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Zone Qualifier entries posted Feb-4 - entries close Feb-6
 
February 2, 2012
Eastern US IM-Xtreme Games in Washington DC Top Finishers Alec Huner (10th), Steven Zhao (11th), Brittany Coughlin (8th) Meet results Individual results 22 swimmers and their families and coaches Kerry and Peter traveled to the Silver Springs neighborhood of Washingtopn DC for the 2nd annual Eastern US IM-Xtreme Games. Almost 600 swimmers ages 11 to 14 from all over the eastern US competed at this 3-day meet. A 1,500 IMX score in this or the previous season was needed to qualify for this meet. About half the swim families drove up on Thursday, the rest on Friday morning. The 11-12s swam the 500 free on Friday eve, the 100 fly and 100 breast on Saturday morning, and the 100 back and 200 IM on Sunday morning. The 13-14s swam the 500 free on Friday eve, the 200 fly, 200 IM, and 200 breast on Saturday morning, and the 200 back and 400 IM on Sunday morning. The meet was scored by IMX points. The Top-16 IMX scores of boys and girls for each age (not age group) received a nice plaque. TVSC had three Top-16 finishers: 10th Alec Huner (11), 11th Steven Zhao (12), and 8th Brittany Coughlin (13). Most of the younger swimmers were on the road home before 11 AM on Sunday, while the rest of us made it home between 6 and 7 PM that day. No swimming on Saturday afternoon and evening. Some took it easy the rest of the day, while others enjoyed the spring-like weather and went sightseeing at the Washington DC Mall. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was the most popular destination. Our swimmers swam well, especially the first two days. The swimmers who did too much sightseeing on Saturday, were tired the third day -- all part of learning. Alec swam all best times and bettered his IMX score by 337 points to 3,126! Brittany bettered her score by 293 points to 3,595. Andrew Stange, who turned 13 on 2nd day of meet but still could compete as a 12-year old, bettered his score by 150 points to $2,792. 5 of 6 best times: Rita Chen. 4 of 5: Haley Adams. Alec, Cameron Kubik, Naomi Park, and Alexa Stanco broke 6 min barrier in 500 free for first time. It was a fun travel meet and TVSC will attend again next year. Qualify now by getting a IMX score of 1,500 points or more! Thank you TVSC Board members for running another great home meet and thank you TVSC parents for helping out. Our swimmers like to compete in the Ward Melville HS pool and just about every TVSC swimmer (211) participated in our home meet. The number of "splashes" was 1,369 (= number of swims by TVSC swimmers). This was the second or third meet for our newest Novice swimmers, the ones who started to swim with TVSC this past fall. There still were some DQs (all part of learning), but all our "rookies" did well and are quickly learning what competitive swimming is all about. 20 New JO cuts, 62 new Silver cuts, and 16 new Zone Qual cuts. 60% of all races were best times. The Novice and Junior 1 swimmers swam the highest percentage of best times, while the 'A+' level swimmers had, as expected, fewer best times, often only in their "off" events. This is all normal. We want the 'A+' athletes to do best times at Zone Quals, JOs, Sr Mets, Sectionals, and/or Jr Nationals this spring. The Joust was already the last "qualifying" meet of the short course season. Swimmers who qualified for Silvers, can still qualify for JOs later that month. Some Meet