Richmond Rapids FastMeet Report

By Anchie Xu

On December 13-15, 2019, Richmond Rapids hosted the FastMeet at Watermania pool. We had 23 swimmers from Elite A/B, and Age A participated in this meet. This is the semi-peak swim meet of the first training cycle. Our team did a fantastic job by achieved 96 best times, and qualified 18 new Age group and Provincial standards. We are excited to bring back 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze, and 23 top 8’s. Also, We made nine new club records at this meet! Well done, Gators!

Highlights of the Fast Meet:

Gold medals: Nathan Li - 50 breast

                       Carson Wong - 50 fly

                       Carson Wong – 100fly

                       12 & under girls 4x50 free relay: Nathalie Ng, Kaylee Hoang, Rachel Ronque, Leta Rainer

Silver medals: Leta Rainer – 50 free

                         Leta Rainer – 100free

                         Carson Wong – 100 free

Bronze medals: Carson Wong – 200 IM

                            Carson Wong – 50 free

                            Elsa Sun – 200 breast

                            Boys 4x50 free relay: Carson Wong, Charles Chang, Tommy Chung, Nathan Li

4th Place: Rachel Ronque 200fly; Charles Chang 200fly, 200 back; Kaylee Hoang 200back; Elsa Sun 50fly

5^th Place: Nathalie Ng 100back; Kaylee Hoang 100breast; Elsa Sun 100breast

6^th Place: Tommy Chung 100back, 50back; Nathan Li 100breast; Kaylee Hoang 200back; Jenny Xu 200 back

7^th Place: Carson Wong 50 breast; Charles Chang 100 back; Jack Li 100free; Rachel Ronque100fly; Leta Rainer 200free; Tommy Chung 50free

8^th Place: Rachel Ronque 200IM; Nathan Li 50fly, 200 Breast, Bryan Startup 400IM

New qualified events:

Age group championship qualified events:

Kaylee Hoang: 50free

Nathalie Ng: 50free

Leta Rainer: 100breast

Kieu-vy Nguyen: 200IM

Helen Shen: 200back, 200IM, 50free

Melissa Zeng: 200breast, 200fly, 100breast,

Provincial championship qualifed events:

Charles Chang: 50 free, 100back

Elsa Sun: 200breast

Carson Wong: 100free

Tommy Chung: 100free

Jack Li: 100free

Bryan Startup: 200back, 400IM

New Club records:

Carson Wong 16 years boys 50 free 24.55

Carson Wong 16 years boys and Open Age boys 100 free 53.46

Carson Wong 16 years boys and Open Age boys 50 fly 25.69

Carson Wong 16 years boys and Open Age boys 100fly 58.04

Carson Wong 16 years boys and Open Age boys 50 back 29.34

Elsa Sun 16 years girls 50 breast 36.12

Elsa Sun 16 years girls 100 breast 1:18.72

Elsa Sun 16 years girls 200 breast 2:50.17

Open Age Boys 4x50m freestyle relay 1:41.42 - Carson Wong, Charles Chang, Tommy Chung, Nathan Li