CANYONS MASTERS THE COMPETITION
After an outstanding CIF chamionships, Canyons swimmers took to the Belmont waters one more time at the Toyota Masters Meet. As they had done in the weeks leading up to the event, the results were nothing short if imressive.
Jordan Danny and Nolan Koon capped off their stellar short course season with personal victories in the 100 breasstroke (Jordan) and the 200 IM (Nolan). Both swims were just off their personal bests, but god enough to set Masters Meet records. In both cases they were behind with only 25 yards to go and powered past the competition to take the victory.
Canyons swimmer repreenting 5 of the local six schools plus Oaks Christian and Highland were tired but ready to do business. Other standout swims included Nick Korth's 5th place finish in the 00 breast and a few more tenths shaved from his time, KT Livingstone taking 4th in the 100 fly and JOrdan matching that finish in the 200 IM. For the boys. Danny Colvin finished 9th in the 100 50 free and Bob Hwang took 10th in the 100 fly.
Girls 50 Free
22 Rachael Stoffel JR Hart
Girls 100 Yard Backstroke
7 Kearsten Livingstone SO Canyon
21 Adria Morales FR Canyon
Girls 100 Yard Breaststroke
1 Jordan Danny JR Hart-D2
11 Sarah Pino JR Canyon
Girls 100 Yard Butterfly
4 Kearsten Livingstone SO Canyon
Girls 200 Yard IM
4 Jordan Danny JR Hart-D2
Girl's relay only swims:
Hayley Good FR Hart
Sam Asiencio FR Hart
Adria Morales FR Canyon
Boys 100 Yard Freestyle
9 Daniel Colvin SR Quartz Hill-D4
Boys 200 Yard Freestyle
15 Konrad Antoniuk SO Hart-D2
22 Nui Harris SO Canyon
Boys 500 Yard Freestyle
9 Konrad Antoniuk SO Hart-D2
15 Riley Mita FR West Ranch
Boys 100 Yard Backstroke
19 K. C. Linn SR Hart-D2
20 Kyle Burns SR Saugus
Boys 100 Yard Breaststroke
5 Nick Korth JR Hart-D2
Boys 100 Yard Butterfly
10 Bob Hwang FR Valencia HS-D2
16 Brent Stevenson SR Hart-D2
19 Nick Korth JR Hart-D2
Boys 200 Yard IM
1 Nolan Koon SR Oaks Christian-D3
11 Bob Hwang FR Valencia HS-D2
Boy's Relay only swims: Andrew Skvarna JR
To see the complete list of Masters results HERE.
CANYONS SWIMMERS HEADING TO MASTERS MEET
The CIF Masters meet which features the best of the best will be contested this Tuesday at Belmont. The event, features the top two swimmers tit from each division regardless of time, and the remaining fastest 16 swimmers from finals. Add it all up and 15 Canyons swimmers will swim individual short course events, one alternates and 5 more will represent their teams on relays as they compete one more time this year to see where they stack up in the CIF Southern Section. 20 Canyons swimmers entered the CIF Championships and 75% of them will vie for a shot at an individual title the Master's Championship. Canyons Aquatics swimmers represent Hart, Canyon, Saugus, Valencia, West Ranch, Golden Valley, Quartz Hill and Oaks Christian High Schools.
Canyons swimmers heading to the masters meet include:
Nolan Koon (Sr - Oaks Christian)
1st 100 Breaststroke (opting out of this event to do 3 relays)
2nd 200 IM
Jordan Danny (Jr - Hart)
2nd 100 breaststroke
4th 200 IM
Rachael Stoffel (Jr - Hart)
23rd 50 Freestyle
KC Linn (Sr - Hart)
14th 100 Yard Backstroke
Konrad Antoniuk (So - Hart)
11th 500 free
20th 200 free
Maggie Hanson
15th Girls 200 IM (So - Hart)
Bob Hwang (Fr - Valencia)
7th 200 IM
8th 100 Yard Butterfly
Daniel Colvin (Sr - Quartz Hill)
7th 50 Free
9th 100 Free
KT Livingstone (So - Canyon)
6th 100 Yard Butterfly
8th 100 Yard Backstroke
Brent Stevenson (Sr - Hart)
13th 100 Yard Butterfly
Riley Mita (Fr - West Ranch)
14th Boys 500 Yard Freestyle
Nui Harris (So - Canyon)
12th 100 Yard Backstroke
Sarah Pino (Jr. Canyon)
20th 100 Yard Breaststroke
Nick Korth(Jr. Hart)
6th 100 Breaststroke
Kyle Burns (Sr - Saugus)
22nd 100 Backstroke
Michelle Duraj (So - Golden Valley)
Alternate 100 Yard Breaststroke
Andrew Skvarna (Jr - Hart)
relays
Sam Asencio (Fr - Hart)
relays
Hayley Good (Fr - Hart)
relays
Adria Morales (Fr - Canyon)
relays
Allison Morales (Fr - Canyon)
relays
To see the complete list of Masters qualifiers, click HERE.
