As
I sat on the porch of our bed & breakfast overlooking the clouds
rolling over the mountains in Costa Rica it gave me some time to reflect
on our summer and how we did as a team. I thought the best word to
describe us was “balanced”. It was the perfect picture, with great
swimmers in each of the age groups guiding us through the 5 dual meets,
the relay meet and championship meet with victories. But bigger than
that was how we accomplished this great feat – it was the balance of fun
and hard work.
Another part of the “balance” that keeps me smiling is how our 14 and up
swimmers really have taken ownership of being the “role models” for our
younger swimmers. So many help out with teaching the younger swimmers
in their practices and also helping at swim meets. It has really made
the difference in the development of our swimmers and program over the
years.
In our club’s history, we have only been able to “Triple Crown” (taking
first in all the meets) 2 times. With a lot of hard work and dedication,
we were able to add to that total this summer and proudly display all 3
“Triple Crown” trophies in the swim office reminding us of those
special seasons.
There were 11 NEW RECORDS broken this year.
Guy Zamir
(age 6) broke the club’s 17-year old freestyle and butterfly records
held by Kevin Winkler with a time of 17.06 beating 17.28, and 20.66
beating 20.89.
Claire Lin
(age 10) broke a record in backstroke with 16.09, held by Dana Saign
& Carly Reid at 16.21. She also broke Hanna Lippe’s 14.35 - 25
butterfly record, with an outstanding time of 14.06.
Sky Yramategui
(age 12) broke Brooke Winkler’s 16 year old breaststroke record of
32.94 to a jaw dropping 32.53 missing the all time PSA record by .03.
Ben Ho (age
12) broke our club record of 21 years from Peter Osborne in the 50
butterfly 28.39 beating 28.84. He broke both of James Balassone’s free
& backstroke records beating the 26.01 to a crazy 24.59 and the
30.94 to 28.08. He broke both the free and backstoke ALL TIME records as
well as the championship meet records.
Carly Reid
(age 14) broke her own freestyle record and the all time Championship
meet record with a time of 24.45 beating last year’s time of 25.62.
Jessie Ho
(age 15) broke the club’s oldest record of 22 years in freestyle held
by Jenna Whitman. Her time was 24.84 breaking the oldest record of
25.72.
Scott Stephens
broke the 50 back record set by Matthew Prior at 26.32 to a new 25.73
and the 100 IM record set by Peter Osborne at 56.24 to a new record time
of 56.10.
We
broke the Championship Meet mixed medley relay record set in 2005 by
University Club. Ben Ho swam backstroke, Sky Yramategui swam breast,
Claire Lin swam fly, and Ian McColl swam free. This beats UC’s 5 year
old record by .33!
Summer Swim Team