Bryan Wong began the Tulare meet with a record breaking swim in the 400 IM, swimming the event only the second time in his career, and coming in at a time of 4:54.35, being only the second 11-12 boy in the history of the team to go under five minutes, and improving on his first effort by nearly seven seconds from only two months prior. Bryan holds the record that Peyton Costa set one year earlier as a 4:56.39 while competing at the Age Group Championships in San Diego. His time stands as the 141st fastest nationally for 12-year old boys. Bryan began breaking team records only two months ago during the Visalia meet where he swam 2:38.02 in the 200 breaststroke, and continues to improve on that record, this time swimming 2:36.64 in the event at the Tulare meet shaving nearly a second and a half off the time in just two months. His improved record now stands at the 161st fastest in the nation for boys at age 12.
Bryan also swam undefeated at the meet within his respective A, B or C divisions, winning all five events that he competed in for the 11-12 boys division, including the 400 IM (4:54.35), 200 breast (2:36.64), 200 back (2:33.90), 50 free (26.76), and 100 free (57.97) events. Keeping success in the family, sister Alexa Wong was the event champion for four of her five events in the 9-10 division, and these included the 100 breast (1:27.86), 100 back (1:14.31), 50 free (29.15), and 500 free (6:09.57). Another near sweep came from Visalia’s Layla Flores who just arrived into the 13-14 age division, and she won five of her six events, winning the 200 free (2:09.13), 400 IM (5:05.79), 200 breast (2:36.87), 200 back (2:20.94), and 200 IM (2:20.81). The only other 4-event champion was Mckenna Pressley who took home the gold in her respective divisions in the 200 breast (3:10.18), 200 fly (3:05.26), 200 IM (2:55.27) and 100 breast (1:28.66) events.
Other event champions included: Sienna Abernathy (50 back & 50 breast), Libby Adriaansen (50 free), Maquire Barteau (100 IM), Ella Bettencourt (50 free), Drew Black (100 fly), Isabel Burrough (50 breast), Riley Carpenter (100 free), Aidan Champagne (100 breast, 100 back & 100 fly), Ciara Clarke (100 fly), Peyton Costa (100 back & 200 fly), Colin Duffy (50 back), Gabriela Dutra (100 free), Yasmin Erteza (25 free & 25 breast), Alonso Escobedo (400 IM), Jillian Gaines (200 free & 400 IM), Diego Gutierrez (100 breast), Isaac Gutierrez (200 free & 100 free), Xavier Gutierrez (100 back), Maya Herrera (200 back), Logan Huckabay (50 free & 100 IM), Lucas Huckabay (200 free & 100 breast), Nathan Hunt (200 free & 200 breast), Sydney King (200 free), Isabella Klawitter (200 fly), JD Koster (100 fly, 200 breast & 200 IM), Rylee Lord (200 fly), Landon Mauge (50 breast), Genoveve Mcilwaine (100 fly & 100 free), Caroline Mendyk (200 IM), Ava Olson (50 fly, 50 back & 200 fly), Levi Porter (50 free & 25 back), Gage Price (400 IM), Alex Roberts (100 back), Micah Ruiz (200 back), Fynn Stadtherr (50 free & 50 breast), Jenna Surratt (50 breast), Stuart Torres (50 free, 100 breast & 100 free), Kennedi Warren (50 fly), Benjamin Wheeler (200 back, 200 IM & 500 free), and Jacob Wheeler (25 fly, 25 free & 100 free).
Seventy-three TNT swimmers competed at the meet, maintaining a 44% improvement rate, lead by seven swimmers who improved 100% of their times. Swimmers who improved pre-recorded times in events 50 yards or longer include: Wyatt Edwards (improving 2 of 2), Yasmin Erteza (1 of 1), Rylee Norohna (4 of 4), Jade Perez (2 of 2), Tyson Phillips (1 of 1), Allyson Wheeler (2 of 2), and Alexa Wong (5 of 5).