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The first North-South split meet took place at the Selma pool over the last weekend of September, and 86 TNT swimmers competed in the meet to maintain an astounding 63% team improvement rate during the second short course meet of the season.

Although it’s an early meet in the season, four team records were still set by two swimmers. Ten year old Danielle Albright broke the team record with her time of 2:34.85 in the 200 IM – a record that was set by Mallory Korenwinder four years ago as a 2:35.99 at Far Westerns. Danielle’s time is the 7^th fastest swam since the beginning of the month by any 10-year old girl in the nation. The current top time is 2:30.17 set by a Florida swimmer. The 100 IM record was also reset by Danielle. Her time of 1:11.07 is the seventh fastest time posted since the beginning of September and is an improvement on Skylar Ford’s record of 1:11.77 that was set at JO’s earlier in February of this year.

Fifteen year old Mallory Korenwinder came home with the two breaststroke records, beginning with the 100 breaststroke. Her time of 1:07.66 was her first 15-over short course swim at a club meet, and her time is under Jordan Morillo’s 1:08.95 record set at the Clovis Senior Q meet in 2010. Although not her best time, it still stands as the fastest time posted nationally prior to the weekend in a recording period that begins this month. The breaststroker that she is, Mallory also posted the current top national time in the 200 breaststroke for the month with a time of 2:25.07 – a time that is under Lauren Davis’s previous record of 2:26.94 set at Sectionals last December.

Three of our swimmers were undefeated at the meet. Kyle Grissom swam eight events, and was the event champion in all eight, while five year old Lucas Huckabay of Selma was the event champion for all five events that he competed in. Preston Niayesh came home with wins in all eight of his events, improving seven of the eight. Other event champions, along with the number of events they won, include: Sienna Abernathy (6), Danielle Albright (4), Owen Ansel (1), Josh Avila (1), Janessa Bringe (1), Damian Brown (6), Morgan Coddington (1), Brianna Colado (6), Tomas Contreras (5), Peyton Costa (3), Quinton Davis (1), Skylar Ford (2), Emily Goodbar (3), Chris Hansen (1), Katelyn Herrera (1), Jackson Huckabay (1), Mallory Korenwinder (4), Cody Nash (2), Chloee O’Bannon (6), Madison Pallares (2), Katherine Sullivan (1), Kylie Walker (6), and Benjamin Wheeler (2).

Twenty-four swimmers of the 72 who had previously recorded times with the team improved all events, thereby maintaining a 100% improvement rate. Congratulations to: Everett Anez, Jason Clausen, Paige Coddington, Brianna Colado, Tomas Contreras, Quinton Davis, Erica Garcia, Jake Goodbar, Maya Herrera, Lily Hodges, Jackson Huckabay, Jonas Huckabay, Lucas Huckabay, Alexander Meyer, Chloee O’Bannon, Shanti Reisinger, Alex Roberts, Nolin Santillan, Satoshi Shinkawa, Savannah Williams, Blake Wong, Brett Wong, Bryan Wong, and Bryce Wong.

Sixty TNT swimmers who had previously recorded times with the club competed at the one-day Hanford meet in September; with 30 of them improving all times that they entered. This carried the team improvement percentage to 68%. Additionally, 48 swimmers either had entered only 25-yard events, or competed in their first USA Swimming meet with the club, brining the grand total of participation to 108 TNT swimmers in the meet. Swimmers with 100% improvement rates included: Danielle Albright, Everett Anez, Desmond Brown, Peyton Costa, Quinton Davis, Layla Flores, Jillian Gaines, Amanda Garabedian, Lauren Geiger, Jordan Gibson, Tobin Gibson, Naomi Haworth, Maya Herrera, Shaan Heugly, Dylan Hunt, London Jones, Toby Jones, Jakob Koorey, Michael Mendoza, Alexander Meyer, Seth Michaels, Preston Niayesh, Madison Pallares, Megan Pedro, Preston Shaw, Seiji Shinkawa, Shoji Shinkawa, Kylie Walker, Benjamin Wheeler, and Savannah Williams.

