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Sam Hansen Improves 100% at Speedo Grand Challenge

Apr 282009

TNT qualifiers included Katherine Bristow, Sam Hansen, Nathan Rhea and Joshua Tabers.

Our four senior swimmers traveled to Irvine, California this past weekend to compete at the cash meet, Speedo Grand Challenge, held there. Over 500 swimmers appeared, including USA Olympic Team 4 x 100 freestyle relay anchor phenomenon, Jason Lezak. Sixteen year old Sam Hansen maintains a 100% improvement by dropping nearly a half second in the 100 meter breaststroke (1:15.59), nearly two seconds in the 200 breaststroke (2:40.00) and nearly four seconds in the 200 IM (2:24.47). Seventeen year old Katherine Bristow competed in the 200 IM (2:42.38) and 50 free (29.59) while fourteen year old Nathan Rhea competed in the 100 breast (1:14.62), 200 breast (2:42.68) and 100 backstroke (1:11.21). Hanford swimmer, sixteen year old Joshua Tabers competed in the 200 back (2:25.41), 100 back (1:05.90) and 100 freestyle (58.51) events. Our highest place finishes went to Sam Hansen (32nd in the 200 breaststroke) and Nathan Rhea (32nd in the 100 breaststroke).

MELAINE GARRISON PLACES SECOND AT CONFERENCE

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Apr 272009

The final Conference Championships for college swimming took place during the weekend of April 16th. Central Valley and Bay Valley Conferences were combined for their Championship meet atSolano Community College in Fairfield. Our very own Melaine Garrison swimming for the College of the Sequoias wins her seeded heat in the 100 IM with a 1:08.48, just behind the 1:08.25 top seed. She went on to hold the second place finish in finals improving to a 1:07.73 as well as placing second in the 200 IM with a 2:23.59. Melaine also went on to swim the 1650 free in a 20:23.

Alex Muhs also makes his debut by placing first in every event entered: 200 IM (2:00.93), 400 IM (4:14.31) and 200 fly (1:56.68) events and qualifies to compete at the State meet to held in Long Beach beginning today (April 23rd).Congratulations to a successful season. TNT is very proud of you.

SEVEN TEAM RECORDS FALL IN FOUR DAYS AT FAR WESTERNS

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Apr 072009

Pictured above along with Mallory and Jonathan is Blayze Jessen of Merced who is a CCS standout and one of the few 9-year olds in the nation who are fast enough to qualify and compete at Far Westerns.

DAY 1

TNT sent four of our top age group swimmers to one of the top age group meets in the nation (Greyson Canterbury, Hannah Giles, Jonathan Granada, and Mallory Korenwinder). During the preliminary heats on the first day of the meet ten year old Mallory Korenwinder breaks her pre-existing team record by swimming a 1:15.76 in her 100 breaststroke which is fast enough to enter finals in second place. She holds on to that second place finish in finals and drops her record an additional second and a half to a 1:14.26. That moves her national ranking from 14th back among the top ten, in sixth place. Mallory is a returning finalist to the meet.

Ten year old Jonathan Granada travels to Morgan Hill to compete at his first Far Western meet after qualifying for the prestigious meet within his first year of club swimming. Not only does he qualify for the meet, he finals on his first day. This 10-year old’s 1:10.55 in his 100 fly is nearly a two second improvement over his pre-established team record, and will take him into finals in eighth place tonight (Thursday, April 2nd).

Greyson Canterbury also competed in his first Far Western meet and improved one second in his 100 fly . Hannah Giles is another returning finalist to the Far Western scene, and she swam the 200 breaststroke event for her first race.

DAY 2

Mallory Korenwinder improves nearly three seconds to break the team’s third, and her second, team record while at Far Westerns. Mallory swam a 2:35.99 in her 200 IM, fast enough for second alternate, and a move up from 18th to 10th place. Her time breaks Lindsay Storey’s team record by two seconds. Lindsay had set the team record at the RCA meet back in 1994.

Jonathan Granada also maintains 100% improvement on the second day of Far Westerns with a four second drop in his 200 IM. He had also improved his 100 free to a 1:04.02, now within 2 seconds of an 11-12 AA cut.

DAY 3

Hanna Giles, Jonathan Granada and Mallory Korenwinder all competed on day 3 of Far Westerns. Hanna swims a 1:12.13 in her 100 breaststroke with a time improvement that establishes her as the third fastest 13-14 TNT swimmer of all time. After breaking three team records on the first two days, Jonathan Granada swims the 50 breaststroke, while Mallory Korenwider continues her record breaking streak by swimming a 33.94 in the 50 breaststroke which not only breaks her own team record, but also becomes the sixth fastest time in the nation. Mallory’s time placed second in the event which proved to be a close race for the championship.

DAY 4

The final day brings back all three swimmers from day 3. Hanna Giles repeats her time in the 50 freestyle with a 25.98 while Jonathan Granada breaks a final team reacord with a 1:13.13 in the100 IM. His previous record was set at the Tulare meet just two months earlier. Mallory Korenwinder rounds out her meet with a 1:13.09 in the 100 IM and a time improvement to a 32.58 in the 50 fly becoming the fouth fastest 50 flyer ever on the team.

Pictured above with Hannah is Colin Landweer. Colin swims for Kings Swim Club and made his first Zone cut in the 50 free as he attended his first Far Western meet.

