The 2011 Spring Championship season is now completed and we are proud of all of our BAC swimmers. Our swimmers attended the Blue Division District, JO-East, 12 & Under State, 13 & Over State, and Spring Sectional Meets. Also recapped are the new BAC SCY records.
| District Meet | Junior Olympics | Short Course Records | ||
| 12 & Under State Meet | 13 & Over State Meet | Central Zone Section 3 Championship | ||
The District Meet was held the weekend of February 25-27, 2011 at the LCRC. The following swimmers participated at this meet:
Michael Aron, Sarah Aron, Will Backer, Arlexis Branson, Isha Ganguli, Chris Geng, Arthur Greenlee, Katy Gruschow, Maria Gutowski, Cameron Heaven, Lauren Heaven, Joseph Iacopelli, Grace LaFreniere, Sabby Lee, Nicholas Mouaikel, Gerard Niermann, Jonathan Ni, Jennifer Ostrowski, Kathleen Park, Nam-Jun Park, Maggie Patterson, Thomas Patterson, Heather Pijor, Tiffany Pijor, Erik Prudil, Shannon Taylor, Emily Weiner, Matthew Weiner, Jessica Yan, Simone Young, and Victoria Zhang.
Top 8 Individual finishes (medal winners) include:
Michael Aron: Male 11/12 50 fly 8th place
Will Backer: Male 10 & Under 100 IM 2nd place, 50 Breast 6th place
Isha Ganguli: Female 11/12 50 free 8th place, 100 free 2nd place
Chris Geng: Male 13-18 400 IM 1st place, 50 free 7th place, 100 free 4th place 100 fly 4th place
Arthur Greenlee: Male 11/12 200 Breast 6th place, 500 free 5th place
Maria Gutowski: Female 13-18 400 IM 6th place, 100 breast 2nd place, 100 fly 8th place
Grace LaFreniere: Female 13-18 500 free 2nd place
Sabby Lee: Female 11/12 50 back 2nd place, 100 free 3rd place, 100 fly 2nd place
Nicholas Mouaikel: Male 11/12 50 free 3rd place, 50 fly 6th place, 100 breast 6th place
Gerard Niermann: Male 11/12 200 fly 3rd place, 500 free 1st place
Jonathan Ni: Male 11/12 200 breast 1st place
Emily Weiner: Female 13-18 100 back 4th place
Matthew Weiner: Male 11/12 50 fly 5th place, 100 back 3rd place, 100 fly 8th place
Jessica Yan: Female 13-18 200 IM 4th place
Congrats to everyone who swam at the District Meet on a job well done!
The Junior Olympic East Meet was held the weekend of March 4-8, 2011 in Lake Orion. The following swimmers participated at this meet:
Will Backer, Ethan Bezzina, Sam Boyea, Carol Chen, Patrick Chen, Andrew Connor, Trevor DeGroot, Shaelyn Dolinski, Mel Dunnuck, Leah Erlandson, Isha Ganguli, Chris Geng, Maddie Gorman, Maria Gutowski, Nick Hayes, Grace LeFreniere, Jonny Liu, Nicholas Mouaikel, Jonathan Ni, Caitlin Orr, Thomas Patterson, Heather Pijor, Patrick Renner, Evelyn Stein, Kevin Taylor, Danny Teng, Emily Weiner, Matthew Weiner, Jessica Yan, Lawrence Zhao and Halie Zulch.
Top 8 (medal winners) include:
Ethan Bezzina: Male 11/12 400 IM 8th place, 200 free 6th place
Sam Boyea: Male 13-18 200 IM 4th place, 100 free 2nd place, 100 fly 8th place
Andrew Connor: Male 11/12 100 free 4th place
Shaelyn Dolinski: Female 13-18 200 breast 2nd place, 500 free 8th place
Mel Dunnuck: Female 11/12 500 free 1st place
Leah Erlandson: Female 13-18 100 free 5th place, 500 free 1st place
Chris Geng: Male 13-18 200 breast 8th place
Maddie Gorman: Female 13-18 1650 free 5th place
Nick Hayes: Male 13-18 200 IM 2nd place, 100 back 1st place
Jonny Liu: Male 11/12 100 IM 6th place, 100 breast 2nd place, 200 IM 8th place, 100 back 4th place, 50 breast 2nd place
Jonathan Ni: Male 11/12 200 free 1st place, 200 back 1st place, 50 free 1st place, 100 free 2nd place, 50 breast 3rd place, 500 free 2nd place
Caitlin Orr: Female 13-18 1650 free 4th place, 400 IM 4th place, 200 back 1st place, 200 IM 5th place
Evelyn Stein: Female 13-18 1650 free 1st place, 200 free 4th place
Kevin Taylor: Male 11/12 200 free 3rd place, 200 back 6th place
Lawrence Zhao: Male 11/12 100 IM 2nd place, 200 free 2nd place, 50 fly 8th place
Male 11/12 200 Medley 2nd place: Jonny Liu, Jonathan Ni, Trevor DeGroot & Kevin Taylor
Male 11/12 200 Free 5th place: Kevin Taylor, Jonny Liu, Trevor DeGroot & Ethan Bezzina
Congratulations to all BAC swimmers on a job well done!!
The 12 & Under State Meet was held March 11-13, 2011 in Zeeland. State swimmers included:
Ethan Bezzina, Andrew Connor, Trevor DeGroot, Mel Dunnuck, Jonny Liu, Nicholas Mouaikel, Gerard Niermann, Kera Sells, Kevin Taylor, Matthew Weiner, Jimmy Xue and Lawrence Zhao.
