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Swimmers from the
Sierra Marlins traveled to Vacaville for a day of competition on
Saturday, October 24th, 2009. In a split session meet with the 10 & under
swimmers in the morning and the 11 & up swimmers in the
afternoon, the Marlins displayed some great swimming from all of
the groups involved in the meet.
Congratulations
to all the Developmental and Mini Marlin Swimmers who participated
in the Vacaville meet! Coach Erica was pleased to see so many faces
early in the morning. The Developmental
and Mini’s are consistently improving on warming up as a
group. The swimmers are getting better
on knowing what to do and what to expect during warm ups at a
meet. It can get a little tough in the
pool with all those kids but they are constantly improving. One of the biggest accomplishments
Coach Erica saw that day was the effort put forth on backstroke
flip turns. The Developmental group had
been working on turns leading up to the meet and they were a huge
success! Everyone who swam 50 back
completed a backstroke flip turn successfully and Coach Erica was
so proud. As for the Mini Marlins,
Kellen Jones was the only one that day and he did a great job
representing his group. Congrats to
Kellen Jones on winning the 6 and under 50 back and 25 fly. Congrats to Ilyas Kiziloglu on winning the
25 breast for the 8 and under age group.
The Black/Red
group swam an impressive morning session with a number of swimmers
turning in best times. Lauren Bonzell
and Jennifer Lathrop each went 4/4 best
times at this meet. Great job to Grant
Thompson who had a successful showing in his first ever USS meet!
McKenna Peterson looked very strong in her first 200
Breaststroke. The 10 year old girls
continued to show their strength with Chloe Miller, Allena
Thompson, and Delaney Down placing 1,2,3 in the 50 Fly, 50 Free,
and 100 Back. Nico Dolley and Justin
Lehr in the 9 year old boys division, and Gary Woo in the 10 year
old boys division had some great top three finishes in all of their
events. Nico Dolley won all of his 9
year old events at Vacaville.
The focus for the
Junior group and the Pre-Senior group at the Vacaville meet was
speed of the swimmers turns. Their plan
of attack was to see how fast they could get in and out of each
wall on the flip turns and the open turns. All of the swimmers did a tremendous job of making
the changes and attacking the walls throughout the day of
racing. The two groups had 96% of the
swimmers achieve a best time(s).
Congratulations to Kayla Rios (200 Fly, 200 IM), Nicholas Rodriguez
(200 IM), Lauren Fitzgerald (500 Free) and Chandler Pourvahidi (200
Fly, 200 Back, 500 Free, 100 Free) for winning their respective
events. Chloe Mitchell (200
Free, 500 Free) and Kayla Rios (200 IM, 200 Fly) earned new Far
Western Cuts. The following swimmers
all achieved new Arizona Cuts: Darvesh
Gorhe (200 IM), Gunnar Mattson (200 Br, 100 Back, 200 IM), Breezy
Johnson (100 Back), Everett Conrad (200 Breast) and Brett Emery
(100 Free).
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