Spring 2007 Accomplishments

 

We have had many BAC swimmers perform fantastic during the Spring Championship Season this year.  We intended to put them on this page, but the list became so long that we decided to create another page dedicated to the 2007 Spring Championship Season. 

 

District Meet Junior Olympics Boys High School NCAA Championships
12 & Under State Meet      

 

 

District Meet Highlights

 

The District Meet was held the weekend of February 23  25 at the LCRC. We had 56 swimmers participating in this meet. At the District Meet, everyone had outstanding performances in several if not all their events. We had a large number of swimmers making Q2 (Junior Olympic) times.

 

The following people made their first Q 2 times in these events.

Riley Bruen in the 50 fly and 100 fly

Sarah Garrity in the 50 & 100 Back

Allison Hill in the 100 Breast.

Juliet Wu in the 50 & 100 free, 50 & 100 fly, 50 & 100 Breast. (great meet).

Daniel Brown in the 50 & 100 back

Bofeng Zhang in the 100 back

 

The following people achieved Q 2 times in these events to add on to their JO entry

Leah Erlandson in the 100 IM, 50 back and 100 free

Maria Gutowski in the 200 IM

Sarah Lohman in the 50 breast

Shannon Lohman in the 50 Free

Heather Pijor in the 100 back

Evelyn Stein in the 200 Free

Alex Miller in the 200 Breast and 100 Free

Alec Wagner in the 200 back and 200 Free

 

Numerous swimmers had time drops greater than 10 seconds in some of their events. This included John Garrity in the 50 free and 100 free, Jessica Yan in the 100 breast, Evelyn Stein in the 200 free, Juliet Wu in the 100 fly, Jack Droze in the 200 breast, Bofeng Zhang in the 200 IM, and Leah Erlandson in the 500 free.

Congrats to everyone who swam at the District Meet on a job well done!

 

Junior Olympic Highlights

 

The Junior Olympic Meet was held the weekend of March 2  4 at Holt High School. We had 23 participants from BAC. The following swimmers achieved Q1 or State Qualifying times in some of their events:

Shaelyn Dolinski 200 Back

Leah Erlandson 200 Back

Shannon Lohman 50 Breast

Heather Pijor 200 Free  100 Free

 

In addition, the following swimmers had significant time drops of at least 5 seconds in the following events:

Heather Pijor 200 back, 200 IM

Sarah Lohman 200 Breast

Maria Gutowski 200 IM

Evelyn Stein 500 Free

 

Congratulations to all BAC swimmers on a job well done!!

 

Boys High School State Meet

 

BAC had 6 of their older boys swimming in the recent High School State Swimming Championships held March 9 & 10 at EMU. Our BAC swimmers represented the following schools : Brother Rice, Canton, Grosse Pointe North, Northville, and Stevenson. Our boys swam exceptionally well. Here are their results:

 

Chris Bagley 1st 50 free, 100 free

Jon Bardsley 12th 200 free, 13th 500 free

Mike Conger 29th 100 back

Mike Cruce 37th 100 fly

Chris Keady 2nd 500 free, 3rd 200 IM

Mike Lane 11th 100 breast, 15th 200 IM

 

Congratulations Bulldogs.  We're proud of you!!

 

NCAA Championships

 

Ava Ohlgren, now swimming at Auburn University, recently swam in her 1st NCAA Championships. We are so proud to say that Ava finished 1st in the 400 IM, 2nd in the 200 IM, 7th in the 200 fly, and participated in 3 award-winning relays. Ava earned six All-American honors for the meet, tying her for second most by a freshman in school history. Ava is well on her way to Beijing and we are so proud of her. Way to go AVA!!!

 

12 & Under State Meet

The 12 & Under State Meet was held the weekend of March 9, 10 & 11 at Jenison High School. BAC had 10 swimmers qualify for the meet. We are proud to report that Nick Arakelian placed 1st in all of his events to win high point in his age group. Here are the results for our state swimmers:

 

Rebecca Arakelian 14th 500 Free, 31st 200 Free & 100 Breast, 22nd 50 Breast, 29th 200 IM

Serena Bian 12th 200 Free, 27th 100 Breast & 100 IM, 25th 100 Free & 200 IM, 29th 50 Breast

Rachel Brown 13th 100 IM, 4th 100 Back, 3rd 50 Back, 22nd 200 IM, 33rd 100 Free,

20th 200 Back

Shaelyn Dolinski 14th 100 Back, 26th 50 Fly, 29th 500 Free, 37th 200 Fly, 30th 50 Back,

19th 200 Back

Leah Erlandson 28th 100 Back, 27th 200 Back

Carlee Jackson 31st 200 Breast, 25th 500 Free, 37th 100 Free

Shannon Lohman 5th 50 Fly, 24th 200 Fly, 23rd 50 Breast, 16th 100 Fly

Heather Pijor 31st 500 Free, 30th 200 Free, 29th 100 Free

Nick Arakelian 1st 500 Free, 200 Free, 100 Breast, 100 Free, 50 Breast & 200 IM

Joshua Liu 18th 50 Free, 12th 500 Free, 7th 100 Breast & 200 IM, 8th 100 IM & 50 Breast

 

Our 11-12 Girls 200 Free Relay of Rachel Brown, Shaelyn Dolinski, Carlee Jackson and Heather Pijor placed 15th and our 11-12 Girls 200 Medley Relay of Rachel Brown, Shaelyn Dolinski, Carlee Jackson and Shannon Lohman placed 10th.


Congratulations to all of our BAC state swimmers!