The meet marks the first short course meet of the season, providing our athletes a benchmark as they move toward qualifying for the winter championship meets that include: Age Group Championships, Terrapin Senior Meet, Winter Invitational, Sectionals, Junior Nationals and Senior Nationals.

Two team records were set at this first meet of the season. Ten year old Danielle Albright had set the 500 freestyle record as a 6:07.38 during Far Westerns during this past April, and now improves on that by over six seconds with a time of 6:01.26. Given that the new national ranking reporting cycle begins September 1, Danielle’s time currently stands as the 3^rd fastest nationally.

The only other team record set at the meet was also a time improvement, and this time by 12-year old Preston Niayesh. Preston also set the 100 breaststroke record at Far Westerns as a 1:13.71, and at the first short course meet of the season, topped that time with a 1:10.93. This time stands as the 6^th fastest nationally in the new reporting cycle.

A few swimmers swam uncontested at the meet, winning all events that they had entered, and they include 10-year old Peyton Costa (5 of 5), 14-year old Lauren Geiger, 15-year old Mallory Korenwinder (4 of 4), 12-year old Preston Niayesh (5 of 5), and 6-year old Samuel Noricumbo (1 of 1). Other event champions included: Sienna Abernathy, Danielle Albright, Josh Avila, Justin Bos, Damian Brown, Lauren Davis, Quinton Davis, Layla Flores, Skylar Ford, Jillian Gaines, Tristan Gaines, Amanda Garabedian, Kyle Grissom, Chris Hansen, Annlyn Haworth, Katelyn Herrera, Maya Herrera, Toby Jones, Jakob Koorey, JD Koster, Jimmy Koster, Seth Lopez, Madison McCarthy, Seth Michaels, Chris Nolan, Madison Pallares, Shanti Reisinger, Alex Roberts, Jeremiah Santillana, Kylie Walker, Benjamin Wheeler, and Svannah Williams.

The summer of 2013 was the year of the most Junior National swimmers to date in representing TNT. Four swimmers qualified for, and attended the Summer Junior National Championships held at the Irvine complex, just days after the conclusion of the US Open at the very same facility.

Lauren Davis of Fig Garden led off the week of competition, competing in the 200 meter breaststroke event, after qualifying for the meet only days prior during the championship heat of the Senior Zone meet in Clovis. Lauren, who is our current 200 meter breaststroke team record holder, swam 2:42.15 for a 96th place finish in the event.

Each of our remaining swimmer competed in two events each. First-time qualifier, Kyle Grissom, competed in the 100 fly, where his 56.22 was a half second improvement, and good enough for his highest place finish of 47th. His second event was the 50 freestyle, where he too earned the bonus cut at the Clovis Senior Zone meet only a few days earlier. His 24.89 at Junior Nationals finished 158th in the event.

Returning to her second summer Junior Nationals, Mallory Korenwinder came home with our team’s highest place finish of 27th in her specialty event, the 100 meter breaststroke. A former championship finalist in the event from last year, Mallory’s time of 1:12.91 just missed a second swim for a 2nd alternate position, and 27th place finish.

Also returning was Chris Nolan who earned an alternate position in his specialty event, the 200 fly, during last winter’s Junior Nationals. His 2:04.84 in this summer’s meet was enough for a 35th place finish. Chris rounded out his events with half second improvement in the 100 fly, where his time of 56.81 finished 78th in that event.

Tule Nation Tritons managed to squeeze out a win to become the 2013 CCS Long Course Junior Olympic Champions, prompting a protest related to the scoring of swimmers in the 15-18 age division. Our swimmers accumulated 4076 points to outscore all other teams by a slight margin of 172.

