SOBA earned the most points at the SCAA Winter Championship
Meet, coming in first in our division and winning the entire
meet.
Every single SOBA swimmer who participated in the Winter Meet
scored points for the team – this was truly a TEAM
EFFORT!
89% of you had at least one personal best time at Summer
Champs – WOW!!
30% had one best time
35% had two best times, and
24% had best time in ALL THREE
EVENTS – that is FANTASTIC – so proud of you,
swimmers!
Most Time Dropped – Kylie
Huang 24.69 total
She gets to take the trophy home for the entire winter break. Way
to go Kylie! Close runners-up are Peter A with a total drop of
23.68; Scott B with 22.92; Wyatt M with 20.05; Lilly K with 18.50;
Sebi P with 14.30; Phong N with 13.94
High Point Earner – Danny Gonzalez
with 147 Points
Danny placed 1st in all three of his individual events
(3 x 21 points), and swam on both the Medley and Freestyle relays,
which also placed 1st (2 x 42 points). Congratulations
Danny! - you get to take the trophy home this week (bring back
Thursday, please).
The Big Trophy
After our ‘most time dropped’ achievers and our high
point earners have had their time with the trophy, each swimmer
will have the opportunity to take it home for a few days at a time.
We’ll go in order of most time dropped (i.e.
‘best’ of the personal best times)
New Red/Blue/JO Club
Members: The Red, Blue and JO Club
represent the different ‘Time Standards’ by age groups
outlined by Southern California Swimming. These represent the
‘top’ level of swimming in our region, with the Winter
Junior Olympic (JO) being the toughest category, then Summer JO,
then Blue Times, then Red. We have recognition stars for each
level, and we track the Congratulations to NEW
members of…
-The Red Club: NEW Emily Gore 25Y
Bk, Sophia Moulton 25Y Bk, Sebi Pinto 100Y IM & 50Y Bk,
Arianna Salcedo 100Y Fly
-Moving UP with additional red times: Fabiana
DelPino 50Y Br & 50Y Fl, Malaia Uytingco 25 Fr & earlier in
the Season/Jan Meet: Hana Weiss 25Y Br
-The Blue Club: NEW Colin Glenn
100Y Bk
-Moving UP with additional blue
times: Bridget Bartosik 200 IM, Thomas Beucler 100Y
Fly, Malia Lyou 200Y & 100Y Free
-Junior Olympics: NEW Danny
Gonzalez 100 Fly (also WAG)
Special SOBA Champs “Milestones”
-Congrats to our ‘first timers’ at a Championship Meet:
Peter A, Gabe A, Emiko A, Scott B, Ashlie C, Emma C, Grace C, Van
E, Kate F, Henry G, Asher H, Zander H, Neil K, Alyssa M, Wyatt M,
Sophie M, Diego N, Lucy P, Michal S, Zailee T, Vasco V, Hana W
-Completing THREE championship Meets: Luis A, Bridget B, Liam B,
Ryan C, Reese D, Cassidy G, Kenzie G, Leo H, Mikail H, Ethan H,
Apollo I, Joshua L, Camila M, Matthew M, Chloe N, Malaia U, Enzo V
-Honored for participating in FIVE championship meets: Thomas B,
Stephan B, Sam G, Ellie H, Arianna S, + Coach Bronson and
Coach Steve
-Recognized for participating in SEVEN championship meets: Aubree
D, Loyal G, Aidan J, Alexander Z + and Coach Sue!
-Shout out for participating in TEN championship meets: Malia L and
Rylee N!
-11 Champs: Kai L
-12 Champs: Lexi C and Josh H
-13 Champs: Georgia L-W
-14 Champs: Sally G and Jude R
-19 Champs: Danny G <Most champs to date: TIE Kaio
Miatti and Lexi Tecun at 20 champs!>
-YES, we do have swimmers with 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 champs to their credit
(you know who you are!); the aforementioned swimmers hit certain
‘milestones’ which we recognized at Awards Day.
Relays at Champs
We don’t get to do relays often, so it’s really special
when we have so many relay teams at champs meets! This year, we had
a relay entered in nearly every gender and age group. Relays are
important to the team, because they earn DOUBLE points. Medals are
awarded for teams who place 1st, 2nd, and
3rd BUT points are awarded to all teams who place
1st thru 6th. Relays are a unique group
experience for swimmers. The league only allows us to enter one
relay team per event; given that we have so many awesome swimmers,
it is a challenge to create those teams. We would love it if
everyone got to swim on at least one relay; but in some cases, we
just have way more swimmers than spots on relay teams. In creating
the relay teams, coaches take into account not only the
swimmers’ best times, but also workout participation,
attitude and work ethic at regular practice. We tried to offer
relay spots to as many swimmers as possible, keeping those
guidelines in mind.
Congratulations on Promotions!
At the conclusion of each season, we often promote swimmers who are
ready for the next skill level group. Congratulations to the
swimmers whom we are promoting!
-Promoted from C to C1: Emily
Gore, Logan Griffin, Sophia Moulton, Enzo Victorica, Maggie
Zakrzewski (these swimmers now have the option of coming up to four
days per week: M-Th)
-Promoted from C1 to B: Emma Christenson, Katie
Fleming, Skylar Hauck, Camila Martinez, Phong NguyenManoa
Uytingo (these swimmers now have the option of coming up to
five days per week: M-Fri)
-Promoted from B to B1: Ashlie Cabrera, Lexi
Camfield, Ryan Chun, Ava Eisenberg, Lilly Kruk
-Promoted from B1 to A: Julian Bailey, Sam
Gabuardi, Arianna Salcedo
plus we know a couple more of you are really close to promotion to
the next group, so work hard, and stay tuned for details!
Parents
THANK YOU for all your help with all the ‘jobs’ we were
assigned by the league. We really appreciate you pitching in to
help make this meet run as smoothly as possible. We are lucky to
have so many fantastic team families with SOBA!
Way to go swimmers – we are so proud of you!
This was a FANTASTIC way to end the season! We are thrilled for our
teammates & so excited for your successes at winter champs.
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