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Making Waves Santa Clara Swim Club August 2009 “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF” Making Waves FROM THE POOL DECK by Head Coach John Bitter What a summer Championship meet season the club just completed! Before I go into further detail I just want to congratulate all of our swimmers for their excellent efforts and thank all of the coaching staff and our parents who spent numerous hours on the pool deck these past several weeks supporting all of our swimming members as they pursued their individual bests. The Championship season began with the Western Sectional meet held in Clovis, California, July 22-26. There were 34 swimmers from the National and Senior Gold groups who competed in this meet that had clubs from Southern California, Central California, Pacific Swimming, Sierra Nevada participating. The meet started with a bang the first day with three senior swimmers getting their first US Open cuts in the 800 Free (Jackson Partin, Kevin Owens, and Sam Shimomura) and SCSC finishing 1, 2, and 3 in the event. This rousing start propelled the team to a first place finish among all teams in competition. Due to the excellent performances of the swimmers and the great support of coaches Dave Meck and Brie Marhenke, I was named Coach of the Meet by the other coaches in attendance. I want to thank everyone for this, as this honor is not just an individual award it belongs to the team. Besides the excellent start to the event, many other swimmers achieved new cuts for the end of the season meets. Charlotte Ruby: Junior National cut in the 200 Fly and 400 IM Jackson Partin: US Open cut in the 1500 and Junior National cut in the 400 Free Sam Shimomura: Junior National cut in the 400 Free Kevin Owens: Junior National cut in the 1500 Free Also Courtney Monsees set new SCSC Senior Long Course Team Records in the 100 Free with a time of 55.71 and in the 200 IM, with a time of 2:17.09. Following this meet many of our swimmers went on to Far Western Championships held at Independence High School, July29-August 2. The team finished third behind PASA and Pleasanton. At this meet the following swimmers competed in finals for SCSC: 10-Unders: Sophie Zhou-Krivokapic Women’s 200 Medley Relay (Sophie Zhou-Krivokapic, Thea Lawler, Vivian Qian, Winnie Zhao) Women’s 200 Free Relay (Sophie Zhou-Krivokapic, Raime Jones, Thea Lawler, Winnie Zhao) Men’s 200 Medley Relay (Nathan Yates, David McKenna, Daniel Blake, Chris Grey) Page 2 Making Waves FROM THE POOL DECK (continued) 11-12: Iris Brand Jared Yongyuth Marzuq Khan Women’s 200 Medley and Free Relay (Anika Mohindra, Iris Brand, Rahel Pelikan-Dean, Ulyana Tkachenko) Men’s 200 Medley Relay (David Ren, Lawrence Tao, Brandon Ngo, Marzuq Khan) Men’s 400 Medley Relay (Samuel Blake, Marzuq Khan, David Ren, Jared Yongyuth) Men’s 200 Free Relay (Jared Yongyuth, Samuel Blake, Brandon Ngo, Lawrence Tao) Men’s 400 Free Relay (Jared Yongyuth, Samuel Blake, Marzuq Khan, Lawrence Tao) 13-14: Helen Tang (won 200 Free) Dorothy Ren Annalee Akin Kristin Brand Matthew Webster Keltan Lawler Ian Burns Sky Calleja-Harris Women’s 200 and 400 Medley Relay (Katie Siegel, Helen Tang, Annalee Akin, Dorothy Ren) Women’s 200, 400, and 800 Free Relays (Kristen Brand, Helen Tang, Dorothy Ren, Katie Siegel) Men’s 200 Medley Relay (Matt Webster, Osker Lu, Ian Burns, Keltan Lawler) Men’s 400 Medley Relay (Matthew Webster, Timothy Kuo, Ian Burns, Keltan Lawler) Men’s 200 Free Relay (Jeffrey Chen, Keltan Lawler, Ian Burns, Matthew Webster) Men’s 800 Free Relay (Ian Burns, Matthew Webster, Keltan Lawler, Osker Lu) *The Women’s 800 Free Relay won and the Women’s 400 Free Relay set a new Pacific Swimming record for their age group 15-16: Abby Blake Haley Oosterhouse Natalie Garland Charlotte Ruby Haley Smith Kevin Owens (won 400 Free, new Junior National cut) Michael Nunan (won 200 Free) Mike London (won 100 Free) 17-18: Lauren Opatrny Morgan Lee Jake Lehman Eric Owens Lajos Pelikan Page 3 Making Waves FROM THE POOL DECK (continued) Emily Tomkins (made finals in 200 Fly and 800 Free) Sean Fronzcak Maddie Takaki (won 200 Fly) 15-18 Relays: Women’s 200 Medley Relay (Lauren Opatrny, Natalie Garland, Charlotte Ruby, Helena Gali) Women’s 400 Medley Relay (Lauren Opatrny, Morgan Lee, Charlotte Ruby, Natalie Garland) Women’s 200 and 400 Free Relay (Lauren Opatrny, Natalie Garland, Charlotte Ruby, Helena Gali) Women’s 800 Free Relays (Helena Gali, Charlotte Ruby, Haley Oosterhouse, Natalie Garland) Men’s 200 Medley Relay (Eric Owens, Jeff Peters, Jake Lehman, Mike London) Men’s 400 Medley Relay (Sean