To see the write-up for last year's Foothill, CIF and Master's meet, click
HERE.
CANYONS KIDS CRUSH CIF CONTENDERS
No matter where you looked at the CIF divisional championships there were Canyons kids on the blocks, in the water, winning races and scoring points for their high schools. With swimmers in Division II, III and IV competition Canyons swimmers came away with 5 individual CIF championships swims, 2 CIF meet records, 18 swims in finals, 3 Canyons team records and helped two teams earn CIF Championship titles.
Division II Championships
Jordan Danny won her 100 breasstroke in CIF record time with a 1:01.96 swim just a touch off her personal best set a few weeks ago. Jordan did break a Canyons team recording the 200 IM with her 4th place finish in the event and a 2:03.18 time that shatters her old team record set in 2007 of 2:06.92.
Nick Korth continued his climb towards breaststroke dominance as he finished second in a crowded field. Nick's time (58.07) was within 8/100th of a Junior National cut. Not bad for a kid who hasn't been club swimming for even a year. Nick took 12th in the 100 fly. Bob Hwang finished 3rd in the 200IM and 3rd in the 100 fly just a few 1/100ths off Gabe Woodward's team record (he's only a freshman).
Konrad Antoniuk took 5th in the 500 free with a 4:36.40 breaking Ryan Parmenter's 1997 Canyons Aquatic team record of 4:36.69 Konrad also took 11th in the 200 free. KT Livingstone earned double nickels as she notched 5th in the 100 Butterfly and 5th in the 100 backstroke. Brent Stevenson took 5th in the 100 fly while Hayley Good finished 7th in the 50 free and 8th in the 100 free. Nui Harris finished 8th in the 200 free then won the 100 back consolation final for a 9th place finish. Sarah Pino earned 8th place in the 100 breasstroke.
Maggie Hanson won the consolation heat of the 200IM to finished 9th overall she then finished 15th in the 100 back. Riley Mita also won the his consolation final in the 500 free to finish 9th overall and well as break his own team record (13-14) of 4:43.45 with his 4:41.60 swim. Riley then finished 15th in the 100 back. Sam Asencio finished 14th in the 200 free and 14th in the 100 free. Michelle Duraj took 12th in the 100 breast picking up a sectional time in the preliminaries and then improving on it in finals. Rachael Stoffel took 9th in the 50 free and Adria Morales took 16th in the 100 fly and 13th in the 100 back. Andrew Skvarana finished 12th in the 100 free while Allison Morales finished 13th in the 500 free. KC Linn took 11th in the 100 back.
The Hart girls won the CIF title while the Hart Boys and Valencia Boys finished 3rd and 4th respectively. All six Santa Clarita high schools had swimmers in the finals and all six finished with points on the board thanks to the work of their Canyons Aquatic trained swimmers.
Division III Championships
Nolan Koon plowed through the Belmont waters to win titles in two events at teh D3 Championships. First, in the 200 IM, Nolan went 1:50.06 set the CIF Division III record as well as the Canyons Aquatic team record (set by Nolan earlier this year: 1:51.42). Nolan then the 100 breaststroke title with a personal best of 56.25, just .20 off John Criste's Canyon team record. Nolan was part of two winning relays and helped his school, Oaks Christian, to the Division III boys title.
Division IV Championships
Coming off several months of illness, Danny Colvin took both the 50 free (21.25) and the 100 free (47.09) in fine style setting him up as a contender at the Masters meet.
To see the CIF finals results, click HERE.
CANYONS SWIMMERS MAKE WAVES AT CIF PRELIMINARIES
Danny Colvin won the Division IV CIF titles in both the 100 and 50 frees with personal best swims this evening at Belmont. Danny is the first Canyons swimmer to a CIF title this year, but with swimmers in Division II waiting for finals and Division III yet to swim, expect more gold from the Canyons kids. 20 Canyons Aquatic swimmers entered the CIF Division II championships preliminaries and 18 will be coming back for finals. Swimming for all six Santa Clarita high schools, Canyons swimmers showed speed and stamina. Leading their way into saturdays finals with two championship final events were: Jordan Danny (junior) in the 200 IM and 100 Breast, Hayley Good (freshman) 100 and 50 free finals, Bob Hwang (freshman) 100 fly and 200 IM final and KT Livingstone (sophomore) 100 back and 100 fly finals.
