2011 PVS November Open

Meet photos from Mr. Dave Yarashus!

The PVS November Open meet proved to be yet another example of the progress our team is making over all.  And let me tell you, the progress is in leaps and bounds not baby steps!  Once again there were so many time drops of three seconds and greater that there were just too many to highlight.  144 Marlins took to the water on the weekend of November 4-6 at the Takoma Aquatics and Community Center in the District.  Several of them stood out above the rest.

Eric Schwartz had perhaps the most impressive meet of the team and perhaps of his life (so far).  Eric  swam six out of seven best times and all of his PB’s were greater than three seconds!  Two of his events he dropped over 12 seconds, the 200 fly (-12.61) and the 500 free (-12.99).  He also dropped 9.44 seconds in the 200 back and another 8.17 seconds in the 200 IM.  But Eric was not done yet.  In his last two swims of the meet he dropped 5.88 seconds in the 200 free and the 3.95 seconds in the 400 IM.  Awesome meet Eric!

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Akanksha Alok and Dylan Major had terrific meets as well with both swimmers putting up 7/8 best times performances.  Akanksha’s drops were all on the smaller side but that does not diminish the fact that she put up seven personal bests!  Way to go Akanksha!  Dylan also put up a 7/8 performance with one big drop of 4.27 seconds in the 50 breast and his other 5 PB’s were in the neighborhood of 2.0-2.5 seconds improvement. Great swimming Dylan!

Eight more of our kids swam 6 personal best times.  Three of them were a perfect six out of six.  Caleb Yoo, Han Gu and Katelyn Grealish all had perfect meets.  Caleb’s drops were all on the smaller side between half a second and two seconds while Han had one drop of 9.71 seconds in the 200 breast, another drop of 6.29 seconds in the 100 fly and two swims where he dropped over three seconds, 100 back and 200 back.  Katelyn had one big drop of 5.48 seconds in the 100 fly.  Great swimming you three!

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Five other swimmers went 6/8 best times with John Kost once again having the largest time drop of the meet when he improved two and a half minutes in the 1650! John also dropped 12.1 seconds in the 500 free and 5.3 seconds in the 200 free.  Ciara Diederich had a great meet also with her biggest drop coming in the 200 free (-5.09) and two other nice drops in the 50 back and 100 IM.  Meredith Miller was the final swimmer to go 6/8.  Meredith had five swims where she dropped over two seconds with her two biggest drops coming in the 200 IM (-4.27) and the 200 free (-4.82).  Zoe Campbell’s 6/7 performance included one huge drop in the 200 back (-16.72) and another nice drop in the 200 fly          (-4.60).  And finally Aiden Smith’s meet performance had two very nice time drops, the first one in the 500 free (-7.41) and the second one, a huge drop, in the 100 fly (-19.91).  Aiden had two others swims where he dropped 2.5 seconds.  Great swimming everyone!

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Eleven more swimmers put up PB’s in five events.     Hayley Alderman biggest drops came in the 200 IM (-8.46) and the 100 IM (-6.20), Ryo Arakawa had a huge drop in the 200 IM (-25.34) and another nice drop in the 100 IM (-7.27). Gavin Flanagan put up four huge swims.  Gavin dropped 7.2 seconds in the 50 fly, 7.44 seconds in the 200 IM, 4.92 seconds in the 200 free and 4.09 seconds in the 100 fly.  Very studley! Regan Glembocki dropped 7.22 seconds in the 200 IM and 6.25 seconds in the 200 back and she dropped nearly four seconds in the 100 fly.  Ben Gryski was a perfect 5/5 at the meet with his best effort in the 100 IM dropping 5.26 seconds.  A 3.58 second drop in the 50 fly isn’t too shabby either!  Kelly Guerrero made a major move at the November Open by dropping 9.62 seconds in the 200 fly, 10.54 seconds in the 200 back and 13.53 seconds in the 400 IM.  That’s some good swimming!   Delaney Kennedy was 5/7 at the meet with a 10.58 second drop in the 200 IM and a 13.52 second drop in the 100 back!  Kyle Major was 5/8 with a huge drop in the 200 breast of 29.62 seconds!  Anne Merrill picked up where she left off at the October Open, dropping time in the 200 back (-10.02) and the 500 free         (-12.41).  Grace Obando went 5/8 and shaved off 4.7 seconds in her 100 fly and Jonathan Pollock went ballistic in two swims, knocking off 29.04 seconds in the 500 free and another 23.33 seconds in the 200 breast.  Awesome job all of you!

