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We had a marvelous meet in San Diego. The weather ranged
from average to bad but we swam great.
Here are a few highlights:
Laura Kelly was the star of the meet. She wore a Speedo
LZR suit for the first time and went crazy.
She dropped 10 seconds in the 500 and made her Sectional time in
the 100 back.dropping from 1:07 to 1:00.
Meena Tafazzoli dropped 15 seconds in the 400IM, 5+ seconds in
the 200 IM and 3 seconds in the 100 Brst.
Brad Perfect dropped almost 4 seconds in the 200 IM and 2 in the
200 free. He also, remade his winter Jr. Nat. cut.
Paul Quincy dropped 8 seconds in the 1000 and dropped 10 seconds
in the 1650 winning that race.
Wesley Goodson and Chris Clark each dropped 7 seconds in their
400 IMs and Chris made the Championship Final in the 200 back with
his first ever sub 2:00 swim. Wesley dropped another 5
seconds in his 200 IM.
Stephanie Rebro dropped 3 seconds in the 100 Brst and 14 seconds
in the 1000.
Kalen Hendra dropped 11 seconds in the 200 Back and 7 seconds in
the 200 brst.
Ellen Perfect made two new JO cuts.
Linda Lu made two finals at the meet.
Kevin Lu dropped 5 seconds in the 200 back and 7 more in the 200
Brst.
Maile Driggs dropped 8 seconds in the 200 Back and won her heat
convincingly in the 100 fly with a 2 second drop..
Natalie Meltzer requalified for the winter Jr. Nationals with a
1:05 100 Brst.
Meghan van Raalte swam all best times and finaled in the 50 free
with a best time.
Danielle Douvikas had a great 200 fly and her 400 IM dropped 6
seconds.
Brandon Yee had a great 500 final and a good 200 fly final as
well.
Marie Schmidt had a great 1000 dropping 20 seconds and a great
500 free final, as well.
Brian He had a 3 second drop in the 200 Fly finals and had
great 50 and 200 free prelim swims.
These are the highlights. I am sure I left someone
out. What a great effort by the swimmers. Thanks again
to our chaperone, Kathy Tafazzoli for all her help and thanks to
Jim Yee as well.
--Richard
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