2010 Sport Fair Winter Classic
Holiday Magic
If you had to pick one word to describe our team performance at this year’s Sport Fair Winter Classic meet, what would it be? Amazing? Stupendous? Awesome? Excellent? I think I would just have to simply say, “WOW!” The 86 member squad catapulted the team from a sixth place finish at last year’s meet to a second place finish at this year’s meet. Twenty-three meet records were broken at this year’s meet, four of them by 10 year old Holly Jansen, (Lee Dist).
Holly set new meet records in the 10&U 100 breast, 100 IM, 200 IM and 50 Breast. In addition to her meet record setting performances, Holly also was the 10&U High Point Award winner with 113 points. And, if that wasn’t good enough, Holly also broke five team records as well. Her new team records came in the 50 breast, 100 breast, 50 fly, 100 IM and 200 IM. WOW! What a meet! Congrats to Holly on an amazing meet.
Senior swimmer, Laura Schwartz captured the Runner-up High point award in the 15-18 Girls age group. Laura swam her way to two first places ( 500 Free and 400 I.M.) and 4 second places ( 200 Free, 50 Free, 200 I.M. and 100 Free). Way to go Laura!
Three other team records were broken at the meet. Jonathan Pollock set a new mark in the 9-10 boys 100 IM then teamed up with five of his teammates to set new team records in the 9-10 100 free and 100 medley relays. Congrats to the new team record holders in the 100 free relay, Hyung Tae Chang, Max Kuranda, Ben Barbee and Jonathan Pollock. Congrats also go to the new 100 medley relay team record holders, Kellen Campbell, Garrett Downs, Hyung Tae Chang, and Jonathan Pollock. Great job all of you!
The rest of the team’s performance was equally as impressive. So impressive that I cannot list everyone who dropped at least 3.0 seconds in an event! I can’t even list everyone who dropped 4.0 seconds in an event. There were simply just too many swimmers who swam well to mention everyone. I wish I could. So, I set the bar at 5.0 seconds. Even at this impressive time drop number, we still had 46 swimmers who had at least one swim with more than 5.0 seconds time drop! That’s 53% of the squad! WOW! Out of those 46 kids there were 73 swims with time drops of 5.0 sec or more, (9% of all swims). WOW! As a team, the kids were at a very impressive 74% over all best times, 588 out of 798 total swims were best times, (number does not include first time swims).This is a very good percentage for a December meet.
Eleven Marlin swimmers were a perfect 100% best times with eighteen more nearly perfect, missing only one event. What makes this so impressive is some of these kids swam 12-16 events between prelims, finals and relays! That means many of these kids were swimming a best time every single time they hit the water! WOW! The following swimmers were perfect for the meet: Ben Barbee (age 10) 8/8, Anthony Barbee (age 16) 7/7, Stephanie Clarke (age 16) 13/13, Brynn Feighery (age 11) 7/7, Kevin Grant (age 15) 7/7, Lauren Hensley (age 14) 14/14 (WOW), Martin Javelosa (age 13) 12/12 (WOW), Gabriella Kuehhas (age 11) 7/7, Haley McLean (age 14) 11/11 (WOW), Jake Weeren (age 13) 7/7.
The following swimmers were almost perfect: Eli Bass (age 16) 8/10, Nathan bass (age 11) 7/9, Jillian Bracaglia (age 12) 6/7, Amanda Broyles (age 13) 5/6, Austen Bundy (age 13) 6/8, Becky Burke (age 15) 5/6, Nick Campbell (age 16) 11/12 (WOW), Kate Croxton (age 10) 7/8, Katie Dingman (age 14) 9/11, Olivia Doherty (age 13) 7/8, Celie Feighery (age 9) 6/7, Madisyn Graham (age 13) 10/11 (WOW), Ben Gryski (age 11) 6/7, Jake Hernandez (age 12) 8/9, Sierra Higinbotham (age 16) 11/14 (WOW), Holly Jansen (age 10) 12/15 (WOW), Sean Jansen (age 9) 6/7, Karina Kolb (age 13) 10/11 (WOW), John Kost (age 14) 7/8, Dasom Lee (age 12) 7/8, John Macdonald (age 14) 10/13 (WOW), Caleb Meindertsma (age 16) 8/10, Grace Obando (age 11) 9/12 (WOW), Natalie Obando (age 13) 9/11 (WOW), Danial Okhovvat Gilani (age 14) 15/16 (WOW!), Reid Penzler (age 14) 9/12 (WOW), Jonathan Pollock (age 10) 9/13 (WOW), Marcus Quint (age 15) 7/8, Erin Schulte (age 15) 7/8, Eric Schwartz (age 14) 8/10, Julia Schwartz (age 14) 11/14 (WOW), and Josh Wallace (age 12) 10/11 (WOW).