KATHERINE BRISTOW AND JAZMINE NIAYESH GO UNDEFEATED

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Apr 072009

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Katherine Bristow becomes the top point getter from the Merced meet as she wins all eight events entered. Her wins come with a large margin over the field in every event swam. Six year old Jazmine Niayesh becomes the only other undefeated TNT swimmer at the meet. Jazmine wins all five 6-under evnets that she enters. Other champions incude Wesley Coles (100 fly & 50 free), Alex Ellis (100 back & 200 back), Madison Gilbert (50 free & 50 back), Alex Hansen (100 fly & 100 back), Chris Hansen (200 free, 50 breast, 50 free, 100 breast & 800 free), Sam Hansen (200 free, 200 breast, 100 back, 1500 free, 100 breast, 200 back & 200 IM), Katelyn Herrera (800 free), JD Koster (50 breast & 50 free), Makenna Mason (50 fly), Khloe McCarthy (100 free), Madison McCarthy (200 free, 50 breast, 100 back, 100 breast & 50 back), Athena Niayesh (100 breast), Preston Niayesh (200 free, 100 back, 100 breast, 50 back & 200 IM), Kara Nino (50 fly & 50 back), Nathan Rhea (100 back, 50 free & 100 free), Allison Ross (50 free) and Breann Santos (100 back & 50 fly).

Three swimmers entered long course events for the first time while with TNT. These included Joshua Caminero, JD Koster and Makenna Mason. Wesley Coles and Jimmy Koster were the sole swimmers who improved every event entered. Other swimmers with 50% or more of events improved included: Chris Hansen (86%), Megan Nino (80%), Jake Caminero and Breann Santos (75%), Madison Gilbert (71%), Khloe McCarthy (70%), Madison McCarthy (60%), Alex Hansen (57%), Kara Nino (50%) and Savanah Nolan (50%).

Twenty five TNT swimmers competed at the Merced meet which is the second long course meet in Central California Swimming, and the last chance to qualify within CCS for the Speedo Grand Challenge which will be held in Irvine in three weeks. Our team got behind Sam Hansen as he swam to a first place finish and a new Speedo Grand Challenge cut. Sam improved over two seconds by swimming a 2:41.69 to make the cut in the 200 meter breaststroke event. He will join Katherine Bristow, Nathan Rhea and Joshua Tabers as a qualifier for the senior-level meet.

Alex Ellis also makes a new long course AA cut in the 200 meter backstroke with a 2:51.31 by improving over a second and a half in the 13-14 age group. Joining Alex in making a first Age Group Invitational cut is ten year old Makenna Mason qualifying in the 50 meter butterfly with a 41.90.

2009 TNT Bull Riding in Merced

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Apr 072009

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Year 2 of the Merced TNT Bull Riding must go to Sam Hansen who braves the steel bull with one arm. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a billion

Sample Cross-over Turns from 2009 NCAA

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Apr 032009

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Three examples of swimmers using the cross-over turn during the 400 IM at the 2009 NCAA’s held at Texas A&M in College Station Texas. Tyler Clary won the 400 IM and used a modified cross-over turn in prelims, and chose to use an open turn during finals. He is not shown in the video.

TWO TEAM RECORDS FALL ON DAY 1 OF FAR WESTERNS

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Apr 032009

Greyson Canterbury also competed in his first Far Western meet and improved one second in his 100 fly. Hannah Giles is another returning finalist to the Far Western scene, and she swam the 200 breaststroke event for her first race.

COACH ANGELA MARTINHO INTERVIEW

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Apr 032009

Swim Network has conducted an interview with our very own coach Angela Martinho. Angela has been selected for the interview based on the level of success of our TNT swimmers. Angela was voted CCS Age Group Coach of the Year last summer. The interview is published at www.swimnetwork.com and already has over 200 hits. Pretty interesting considering that the interview was only posted last week (someone should tell her). Congratulations Angela – we are proud of you .

Click on the URL in this paragraph above to go to the interview.

THOMAS SURRATT

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Mar 312009

Approximately 1000 individuals showed to pay respects to Thomas Surratt. There was standing room only at the Neighborhood Church where many of the closest friends of Thomas came to share the loss that they are experiencing. Thomas will be remembered as a young man who had a million-dollar smile that never faded. He will be remembered as a young man who loved life itself and everyone in it. Friends and family alike shared their memories of his high-spirited, fun-loving sense of humor and sense of caring for other.

Seventeen year old Thomas will truly be missed. Our harts go out to him and his family.

“KOHLTON NORYS CAPTURES FIRST 100 BACKSTROKE TITLE IN AUBURN HISTORY”

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Mar 312009

That’s the heading of the press release that came out of Auburn University stating that Kolton’s 45.26 edged out Cal Berkley’s David Russel by .04 seconds. It was a great race to the finish. Combined with the other events and diving, at the Auburn takes the title of NCAA Champion. Kohlton’s contribution included two winning relays, a seventh place finish in the 200 backstroke, and winning the 100 backstroke. His 45.13 from his morning swim was only about a half second off of Ryan Lochte’s American Record of 44.60 which he set at his NCAA meet in March of 2006. Kohlton became the first Auburn swimmer in that school’s history to win a 100 backstroke event at the NCAA meet. Congratulations Kohlton – TNT is very proud of you.

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