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EIGHT NAMED TO CCS ALL STAR TEAM

Jan 212012

Thirty-eight TNT swimmers competed at the All Star Qualifying meet over the first full weekend of the New Year. Several of our swimmers age 14 and under had expressed an interest in representing Central California Swimming (CCS) as a 2012 All Star team member. The All Star meet is scheduled to take place during the January 21-22 weekend in Lodi.

Eight of our swimmers performed will enough at the qualifying meet to make the team. Congratulations to: Skylar Ford from Visalia (10-under girls), Janessa Bringe from Visalia (10-under girls), Jonas Huckabay from Selma (11-12 boys), Jackson Huckabay from Selma (10-under boys), Morgan Coddington from Selma (13-14 girls, Kyle Grissom from Porterville (13-14 boys), Preston Niayesh from Visalia (11-12 boys), and Satoshi Shinkwawa from Selma (11-12 boys). Our TNT group will be well represented by both our eight qualified swimmers, as well as our three coaches, Gary Ota of Selma (All Star Head Coach), Angela Martinho of Tulare (10-under coach), and Caroline Reynaud of Fig Garden (11-12 coach), along with the CCS Age Group Chair, our very own Kim Korenwinder.

A 2012 All Star member at age 11, Preston Niayesh led our team in winning four of his 6 events (100 breast 1:20.51, 100 fly 1:14.51, 200 breast 2:48.29, and 100 back 1:16.75) at the All Star Q meet. He was followed by 14-year old Emily Goodbar who became the event champion in both the 500 free (5:24.29) and 200 IM (2:16.74) events. Our other event champions included 7-year old Ian Belflower (100 fly 1:24.87), 14-year old Kyle Grissom (100 fly 58.18), 9-year old Jackson Huckabay (50 back 36.70), and 11 year old Satoshi Shinkawa who improved 23 seconds in the 500 free (6:12.60) in what may have turned out to be the race of the meet with less than two seconds separating Satoshi, Jonas Huckabay (6:13.17), and JD Koster (6:14.26) in the 500 free event, with all three 11-year old boys swimming in the same heat.

Considering the time of the year, our teams improvement percentage was a respectable 40%, and was led by 11-year old Satoshi Shinkawa who trains in Selma and improved 6 of his 7 events for an 86% improvement rate. Other swimmers who improved 50% or more of their times included: Caolinn Hardy (78%), Skylar Ford (75%), Mark Tiersma (75%), Jimmy Koster (67%), Anna Lehrman (67%), Alex Roberts (67%), Morgan Coddington (63%), Katherine Sullivan (63%), Kyle Grissom (60%), Maya Herrera (57%), Cody Nash (57%), Bre Abell (50%), Justin Bos (50%), Noah Haworth (50%), Jackson Huckabay (50%), Paul Lerro (50%), and Scott Yribarren (50%).

TNT 2011 SHORT COURSE SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS Small Team Division

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Jan 212012

Tule Nation Tritons traveled to Golden West College over the third weekend of December with only 7 swimmers, yet brought home the 1^st place trophy for the Small Team Division, outscored the next nearest team by 110 points, and finished as the 14^th highest scoring team, despite team-size division, at the meet. Our 363 points were led by the nearly undefeated performance of Kolton Norys who is now a recent graduate of Auburn University. Winning four of his five events, and placing 2^nd in the 50 free, Kohlton single handedly amassed 156 points.

Our impressive mens team of Wes Coles, Colin Landweer, Chris Nolan, Kohlton Norys and Nathan Rhea, in a truly team-manner with each individual without exception contributing, accumulated 360 points on the mens side of scoring alone. Only one other team, AZOT from the large team division, accumulated more points on the mens side of the meet. Three relays were entered into the meet, and all three scored resulting in a total contribution from relays of 154 points. All three relays were also under the qualifying time for USA Nationals in their respective categories, and one (400 medley relay 3:25.41) resulted in a bronze medal performance, and was also under the CCS Record in the senior division. Wesley Coles, Colin Landweer, Kohlton Norys and Nathan Rhea teamed up for all relays placing 6^th in the 800 free relay (6:51.85), 4^th in the 400 free relay (3:08.67), and 3^rd in the 400 medley relay.

Kohltons wins included the 200 back (1:44.44), the 100 free (44.14), 200 free (1:38.23) and 100 back (47.60). His 100 backstroke time was also a record breaking performance as he went under the Sectional record of 47.96 set by Russian born Vladimir Morozov in 2009 while representing Torrance Swim Club. Wesley Coles contributed 45 points from individual events with a championship swim and 7^th place finish in the 200 fly (1:51.55), a 14^th place finish in the 500 free (4:35.65), 20^th place finish in the 1650 free (16:07.03) and 21^st place finish in the 100 fly (51.69). Making his first appearance at short course sectionals, Christopher Nolan was one of only three male TNT swimmers to earn a second swim in an individual event, and he did so by finishing 20^th in the 200 fly (1:55.03) thereby contributing 5 points to the overall team score.

