Red Team had a fiesta of a time at Felix Festa last weekend! We set out with the goal in our races to win at the first turn. Whether it was a 50, 100, or even 200 our goal was to be in front of the heat at the start of the race. We have been focusing a lot on our breakouts and keeping our head down inside the flags to help us be faster and more efficient in the water. With all this attention to detail we saw huge improvements at the meet. Red team had 7 new swimmers qualify for Silvers, and 20 swims total!  It was great seeing our athletes get excited and cheer so loudly for their teammates!

Congratulations to Sadie Davidoff, Madelyn Gebhard, Olivia Ketterhagen, Athena Kong, Koiip Lam, Summer Lee, Yuna Lee, Katerina Mazur, Victor Pan, Rylan Quinn, Ashley Simons, Matthew Simons, Lily Siris, Harrison St. Thomas, Summer Strabuk, Reana Sy, Angelina Zhang, and Dominic Zunich on earning best times in every single race! Great job on the perfect meet! 

Silver Championships was a great kick-start to the Short Course Championship season! With over 10 swims in the top 20 and 65% total best times Red team stepped up to the tough 10 & Under competition!
A big Congrats to first time 500 point Club swimmer Molly Doran (9) dropped over 2 seconds in her 100 Back with a 1:24.16 and dropping another 2 seconds in her 50 Back, 1st time under 40. with a 39.19,
Ryan Baldwin (8) had a 5 event line up this past weekend and earned himself 4/5 best times! Minsoo Chae (8), Matthew Simons (9) and Yuna Lee (8) also had a perfect meet. Minsoo dropped 2 seconds in his 50 Fly, 41.89 and Yuna with over a 2 second drop in her 50 Back, 39.64! Matthew Simons came ready to race dropping 5 seconds in his 100 Back, 1:31.41, over 6 second drop in his 100 Breast, 1:41.15 and dropped another second off his 50 Breast from two weekends ago with a 46.45! Harrison St Thomas (8) had a big 3 second drop in his 100 Breaststroke, 1:44.35!
Douglas Sims (9) had a fantastic 50 Free race dropping over a second and a half just missing the Junior Olympic Cut time with a 32.30. Lastly, congratulations to Ethan Wang (10) who swam seven events in two days and earning 6/7 best times in those events. Ethan placed top 10 in 5 out of his 7 races. Congratulations to him and all the Red teamers who raced at Silvers Championships this weekend! Next meet on the agenda 8 & Under Championships, stay tuned for results!!


Swimmers of the meet:
Girls: 1st place Molly Doran 2nd place Yuna Lee
Boys: 1st place Ethan Weng 2nd place Matthew Simons

SILVER QUALIFIERS SHOWCASE WALL
Harrison St. Thomas- 50 Back 100 Back 1:27.76 50 Free 34.34 50 Fly43.86
Elliot Goldberg- 50 Back 48.25 100 Back 1:32.85, 50 Breast 47.23 100 Breast 1:43.81
Ryan Baldwin- 50 Back 42.28 100 Back 1:31.07 50 Fly 40.19 50 Free 35.05
Ethan Wang- 50 Back 42.22 100 Back 1:32.62 50 Fly 39.06 100 IM 1:28.48 
Douglas Sims- 50 Back 42.45 100 Back 1:35.23
Molly Doran- 50 Back 40.88 100 Back 1:26.67
Yuna Lee- 50 Back 41.54 100 Back 1:29.99
Minsoo Chae- 100 Breast 1:46.66
Madelyn Gebhard- 50 Free 35.19
Athena Kong- 100 Breast 1:45.75
Katerina Mazur- 50 Back 41.19 100 Back 1:29.66
Victor Pan- 50 Back 42.54 100 Back 1:30.46
Jacob Rimler- 50 Back 42.85 100 Back 1:31.35
Joseph Sarcona- 100 Back 1:36.87
Andrew Manago- 50 Back 42.58