2023 USA-Swimming North-East IMX Games - University of Maryland - January 27-29

10 & Unders Kaylee, Sadie, Charles and Luke

This is always a great meet, and next season we want more swimmers qualify and participate!

After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, 27 9-to-14 year old Junior and Senior swimmers, their parents and coaches Rita, Dan, Jay and Peter traveled to College Park in Maryland this past weekend for the 11th IMX Games. 

Our athletes raced 153 times and swam 115 best times -- 75%.

Total time improvement 706 seconds, or more than 11 minutes.

New time standards: 2 'AAAA' times, 2 'AAA' times, 17 'AA' times, 19 'A' times, and 14 'BB' times.

New qualification times: 2 NCSA cuts, 1 Sectional cut, 6 Eastern Zone Age Group Champs cuts, 17 Age Group Champs cuts, and 20 Silver cuts.

Meet IMX Scores    Meet Results    Team Scores

 

More Highlights

 

Trevor Green had an unbelievable meet!  He broke four 13-14 Team Records we thought would never be broken again.  He crushed Jason Louser's 2016 500 free record by 5 seconds: 4:33.3.  He broke his own 200 back record from last December by 1/4 second.  He broke the 2006 200 fly team record of butterflyler Tom Luchsinger by 1 second: 1:53.3. He broke Jason Louser's 2015 200 IM record 0.9 seconds: 1:54.3.  And he swam a 4:00.9 in the 400 IM that would have broken Jason Louser record by 5 seconds, but . . . . the officials disqualified Trevor for a false strart.

Brendan Miller broke a 1999 (24 year old) 11-12 team record in 100 back held by Shaun Armstrong by 0.06 sec - 57.68. 

Congrats both!

 

We don't tell you who did this, but just to remind you that you don't slow down when the lap counter moves the lap counter side-to-side . . . .

 

New All-Time Top-25 Times:

Brendan Miller (5), Trevor Green (5), Meghan Brady (4), Sadie Wiedersum (3), Kaylee Vargas (2), Scarlett Wigington (2), Luke Laidlaw, Rayna Mossey, and Colin Stueber.

 

New 'AAAA' standards:

Brendan Miller, and Trevor Green.

 

All Best Times:

Ayush Mojumdar, Brendan Miller, Rayna Mossey, Kaylee Vargas, and Scarlett Wigington.

 

New 'AAA' standards: Brendan Miller, and Colin Stueber.

 

New Eastern Zone Age Group Champs Cuts:

Kaylee Vargas, Scarlett Wigington, Meghan Brady (3), and Sadie Wiedersum.

 

New 'AA' standards:

Rayna Mossey, Kaylee Vargas, Scarlett Wigin (2), Bora Karaosmanoglu (2), Liam O'Sullivan-Ulrich, Chelsie Zhao (3), Julianna Fratticci Cseri, Meghan Brady (4), Sadie Wiedersum (2).

 

New AGC Cuts:

Rayna Mossey (2), Kaylee Vargas (2), Scarlett Wiginginton (2), Liam O'Sullivan-Ulrich, Colin Stueber, Chelsie Zhao, Charles Antonetti (2), Luke Laidlaw (3), Meghan Brady, and Sadie Wiedersum (2).

 

Mostly Best Times:

Kennedy Green, Trevor Green, Bora Karaosmanoglu, Kallie Micena, Tess Micena, Liam O'Sullivan-Ulrich, Morgan Primak, Colin Stueber, Dasha Zakharova, Chelsie Zhao, Charles Antonetti, Julianna Fratticci Cseri, Luke Laidlaw, Meghan Brady, Kevin Duong, Elizabeth Wright, and Sadie Wiedersum.

 

New 'A' standards:

Ayush Mojumdar (2), Rayna Mossey, Kaylee Vargas, Scarlett Wigin, Kallie Micena, Tess Micena, Liam O'Sullivan-Ulrich (2), Morgan Primak, Colin Stueber, Dasha Zakharova (2), Julianna Fratticci Cseri, Luke Laidlaw (2), Kevin Duong, Sadie Wiede, and Joe Monahan. New Silver Cuts: Ayush Mojumdar, Kennedy Green (2), Tess Micena (2), Liam O'Sullivan-Ulrich (2), Morgan Primak (4), Colin Stueber, Dasha Zakharova (2), Chelsie Zhao, Charles Antonetti, Julianna Fratticci Cseri, Kevin Duong, Elizabeth Wright, and Kate Gironda.

 

New 'BB' standards:

Kennedy Green, Bora Karaosmanoglu, Tess Micena (3), Liam O'Sullivan-Ulrich, Morgan Primak, Colin Stueber, Charles Antonetti, Kevin Duong, Elizabeth Wright, Jackie Vinciguerra, Ula Weng, and Kate Gironda.

 

 

The aquatic center in the 400,000 square feet Eppley Recreation Center is one of the nicest on the East-Coast. I

Coach Chris is an U of Maryland alumnus and competed for the Terrapins college team.  

The meet is scored by Power Points per age (not by age group).  The power points achieved for each of the five or six events are added together, and the 16 male and female athletes for each age with the highest number of points get awards at the end of the meet.

 

History of IMX Games

USA-Swimming introduced the first IM-Xtreme Games in the 2010-2011 season to promote competing in the longer and more difficult events.  TVSC started competing the second North-East IMX Games 12 years ago in 2012 at the Tacoma Aquatic Center in Wahsington DC.

In that first IMX meet for TVSC, Coach Rita finished in 26th place for 13-year old girls with 2948 points (5:42, 2:20, 2:52, 2:38, 2:23, 5:03 - all best times).

TVSC alumni competing in the 2012 meet were: 11-year olds Luka Zuric, Cameron Kubic, and Charlie Shemet, 12-year olds Chris O'Shea and Andrew Stange, 13-year olds Brittany Coughlin (assitant women's swim coach SBU) and Coach Rita Chen. 

The results of this first meet and the other 9 are still availble:  Eastern Zone Swimming - Meets Archive.