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ARIZONA BOUND

Dec 052009

TNT will be represented by 9 swimmers at the Desert Thunder Aquatics Holiday Festival in Chandler, Arizona this weekend. Jacob Goodbar will be attending the meet as the lone 10 and under swimming the 100 Backstroke and the 50 Butterfly, and will be joined by his sister Emily Goodbar who will be swimming the 200 Free, 100 Back, 100 Free, 50 Fly, 100 IM, 50 Back, 200 IM, and 50 Free. Joining the Goodbar duo will be Brianna Fleeman swimming the 1000 Free, 200 Free, 100 Fly, 100 Free, 50 Fly, 500 Free, 50 Free and the 1650 Free. TNT will have two 13 – 14 Girls with Bre Abell swimming 100 Back, 100 Free, 50 Back, and the 50 Free, and Alexies Ledesma swimming 100 Fly, 100 Free, 200 Free, and the 50 Free.

The Senior Meet will include Stephanie Nash who will be swimming 200 Free, 50 Free, 100 Back, 100 Free, and 50 Back, and Emily Lehrman will be competing in the 200 Free, 100 Brst, 50 Free, 200 Brst, 100 Fly, 50 Brst, 50 Fly, 200 IM, and 100 Free. The guys in the senior meet will be Nathan Oskam swimming 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, and 100 Fly; and Bobby Yribarren will be representing TNT swimming the 1000 Free, 200 Free, 400 IM, 100 Fly, 500 Free, 200 Fly, and the 1650 Free.

TNT will also have three relays swimming in the senior meet as the young girls will be swimming with our senior girl swimmers.

TNT will be joined by other California teams: Fig Garden Dolphins, Santa Maria Swim Club, Pasadena, Santa Clara Swim Club, and others from all over California.

It looks like it is going to be a good meet. We have a lot of swims that we are ranked in the top 24 with a good opportunity to make finals by getting in the top 16.

Congratulations on qualifying, and good luck to all swimmers.

COLLEGE UPDATE

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Nov 262009

Below is an update of our college swimmers as they competed within the last two weeks. Many of the meets took place during the November 21st weekend while our age group swimmers competed at San Luis Obispo.

LOCAL PAPER INTERVIEWS KORENWINDER & MARTHINHO

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Nov 262009

Still11-year-old Mallory Korenwinder along with coach Angela Martinho were awarded an interview with the local paper based on Mallory’s national 7th place ranking for all 11-year-olds during this past long course ranking cycle. Mallory ranked 7th in not only one event, but both long course breaststroke events (50 meter and 100 meter breaststrokes). She became one of only two swimmers between the ages of 11 and 16 in all of Central California Swimming to rank among the top 10 in the nation. Samantha Goates who is currently competing for Louisiana State University (LSU) was our other swimmer who ranked among the top 10 in the nation, and her 1:57.52 was fast enough to rank 9th among all 18 year olds in the nation and is an NCAA “B” cut.

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CHRIS HANSEN BREAKS TEAM RECORD

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Nov 262009

Sixty-one attached TNT swimmers along with four unattached swimmers traveled to compete at the San Luis Obispo Gobbler meet during the weekend before Thanksgiving. Three swimmers entered and swam the maximum allowable 11 events, and these swimmers included Chris Hansen of Tulare, Parker Giles of Hanford and Dax Korenwinder of Tulare. Chris Hansen led this group in improvements by improving 10 out of his 11 events for a 91% improvement rate. Chris maintained an improvement of nearly five seconds per event with the largest improvement being nearly 14 seconds in the 200 yard breaststroke event. Chris Hansens time of 2:42.23 breaks the previous teams record for 11-12 boys that was set at the beginning of this year by Chris Nolan also from Tulare who swam a 2:44.88 while competing at the All Star Q meet in January.

Of our 65 swimmers, 53 of them had times in 50 yard events or longer that were previously recorded on the team. The overall team improvement percentage was 57% which is above the 50% target considered a successful meet in terms of improvement percentages. This 57% team improvement rate was led by eight swimmers who improved all events entered. Swimmers who maintained a 100% improvement rate included: Bre Abel of Selma and sister Tristian Abel, Jake Caminero of Tulare, Cheyenne Droney of Visalia, Thys Jacobi of Tulare, Joe Koster of Visalia, Madison McCarthy of Tulare and Mia Newkirk of Hanford.