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Finally, I want to recognize the entire Yarashus family.  All four swimmers had huge meets!  Havalah was 4/4 with huge improvements in the 200 fly (-27.45) and the 500 free (-19.96), Sam was 4/4 with huge drops in the 500 free (-14.35) and the 200 IM (-19.07) and another nice drop of 4 seconds in the 100 breast.  Zach was also 4/4 best times with  big drops in the 200 fly (-7.63), the 200 IM (-13.39) and abother nice drop in the 100 back of 4.13 seconds.  And finally, Ezekiel, who dropped 5.19 seconds in the 50 fly and a whopping 13.25 seconds in the 100 breast.  Now that’s what I call a family affair.  Nice job guys!

This was the team’s final prep meet leading into the December championship meets and it looks like we are still rolling full steam ahead.  Coaches - Keep up the great work with everyone and we’ll swim fast in December!  Congrats to all on a great meet!

Coach Bill

Below are some additional big time improvements:

Name

Event

Improvement

Jake Abruzzo

100 breast

6.99

Garrett Anderson

200 IM

6.29

Tiger Barbee

200 fly

4.79

Allan Bartolome

50 fly
100 free
100 breast

11.04
6.20
10.00

Eli Bass

200 back

4.88

Cammy Bissen

50 breast

19.31

Libby Bissen

500 free

9.20

Ryan Bracewell

50 breast

4.15

Austen Bundy

200 fly

7.57

Becky Burke

400 IM

7.50

Brody Campbell

200 IM
100 breast

16.61
6.45

Kellen Campbell

200 IM

18.26

Nick Campbell

100 breast

6.83

Hyung Tae Chang

200 back

5.56

Soren Charmsaz

100 breast
200 breast

4.42
7.89

Addison Cryblskey

200 free
100 IM

30.93
5.53

Hannah Dickinson

200 free
100 free

12.92
7.05

Emily Dooley

400 IM

7.11

Garrett Downs

100 back
100 fly

9.78
6.33

Ted Ellis

200 free
100 IM

24.84
20.92

Kayleigh Gillis

100 breast

112.32

Matthew Guo

200 back
400 IM

4.00
26.32

Jake Hernandez

200 back

10.78

Trace Hernandez

200 back

28.50

Lucas Hight

100 breast
100 free

12.31
4.17

Lee Jacoby

500 free

61.73

Martin Javelosa

200 fly

5.16

Sarah Kaneshige

500 free

10.66

Hannah Kang

200 IM

7.77

Rebecca Klanderman

100 free

4.20

Karina Kolb

200 fly
400 IM

5.39
11.52

Gabby Kuehhas

200 back

7.67

Da Som Lee

200 IM
50 breast

6.46
17.53

Blake Marcey

200 breast

4.01

Ainsley Miller

200 free

5.62

Charles Nguyen

100 breast
200 free

5.66
9.56

Sarah Padrutt

500 free

9.80

Reid Penzler

200 IM

11.50

Marcus Quint

200 fly

7.50

Asher Smith

500 free

11.39

Hannah Snell

50 back

15.02

Georgia Stamper

200 free
100 fly

6.64
15.43

John Henry Stamper

200 free

29.69

Hannah Warnick

200 back
200 free

8.16
6.47

Caroline Williams

200 free

6.47

Sarah Yao

100 fly

4.60

Cynthia Zhuang

500 free

27.60

 

Swimmers with first time new “A time standards:

Name

Event

New “A” Time Standard

Evan baker

50 free
200 free

AA
AA

Tiger Barbee

200 fly

A

Eli Bass

200 back

A

Becky Burke

400 IM

AA

Zoe Campbell

200 fly
100 free

A
AA

Hyung Tae Chang

200 IM
50 free

A
A

Katelyn Grealish

50 free

A

Ben Gryski

50 fly
50 back
100 IM
50 free

A
A
AA
AA

Martin Javelosa

200 fly

A

Sarah Kaneshige

200 back

A

John Kost

100 breast
200 breast

A
A

Gabby Kuehhas

1000 free

A

Anne Merrill

500 free
200 back

A
A

Charles Nguyen

100 breast
50 free
100 free

A
AA
A

Grace Obando

100 breast
100 IM
100 fly

A
AA
A

Reid Penzler

200 IM

A

Jonathan Pollock

500 free
100 free

A
AA

Eric Schwartz

200 IM
500 free
200 free
400 IM

A
AA
A
A

Havalah Yarashus

100 breast

A

Caleb Yoo

100 fly
200 breast

AA
A

Photos by Coach Bill