Our team out scored all but one team at the meet on the mens side, despite the size of the any team, and despite the fact that we only had 5 male swimmers. This dominant performance was reflected in the early days of the meet. However, no total point accumulation can be counted toward a combined team score unless both male and female swimmers score at the meet. The Sectional meet follows the team scoring protocol conducted at Nationals. Without a single point from a female swimmer going into the fifth and final day of the meet, our team was not represented on the combined team score list for team placing considerations.

Qualified in only 3 events, Mallory Korenwinder already swam her 200 yard breaststroke event (2:24.18) on day 2 placing 39^th in the event (up from the 46^th place she was entered at). She had 2 events left: the 100 fly which she didnt have a short course cut for, and the 100 breaststroke where she was the 57^th seed, well beyond her initial seeding of 46^thin the 200 breaststroke event. Only the top 24 swimmers could earn a second swim, and thereby score at the meet.

Mallory qualified for the meet with a 1:07.75 in the 100 breaststroke, and in the preliminary heats of the last day she swam 1:06.47 to place 25^th, a jump of 32 places. An impatient wait of 30 minutes would reveal two girls who decided to scratch, thereby placing Mallory into scoring position. Mallory swam her exact time of 1:06.47 in the bonus heat, moving up one additional place, and scoring 3 points for the team, and in a shot at the buzzer fashion, brought home the 1^st place trophy.

Reminiscent of time improvements among age group swimmers, our teams improvement percentage was over 81%. Although Kohlton may not have topped his personal best, he was surprisingly close in several events, considering he was competing at a caliber of meet that he has moved well beyond. He did; however, improve all his events that were previously recorded with our team. Other 100% improvements also came from Wesley Coles who had back-to-back 100% improvements when considering Junior Nationals that he recently attended. After a hand injury, Chris Nolan still managed to not only earn a second swim, but also improve 100% of his times. Mallory Korenwinder was our other swimmer with a 100% improvement rate. Both Emily Goodbar (75%) and Colin Landweer (67%) each maintained improvement rates at 50% or higher. Congratulations Emily for her first appearance at Sectionals.

Each time Kohlton hit the water, he reestablished a TNT team record. Kohton had set the team record in the 200 back as a 16 year old in 2005 at Winter Invite with a 1:50.06, and now swam 1:44.44 at Sectionals. His NCAA time this past year was 1:43.30. Kohlton returned in 2009 as a 20 year old and set the team record in the 100 free during the Hanford meet with a 46.84 and now swam 44.14 at Sectionals. He went 43.77 at the James Martin Invite in March of this year. At that same Hanford meet in 2009, he swam 21.13 in the 50 free, and at Sectionals he went 20.34. He swam 19.38 at NCAA this past year. As a 17 year old, Kohlton swam a 1:42.44 at the Belmont Grand Prix meet in 2007 for the 200 free. At Sectionals he swam 1:38.23, and this compares to his 1:37.74 that he swam at the Ralph Crocker Classic in January. Kohltons 100 back from the CCS Record breaking relay was his fastest 100 back of the three that he swam at Sectionals this winter, and he went 47.56 on the lead-off of that relay. Kohlton swam 50.42 at the Winter Invite as a 16-year old in 2005, and he went 46.95 at the SEC Championships this past year.

Mallory Korenwinder also set two new team records at Sectionals. Her scoring performance in the 100 breaststroke came with a time of 1:06.47 (twice), and this was under the 1:07.75 record breaking performance that she had at the Terrapin meet only a month earlier. Mallory has now qualified for the Santa Clara International meet with that time, and her time is the 39^th fastest for any 13-year old girl in the nation for 2011. Her other record was in the 200 breaststroke where she swam 2:24.18, once again surpassing her Terrapin time of 2:24.94, and swimming the 32^nd fastest time in the nation for any 13 year old girl during 2011.

Wesley Coles set a new team record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:00.08, thereby silencing any questions as to his ability in the stroke. The previous record belonged to Sam Hanson, now competing for Canisius College in New York. Sam set the record at Sectionals last year with a 1:00.18. Wesleys time is ranked 394^th in the nation for all 17-year old boys for the entire year of 2011. Colin Landweer was our other swimmer with a record breaking performance by swimming 1:55.93 in the 200 IM event at the meet. Nathan Rhea had set the record last year at Sectionals with a 1:57.42. Colins time ranks 296^th nationally for 17-year old males.