In addition a whole slew of Canyons swimmers earn second swims in either finals or consolation finals (or both) including:
Sarah Pino (junior) championship finals 100 breast
Brent Stevenson (senior) championship finals 100 fly
Sam Asencio (freshman) consolation finals 200 free and 100 free
Nui Harris (sophomore) championship finals 200 free and consolation final 100 back
Konrad Antoniuk (sophomore) championship finals 500 free, consolation finals 200 free
Maggie Hanson (sophomore) consolation finals 200IM & 100 Back
Rachael Stoffel (sophomore) consolation finals 50 free
Adria Morales (freshman) consolation finalist 100 fly
Riley Mita (freshman) consolation finals, 500 free and 100 back
Nick Korth (junior) finalist 100 breast consolation finalist 100 fly
Andrew Skvarna (junior) consolation finals 100 free
Allison Morales (freshman) consolation finals 500 free
KC Linn (senior) consolation finals 100 back
Kyle Burns (senior) consolation finals 100 back
Michelle Duraj (sophomore) 100 breaststroke.
Rachel Garfinkle (Junior) alternate 500 free
To see the CIF preliminary results, click HERE.
CANYONS SWIMMERS PREP FOR CIF PRELIMS
The CIF has just announced the seedings for the CIF Championships which begin later this week. All local high school teams will compete in the Division II Championships. Several Canyons Aquatic swimmers will be seeded in the top 8 of Division II including: Jordan Danny, Nick Korth, Bob Hwang, Sam Asencio, Hayley Good, Michelle Duraj, KT Livingstone, Brent Stevenson, Maggie Hanson and Nui Harris. Also earning CIF slots were Riley Mita, Allison and Adria Morales, Konrad Antoniuk, Rachael Stoffel, Andrew Skvarna, Stephen Haw, Kyle Burns, KC Linn, Sarah Pino and Kyle Burke. Division III will feature Nolan Koon (Oaks Christian) leading the way while Division IV will see Danny Colvin (Quartz Hill) and Rachel Garfinkle (Buckley) going for titles.
CANYONS SWIMMERS SWEEP THROUGH FOOTHILL FINALS
No one ever said club swimming was easy, but when the club swimmers from Canyons Aquatic hit the water representing each of the six local high schools, they sure made it look simple.
Canyons Aquatics Swimmers won 14 of the 16 events and swept gold, silver and bronze in 8 of the events. Every league individual record broken in the meet was broken by a Canyons Aquatic swimmer
To see the official results (varsity and JV) click HERE. Please note these results are official for CIF purposes.
GIRLS RESULTS
Women's 50 Free
1. Michelle Duraj 24.73
2 Hayley Good 24.83
3. Rachael Stoffel 24.95
Womens 100 Free
1 Hayley Good 53.75
2 Michelle Duraj 54.32
3 Sam Asencio 54.38
5 Rachael Stoffel 54.56
7 Shelby Green 56.70
Women's 200 Free
1 Sam Asencio 1:56.53
2 Allison Morales 1:56.71
5 Shelby Green 2:03.55
Womens 500 Free
2 Allison Morales 5:06.48
3 Chrysta McMahon 5:40.82
6 AJ Gucciardi 6:03.66
Womens 100 Fly
1 KT Livingstone 57.26 (Foothill record)
4 Adria Morales 1:00.15
5 Allison Harada 1:02.80
6 Alvina Wong 1:03.53
Women's 100 Breaststroke
1 Jordan Danny 1:01.73 (Foothill record, Canyons Aquatic Team Record)
2 Sarah Pino 1:07.76
7 Ashley Peterson 1:16.96
Women's 100 Backstroke
1 KT Livingstone
2 Maggie Hanson
4 Adria Morales
5 Alvina Wong
6 Allison Harada
Womens 200 IM
1 Jordan Danny 2:04.83 (Foothill record, Canyons team record)
2 Maggie Hanson 2:11.12
3 Sarah Pino 2:13.70
7 Chrysta McMahon 2:28.57
Men's 50 Free
1 Andrew Skvarna 22.41
2 Brent Stevenson 23.12
5 Andrew Cselenyak 23.47
Mens 100 Free
1 Andrew Skvarna 48.87
2 KC Linn 49.66
3 Guilbert Casequin 50.49
4 Tim Van Name 50.87
5 Kyle Burns 51.28
Men's 200 Free
1 Bob Hwang 1:43.96
2 Nui Harris 1:45.71
3 Kondrad Antoniuk 1:48.45
4 Kevin Martinez 1:50.99
5 Curren Bates 1:51.19
6 Guilbert Casequin 1:54.08
8 Tim Van Name 1:55.24
Mens 500 Free
1 Riley Mita 4:45.80
2 Konrad Antoniuk 4:46.24
3 Stephen Haw 4:56.12
4 Kevin Martinez 5:03.51
5 Matt Leone 5:10.06
6 Ethan Goldberg 5:35.35
Mens 100 Fly
1 Bob Hwang 51.33 (Foothill League Record)
2 Nick Korth 53.20
3 Brent Stevenson 54.14
4 Pete Szymanski 55.30
Men's 100 Breaststroke
1 Nick Korth 58.94
4 Curren Bates 1:02.25
6 Kyle Burke 1:02.65
Men's 100 Backstroke
1 Nui Harris 53.58
2 Kyle Burns 54.43
3 KC Linn 54.69
5 Riley Mita 56.21
Mens 200 IM
3 Stephen Haw 2:07.15
4 Matt Leon 2:07.24
5 Blake Owens 2:13.74
7 Ethan Goldberg 2:13.77
8 Kyle Burke 2:13.92
FOOTHILL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS - PRELIMINARIES
Canyons Aquatic Club's high school swimmers ruled the pool at the Foothill League preliminaries Tuesday at SCAC. Canyons swimmers competed for all 6 local high school teams and came out seeded #1 in 14 of the 16 varsity events. In fact, Canyons swimmers will be in 70 of the 128 lanes of championship finals competition at this Thursday's finals. On average, more than 1/2 the swimmers in finals are Canyons Aquatic Club swimmers. In addition there are several finalists who train with Canyons in our Varsity program during the off high school season to maximize their high school performance.
