Swimmers from the Canyons Gold group up to the Senior Blue group attended the Winter Age Group Championships at Cerritos and went toe to toe with the best swim programs from Orange County and beyond.  Finishing 3^rd in the men’s, women’s and overall categories, the meet was a huge success for Canyons with numerous personal records and two age group relay records broken.

Kyle Burke earned his way to next week’s sectional championships off his 15 & older silver medal 100 breast stroke time of 1:01.03 as did Emma Osowski who finished with twin golds taking the 13-14 1000 and 1650 and earning two sectional cuts.  Emma joins Canyons growing list of impact distance swimmers.  Augustina Hansen snuck under the 200IM sectional qualifying time as she finished 4th with a 2:13.49 earning her sectional time by .10

For the 10 & under girls, Cameron Helm burst on to the Championship circuit with one of the top overall performances at the meet.  Taking the gold in the 200 free, 100, fly 100 IM, 200IM, she settled for 4^th in the 100 breast and 5^th in the 50 free. 

Alexa Skours-Neely earned four silvers (50 back, 100 back, 50 fly & 50 free) and swam 5^th in the 100 fly and 4^th in the 100 breast.

Alexa and Cameron were joined by Sophie Morici and Jennifer Wong to win the 200 yard freestyle relay and get silver in the 200-medley relay.

The 11-12 girls were a huge factor in Canyon success this weekend with breakout performances by several swimmers.   The Russian Rocket, Liza Kuznetsova took the 500 freestyle in a 5:20.35 and silver in the 200 free, 200IM, then bronze in the 100 back and 100 IM.

Malih Grim let all of Southern California know that Canyons has another star breaststroker rising as she took both the 50 breaststroke and the 100 breaststroke then took 4^th in the 200IM.

Strong in all areas the 11-12 girls turned to Tamara Santoyo for freestyle and she came up with 4^th in the 100 free, 6^th in the 50 free, 2^nd in the 500 free and 3^rd in the 100 fly.

Mik Ranslem scored in several events including a 4^th place finish in the 100 back, 4^th place in the 50 fly, 6^th in the 100 fly, 10th in the 100 free and 4^th in the 100 IM.

Ally Schultz swam to 9^th in the 200 free and 5^th in the 500 free while Courtney Skelly took 10^th in the 200IM.

However, it was the relays that would be the brightest moments of the 11-12 year olds.  With 4 swimmers dominating their strokes, the quartet of Liza Kuznetsova, Maliah Grim, Mik Ranslem and Tamara Santoyo broke two team records in the 200 and 400 medley relays. Both record swims earned the girls gold medal finishes.  They then combined for silvers in the 200 free and 400 free relays.

Emma Osowoski wasn’t the only one to dominate in the 13-14 distances.  Katie Anderson took 3^rd in the 1000 and 10^th in the 100 back.  Berly Kuni took 7^th in the 1000 and 8^th in the 100 fly and Tara Olson was 9^th in the 200 breaststroke.

Bryana Waage  took a silver in the 100 breaststroke and a bronze in the 200 breast (picking up a new sectional cut), plus a 6^th in the 200IM.  Fellow speed demon Taylor Poliseno took 3^rd in the 100 fly.

Canyons girls earned silver in the 200 and 400 medley relays off the team of Catie Anderson, Bryana Waage, Asia Antoniuk and Taylor Polesino.

 Rebekah Haw joined Poliseno , Waage and Hansen to take 3^rd in the 400 Yard Freestyle Relay and 3^rd in the 800-Yard Freestyle Relay 

Special open events were contested and Berly Kuni and Asia Anotoniuk took  5 and 7 in the 200 fly while Tara Olson and Kuni and Hansen went 6, 7 and 8 in the 400 IM

 Sarae Dydo worked overtime to pick up a silver in the 100 free, a 4^th in the 500, 5^th in the 200 free, 6^th in the 100 free and a silver in the 200 back.  Her efforts picked her up a few more sectional cuts.

Katy Sonksen picked up 6^th in the 1000 free and 7^th in the mile while Nicolette Barreiro took 6^th in the 50 free.

Kelli Miller swam to 4th place in the 200 breaststroke coming up just shy of a sectional cut.

On the boys side, Canyons youngest swimmers made their statement as Tanner Olson and Adam Osowski led the way.  Tanner won the 200IM and picked up silvers in the 50, 100 breaststroke, 100 IM, and two bronze medals, in the 100 fly

Adam won the 200 free, took silver in the 100 free, 4th in the 50 free, 5^th in the 50 fly and 100 fly and 6^th in the 200IM while Brandon Hwang powered his way to 4^th in the 200 free, 5^th in the 100 back and 100 free and 9^th in the 50 back,

Jack Sheehe show his sprint skills taking 9^th in the 50 free while William Chung took 9^th in the 100 fly and 10^th in the 100 IM.

 The quartet of Chung, Hwang, Olson and Osowski staged a come from behind victory in the 200-medley relay and a narrow second place finish in the 200 free

 The 11-12 boys highest place was a silver medal finish by Josh Unas in the 50 breaststroke.  Unas would finish 8^th in the 100 breaststroke, while Joseph Ang took 3rd place in the 100  breaststroke. Cole Cogswell fared well with  a 3^rd place in the 100 back , 4^th place finish in the 500, 5^th in the 100 fly, 6^th in the 100 free 7h in the 100 IM and 7^th in the 200 free.

 The meet was a breakout for 11-year-old Kevin Dai who made a strong statement as on of the top younger swimmers in his age group.  Dai picked up 6^th in the 50 free, 7^th in the 100 back, 9^th in the 100 fly, 4^th in the 100 IM and 6^th  in the 200 IM. 

 Austin Barreiro finished 8^th in the 50 back, 7^th in the 50 breaststroke and added a pair of 10^th place finishes in the 500 free and the 100 back.

 Tyler Tran took 9^th in the 50 back , while Jose Ovalle took 9^th in the 50 fly, 6^th in the 100 fly, and 9^th  in the 200IM.  Ino Chough took 8^th in the 50 breaststroke.

 On the relay side, the 11-12 boys came up strong with 4 silver medal swims.  Cogswell, Barreiro, Tran and Dai combined in the 200 and the 400 free  relay while Cogswell, Joseph Ang Barreiro and Dai completed the 200 and 400 medley relays.

 For the 13-14 year olds, Matt Johnson, while prepping for sectionals, won the 1000 free and took silver in the 500 free as well as 7^th in the 400IM. 

 Nelson Guzman took 6^th in the 1000 and 5^th in the 1640 while Phillip Wong was 6^th in the 100 breaststroke and 5^th in the 200 breaststroke.  Jonathan Morsch was 9^th in the 50 free and 7^th in the 100 breast.

 The 15 & older boys were paced by Matthew Stulp who picked up 6^th in the 100 free, 4^th in the 200 free, and 10^th in the 100 free while Kevin Martinez took 7^th in the 200 free and Jaryd Borja took 10th in the 500 free.

 Matt Howard was the bronze medalist in the mile and Kyle Burke took silver in the 100 breast.

 Still early in the season for all our swimmers, the Winter Age Group Championships showed that Canyons will be very competitive at Spring JOs in late January and early February.