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Awards Potluck 2008-09, the results!
2008–2009 Wind N Sea Swim Season
A special thanks to the Waldburger Family for hosting this year’s event!
Team Overall
Short course JOs – 11 competed in individual events, 4 relays. They finished 11th as a team, scoring 259.5 points. Last scy JOs, 7 ath, 4 relays and we finished 8th with 439 points.
Long course JOs – 9 individuals and 5 relays. They finished 15th with 196points. 3 points behind two other teams. Last year – 11th with 355 points.
USA Swimming Virtual Club Championship – found on USA Swimming’s website http://www.usaswimming.org/
Short course yards (SCY) – 11th of 28 in San Diego-Imperial with 34,060 points. 1227th of 2679 in the nation. Last year – 15th and 1445.
Long course meters (LCM) – 11th of 25 in SD with 26474 points. 1108th of 2679 in the nation. Last year – 15th and 1213.
Individual Awards
Meet participation – We had 28 swimmers with 6 or more meets. Anthony Bookheimer competed in the most meets with 20. 50 swimmers competed in at least one meet. See pdf for the list.
USA Swimming’s IMX Challenge http://www.usaswimming.org/
5 first time achievers (3 last year) – Anthony Bookheimer, Dominick Wallace, Ciara Franke, Jensine Bugelli, Nicole Collins
11 achieved during SCY (7 last year) – Abby Bertics, Nicole Collins, Ciara Franke, Bennett Bugelli, Dominick Wallace, Jensine Bugelli, Kelly, Collins, Danielle Collins, Dana Zimmer, Zachary Wallace, Anthony Bookheimer.
3 during LCM (6 last year) – Abby Bertics, Bennett Bugelli, and Zachary Wallace
Wind N Sea Swim Team Records All Team Records are posted on our Team Stats Online website
230 records were broken with 126 new records being established this past year. 47 women records and 79 men. Michael Cohn – 31 records. Dana Zimmer – 17 records. Zachary Wallace – 16 records.
Individual short course records setters – Jensine Bugelli, Abby Bertics, Mckenna Garfein, Dana Zimmer, Berkeley Miesfeld, Pierce Dietz, Zachary Wallace, Reef Guerard, Sam Bradhurst, Ben Weston, and Michael Cohn.
Relay short course records setters – Dana Zimmer, Emily Nguyen, Hanna Bourne, Mckenna Garfein, Reza Badiee, Rhys Bugelli, Dominick Wallace, John Dickerson, Westin Waldburger, Eric Cramer, John Mahmud, Zachary Wallace, Anthony Bookheimer, Sean Evans, Luis Ortega, Michael Cohn, Troy Leloup, Rodrigo Iglesias, Ben Weston
Individual long course records – Jensine Bugelli, Bennett Bugelli, Abby Bertics, Mckenna Garfein, Dana Zimmer, Nicola Ivanov, Dominick Wallace, Zachary Wallace, Reef Guerard, and Michael Cohn
Relay long course records – Zachary Wallace, Westin Waldburger, Eric Cramer, Reef Guerard
Most Improved Swimmer – determined by comparing last year’s power points to this year’s
SCY – Ciara Franke and Anthony Bookheimer
LCM – Jensine Bugelli and Zachary Wallace
Power Point Champion – determined by adding power points for the best swim in each event
Abby Bertics – 12873 points over both short course and long course
Michael Cohn – 11723 points over last year
Western Zone Championships – 17 Western States compete in a championship trials and finals meet. This summer the meet was held in Oahu, Hawaii. Michael Cohn qualified and was selected to the team. At the meet, Michael was named one of the team captains. He has since been asked to represent athletes at the LSC level. He swam well at the meet and promptly got sick with the H1N1.
USA Swimming Sectional Championships - Michael Cohn was the first swimmer from WSST to qualify and compete at the Sectional Championships. This is a senior level competition that is the stepping stone to Junior National Championships and National Championships. Michael travelled to Las Vegas for the short course meet and Clovis, CA for the long course meet. He will be competing in Long Beach this December.