High Lights All Best Times: Amanda Sarubbi, Nicholas Bogush, Ryan Burke, Matthew Chan, Kasidy Chirico, Luke Damenti, Alec Huner, Annie Loscalzo, Kanon Mata, Katie McCabe, Meaghan McNair, Charles Shemet, Riley Gavigan, Noah Giunta, Robert Kohlus, Kelcie McAdam, Kyra Sommerstad, Ryan Daly, Jordan Kipnes, Deirdre Lynch, Rosalinda Romero, and Elizabeth Wang. New 'AAAA' time: Jason Louser (200 IM). New 'AAA' times: Brittany Coughlin (200 breast, 400 IM), Jason Louser (50 back), Ethan McCormac (50 free), Chris O'Shea (200 IM), and Andrew Stange (400 IM, 100 free, 200 IM). New 'AA' times: Phoebe McAuliffe (500 free), Henry Shemet (200 IM), Cassandra Willie (500 free), Steven Zhao (200 back), Emily Bardak (100 free), Rachael Bertini (500 free), Ryan Burke (200 fly), Dylan Champagne (100 breast), and Matt Darcy (100 free). New Zone Qual Cuts: Alec Huner (200 fly, 200 breast), Emily Anderson (200 & 400 IM), Emily Bardak (500 free), Ryan Burke (200 back), Naomi Park (200 back), Brittany Coughlin (100 back), James DiStasio (200 breast), Henry Shemet (200 free, 100 fly), and Andrew Stange (200 breast). New JO Cuts: Emily Anderson (200 back), Emily Bardak (100 free), Nick Bogush (200 back), Alyssa Bonneville (200 breast), Ryan Burke (100 back), Matt Chan (100 free), Rita Chen (400 IM), Brittany Coughlin (200 fly), James DiStasio (200 back), Rachael DoTolla (100 fly), Riley Gavigan (50 back), Cameron Kubik (50 fly), Noah Mond (50 free, 100 back), Naomi Park (200 breast), Peter Sanders (200 back), and Luka Zuric (500 free). New 'A' times for Novices and Juniors (we expect Seniors to have 'A+' times in their best events): Cameron Kubik (50 free, 50 fly), Ethan McCormac (50 fly), Noah Mond (50 free, 100 back), Naomi Park (200 breast), Peter Sanders (50 & 100 free, 200 back), Katie Wang (200 breast), Steven Zhao (200 breast), Luka Zuric (100 & 500 free, 100 back), Emily Bardak (50 free), Brittany Coughlin (100 fly), James DiStasio (400 IM, 200 back), Riley Gavigan (50 back), and Natalia Giunta (200 back) New Silver Cuts for Junior 1 and Novices (we expect Junior 2s and Seniors to have most of their Silver cuts): Luka Zuric (100 breast), AJ Bances (100 back), Will Bradshaw (50 breast), James Catterson (200 IM), Matthew Chen (200 free), Kassidy Chirico (50 & 100 free), Matthew Chirico (500 free), Brendon Coughlin (100 back), John Dillon (50 & 100 free, 50 fly), Garcia Faith (100 back), Riley Gavigan (50 free), Sydney Judson (50, 500 free), Kelly Neoklis (50 free), Robert Kohlus (100 back), Kyly Kramer (50 free, 50 back), Deirdre Lynch (100 fly), Kelcie McAdam (50 back), Katie McCabe (50 free), Noah Mond (100 IM), Bethany Ostrander (100 free, 100 fly), Lukas Parbst (50 fly, 500 free), Emma Pase (50 & 100 free), Luke Damenti (100 fly), Chester Pergan (50 breast), Cole Pergan (100 IM), Jimmy Ryan (50 free, 50 & 100 back), Shannon Ryan (50 breast), Peter Sanders (200 IM), Kyle Sommerstad (50 & 100 back), Georgina Stampelos (100 back, 50 fly), Jake Veccio (200 free), Sophia Vega (50 breast), Matt Vintis (100 breast), and Brendan Williams (50 free, 100 back). New 'BB' times for Junior 1 and Novices (we expect Junior 2s and Seniors to have 'BB+' times in most of their events): Sydney Judson (50 & 500 free), Kylie Kramer (50 & 100 free, 100 back), Kelcie McAdam (50 & 100 back), Katie NcCabe (50 & 100 free), Meagan McNair (50 free), Noah Mond (100 IM), Bethany Ostrander (100 back), Lukas Parbst (500 free), Emma Pase (50 & 100 & 500 free, 100 