PVS Long Course 2

Marlins Make Waves at Final Tune Up

Lee District Rec. Center was the site of the PVS Long Course 2 meet, the final tune up before Long Course Championships in July. Twenty seven kids attended the meet on a steamy day in June.

Elizabeth Bissen (17) swam two best times, the first came in the 200 breast (-6.68) and the second came in the 200 IM (-4.72). Both swims qualified her for the LC Jr. Champs meet in July. Zoe Campbell (13) turned in two top times with one of those swims being a 4.30 second drop in the 100 backstroke while Olivia Doherty (13) dropped 4.87 seconds in the same event. The largest time drop of the meet came from Lee Jacoby (13) when she swam the 200 breaststroke in 3:22.51 and a 21.30 second improvement.  Great swim Lee!  Karina Kolb (13) continues to impress with a 14.41 sec. drop in the 400 free.  Marcus Quint showed his moxie in the 400 free with a 10.51 second improvement and Erin Schulte rounded it out for the 13&Overs with a 5.35 second drop in the 200 breast.  Nice going senior swimmers!

Not to be outdone, our 12&U kids represented themsleves well.  Jeffery Gerber (9) popped a 100 backstroke in 1:51.77 which was good for a 4.79 second time improvement and Ben Gryski showed his sprint speed with a drop of 6.35 seconds in the 50 free.  Gabby Kuehhas also had a very nice swim in the 100 back clocking a time of 1:28.69 and a 7.92 second improvement.  Dylan Major had the largest combined two event time drop (-14.19 seconds) when he dropped 6.88 seconds in the 100 back and then dropped an additional 7.31 seconds in the 50 free.  Great meet Dylan!  Jonathan Pollock (11) had two very nice swims and two big time drops, the first coming in the 100 back (-5.83) and the second came in the 200 IM (-6.98).  Keep up the great work Jonathan!

Twenty three new best times were achieved (31% best times) and 19 swims were performed for the first time by our swimmers.  Get psyched for Championships!!

Coach Bill

The chart below represents swims that resulted in new “A” time standards.