If that did not wow you, check out some of these major time drops! Garrett Anderson 200 breast (-15.03), 100 back (-6.47), 200 back (-5.74) Evan Baker 1000 free (-42.74), 500 free (-7.27) Nicole Baker 200 fly (-11.95) 400 IM (-5.37) Ben Barbee 200 IM (-10.57) Anthony Barbee 500 free (-5.19) Eli Bass 1000 free (-5.57) 400 IM (-24.26) Nathan Bass 500 free (-20.19) 200 breast (-8.50) 200 IM (-14.54) Jillian Bracaglia 200 IM (-6.07) Becky Burke 200 fly (-5.66) Brody Campbell 100 IM (-10.17) Caitlin Campbell 200 back (-6.39) Kellen Campbell 100 free (-5.82) 100 fly (-11.24) Maddie Carinci 500 free (-5.51) Hyung Tae Chang 200 IM (-7.21) Kate Croxton 100 fly (-7.28) Katie Dingman 500 free (-18.23) Katherine Doherty 200 fly (-8.74) Olivia Doherty 200 fly (-7.17) Garrett Downs 200 IM (-7.51) Brynn Feighery 200 IM (-10.62) 100 free (-7.35) Celie Feighery 200 IM (-5.86) Allison Goldblatt 200 fly (-5.85) 400 IM (-8.75) Ben Gryski 500 free (-27.78) 200 free (-6.01) 100 breast (-5.51) Martin Javelosa 1000 free (-10.85) Corinne Kominski200 IM (-23.52) John Kost 200 back (-10.85) 200 IM (-10.13) 200 breast (-9.73) Gabby Kuehhas 200 free (-5.32) 200 IM (-8.76) Max Kuranda 200 free (-6.28) Dasom Lee 200 free (-6.06) 200 breast (-37.51) 200 IM (-6.05) John Macdonald 1000 free (-28.06) 500 free (-14.65) Kyle major 500 free (-20.15) Blake Marcey 100 IM (-6.20) Sean McCrone 1000 free (-13.01) Caleb Meindertsma 1000 free (-18.49) 400 IM (-5.92) 500 free (-15.14) Michaela Miller 100 fly (-5.39) Grace Obando 200 free (-5.08) 200 back (-21.48) Natalie Obando 500 free (-12.76) Marcus Quint 1000 free (-19.02) Erin Schulte 200 breast (-5.88) Eric Schwartz (400 IM (-7.99) 200 breast (-8.93) Aiden Smith 100 fly (-5.07) Dirk Verheul 1000 free (-11.53) 500 free (-7.75) Josh Wallace 200 free (-6.29) 200 IM (-12.29) Justin Wang 200 free (-10.04) 100 breast (-6.93) 100 back (-6.79) 100 free (-7.58) and Jake Weeren 200 fly (-7.00). WOW, that is a lot of time!
And that’s not all! 60 of our swimmers scored points for the team by finishing in the top 16 places. 50 swimmers qualified for finals, (58%) and 32 of those 50 kids qualified for finals in the top 8 positions, (37%). Another big WOW! See the chart below for those that qualified for finals and their overall place. Great job on the first half of the season everyone! Let’s stay focused on the second half of our season and see if we can out do ourselves in March! Thanks again to all of our Coaches, Parents, and Officials for another great meet. We can’t do it without all of you!
As you can see from the above stats, one word really can’t describe what a great meet we all had. Suffice it to say that the kids really “WOW’ed” us! What a great way to kick off the Holiday Magic.
Coach Bill
| SWIMMER | POINT TOTAL |
|---|---|
Holly Jansen |
133 (9-10 Girls High Point winner) |
Laura Schwartz |
114 (15-18 girls runner-up High Point winner) |
Jonathan Pollock |
108.5 |
Danial Okhovvat Gilani |
106 |
Tae Chang |
87 |
Allison Goldblatt |
83 |
John Macdonald |
75 |
Corinne Kominski |
73 |
Reid Penzler |
63 |
Lauren Hensley |
60 |
Sierra Higinbotham |
58 |
Nic Laffosse |
59 |
Zoe Campbell |
55.5 |
Nicole Baker |
54 |
Evan Baker |
47 |
Stephanie Clark |
46 |
Natalie Obando |
41.5 |
Garrett Anderson |
37 |
Karina Kolb |
33 |
Kate Croxton |
30 |
Erin Johnson |
29 |
Ben Barbee |
29 |
Martin Javelosa |
28 |
Caleb Meindertsma |
28 |
Eli Bass |
27 |
Syd Thorpe |
25 |
Nick Campbell |
23.5 |
Juila Schwartz |
22 |
Garrett Downs |
21 |
Katie Dingman |
20 |
Eric Schwartz |
19 |
Gloriya Macrova |
17 |
Blake Marcey |
16 |
Grace Obando |
15 |
Madisyn Graham |
14 |
Nathan Bass |
14 |
Sarah Liu |
13 |
Justin Wang |
12 |
Leelee Jocoby |
11 |
Maddie Carinci |
11 |
Michaela Miller |
10 |
Katie Doherty |
8 |
Dirk Verheul |
7 |
Haley McLean |
7 |
Kyle Major |
7 |
Olivia Doherty |
6 |
Josh Wallace |
6 |
John Kost |
5 |
Jake Hernandez |
5 |
Haley Alderman |
3 |
Caitlin Campbell |
3 |
Ciara Diederich |
2 |
Warren Breiseth |
2 |
Sean Jansen |
2 |
Aiden Smith |
2 |
Marcus Quint |
1 |
Max Kuranda |
1 |
Kellen Campbell |
1 |
PHOTOS BY: Coach Bill & Mr. Dimitar Mavrova