Far Western Championship Team - Three swimmers qualified and competed at the Far Western Championships last April in Morgan Hill, CA. Abby Bertics, Michael Cohn, and Zachary Wallace. While they all competed well at the meet itself, the defining performances were put in at the hotel pool and the challenging game of Marco Polo. Well done swimmers!
Awards Potluck, the results! Thanks for a great time everyone!
2007–2008 Wind N Sea Swim Season
Team Overall – most successful season ever
Short course JOs – 7 competed in individual events, 5 more helped on relays. They finished 8th as a team, scoring 439 points. Last scy JOs, we finished 17th with 190 points.
Long course JOs – 10 individuals and 4 relay only. They finished 11th with 355 points. Last year – 18th with 171.5 points. Highest placed, small team. Teams ahead of us had 19, 22, 18, 42, 29, 49, 47, 40, 79,and 81 swimmers competing.
USA Swimming Virtual Club Championship – found on USA Swimming’s website http://www.usaswimming.org/
Short course yards (SCY) – 15th of 28 in San Diego-Imperial with 22,914 points. 1445 of 2462 in the nation.
Long course meters (LCM) – 15th of 27 in SD with 20,283 points. 1213 of 2207 in the nation.
Individual Awards
Meet participation – We had 23 swimmers with 6 or more meets. Dana Zimmer competed in the most meets with 16. 43 swimmers competed in at least one meet during the short course season and 39 in the long course season. See pdf for the list.
USA Swimming’s IMX Challenge http://www.usaswimming.org/
3 first time achievers – Dana Ashcraft, Bennett Bugelli, and Reef Guerard.
7 achieved during SCY – Abby Bertics, Dana Ashcraft, Danielle Collins, Dana Zimmer, Zachary Wallace, Reef Guerard, and Michael Cohn.
6 during LCM – Abby Bertics, Bennett Bugelli, Kelly Collins, Reef Guerard, Zachary Wallace, and Danielle Collins
Wind N Sea Swim Team Records
All Team Records are posted on our Team Stats Online website
134 new records were established this past year. 75 women records and 59 men. Michael Cohn – 31 records. Dana Zimmer – 26 records. Abby Bertics – 21 records.
Individual short course records setters – Abby Bertics, Dana Ashcraft, Dana Zimmer, Mckenna Garfein, Reef Guerard, Zachary Wallace, Michael Cohn
Relay short course records setters – Aurora Williams, Kelly Collins, Malia Moore, Abby Bertics, Dana Ashcraft, Mckenna Garfein, Dana Zimmer, Danielle Collins, Aniko Coggan, Hannah Bourne, Zachary Wallace, Davis Glazener, Pablo Ortega, Reef Guerard, Westin Waldburger
Individual long course records – Bennett Bugelli, Abby Bertics, Dana Zimmer, Mckenna Garfein, Sara Ashcraft, Dominick Wallace, Reef Guerard, Michael Cohn
Relay long course records – Malia Moore, Bennett Bugelli, Ciara Franke, Abby Bertics, Nicole Collins, Aniko Coggan, Cienne Miesfeld, Danielle Collins, Zeda Navarro, Zachary Wallace, Pablo Ortega, Reef Guerard, Eric Cramer
Most Improved Swimmer – determined by comparing last year’s power points to this year’s
SCY – Nicole Collins and Anthony Bookheimer
LCM – Carmen Ortega and Dominick Wallace
Power Point Champion – determined by adding power points for the best swim in each event
Abby Bertics – 15,230 points over both short course and long course
Michael Cohn – 13,048 points over last year
Western Zone Championships – 17 Western States compete in a championship trials and finals meet. This summer the meet was held in Gresham, Oregon. Next summer the meet will be held in Oahu, Hawaii. A special award was also earned by Abby Bertics. She was Wind N Sea’s first swimmer to be named to the San Diego-Imperial Zone Championship team. Swimmers can only qualify for Zones with long course meter swims. Swimmers then apply for the team. Swimmers with 5 cuts automatically qualify. Abby qualified in 6 events. At the meet, she swam 6 individual events and all of the 10 and under relays. She made finals (top 8) in 3 of her events and got to swim those events again. She outswam all competition in her 50 fly and won the event in what used to be a USA Swimming National Reportable time (USA Swimming no longer runs that program for 10 and unders).