TNT PLACES 16th AT WINTER AGE GROUP INVITATIONAL

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Dec 212011

21 TNT swimmers competed at the Winter Age Group Invitational Championships held initially at the Belmont pool in Long Beach and then moved to Golden West College in Huntington Beach. Our swimmers were among over 1,070 other athletes and placed 16^th among the 45 teams that scored at the meet.

Fourteen TNT swimmers performed at level that contributed to the overall 379.5 team points, and were led by the 84 points accumulated by ten-year old JD Koster of Visalia. Placing among the top seven in any of his six events, his highest place was 3^rd in the 50 fly (31.62). JD had two fourth place finishes, one in the 200 free (2:19.11) and 200 IM (2:35.43) along with two 6^th place finishes (100 fly 1:14.86 and 100 free 1:03.64). His seventh place finish was in the 50 free (29.16).

Included in the fourteen scoring swimmers were:

· Khloe McCarthy (age 13) earned 55 points including a 5^th place in the 200 breast (2:32.26)

· Skylar Ford (age 9) earned 43 points with a 4^th place finish in the 50 free (30.95)

· Katelyn Herrera (age 14) scored 42 points with two 4^th place finishes: 500 free (5:22.09), 200 free (2:00.66)

· Kyle Grissom (age 14) earned 23 points including a 7^th place finish in the 100 fly (56.58)

· Bre Abell (age 15) earned 20 points including a 4^th place finish in the 100 back (1:01.37)

· Alonso Escobedo (age 11) also earned 20 points including a 9^th place finish in the 500 free (5:42.90)

· Cody Nash (age 16) earned 17 points including a 6^th place finish in the 1650 freestyle (17:34.62)

· Preston Niayesh (age 11) also earned 17 points with a 7^th place finish in the 100 breaststroke (1:16.20)

· Jackson Huckabay (age 9) earned 10 points including a 9^th place finish in the 200 IM (2:45.45)

· Dax Korenwinder (age 11) also earned 10 points including an 11^th place finish in the 50 breast (35.90)

· Janessa Bringe (age 10) earned 9 points with her highest finish of 9^th in the 200 free (2:25.84)

· Noah Haworth (age 14) contributed a point in the 1000 free (11:19.46)

· Josh Koster (age 15) contributed a point and finished 19^th in the 500 free (5:03.20)

Our team of athletes improved 67% of their times, and these improvements were led by 100% improvement rates of Janessa Bringe (3 of 3 events), Peyton Costa (1 of1 event), Kyle Grissom (6 of 6 events), JD Koster (6 of 6 events), Josh Koster (6 of 6 events) and Andrea Morales (2 of 2 events). Other swimmers who improved at least half of their times included: Noah Haworth (86%), Owen Ansel (83%), Alonso Escobedo (83%), Jackson Huckabay (83%), Cody Nash (80%), Skylar Ford (50%), Katelyn Herrera (50%), Khloe McCarthy (50%), and Preston Niayesh (50%).

Congratulations to all swimmers, including Chris Hansen, Javier Morales, Jazmine Niayesh and Megan Nino for qualifying and competing at the meet.

21 BRAVE THE RAIN IN SAN LUIS OBISPO

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Dec 022011

Despite the stormy weather on the Sunday of the San Luis Obispo Gobbler Classic, 12-year old Jacqui Koster and 11-year old Jakob Koorey still manage to improve 88% and 86% of their times respectively. The meet was the last opportunity for our swimmers to qualify for the Winter Age Group (WAG) Invitational held in Long Beach over the second weekend of December. Swimming sizable drops such as nearly 6 seconds in the 200 freestyle (1:54.00), 15-year old Josh Koster improved 71% of his times as he recently returned from the Terrapin Senior meet and readies for the Age Group Invitational. His teammate from Visalia, 12-year old Andrea Morales also improved 71% of her times and also made her second WAG qualifying time, this time in the 50 freestyle (28.55). Other swimmers who improved 50% or more of their times included: Danielle Albright (63%), Jimmy Koster (63%), JD Koster (50%) and Katherine Sullivan (50%).

Our swimmers competed in the Blue, Red or White divisions depending on their entry times. Event champions within their respective divisions were led by 8-year old Mason Amble of Visalia who nearly went undefeated, taking home 1^st place finishes in eight of his nine events: 50 fly, 25 breast, 50 free, 25 back, 100 IM, 50 back, 50 breast and 25 freestyle events in the 7-8 age division. Eight year old Danielle Albright, swimming primarily in the faster Blue division, took home seven wins of her eleven events, while 9-year old Skylar Ford and 12-year old Jakob Koorey each took home 5 wins apiece. Other event champions included: Jayce Ford (3 wins), Jacqui Koster (2 wins), JD Koster (3 wins), Paige Costa (2 wins), Emily Sullivan (2 wins), Brett Hanke (1 win), London Jones (1 win), Toby Jones (1 win), Andrea Morales (1 win), Katherine Sullivan (1 win) and Anthonly Tellechea (1 win).

