Individual High Point awards were given to the 6-under, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14 age divisions for both male and female swimmers competing and scoring at the Merced meet that was held at the Clovis North complex over the April 14-15 weekend. High Point recipients for five of these divisions went to a TNT swimmer. Paige Cost took home the honors for the 6-under girls by winning all of her events, while her brother Peyton Costa captured the title for the 7-8 boys division, winning the 200 free (3:11.82), 100 fly (1:58.78), 100 back (1:46.02), 50 free (39.23), 100 free (1:24.87), 50 fly (45.88), 50 back (48.86) and 200 IM (3:44.93). The 11-12 boy High Point winner was Parker Giles who was the champion in seven of ten events that included the 200 free (2:40.05), 100 fly (1:22.77), 50 breast (41.17), 100 back (1:21.50), 50 fly (31.23), 100 breast (1:32.91) and 200 IM (2:49.67). Both male and female 13-14 champions were both TNT swimmers, with Mallory Korenwinder accumulating the most points for the girls partly by winning the 200 breaststroke (2:57.24), 200 fly (2:48.64) and 100 breaststroke (1:20.51) events. Although not recognized at the meet, both 15-over male and female swimmers that received the most points based on placing were also from TNT. Hanford Swimmer Taylor Shaw out placed Teri Wells of Tuolumne County for the top spot, while Chris Nolan earned enough points for the top spot for the 15 over boys.
Two of our 57 swimmers were undefeated in the events they participated in within their respective age divisions. Paige Costa swam away with four 1st place finishes for four events in the 6-under division, winning the 60 breaststroke (1:15.87), 50 free (51.07), 50 fly (59.91) and 50 back (1:02.35). On the boys side, Chris Nolan was undefeated in the 15-16 division winning all eight of his events that included the 200 free (2:05.73), 100 fly (1:02.16), 100 back (1:11.82), 50 free (27.24), 100 free (58.54), 100 breast (1:14.75), 200 back (2:33.58) and 200 IM (2:25.29) events.
Our team maintained an improvement rate of 55% with the following individuals improving all events they had competed in, and that had been previously recorded with the team: Danielle Albright (10 of 10), Madelyn Ansel (3 of 3), Janessa Bringe (10 of 10), Emma Coelho (1 of 1), Paige Costa (1 of 1), Skylar Ford (6 of 6), Jake Goodbar (3 of 3), Peyton McKinzie (2 of 2), Athena Niayesh (3 of 3), Kara Nino (3 of 3), Cameron Weas (3 of 3) and Bobby Yribarren (1 of 1).