back), Cole Pergan (100 IM), Daniel Reyes (50 free), Rosalinda Romero (100 back), Jimmy Ryan (50 & 100 back), Shannon Ryan (50 & 100 free, 50 breast), Peter Sanders (100 breast, 200 IM), Kyra Sommerstad (100 free, 50 & 100 back), Gerogina Stampelos (50 fly), Jake Veccio (200 free), Brendan Williams (50 free), Luka Zuric (200 IM), Matthew Anderson (100 back), Matthew Chan (50 fly, 200 free), Kassidy Chirico (50 free), Matthew Chirico (50 & 100 & 500 free), Luke Damenti (100 free), John Dillon (50 & 100 free), and Riley Gavigan (50 free, 50 fly. Almost All Best Times: Chester Pergan, Emily Bardak, Laurence Caradonna, James Catterson, Brandon Coughlin, Brittany Coughlin, Brooks Fassett, Natalia Giunta, Jack Huner, Brittany Iamele, Sidney Judson, Eric Kilgore, Kylie Kramer, Peter Li, Christopher O'Shea, Emma Pase, Kyle Ress-liere, Peter Sanders, Andrew Stange, Nichole Visintin, Luka Zuric, Richard Chiarella, Michael Doboli, Victoria Grosskopf, Anna Libohova, Emma Libohova, Owen McCormac, Michael Muroff, Cole Pergan, Jacob Segal, Mary Fisher, Georgina Stampelos, Rita Chen, Charles Sun, Alyson Wertheim, Arthur Bances, Sydney Bernhardt, Dominique Betterbed, Donald Betterbed, Victoria Bogdanski, Declan Brown, Matthew Chirico, James DiStasio, Faith Garcia, Ryan Kaplan, Cameron Kubik, Karen Li, Allen Liu, Troy Lov, Alexander Metzger, Jason Minicozzi, Bethany Ostrander, Daniel Reyes, Jimmy Ryan, Shannon Ryan, Elijah Sanders, Allison Singer, Kate Sommerstad, Nikita Tcherevik, Matthew Vintis, Brendan Williams, Noah Mond, Naomi Park, Brett Adams, Hayley Adams, Christopher Babich, Frank Barbera, Nicole Bentz, Isabella Bogucki, Matthew Broadbent, Michael Carlin, Julia Cornell, John Dillon, Abigail Dimaculangan, Owen Gavigan, Kayleigh Makarick, Karsten Pergan, Victoria Poten, Sophia Sparacio, Emily Stoessel, Meaghan Stoessel, William Sun, Abigail Walker, Megan Walton, Isabel Xu, Justin Zhang, Kylie McCabe, Stephanie Alvarez, Alyssa Bonneville, Liam Brown, Kiersten Clancy, Casey Gavigan, Daniel Infranco, Adam Kalinousky, Neoklis Kelly, Morgan Knapp, Bryant Liu, Jason Louser, Ethan McCormac, Hannah Parbst, Patrick Robertson, Henry Shemet, Alexa Stanco, Sofia Vega, and Steven Zhao. First 200 fly: Alec Huner, Annie Loscalzo, Alex Metzger, and Andrew Stange (there should have been many more Junior 2s in this list . . . . )
January 16, 2012
Patriot's Winter's Frost Meet at Lehman College Phillip Scholz Breaks American Record in 100 Free and 100 back Individual results Meet results This past weekend 78 Swimmers took advantage of competing at the fast Lehman College pool (with warm-down pool), and a respectable 54% of 371 swims were best times. Senior Phillip Scholz broke two American records - 100 Free and 100 back - and received ovations for his remarkable accomplishments For the "veteran" swimmers this was a great practice meet to "hone" their racing skills, something you have to keep doing. If Michael Phelps would only compete once every four years at the US Olympic Team Trials Swimming, he would not have won 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In other words, to swim best times at champion meets, you need must learn to swim fast at "practice meets" when tired from training hard. The seniors, who went on the training trip to Florida were "hurting" at this meet. However, the hard work they did on this trip is "money in the bank" and the dividends will be paid out during the championship meets later this season. The goal for these