Fronzcak, Gideon Hou, Michael Nunan, Sam Shimomura; Kevin Owens, Jeff Peters, Mike London, Daniel Tan) Men’s 200 Free Relay (Mike London, Sam Shimomura, Kivanc Karagulle, Daniel Tan) Men’s 400 Free Relay (Sam Shimomura, Jake Lehman, Mike London, Daniel Tan; Jeff Peters, Christian Vu, Kevin Owens, Eric Owens) Men’s 800 Free Relay (Jeff Peters, Mike London, Kevin Owens, Michael Nunan ((won)) Eric Owens, Bobby Wen, Kivanc Karagulle, Christian Vu) Congratulations to all the SCSC swimmers who competed and contributed to the team’s overall finish. The next meet on the schedule was the US Open held in Seattle, Washington August 4-8. Seven swimmers from SCSC competed in this meet and the team finished in the top 25 nationally. Courtney Monsees placed seventh in the 100 Free and set a new team record in the 200 IM with a time of 2:15.17. Ryan Hinshaw finished fifth in the 800 Free with a new team record of 8:05.82 and also finished 12th in the 1500 Free and 14th in the 400 Free with times of 15:40 and 3:55 respectively. The Men’s 400 Free Relay finished 16th and consisted of Jonny Muir, Brandon Shilling, Robert Bogart, and Danny Wall. The following week 15 swimmers from SCSC competed at the USA Junior Nationals also held in Seattle, Washington August 10-14. The men’s team finished 3rd amongst all teams competing. Among the notable th th swims were Jackson Partin who finished 12 in the 1500 and 8 in the 800 Free, Brandon Shilling who finished 7th in the 200 IM and set a new team record for 18-unders in the 100 Free with a time of 51.89 and Mark Liu who finished 10th in the 100 Breast with a new team record for 18-unders with a time of 1:04.48. The Men’s relays finished 8th in the 400 Free Relay (Brandon Shilling, Ian Burns, Sam Shimomura, Julius Espiritu), 3rd in the 800 Free Relay (Jackson Partin, Sam Shimomura, Ian Burns, Brandon Shilling), and 2nd in the 400 Medley Relay with a new Pacific Record time of 3:50.1 (Brandon Shilling, Mark Liu, Matt Hurko, Julius Espiritu) Besides these meets we also had several of our swimmers represent Pacific Swimming at either the North American Cup Challenge or Western Zones. Representing Santa Clara Swim Club at the North American Cup Challenge, were Mike London, Helen Tang, Dorothy Ren, Matthew Webster, Keltan Lawler, and Sean Fronzcak; and at Western Zones by Sophie Zhou-Krivokapic. As you can tell we had an extremely busy, but also extremely successful Championship meet season for the club. Finishing 1st at Sectionals, 3rd at Far Western Champs, and 3rd on the Men’s side at Junior Nationals, along with a 51st place finish in the Virtual Club Championships run through USA Swimming. For comparison, last long course season the club finished 79th. All of these results demonstrate the hard work everyone within the program has put in this past year, but it also establishes new benchmark for the coming Page 4 Making Waves FROM THE POOL DECK (continued) year. As we say “goodbye” to an excellent swimming campaign we now must look forward and set new goals and establish new benchmarks for the club. The success of the past year is something we should all be proud of and enjoy for the moment, but as we return to school and return to the pool in the coming weeks, a new season is upon us and some new rules in terms of suits allowed will be in force. What we did this past year is awesome, but it is also a building point for what we can do in the future if we continue to build upon the past and set bigger goals for the future. I want to thank all of my coaches for making much of this happen, to the parents who allowed us the chance, and to the swimmers who did not pass up any opportunity given to them to strive to believe in what they can do. I look forward to the next chapter that will be written by the swimmers who will walk through that gate and allow for their dreams to become reality, if they but take the chance. As a reminder, Stroke Clinic begins Tuesday, September 8th with the 13 and overs coming in at 3:30, the 8 and unders from 5 to 6 pm and the 9-12 from 5:30 to 7 pm. This is our time to reevaluate the groups, the swimmers, reinforce the stroke principles that we hold true and to slowly build to full workouts the last week of September. Stroke Clinic is not about groups and how many yards we do each day, it is about getting ready for the long season ahead. There will be some changes in coaching assignments for next year and we are in the process of adding a few new coaches to the staff and when both of these items are finalized we will get this information out to the membership.
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