57% OF TIMES IMPROVED AT CLOVIS

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Nov 162011

Six of our 41 swimmers competing at the Clovis B and IMX meets over the second weekend of November improved all events entered, giving them a perfect 100% improvement rate for the combined meets. Swimming her first meet in the 13-14 age group, Morgan Coddington picks up where she left off prior to her birthday with drastic improvements, this time in all five events. Sister Paige Coddington follows suit by improving 4 of 4, while a 10-under team record holder, and Hanford swimmer now 11-years old, Alonso Escobedo has perfect performances by improving 5 of 5 of his events. Nadia Garabedian and Mikayla Vierra both improved 3 events each, while Caolinn Hardy swam a total of 8 events over the weekend, 6 of them being new, and improved her 100 breaststroke event that was previously recorded with the team.

Other swimmers who improved 50% or more of their times included: Jackson Huckabay (88%), Danielle Albright (80%), Sarina Batth (80%), Scott Yribarren (80%), Lily Hodges (75%), Anthony Tellechea (75%), Justin Warner (75%), Reagan DeLong (67%), Noah Haworth (67%), Anna Lehrman (67%), and Andrea Morales (67%).

Large double-digit improvements came from several individuals at the meet, with the largest drop from 8-year old Danielle Albright who improved over 37 seconds in the 200 freestyle (swimming a 2:44.77 in the event). Luke Dignan showed the next largest improvement in the 500 free (6:07.75) by dropping over 26 seconds. The other rather large drops came from 12-year old Justin Warner who improved over 23 seconds in his 500 free (6:08.01) and also dropped over 16 seconds in his 100 fly (1:13.38) events.

Other double-digit improvements also occurred, such as 14 seconds by Annlyn Haworth (age 9: 200 free 3:29.61), 15 seconds by Jackson Huckabay (age 9: 200 IM 2:54.10 & 100 fly 1:26.82), 11 seconds by Jonas Huckabay (age 11: 500 free 6:24.27); 17 seconds by Satoshi Shinkawa (age 11: 500 free 6:35.60 & 100 back 1:25.61); 13 seconds by Mikayla Vierra (age 8: 100 back 1:58.11), and 16 seconds by Scott Yribarren (age 18: 1000 free 12:46.71 & 500 free 6:13.22).

Fourteen of our swimmers were event champions over the two days. Jackson Huckabay led the group by winning four events during the first day within the 9-year old division (100 free-1:09.71; 100 breast-1:34.39; 50 fly-37.50 & 200 IM-2:56.07). Our other event champions included: Janessa Bringe (200 IM), Alonso Escobedo (100 back, 200 IM), Caolinn Hardy (50 fly), Jonas Huckabay (1000 free), Toby Jones (100 breast), Preston Niayesh (100 free, 100 breast & 50 fly), Alex Roberts (200 free), Satoshi Shinkawa (200 free), Shoji Shinkawa (100 back), Mark Tiersma (100 breast), Mikayla Vierra (200 IM), Justin Warner (200 free) and Savannah Williams (50 fly).

GOODBAR & KORNWINDER BREAK TEAM RECORDS AT TERRAPIN

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Nov 162011

Intent on achieving her second sectional cut, this time in the 200 fly, 14-year old Emily Goodbar might have come up short by improving her time to a 2:14.28 in the preliminary heats, but the time was enough to earned her a 27^th spot for a second swim in the bonus final at the meet. While at finals she improved to a 2:11.55, both making the Sectional cut, and breaking one of the longest standing team records on the books. The previous record was held by Lynnie North and was set in 1990 at the LA Invite held at USC. Emilys time is the 172^nd fastest time swam by any 14-year old girl in the nation during all of 2011. She was a dual finalist by also swimming the 100 fly in 1:00.44 in the preliminary heats which was fast enough for a 22^nd place seed in the consolation final heat. Emily has Sectional qualifying times in both the 100 and 200 butterfly events, and will join Mallory Korenwinder, Wesley Coles, Colin Landweer, Chris Nolan and Nathan Rhea at the meet in Long Beach following the Age Group Invitational weekend.

