San Diego-Imperial Swimming

With the completion of the Junior Olympics Championships today, another long course season is “in the books”.  In a glorious day of age group swimming, SI swimmers rallied to crash a few more JO and SI swimming records, and showed tremendous team spirit and enthusiasm.  The meet was perfectly capped off by a thrilling dead heat tie for first place in the final heat of the meet between the 15-18 Boys 400 Free relay teams of Heartland Swim Association and College Area Swim Team.  New records were set by the following swimmers:

• JO record – Sarah Luibel of HSA in 15-18 Girls 200 Back
• JO record – Graham Smith of NCA in 15-18 Boys 200 Back
• SI and JO record (tie) – Brendan Santana of PS in 10&Under Boys 50 Back
• JO record – Rochelle Dong of RSD in 13-14 Girls 100 Free
• JO record – Brandon Crabtree of IVDA in 13-14 Boys 100 Free
• JO record  - Brendan Santana of PS in 10&Under Boys 50 Butterfly
• SI and JO record – Pacific Swim 11-12 Boys 200 Freestyle Relay
• SI and JO record – North Coast Aquatics 13-14 Girls 400 Freestyle Relay

Day 4 results are available here. Complete meet results, including a listing of all individual scores and team scores, are available on our Results page.

In the team competition, North Coast Aquatics claimed the overall team title with with 4422.5 points, followed by Pacific Swim with 3271, Heartland Swim Association with 2333, and Rancho San Dieguito with 2292.5.

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Although it was a beautiful day for swimming, the over 13 hours of almost non-stop action left most participants exhausted, longing for a cool drink and a soft bed.  However, for those who witnessed the spectacle, there were some awesome swims completed by SI swimmers.  9 new JO records and 5 new SI records were set, with some in spectacular fashion. New records were set by:

• SI and JO record – Scott Clausen of NCA in 13-14 Boys 400 IM
• SI and JO record – Rochelle Dong of RSD in 13-14 Girls 50 Free
• SI and JO record – Brandon Crabtree of IVDA in 13-14 Boys 50 Free
• JO record – Haley Ferrer of CAST in 15-18 Girls 50 Free
• JO record – Kelsey Kafka of NCA in 15-18 Girls 200 Breast
• SI and JO record – Brendan Santana of PS in 10&Under Boys 100 Back
• JO record – Rochelle Dong of RSD in 13-14 Girls 100 Back
• JO record – Scott Clausen of NCA in 13-14 Boys 400 Free
• SI and JO record – North Coast Aquatics in 13-14 Boys 400 Medley Relay

With any luck, the complete Day 3 results will be available here.

In the team competition after 3 days, North Coast Aquatics leads with 3114 points, followed by Pacific Swim with 2219, Heartland Swim Association with 1541, and Rancho San Dieguito with 1522.5.

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Over 600 San Diego-Imperial Swimmers filled the Coronado pool (and I mean filled – there were so many, they broke a lane line during warmups) starting at 7:00am and stroked their way to numerous personal bests and more than a few new JO and SI records during the first full day of heats and finals competition.  Swimmers competed in 32 individual events and 4 – 800 free relay events, and in the process set 9 new JO records and 3 new SI marks.  The record setting swims were:

• JO record: Scott Clausen of NCA – 13-14 Boys 1500M Freestyle
• JO record: Sherri McIntee of RSD – 13-14 Girls 100M Breaststroke
• JO record: Kelsey Kafka of NCA – 15-18 Girls 100M Breaststroke
• SI and JO record: Jason O’Brien of NCA – 13-14 Boys 200M Freestyle
• JO record: Trent Williams of SDAC – 15-18 Boys 200M Freestyle
• SI and JO record: Brendan Santana of PS – 10&Un Boys 100M Butterfly
• JO record: Michael Salazar of HSA – 11-12 Boys 100M Butterfly
• JO record: Rochelle Dong of RSD - 13-14 Girls 100M Butterfly
• SI and JO record: North Coast Aquatics 13-14 Boys – 800M Freestyle relay

Complete results and team scores from Day 2 are available.

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Now that the Far Westerns and CIF Championship meets have concluded, its the time of year to take stock of our collective accomplishments.  All of the SI age group individual and relay records have been updated as of May 24, 2010.  You can review the latest SCY records compilation here.

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North Coast Aquatics’ Kendyl Stewart set a new National Age Group record while swimming yesterday in the CIF Division I Swimming Championships at Coronado High School.  Kendyl set the new mark for 15-16 Girls in the 100 Y Butterfly at 52.43, shattering Olympian Katie Hoff’s previous record of 52.61 set back in 2005. Congratulations Kendyl!

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Almost 600 swimmers competed in an early-season long course meet, held 30 April-2 May 2010 in the ultrafast waters of the Brian Bent Memorial Aquatics Complex in Coronado. San Diego-Imperial swimmers crushed 4 standing SI long course records during the CNSA-hosted AB All Ages Meet, which is an extraordinary accomplishment for a mid-season non-championship meet.  Austin Nguyen from Pacific Swim established new marks in the 9-10 boys 100M backstroke (1:15.26) and 100M breaststroke (1:24.01).  Rochelle Dong from RSD set a new record in the 13-14 girls 50M freestyle (27.28), and Thomas Anderson, swimming unattached, posted a new standard in the 13-14 boys 100M backstroke (1:02.14).  Complete meet results have been posted in the usual spot.

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The 2010 Short Course Junior Olympics concluded yesterday at the Coronado BBMAC pool with enthusiastic crowds cheering on their swimmers, undeterred by the passing rain showers throughout the day.  SI age group swimmers combined to set 13 new Junior Olympic records (7 individual and 6 relay), of which 7 (1 individual and all 6 relays) were also fast enough to shatter the existing San Diego-Imperial Swimming LSC record. New records set on Sunday included:

• Austin Nguyen of Pacific Swim in the 10&Under Boys 50Y Back
• Rochelle Dong of Rancho San Dieguito in the 13-14 Girls 100Y Free
• * Pacific Swim in the 10&Under Boys 200Y Medley Relay
• * North Coast Aquatics in the 13-14 Girls 400Y Medley Relay

In the team competition, North Coast Aquatics was crowned the overall meet champion with 3512.5 points, followed by Pacific Swim with 2393.5 and Heartland Swim Association with 1922.5 points (there were quite a few ties in finals this year).  Individual High Point winners were:

• 10&Under Girls: Katelyn Thomas of Rancho San Dieguito
• 10&Under Boys: Austin Nguyen of Pacific Swim
• 11-12 Girls: Sarah Nowaski of College Area Swim Team
• 11-12 Boys: Michael Nathanson of Pacific Swim
• 13-14 Girls: Ariel Jordan of North Coast Aquatics
• 13-14 Boys (tie): Jason O’Brien of North Coast Aquatics and Tommy Anderson of College Area Swim Team

Day 3 event results, and final team and individual scores are available at the links below, and complete JO results are available on our Results page.

• Day 3 Results (Events 49-88)
• Team Scores
• Individual Scores

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Local swimmer Mike DeMarco, representing the Wave House San Diego Swim Team, set 4 new American records for disabled swimmers at last week’s HSA 12 & Over No Time Standard meet in El Cajon. In the SB2 disability class, Mike set new records for the 50Y breast (54.85) and 100Y breast (2:04.85). In the S3 disability class, Mike set new records for the 100Y free (1:55.20) and 50Y back (56.42). Congratulations Mike!

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San Diego-Imperial Swimming has compiled the Top 10 individual and relay short course and long course times achieved by SI swimmers from the 2008-2009 swim year: from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009. Go to our new Top Times page to see the reports.

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