Canyons Aquatic Club officially sanctioned the event through USA Swimming, for times for all club swimmers in the preliminaries and finals will count.
Listed below are the events, the Canyons swimmers and, their place of finish and the time standard achieved. No matter how you look at it, Canyons swimmers swim fast. End of story.
Men's 50 Free
Andrew Skvarna 1
Brent Stevenson 3
Andrew Cselenyak 6
Mens 100 Free
KC Linn 1
Kyle Burns 2
Andrew Skvarna 3
Guilbert Casequin 4
Tim Van Name 5
Men's 200 Free
Bob Hwang 1 Automatic CIF time
Nui Harris 2 CIF Consideration Time
Kondrad Antoniuk 3 CIF Consideration Time
Tim Van Name 4
Curren Bates 5
Kevin Martinez 6
Guilbert Casequin 7
Mens 500 Free
Konrad Antoniuk 1 Automatic CIF time
Riley Mita 2 Automatic CIF time
Stephen Haw 3 CIF Consideration Time
Kevin Martinez 4
Matt Leone 5
Ethan Goldberg 6
Mens 100 Fly
Bob Hwang 1 Automatic CIF time
Nick Korth 2 Automatic CIF time
Brent Stevenson 3 CIF Consideration Time
Pete Szymanski 4 CIF Consideration Time
Men's 100 Breaststroke
Nick Korth 1 Automatic CIF time
Curren Bates 4 CIF Consideration Time
Kyle Burke 6 CIF Consideration Time
Men's 100 Backstroke
Kyle Burns 1 Automatic CIF time
Nui Harris 2 Automatic CIF time
KC Linn 4 CIF Consideration Time
Riley Mita 5 CIF Consideration Time
Mens 200 IM
Matt Leon 3
Stephen Haw 4
Ethan Goldberg 6
Blake Owens 7
Kyle Burke 8
WOMEN'S EVENTS
Women's 50 Free
Michelle Duraj 1 CIF Consideration Time
Rachael Stoffel 2 CIF Consideration Time
Hayley Good 4 CIF Consideration Time
Womens 100 Free
Michelle Duraj 1 Automatic CIF time
Hayley Good 2 Automatic CIF time
Rachael Stoffel 3 Automatic CIF time
Sam Asencio 5 Automatic CIF time
Shelby Green 7
Women's 200 Free
Sam Asencio 1 Automatic CIF time
Allison Morales 2 Automatic CIF time
Shelby Green 5
Womens 500 Free
Allison Morales 2 Automatic CIF time
Chrysta McMahon 3
AJ Gucciardi 5
Womens 100 Fly
KT Livingstone 1 Automatic CIF Time
Adria Morales 3 CIF Consideration Time
Allison Harada 5 CIF Consideration Time
Alvina Wong 6 CIF Consideration Time
Women's 100 Breaststroke
Jordan Danny 1 Automatic CIF time
Sarah Pino 2 Automatic CIF time
Ashley Peterson 7
Women's 100 Backstroke
KT Livingstone 1 Automatic CIF Time
Maggie Hanson 2 Automatic CIF Time
Adria Morales 3 Automatic CIF Time
Alvina Wong 5 CIF Consideration Time
Allison Harada 7 CIF Consideration Time
Women's 200 IM
Jordan Danny 1 Automatic CIF time
Maggie Hanson 2 Automatic CIF time
Sarah Pino 3 CIF Consideration Time
Chrysta McMahon 8
To see results of Tuesday's preliminary swims click: HERE.