San Luis Obispo awarded 12-under swimmers in each Blue, Red and White divisions. Twenty-four of our swimmers earned first place finishes within one of these three divisions, or fist place in 13-over or Open divisions. Event champions for their respective divisions included Bre Abel (age 13: 100 fly), Fayyaz Ahamed (age 10: 100 fly, 50 back, 50 free & 50 fly), Allyson Duffy (age 11: 100 IM), Madison Ekizian (age 12: 100 free), Skylar Ford (age 7: 25 breast, 25 free & 25 fly), Madison Gilbert (age 13: 100 fly), Parker Giles (age 10: 200 free & 50 breast), Kyle Grissom (age 11: 50 fly), Alex Hansen (age 14: 200 free), Chris Hansen (age 12: 100 free, 100 IM, 200 IM, 100 breast & 50 fly), Thys Jacobi (age 9: 50 breast, 50 back, 100 IM & 50 free), Scott Jordan (age 14: 100 back), Dax Korenwinder (age 9: 100 breast), Jacqui Koster (age 10: 50 back), JD Koster (age 8: 50 breast, 100 breast), Jimmy Koster (age 12: 50 breast & 100 breast), Colin Landweer (age 15: 100 free), Conor Martin (age 13: 100 breast & 100 back), Makenna Mason (age 11: 100 fly), Mia Newkirk (age 11: 50 breast & 50 back), Preston Niayesh (age 9: 100 IM), Megan Nino (age 13: 100 breast), JT Scott (age 12: 200 IM) and Katherine Sullivan (age 7: 25 back).

An additional highlight of the meet was the daring performance of fourteen year old Alex Hansen who swam 500 yards butterfly with a time of 6:27.55 while swimming among the freestylers in the 500 freestyle event.

Our remaining 12 swimmers swam 25 yard events, or have swam times that are now newly recorded with our team. Welcome to: Hazim Ahamed, Madison Droney, Jayce Ford, Skylar Ford, Emily Goodbar, Jacob Goodbar, Jazmine Niayesh, Hannah Parker, Ana Porchia, Katherine Sullivan, Anthony Tellechea and Zachary Rust.

SIX FINAL IN CONCORD

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Nov 102009

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Six of nine TNT swimmers competing at the Terrapin senior meet in Concord during the first weekend of November qualified for a second swim at the meet. Our nine swimmers were among over 600 who competed at the meet. Thirty swimmers returned per event as finalist and Thomas Brown (50 free), Wesley Coles (100 fly & 100 breast), Hannah Giles (100 breast), Sam Hansen (200 breast, 100 breast & 500 free), Colin Landweer (100 free & 500 free) and Nathan Rhea (200 breast & 100 breast) were among them.

A sole new Sectional cut was achieved by Sam Hansen who improved nearly three seconds in the 1000 freestyle to a 10:10.42 finishing in 19^th place in that event and setting a new team record with an improvement over his record setting performance at Winter Invite last December. Triton top finishers were our distance milers who included Nathan Rhea finishing 11^th with a 17:05.58 and new team record by swimming nearly 11 seconds faster than his record set at Winter Invite last year, along with Sam Hansen who finished 13^th with a 17:07.50. The largest time drop came from Alex Hansen who qualified for and swam the 1650 freestyle event and improved over 55 seconds from his previous time and placing 27^th overall.

Our nine swimmers also included Bryan Brown and eleven year old Mallory Korenwinder.

College Update

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Nov 042009

Our collegiate swimmers continue their progress in the 2009-10 swim season for their various schools across the nation. More recent meets have been held during October 30th and 31st. Samantha Goates swims for Louisiana State, Megan Eppler swims for Kentucky, Zach Hansen swims for UC Davis and Jordan Morillo swims for Fresno State.

KORENWINDER AND GOATES RANK AMONG TOP 10 IN THE NATION

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Nov 042009

Annually USA Swimming recognizes swimmers who have achieved a national ranking among the top ten for both the short course and long course seasons for swimmers who are eleven years old to eighteen years old. All times swam across the nation are housed in a central database allowing the tracking and ranking of times. USA Swimming has recently published their final ranking.

Eleven year old Mallory Korenwinder maintained her 7th place ranking among all 11 year old female swimmers across the nation in both the 50 meter (36.94) and 100 meter (1:21w.65) breaststroke events. She is one of only two CCS swimmers of any age between 11 and 18 who maintains a top 10 ranking in long course.

Our second swimmer to rank among the top 10 nationally is currently swimming for Louisiana State University (LSU) and holds the 9th fastest time in the nation for all 18 year old female swimmers. Samantha Goates swam a 1:57.52 in the 200 backstroke last November which is a time that is also eligible for the 2009 Division 1 NCAA B cut.