swimmers at the TVSC Joust next weekend is to swim faster in same events than this meet. For example, if they swam two seconds above their best time in a 100 at this meet, the goal should be to swim 1 second above their best time. Of course, if a senior swimmer swam five seconds above their best time in a 100, they simply were not trying . . . For "rookie" swimmers this was a great low-key meet to learn to race at an "away" meet. Only to be able to swim best times at Ward Melville pool home meets is not very useful, as JOs, Zone Quals, Sr Mets meets will never be held at the Ward Melville pool. Some of the Meet High Lights All Best Times: Luke Damenti, Sidney Judson, Jordan Kipnes, Kasidy Chirico, Bethany Ostrander, and Andre Rastegar. New 'AAAA' Times: Dylan Champagne (500 free), and Nik Daly (500 free & 200 IM). New 'AAA' Times: Kevin Xu (500 free), and Jason Louser (200 free & 100 breast & 100 fly & 200 IM). New 'AA' Times: Ryan Burke (100 fly), and Nik Daly (50 back). Barrier Breaker: Elijah Sanders (100 free 57.56). Mostly Best Times: Karen Li, Peter Li, Allen Liu, Jason Louser, Troy Lov, Kanon Mata, Katie McCabe, Alexander Metzger, Emma Pase, Elijah Sanders, Peter Sanders, Ryan Burke, Emily Anderson, Arthur Bances, Declan Brown, Brandon Coughlin, Nik Daly, Devin Jackson, Destiny Marino, Nicholas Metzger, Patrick Robertson, Henry Shemet, Georgina Stampelos, Michael Carlin, Rachel Chan, Matthew Chirico, Riley Gavigan, Lukas Parbst, and Katie Wang. New 'A' Times: Andre Rastegar (200 fly), Hannah Parbst (200 back), Sidney Judson (200 IM), Devin Jackson (200 IM), Ryan Burke (200 IM & 200 back), and Emily Anderson (100 back).
The Sachem East pool deck was "flooded" with great swims last weekend. The Novice swimmers showed how much they have improved since September. We also had several first and second timers swimming in the meet, and all did well! Friday night was the distance events for the "veteran" Novice new Junior swimmers. It started off with Nicky Kelly swimming the 200 IM with the girls, because of a mix-up with the scratches. Then some first time counting lessons for our 500 swimmers / counters, and it was capped off with a team record breaking 500 free swim from Jason Louser. On Saturday we had many first time swims, best times, new meet cuts, stroke improvements, lots of cheering for teammates and everybody having tons of fun! The meet ended with a bang, as Christopher Stange finally achieved his Zone Qualifier cut in the 50 breast in the final time trial of the evening. After this awesome start of the second half of the short course season, the coaches can't wait to see how the Novice swimmers will perform at the TVSC Joust later this month. Some meet high lights All best times: Christopher Babich, Will Bradshaw, Anna Brun, Rachel Chan, Julia Condron, Keelyn Friberg, Robert Kohlus, Natalie LePore, Michael Muroff, Gianna Nasta, Shannon Ryan, Kyra Sommerstad, Sophia Sparacio, Charles Sun, Emily Valadez, Jake Vecchio, Sofia Vega, Jake Wertheim, Justin Zhang, and Xiaokang Zhou. New 'AAAA' time: (Junior) Jason Louser (500 free - also TVSC Team Record). New 'AA' time: Chester Pergan (100 back). New 'A' time: Christopher Stange (50 breast). New JO cuts: Noah Mond (100 back). New Silver Cuts: Rachel Chan (100 Free and 50 Breast), John Dillon (200 IM), Noah Mond (100 Back), Brendan Williams (100 Free). New 'BB' time: Will Bradshaw (50 Fly ), Rachel Chan (100 Free, 50 Fly, 50 Breast), John Dillon (200 IM, 100 back).