Our only other team records were broken by Mallory Korenwinder who will be attending her second Sectional meet this next month. Thirteen year old Mallory swam under the pre-existing team record in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, not just once in each event, but twice first in prelims, and then again in finals. Joclyn Ford had set the 13-14 record in the 100 breaststroke at Junior Olympics in 2004 with a 1:10.08. Mallorys preliminary time of 1:09.29 wasnt only well under the record, but was also fast enough for 17^th place seeding in the consolation final. While in that heat, she swam 1:07.75 for a 5^th place finish in the heat and 17^th place finish overall. Only 47 girls who were age 13 had a time faster than 1:07.75 up to that point for the entire year, and this time places her within three seconds of the CCS Record while still 13. She swam 2:27.17 in the preliminary heats of the 200 breaststroke, once again fast enough for not only a team record, but a 15^th place seeding in the consolation heat. There she once again surpassing her morning performance by finishing with a 2:24.94 and a 3^rd place finish in that heat, and the 13^th fastest swim for the entire meet for the event. Only 40 swimmers swam as fast nationally during 2011.

Wesley Coles became our highest finisher with a 2^nd place swim in the 500 freestyle. He improved his 4:48.23 that he swam at the Hanford meet in September to a 4:40.82 nearly breaking into the sub-40 times. His other championship final swim came in the 5^th place finish of the 100 fly event where he swam 52.77. Wesley swam a total of 11 times when also considering his consolation final in the 200 free (1:46.01) and bonus final in the 200 back (2:01.66) events.

Colin Landweers 22.22 was also fast enough for a championship final swim in the 50 freestyle where he swam the 7^th fastest time at the meet. Improving his preliminary swim by over a second in the 100 free placed his 48.54 in 3^rd place for the consolation heat, or 13^th overall. His 1:45.83 in the 200 free was fast enough for a 2^nd place finish in the consolation heat, while he swam the 5^th fastest time in the 1000 free with a 9:50.37. His 1:59.68 was also fast enough to win the bonus heat in the 200 IM.

Chris Nolan was another repeat finalist who swam a total of 10 swims at the meet earning second swims in 4 of his 6 events. His 4:52.26 in the 500 free was fast enough for a 5^th place finish in the consolation heat. He won the bonus heat in the 200 breast (2:15.49) and placed 2^nd in the bonus heat of the 100 fly with a 53.79. He had his highest finish in the 200 fly event where he and Wesley Coles represented TNT in the championship final. Chriss 1:56.26 was fast enough for a 6^th place finish among the 10 swimmers in the final heat.

Returning veteran Nathan Rhea matched Wesley Coles in the number of swims at the meet due to the repeat final opportunities. He led off the meet with the highest place of any of our swimmers finishing 6^th in the 400 IM (4:13.48) during the first day. This championship finish would be matched in the 200 breaststroke later in the meet where his 2:12.14 was more than enough for a championship swim and an eventual 6^th fastest swim at the meet in the event. He had a consolation swim in the 200 back were his time of 1:59.07 was fast enough for a 9^th place finish in that heat. The 1:01.56 in the preliminary heats of the 100 breaststroke was fast enough to edge into the championship heat and a 10^th place finish there. A bonus 200 fly swim of 2:02.93 preceded the 100 breaststroke in both the preliminary and final heats on the final day. His meet was wrapped up with a 56.49 in the 100 back for a 2^nd place finish in the bonus heat.

A returning athlete to the meet, now 14-year old Katelyn Herrera earned her second swim for the first time, and she did it in the 200 yard freestyle event. Her 1:58.90 was fast enough to edge into the bonus heat in the event.

Besides our finalists, our other A-session qualifiers eligible to make finals included Bre Abell who finished 40^th in the 100 free (55.03), Hannah Giles who finished 57^th in the 100 breast (1:12.60), Kyle Grissom finished 48^th in the 200 fly (2:14.06), Chris Hansen finished 38^th in the 200 breast (2:22.15), Khloe McCarthy finished 53^rd in the 200 breast (2:35.34), and Mia Newkirk finished 45^th in the 100 fly (1:01.59). Additional qualifiers for the meet included: Allyson Duffy, Josh Koster, Javier Morales, Megan Nino, Taylor Shaw and Cameron Weas.

The TNT Terrapin team maintained a 54% improvement rate which is considered rather high for a senior-level group. These improvements were led by 100% performances of Wesley Coles, Mallory Korenwinder and Mia Newkirk each improving either 6 of 6 or 7 of 7 events. Those with 50% or more improvement included: Khloe McCarthy (86%), Chris Nolan (83%), Kyle Grissom (75%), Chris Hansen (75%), Josh Koster (75%), Katelyn Herrera (67%), Cameron Weas (67%), Bre Abell (50%), Emily Goodbar (50%) and Megan Nino (50%). Katelyn Herrera had the largest drop in time with her nearly 45 second improvement in the 1000 freestyle. She was followed by Chris Hansen who improved over 20 seconds in his 500 free (5:08.81) from only about 2 months ago. The only other double-digit improvement came from Khloe McCarthy who improved over 10 seconds in her 500 freestyle (5:25.66).

