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CANYONS STRONG AT AGE GROUP CHAMPS
Canyons Aquatics sent a very young team the Age Group Championships at Long Beach. The coaching staff chose to keep the Senior Gold swimmers out of the meet have them concentrate on the upcoming Senior Invitational at Commerce next week. Canyons coaches are extremely proud of our young squad as they finished 5th in the women's, mens and combined team scores. Considering that some of the other clubs came to the meet with all their top swimmers, Canyons top 5 finish shows our club's depth, the success of our Varsity team as well as the strength of our up-and-comers.
Leading the scoring for Canyons was Bryana Waage with 3 second place finishes, 2 third places and a 5th place. Matt Howard swam to a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th place finish. Riley Mita picked up two 3rd place finishes and two 4th. Adria Morales grabbed two 5th place finishes and a 3rd while sister Allison took a 5th 6th, 9th and 16th. Kirsten Justice took home a 2nd and two 4ths as well as a 14th.
Other swimmers scoring in the top 16 were: Kelly Ames (14th), Nick Anguetta (10th, 14th), Curren Bates (11th, 16th), Derek Chang (9th), Cole Cogswell (10th, 11th, 12th), Brittany Donowho (10th, 10th), Drew Frerichs (6th, 12th) Hayley Good (6th, 7th, 13th, 13th), Agustina Hansen (14th), Rebekah Haw (6th, 10th, 11th, 16th), Steven Haw (5th), Jonathon Hwang (11th), Matt Johnson (6th, 6th, 8th, 15th, 15th), Bryan Kitchener had a 12th place finish and Sasha Kumar, only 8, finished 13th, 14th and 15th in the 10 & under division. Jerimiah Lee scored with a 16th place finish as did Connor Mita (15th). Nina Morrison took home a 5th place medal as well a finishing 12th two additional times. Emma Osowski finished 13th and Mik Ranselm took 16th took add points for the team. Marissa Rodgers finished 11th and 16th and Andrew Skvarna took home a 9th pace finish. Morgan Thibault swam to a 6th place as well as a 10th, one 13th and 3 15th place finishes. Alvina Wong scored for the club with a 13th place finish. Mitchell Johnson dropped an impressive 19 seconds in the 500 free to place 11th as well as pick up his Spring JO cut.
Canyons coaches worked overtime watching each and every swim as well as video taping much of the excitement for future anaylsis. With a "no swimmer left behind" Coach Jay, Coach Mike and Coach Vicky watched 3 hours of miles swims Sunday night until the last bell rang. Canyons swimmers and parents thank our coaches for getting our young swimmers ready (many for the first time) for championship competition.
SASHA KUMAR...SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
It seems every time Sasha Kumar hits water, another Canyons record falls. Three Canyons 8 and under records fell victim to Sasha as she broke her own 50 back record (36.35) and her own 100 Breast record (1:29.33). She swam the 50 Breast in 36.35 to break Jordan Danny's 37.83 set in 2000. Canyons coaches see great things ahead for Sasha who as recently moved up to the Coach Jay's Junior Olympic group. Sasha now owns almost half of the 8 & under short course team records and will be setting her sights on Canyons tough slate of 9 - 10 records when she ages up soon.
NEW TIME STANDARDS ACHIEVED
Jonathan Hwang led all swimmers picking up 5 new time standards as well as dropping time every time he hit the water. Riley Mita picked up 3 new time standards including an SCRT (Southern California Reportable Time) in the 400IM. SCSRT times were also earned by Hayley Good in the 50 free (just missing a sectional cut) and Matt Howard in the 500 free. For a complete look at who picked up a new time standards, please go to our GOLD REPORT.
TIME CUTS ABOUND
Canyons ranked among the top three teams with for percentage of swimmers achieving personal records. Once again leading the way as Jonathan Hwang who dropped time in all 6 of his events including a 43 second drop in his mile time. How did Jonathan manage 8 drops when you can only swim 6 events? He set personal marks in the 100 Breast, 500 Free, 200IM and 200 Breast. He then got his PR in the 100 fly en route to his PR in the 400 IM. During the mile, Jon picked picked up his best ever 1000 free as well. Matt Johnson did pretty much the same, picking up 6 PR swims and then adding two more by getting his 100 free enroute to his 200 free finish and his 50 fly enroute to his 200 IM. Teammate Riley Mita joined had 7 drops of his own and rounding out the group were Matt Howard who had 6 PRs as did Bryanna Waage.
Swimmers who dropped time in 5 events included:
Morgan Thibault
Andrew Skvarna
Nina Morrison
Swimmers who dropped time in 4 events included:
Cole Cogswell
Hayley Good
Augustina Hansen
Steven Haw
Mitch Johnson
Bryan Kitchner
Sasha Kumar
Kevin Martinez
Stephanie Poleman
Brent Stevenson
For a complete look at who cut time, please go to our GREEN REPORT.
TOP 8 TEAMS
Of the teams finishing in the top six, only Canyons, Irvine NOVA and Class Aquatics did not bring their senior swimmers.
1. Irvine Novaquatics 4382
2. Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team 3912
3. Swim Pasadena 3594
4. North Coast Aquatics 3277
5. Canyons Aquatic Club 1620
6. Class Aquatics 862.5
7. Seal Beach Swim Club 828.5
8. California Aquatics 674.5
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