YST Meet Report

September, Yucaipa Meet

RAA started off the new season with a bang (or should I say with a beep)!  54 RAA swimmers were in attendance at the meet this past weekend.  Swimmers worked hard, sometimes swimming back to back events.  There were many exciting races, and fun times for swimmers and their families.

All the hard work paid off in about 179 ribbons and medals.  More importantly, times improved, and swimmers were able to get times in events they have not had the chance to swim before now.  Swimmers earned about 42 blue times and 65 red times.  Some reached December Invite times and some even qualified for the spring J.O.’s.

We are proud of all of our swimmers and their many individual accomplishments.  Remember, setting goals, striving to reach them and  reaching them is part of what swimming is about.  Every swimmer at the meet should be proud of their accomplishments.

Highlights of the meet include squad 1’s Pilar Lara (5), swimming in her first meet and doing a great job.  Jaison Clemente (8) got 4th place in the 100 free and also swam the 100 I.M. like a pro.  Emily Taylor (7) got a red time and a second place.

Squad 2 had some outstanding performances as well.  Samual Xu (8) swam 3 red times .  While Alec Jones (10) had 1 blue and 1red at his first meet.   Meghan Easland (8) swam in the 10 and under age group and placed 1st, 4th, and 5th.

Squad 3’s Lauren Vittort (9) got 4 spring J.O. times, and a blue time.  Annika Young swam 4 blue times, and 1 red.  Anna-MariaSapozhkov (10) ended the weekend with 3 blue times and 1 red.  Erika Clemente (11)  had 3 red times.  Christian Moncayo (11) finished with 1 blue and 3 reds.  Evan Munaretto (11) had 3 reds.  Darin Ait Kacci Azzou (9) had  4 reds.  His brother Yannis (12) had 1 blue and 3 reds.  Javier Bernai (10) finished with 1 blue and 2 reds.

Finally, squad 4 had many blue and red times.   Garret Shimko (13), had 4 blue times.  The followong people ALL had 4 blue and 1 red time;  Paulina Saldina (12), Elizabeth Jones (12), Kilohi Chun (12),  Alex Wolf (13), and Jose Jimenez (14).

Congratulations to ALL the swimmers.  It was great to see the enthusiasm of the RAA families.  To see all the swimmers and their family members at the end of the pool cheering for RAA was just amazing.  Our team is undeniably the best as far as spirit!  We’re off to a great start!  Good job swimmers and parents!