TNT REPRESENTED WELL AT ARROYO GRANDE

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Nov 022011

A group of 10 TNT swimmers made their presence known while competing at the PUMA Breast Cancer Awareness meet held at Arroyo Grande during the last weekend of October. The team, primarily composed of swimmers 10 years old and younger, was led by 8-year old Tomas Contreras who took home first place finishes in six of his seven events. Event champions also included five-year-old Paige Costa who won the 25 fly. Her brother eight-year-old Peyton Costa, who competed in the 5-10 division instead of the 5-8 age division, took home a win in the 5-10 50 backstroke event. Eight-year old Brett Hanke won both the 50 free and 50 fly in the 5-8 division, while Toby Jones took home wins in the 50 breaststroke and 100 breaststroke events.

A couple of swimmers improvements were in the double digits. Desmond Brown had the largest drop in time as he took off over 18 seconds in the 100 freestyle event, while his counterpart Anthony Tellechea, who improved 100% of his times, took off over 14 seconds in the 100 IM event, and dropped over 11 seconds in his 100 breaststroke event.

Congratulations and a warm welcome goes to five-year old London Jones for swimming her first two events: 20 back and 25 free.

14 EARN HIGH POINT IN MERCED

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Oct 282011

Seventy-one TNT swimmers competed at the Merced Halloween meet in Atwater during the October 22^nd weekend. Nearly 20% of our swimmers were recognized with 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd place high point awards. Eight year old Danielle Albright won the 50 free (34.81), 50 breast (42.46), 50 back (42.62), 100 IM (1:27.90), 100 free (1:16.02), 100 breast (1:34.74), 50 fly (44.19) and 100 back (1:32.15), while 7 year old Ian Belflower of Bakersfield won the 50 free (33.60), 50 breast (45.76), 100 fly (1:23.33), 50 back (38.81), 100 free (1:17.09), 50 fly (35.93), 100 back (1:24.06) and 200 IM (3:07.56) events. Ten-year old Preston Niayesh was our final undefeated swimmer, winning the 50 free (29.69), 50 breast (37.71), 100 fly (1:13.95), 100 IM (1:11.32), 100 free (1:05.70), 100 breast (1:22.40), 50 fly (32.35) and 100 back (1:15.35) events. First place high point trophy winners also included Chase Belfower (age 6) of Bakersfield who won the 25 breast (37.44), 100 IM (2:40.38), 50 free (53.28), 50 breast (1:25.59), 25 fly (29.81) and 50 back (1:06.20) events, and Mallory Korenwinder (age 13) who won the 100 breast (1:11.05), 200 fly (2:29.58), 100 back (1:08.66), 200 IM (2:17.45), 200 breast (2:35.71), 100 fly (1:03.08) and 400 IM (5:00.13) events. Chris Nolan was also a trophy winner as he took home 1^st place finishes in the 15-over 1650 free (17:26.96), 100 fly (55.36), 200 back (2:11.62) and 1000 free (10:21.00) events.

Runner-up recipients were awarded a gift certificate, and these went to 5-year old Paige Costa who won the 50 free (51.92) and 25 fly (23.96) events, as well as to her 8-year old brother Peyton Costa who took home wins in the 50 breaststroke (51.16) and 100 IM (1:34.19) events. In the older 13-14 division an apparent tie went to Kyle Grissom (age 13) won the 50 free (24.91), 100 breast (1:12.76) and 200 back (2:21.84) events, and Chris Hansen (age 14) who won the 100 breast (1:09.65), 200 fly (2:27.48), 200 IM (2:18.44), 200 breast (2:21.75) and 400 IM (4:53.73) events. JD Koster of Visalia was also a runner-up in the 10-under division winning the 50 backstroke (36.34) and 200 IM (2:44.29) events, while Colin Landweer took home a win in the 100 free (49.82). Our final 3 runner-ups included 13-year old Mia Newkirk who won both the 50 free (26.26) and 100 back (1:05.05) events, 15-year old Megan Nino winning the 50 free (28.53), 100 breast (1:17.22), 100 back (1:07.20) and 200 back (2:25.83) events, and 12-year old Micah Ruiz swimming with Bill who won the 50 free (27.31), 50 back (32.12), 100 free (1:01.53) and 100 back (1:11.55) events.