Top 16 finishes include:
Andrew Connor: Male 11/12 200 breast 4th place, 100 IM 14th place, 50 fly 16th place, 100 breast 4th place, 50 breast 4th place
Mel Dunnuck: Female 11/12 200 breast 9th place, 500 free 14th place, 100 breast 12th place
Gerard Niermann: Male 11/12 200 breast 8th place, 100 breast 13th place, 200 IM 15th place
Kera Sells: Female 11/12 100 IM 11th place, 50 fly 16th place, 200 IM 13th place, 100 free 15th place, 100 fly 15th place
Jimmy Xue: Male 11/12 100 IM 2nd place, 500 free 2nd place, 200 free 2nd place, 200 IM 2nd place, 100 free 2nd place, 400 IM 2nd place
Male 11/12 200 Free 3rd place: Gerard Niermann, Andrew Connor, Lawrence Zhao & Jimmy Xue
Male 11/12 200 Medley 4th place: Lawrence Zhao, Andrew Connor, Jimmy Xue, Gerard Niermann - NEW BAC Record!
Mel Dunnuck tied for 43rd and Kera Sells tied for 46th out of 71 female 11/12 swimmers that scored points at this meet.
Jimmy Xue placed 5th, Andrew Connor placed 24th and Gerard Niermann tied for 37th out of 68 male 11/12 swimmers that scored points at this meet.
Congratulations to the following swimmers for qualifying for the "next level" of swim meets:
Andrew Connor: 14 & Under Zone Meet 200 breast, 100 breast, 50 breast
Mel Dunnuck: 14 & Under Zone Meet 200 breast, 100 breast
Kera Sells: 14 & Under Zone Meet 50 fly, 200 IM, 100 fly
Jimmy Xue: 14 & Under Zone Meet 500 free, 200 free, 200 IM, 100 free
Congratulations to all of our BAC state
swimmers!
The 13 & Over State Meet was held the weekend of March 18 - 20, 2011 in Ypsilanti. State Swimmers included:
Sam Boyea, Jacque Carless, Patrick Chen, Shaelyn Dolinski, Kaylee Dolinski, Leah Erlandson, Chris Geng, Savannah Hatt, Austin Hunt, Sarah Lohman, Shannon Lohman, Spencer Miller, Caitlin Orr, Nam-Jun Park, Ashley Reed, Evelyn Stein, Danny Teng and Halie Zulch.
Top 16 finishes include:
Jacque Carless: Female Open 1650 free 9th place
Shannon Lohman: Female Open 100 fly 12th place, 200 fly 14th place
Evelyn Stein: Female Open 1650 free 11th place
Danny Teng: Male 13/14 200 back 11th place
Female Open 400 Free 11th place: Leah Erlandson, Savannah Hatt, Ashley Reed, Kaylee Dolinski
Female Open 400 Medley 15th place: Jacque Carless, Kaylee Dolinski, Shaelyn Dolinski, Leah Erlandson
Jacque Carless tied for 63rd, Shannon Lohman tied for 65th & Evelyn Stein tied for 68th out of 91 female open swimmers that scored points at this meet
Danny Teng tied for 53rd out of 63 male 13/14 swimmers that scored points at this meet.
Congratulations to the following swimmers for qualifying for the "next level" of swim meets:
Shannon Lohman: Summer Sectional 100 Fly (Bonus times: 100 back, 200 fly)
Congratulations to all of our BAC state swimmers!
2010 Central Zone Section 3 Championship
The Central Zone Section 3 Championship meet was held March 24 - March 27, 2011 in Indianapolis, IN. BAC was proud to send Savannah Hatt and Kaylee Dolinski to the meet. Personal bests are indicated by *
Their finishes were:
Kaylee Dolinski:
800 free* 27th out of 81
200 free* 46th out of 191
400 free* 28th out of 125
200 IM* 73rd out of 153
Savannah Hatt:
200 free 45th out of 191
400 IM 37th out of 84
400 free* 18th out of 125
200 IM* 58th out of 153
Congratulations to our individual short course record breakers Andrew Connor & Jimmy Xue for setting new BAC records in the male 11/12 category.
Congratulations to the relay of: Lawrence Zhao, Andrew Connor, Jimmy Xue, Gerard Niermann for breaking the BAC record set by: MacDonald, M. Winter, P. Peterson, R Dreary of 1:58.70 (approx. 1973) by swimming 1:58.41 at the 12 & Under Short Course State Meet.
Andrew holds the record in:
200 breast: 2:33.39 (broke the 2011 record of 2:33.40 by J. Xue)
Jimmy holds the records in:
100 free: 53.29 (broke the 1982 record of 54.25 set by J. Kovach)
200 free: 1:55.35 (broke the 1984 record of 1:56.55 set by J. Cohen)
50 back: 29.28 (broke the 1982 record of 29.74 set by J. Kovach)
100 IM: 59.93 (broke the 1984 record of 1:01.52 set by J. Cohen)
200 IM: 2:10.09 (broke the 1984 record of 2:10.80 set by J. Cohen)
400 IM: 4:40.20 (broke the 2006 record of 4:40.54 set by A. Jensen)
Jimmy broke this record:
200 breast: 2:33.40 (broke the 2006 record of 2:36.51 set by A. Jensen)