -.53 | |
| Miraj Patel | 100 Back | -15.44 |