Third place high point winners went to Jayce Ford (age 7 of Visalia) who tripled up wins in the 100 breast (2:02.89), 50 fly (49.69) and 200 IM (3:44.88) events, 16-year old Nathan Rhea who won the 100 breast (1:03.56), 200 IM (2:03.22), 200 breast (2:19.57) and 400 IM (4:20.92) events, and 6-year old Emily Sullivan who was the event champion in both the 25 back (27.89) and 50 back (1:03.97) events.

Our other event champions within their respective divisions included Mason Amble (7-8 100 IM), Owen Ansel (13-14 100 back), Keiren Arakawa (11-12 100 back), Justin Bos (13-14 100 breast), Janessa Bringe (9-10 50 back & 200 IM), Reagan De Long (11-12 50 free), Luke Dignan (13-14 200 back), Allyson Duffy (13-14 500 free), Jake Goodbar (11-12 100 free & 1000 free), Tracy Hannan (15-over 50 free & 500 free), Naomi Haworth (11-12 200 free), Noah Haworth (13-14 200 IM & 200 free), Katelyn Herrera (13-14 200 fly & 200 free), Josh Holt (7-8 50 fly & 100 back), Jackson Huckabay (9-10 50 fly & 100 back), Jonas Huckabay (11-12 100 free & 1000 free), Chrystelle Jaramillo (13-14 50 free & 200 free), Michael Jia (11-12 100 fly, 50 fly & 100 back), Jakob Koorey (11-12 200 free), Dax Korenwinder (11-12 100 fly), Jacqui Koster (11-12 50 fly), Josh Koster (15-over 100 back & 100 fly), Alexies Ledesma (15-over 200 back), Conor Martin (15-over 100 breast, 200 IM & 200 free), Khloe McCarthy (13-14 100 fly), Andrea Morales (11-12 200 free), Javiar Morales (15-over 200 free), Cody Nash (15-over 200 breast), Madison Pallares (9-10 50 breast), Jeremiah Santillana (13-14 50 free), Taylor Shaw (15-over 200 free), Mikayla Vierra (7-8 50 breast & 50 back), Ivan Villavazo (11-12 100 breast), Justin Warner (11-12 200 IM), Nick Yribarren (13-14 200 free)

A single team record was set while at Merced, again by Preston Niayesh. Preston has broken a new team record in what seems to be three consecutive meets. This time Preston swam 1:11.32 in the 10-under 100 IM event, breaking Alonso Escobedos record of 1:12.80 that was set at the Holiday Festival in Arizona last December. Prestons previous time was 1:13.54, and his new record currently stands as the 145^th fastest in the nation for the 2011 year among all 10-year old boys, and stands as the fastest time on record in CCS for the year.

2011 Raisin Age Group Invitational

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Sep 282011

The most impressive observation from the Selma meet was the 97 TNT swimmers who were entered and competed at the meet. Seventy-three of our swimmers had previously recorded times in 50 yard or longer events with the team, and these swimmers maintained a 64% improvement rate. Twenty of these swimmers improved all events entered, and they included: Tristian Abell, Matthew Bivens, Justin Bos, Morgan Coddington, Paige Coddington, Tomas Contreras, Peyton Costa, Chris Ewins, Laurne Geiger, Emily Goodbar, Chris Hansen, Noah Haworth, Lily Hodges, Chrystelle Jaramillo, Jakob Koorey, Jacqui Koster, Josh Koster, Emily Sullivan, Ivan Villalvazo and Nicholas Yribarren.

Twenty-seven swimmers recorded short-course times in events 50 yards or longer for the first time while at the meet. A welcome goes to: Keiren Arakawa, Demaris, Avila, Chase Belflower, Damian Brown, Makaira, Chavez, Malakai Chavez, Paige Costa, Khori Cranford, Tara Fry, Lucas Huckabay, Rachel Just, Zachary Just, Anna Lehrman, Tyler Mauldin, Hannah Mukai, Madison Pallares, Zakery Phillips, Miranda Pimentel, Seiji Shinkawa, Shoji Shinkawa, Victoria Valdez, Isabella Vaughn, Mikayla Vierra and Colin Watamura.

The meet recognized swimmers competing within individual age categories, opposed to age-group categories. Nine of our swimmers were uncontested as they took home 1st place finishes in all events they competed in. Bre Abell won each of 4 events in for 15 year old girls, while Ian Belflower took home 1st place finishes in his 4 events for 7-year old boys. Wes Coles was the champion in 4 events for the 17-year old boys division, while Peyton Costa swept 8 of 8 events for the 8-year old boys. Teammates Alexies Ledesma (100 free, 100 fly, 200 back & 200 free) and Anna Lehrman (50 free, 100 breast, 200 IM & 500 free) split 8 events, winning 4 each for 16 year old girls division, while sister Emily Lehrman took home 1st place finishes in 4 events (50 free, 100 breast, 200 IM & 500 free).