Our team score was led by high point recipients, four of which came home with the award. Peyton Costa was the high point recipient for the 9-year old boy’s division with 122 points, while Jackson Huckabay of Selma led all 10-year old boys at the meet with 174 points. Skylar Ford of Visalia came home with the honor in the 11-year old girls division with 59 points. On the 15-18 side, Khloe McCarthy and Colin Landweer were the recipients in the 15-18 division with 134 and 175 points respectively.

Individuals who were in the next two runner-up positions included: Danielle Albright (2nd 10-year old at 148 points), Kylie Walker (3rd 10-year old at 146 points), Toby Jones (3rd 10-year old at 93 points), Preston Niayesh (2nd 12-year old at 126 points), Morgan Coddington (2nd 14-year old at 144 points), Cody Nash (2nd 15-18 year olds at 111 points).

Tule Nation Tritons had multiple event champions that contributed to the first place team finish, and these were led by 18-year old Colin Landweer and 10-year old Jackson Huckabay who won eight and seven events respectively. Colin took home first place finishes in the 100 fly (59.75), 200 IM (2:17.33), 100 back (1:03.77), 400 IM (4:54.70), 200 free (2:01.37), 50 free (24.92), 400 free (4:22.63), and 100 free (54.97). Selma swimmer Jackson Huckabay came home with wins in the 50 breast (40.37), 100 breast (1:32.08), 200 free (2:24.33), 50 free (31.27), 200 IM (2:49.04), 50 back (37.80) and 100 free (1:07.67) events.

Several other swimmers were event champions, and they included 10-year old Danielle Albright (50 breast – 41. 37, and 100 breast – 1:29.89), Morgan Coddington (1500 free – 19:02.68), Chris Hansen (200 breast – 2:41.66), Katelyn Herrera (200 fly – 2:32.93), Mallory Korenwinder (100 fly – 1:04.95, 200 IM – 2:26.52, 200 breast – 2:41.68, and 100 breast – 1:13.90), Khloe McCarthy (400 IM – 5:21.62, 200 free – 2:14.31, and 200 back – 2:29.00), Matlyn Morris (50 free – 28.01, and 100 free – 1:00.73), Cody Nash (800 free – 9:30.34, and 1500 free – 18:28.80), Preston Niayesh (50 breast – 36.30, and 100 breast – 1:18.33), Taylor Shaw (1500 free – 20:20.82), and Kylie Walker (50 fly – 34.13, 50 free – 32.64, 50 back – 38.88 and 100 fly – 1:21.17).

INDIVIDUAL TEAM RECORDS

There are only eleven nationally recognized events for the 10-under boys, and Selma Swimmer Jackson Huckabay reset six of those eleven team records. Parker Giles had set the team record in the 50 free as a 31.28 at the Clovis meet in 2010, and Jackson’s 31.27 now stands as the 64th fastest in the nation. He also set the 100 free team record as a 1:07.67, swimming under his preexisting record of 1:11.60 twice while at the meet. The new standards stands as the 31st fastest nationally among all 10-year old boys. Jackson had also previously set the 200 free team record as 2:34.85, and swam nearly ten seconds under it with his 2:24.33 – a time that only ten other 10-year old boys had matched anywhere in the nation. He had also become our top 10-under backstroker as his 37.80 went under Parker’s 39.24 that was set at the Age Group Invite in 2010. Parker also held the 100 back record set as a 1:23.87 at Junior Olympics in 2010, and Jackson again slid under the standard with a time of 1:23.55. Jackson’s backstrokes rank 174th and 284th respectively. Finally, Jackson improved upon Preston Niayesh’s 200 IM team record that was established at Junior Olympics in 2011 as a 2:55.97, and Jackson’s time of 2:49.04 now stands as the 53rd fastest nationally.