January 10, 2012
Future TVSC Champions Compete at Snowball Mini Meet in Long Beach Meet results Individual results Congratulations to our 8 & unders. We are so proud of them! They were so enthusiastic and energized when they jumped into the Long Beach pool during warm up. They started swimming with intensity, drive and yet so polite to each other. They were true champions! After warm up we had breakfast and boy what a buffet of healthy food we had! More food coming down from the stands - oops, sorry son didn't mean to hit you in the face with the pretzels! We had enough food for a famine! All of those big eyes looking up at us; nodding their heads, listening to every word and concentrating on what we say. Today is the day they have worked toward since September. The kids were so excited and happy! The very first heat is up. "Swimmers take your mark" beep ..... everyone is quiet, swimmers frozen. A couple of the swimmers now are standing looking around not sure what to do, others still in a diving stance not knowing what is going on but ... nobody dives in. Suddenly "SPLASH"! Now whistles are blowing, and the kids are confused. OK ... so, now the official realizes he needs to explain, who he is and how this is going to work. Let’s try this heat a second time! We had kids diving in losing goggles,but that didn't matter as they were trained to keep going and it showed. Beautiful butterfly, fast back strokers, underwater breast stroke, great flip turns. Are you supposed to stand up or touch the wall first? Only one missed event -- after being seeded for backstroke I hear "I don't feel good, I'm going to throw up", "What's a relay? Am I in it?" The smiles said it all ... it was a fun day!
January 8, 2012
88 "Die Hard" Athletes Finish the 11th Annual TVSC Mile Individual results Meet results Meet stats Collage of pics Athletes-in-training swimming their first mile are always afraid of "dying" during the race. It again did not happen. The TVSC Mile is a perfect 11 for 11 -- eleven years without any swimmers "dying" in the mile! While there were many "rookie" 500, 1,000 and 1,650 swimmers, the "veteran" TVSC Mile swimmers bettered their previous best times by a combined 5,949 seconds, or 99 minutes or almost 1 hour and 40 minutes! We saw a lot of great pacing / racing. The swimmers were well prepared and did not make too many mistakes in this distance event. The biggest racing error was starting out too fast. However, this is still better then starting out too slow. Learning how to race the mile is part of becoming a real athlete, and that is the reason we are doing the TVSC Mile once a year. Of course now you swam the mile, any other event is a mere sprint, even the 200 fly many will be swimming next weekend or at the TVSC Joust in two weeks, or at the IM-Xtreme meet the following weekend. Best Two Races of the Meet: (1) the mile between Haley and Natalia. These two girls "slugged it out" side-by-side for 66 laps, neither one giving up. They both sprinted to the finish and by eye tied the race! This is how you race the mile. Great job girls. (2) Due to chaotic start of the meet, we forgot to mention another great race: the 1,000 free between AJ Bances and Brandon Coughlin. They also swam side-by-side for 40 laps, neither giving up. They actually picked up the pace the second half of the race -- negative split the race. Brandon was able to sprint the last 25 the fastest and win the race by les than 0.5 sec. Great race boys! Best Times in 500, 1,000 and 1,650: Lara Sarrubbi, Matt Pozmanter, Alex Metzger, Dan Infranco, Casey Gavigan, Nik Daly, Dylan Champagne, and Julia Bogdanski. Improving by more then 2 minutes: Sara Caterson (264 seconds = 4 minutes 24 seconds!), Julia Bogdanski (174), Charlotte Broadbent (173), Matt Pozmanter (172), Naomi Park (169), Patrick Robertson (149), Chris O'Shea (144), Alyssa Bonneville (142), Alex Metzger (134), Emily Bardak (131), and Emily Shutowich (128). New 'AAA' time: Chris O'Shea, and Steven Zhao. New 'AA' time: Dylan Champagne (500 free), Casey Gavigan, Alec Huner, Zach Kaplan, Hanna Parbst, Nancy Shemet, and Andrew Stange
Greetings from from Sunny Florida
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