Preston Niayesh dominated the 10-year old boys division winning all 8 events he swam (50 free, 50 breast, 100 fly, 50 back, 100 breast, 50 fly, 100 back & 200 IM). His 100 breaststroke event also broke the team record of 1:19.27 that was set by Dax Korenwinder at Junior Olympics earlier this year. Preston swam 1:18.28 and is a time that currently ranks

Our other event champions, along with their age and number of events won, included: Danielle Albright (age 8 – winning 3), Owen Ansel (14-3), Malakai Chavez (7-1), Morgan Coddington (12-7), Allyson Duffy (13-1), Madison Ekizian (14-1), Jayce Ford (7-5), Skylar Ford (9-7), Nadia Garabedian (7-6), Lauren Geiger (12-2), Emily Goodbar (14-7), Kyle Grissom (13-6), Chris Hansen (14-4), Noah Haworth (13-2), Katelyn Herrera (14-2), Lily Hodges (9-1), Jackson Huckabay (9-5), Jonas Huckabay (11-2), Chrystelle Jaramillo (13-1), Michael Jia (11-4), Toby Jones (8-1), Jakob Koorey (11-1), Mallory Korenwinder (13-3), JD Koster (10-1), Colin Landweer (16-4), Conor Martin (15-1), Khloe McCarthy (13-2), Madison McCarthy (11-2), Javiar Morales (16-1), Sarid Morales (12-1), Cody Nash (15-1), Mia Newkirk (13-5), Jazmine Niayesh (8-6), Megan Nino (15-3), Chris Nolan (15-2), Madison Pallares (10-1), Nathan Rhea (16-3), Micah Ruiz (12-4), Taylor Shaw (15-1), Satoshi Shinkawa (11-1), Shoji Shinkawa (6-4), Katherine Sullivan (9-1), Mark Tiersma (12-1), Justin Warner (12-3), Scott Yribarren (18-4).

8 OF 12 DIVISION HIGH POINT WINNERS GO TO TNT SWIMMERS

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Sep 222011

During the first short course meet of the season, TNT swimmers took home high point awards in 8 of the 12 age group/gender divisions that ranged from 6-under boys and girls to the 15-over age group. Our teams 4,735 points were led by high point winners: Paige Costa (6-under girls), Chase Belflower (6-under boys), Ian Belflower (7-8 boys), Preston Niayesh (9-10 boys), Alonso Escobedo (11-12 boys), Noah Haworth (13-14 boys), Taylor Shaw (15-over girls), Cameron Weas (15-over boys).

Eighty two swimmers competed as TNT during the first short course meet of the season hosted by Hanford. Twenty-seven of those swimmers improved every event they had competed in while at the meet based on previously recorded times achieved while on the team. Congratulations to: Danielle Albright, Cameron Batth, Desmond Brown, Sydnie Burleson, Reagan De Long, Madison Ekizian, Alonso Escobedo, Skylar Ford, Chris Hansen, Naomi Haworth, Noah Haworth, Shaan Heugly, Josh Holt, Thys Jacobi, Toby Jones, Jimmy Koster, Paul Lerro, Jazmine Niayesh, Drake Sheela, Kylie Sheela, Shelly Sheela, Satoshi Shinkawa, Justin Warner, Blaire Williams, Zelas Williams, Nicholas Yribarren and Scott Yribarren.

Sixteen additional swimmers improved 50% or more if their times, and they included: Jakob Koorey (80%), Morgan coddington, (75%), Paige Coddington (75%), Peyton Costa (75%), Jayce Ford (75%), Katherine Sullivan (75%), Chrystelle Jaramillo (67%), Ian Belflower (60%), JD Koster (60%), Justin Bos (50%), Janessa Bringe (50%), Wes Coles (50%), Lily Hodges (50%), Colin Landweer (50%), Athena Niayesh (50%), and Kara Nino (50%).

Twenty-eight swimmers have either established newly recorded short course times with the team, or had competed only in events that were 25 yards in length. Welcome goes to: Haydn Aguiar, Ryann Bakker, Chase Belflower, Tomas Contreras, Paige Costa, Jillian Gaines, Tristan Gaines, Amanda Garabedian, Nadia Garabedian, Olivia Garabedian, Bailey Guzman, Brett Hanke, Caolinn Hardy, Annlyn Haworth, Emma Mra, Javiar Morales, Sarid Morales, Brandon Olmos, Zak Phillips, Jeremiah Santillana, Shoji Shinkawa, Dustin Silva, Mark Tiersma, Jacob Ulery, Keira Ulery, Cameron Weas, Damian Brown and Brock Sheela.

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