Preston Niayesh reestablished two records, one for the 50 and the other for the 100. Preston had set the 50 breaststroke record at the Age Group Invitational earlier this year as a 37.47, and his swim of 36.30 at JO’s now stands as the 76th fastest nationally for boys of age 12. His 100 time of 1:18.33 went well under the record of 1:20.92 that he set in the championship heat at Speedo Grand Challenge earlier this year, and currently ranks 46th nationally.

On the 10-under girls side, Danielle Albright came away with a new team record in the 200 free with a time of 2:35.42, swimming twice under Janessa Bringe’s previous team record of 2:37.68 that was set at the Age Group Invite last summer. Danielle’s time ranks 211th among all 10-year old girls nationally. Kyle Walker continued improving team records that she set in both butterfly events, this time swimming 34.13 in the 50 fly improving her Age Group Invitational time of 34.44 and ranking and ranking 60th among all 10-year old girls nationally. Kylie also went under Janessa Bringe’s 100 fly record that was set as 1:24.50 at Junior Olympics last year. Kylie’s new record of 1:21.17 stands as the 167th nationally.
Mallory Korenwinder doubled up new team records, beginning with the 100 fly and a time of 1:04.95 that currently stands as the 82nd fastest time nationally, and is under the 1:05.91 that Emily Goodbar swam as she set the team record at Zones last summer. Mallory also swam 2:26.51 in the 200 IM, going under Megan Eppler’s previous team record of 2:27.72 that was set at Junior Olympics in 2007. Mallory’s time ranks 88th nationally.

RELAYS

Although relays contribute significant number of points, results from the individual events carried the momentum and made up much needed ground. Any relay event that fielded two Clovis relays were lost to Clovis based on awarded points, despite whether the single TNT relay place first or second. The only relay division supporting two TNT relays was the 15-18 boys (5 total relay events for the meet), and this division was not supported by Clovis in mass. Clovis teams won 15 relays, and had two relays participating in 22 relay events out of the 36 possible relay. In comparison, TNT won 13 relays and only had two relays in five of those. Clovis outscored TNT in relays by a margin of 1,692 to 1,130 which is a 562 point discrepancy that the individual events needed to offset. If only 14-under relays contributed to the overall team score, TNT would have scored a mere 682 points, not only behind Clovis’s 1,298 points, but also behind the 748 points scored by Santa Maria’s 14-under relays.

Team Relay records were broken in the 11-12 girls 400 Medley composed of Madison McCarthy, Maddie Pallares, Janessa Bringe and Skylar Ford. The team swam a time of 5:12.62 for a second place finish, and slid under the previous team record of 5:12.94 set by Khloe McCarthy, Mallory Korenwinder, Mia Newkirk and Allyson Duffy at Junior Olympics in 2010. Our 15-16 male 400 free relay of 4:09.86 by Jeremiah Santillana, Justin Bos, Chris Hansen and Tristan Gains placed 4th and set the team record in that event. The previous record of 4:19.06 was set at Junior Olympics in 2009 by Nathan Rhea, Chris Hansen, Chris Nolan and Nick Orton. Our 11-12 boys 200 medley relay of Quinton Davis, Preston Niayesh, JD Koster and Brett Wong swam a time of 2:19.06 which was well under the team record of 2:21.79 set by Michael Jia, Alonso Escobedo, Parker Giles and Luke Dignan at JO’s in 2011. The 10-under girls team of Maya Herrera, Priscilla Niayesh, Danielle Albright and Kylie Walker , who broke the CCS record in the 200 medley relay earlier this summer, swam 2:15.53 in the 200 free relay, taking out the previous team record that was set as 2:18.85 a JO’s last year by Janessa Bringe, Priscilla Niayesh, Alex Roberts and Skylar Ford. The 11-12 boys 200 free relay of JD Koster, Preston Niayesh, Brett Wong and Quinton Davis swam 2:04.57, well enough to reset the team record in that event which was set as 2:05.36 in 2010 by Owen Ansel, Luke Dignan, JD Koster and Kyle Grissom.