THREE TEAM RECORDS FALL AT MERCED

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Oct 282009

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Three team records are set by four individuals (one who still remains unattached). The most established of the three records broken was that of the 50 yard freestyle event for the 13-14 year old boys. Fourteen year old Colin Landweer swims a 23.15 to break the existing team record by over two tenths of a second belonging to Josh Tabers (23.36) that was set at the Winter Invitational meet two years ago in December of 2007.

Eleven year old Khloe McCarthy battled with soon to be teammate Brianna Fleeman in the 1650 yard freestyle. Both swimmers swam faster than the existing team record set last month by Mallory Korenwinder while at the Hanford meet. Furthermore both Khloes 20:56.66 and Briannas 20:57.28 were fast enough to qualify for Arizona, and they did so while also qualifying for Arizona in the 1000 on the way to the 1650 yard freestyle cut. Khloes 20:56.66 becomes the new team record.

Fourteen year old Nathan Rhea is the remaining individual who had established a new team record while at the meet. Nathan improves his 100 yard breaststroke to a 1:03.28 to break his own team record that was set at the Tulare meet in February of this year.

TNT swimmers had left this Merced meet with much hardware. High Point awards included trophies for the top three point getters in each age group.

Preston Niayesh goes undefeated for first place High Point in the 7-8 boys division (80), while Nathan Rhea in the 13-14 boys division (76) and Kaleigh Botill in the 17-18 girls division (52) became the only other two TNT swimmers to swim away with the top honors of High Point.

Second place High Point went to Madison Droney in the 6-under girls division (34 points), Katelyn Herrera in the 11-12 girls division (67), Colin Landweer in the 13-14 boys division (71) and Hannah Giles in the 15-16 division (69). Third place went to Kailyn Fleeman in the 7-8 girls division (67), Mallory Korenwinder in the 11-12 girls division (66), Kyle Grissom in the 11-12 boys division (65), Alex Hansen in the 13-14 boys division (65), Wesley Coles in the 15-16 boys division (56), and Sam Hansen in the 17-18 boys division.

Three hundred and eight swimmers represented twelve teams and an unattached group at the Merced meet. Although TNT was not the largest team at the meet (Clovis with 67 swimmers vs. TNT with 50 swimmers), Tule Nation Tritons placed first in the combined team points with 3,686 points over Bakersfields 3,569 points. Eleven teams scored at the meet. Event champions included Kaleigh Botill (15-over 50 free), Wesley Coles (15-over 200 fly), Hannah Giles (15-over 100 breast), Alex Hansen (13-14 500 free), Chris Hansen (11-12 50 breast & 1650 free), Katelyn Herrera (11-12 100 IM), Mallory Korenwinder (11-12 50 breast), Colin Landweer (13-14 50 free), Khloe McCarthy (11-12 1650 free), Preston Niayesh (8-under 50 breast, 100 fly, 50 back & 100 IM), and Nathan Rhea (13-14 100 breast, 100 back & 200 IM).

The overall team improvement percentage was 63%, well over the 50% that would be considered a successful meet. Twelve of our 42 who had previously recorded times on the team in events 50 yards or longer improved all events that they swam. These 12 included: Bre Abell, Tristian Abell, Connor Allison, Kaleigh Botill, Thomas Brown, Crista Droney, Madison Ekizian, Chris Hansen, Makayla Jordan, Colin Landweer, Makenna Mason and Ira Porchia.

2009 Award Night (final)

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Oct 212009

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TNT kicked off the 2009 awards night with a softball game between the swimmers and the adults. There were various accounts of what the final score ended up to be something like adults 12, swimmers 11 oh, but whos counting anyway.

The true highlights for the night included the recipients for several awards that were announced later that evening. Shannon Nolan was our Master of Ceremonies as she guided us through the presentations. Twenty-two swimmers were recognized for obtaining enough points over the year to receive the Royal Swimmer award.

Nathan Rhea was then recognized for setting several Central California Swimming records while he was in the 11-12 age group and swimming for Merced Skimmers.

Eighteen swimmers had broken team records this past year and they received certificates and recognition in their accomplishments.

An additional 21 swimmers maintained times fast enough to remain in the top five among all swimmers in their age group from anywhere in Central California Swimming.

Finally, those swimmers who had been recognized as the Swimmer of the Month during the previous year were once again presented to our swimmers and families:

GRISSOM, JACOBI, KOSTER, NIAYESH AND WILLIAMS GO UNDEFEATED AT CLOVIS

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Oct 132009

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TNT had 60 swimmers entered at the Clovis meet which was the second larges team to Cloviss 105 swimmers. The next largest team was Fresno Dolphins who brought 39 swimmers to the Clovis West facility. A total of 327 swimmers were entered in the meet.

Due to the non-traditional scoring of the IMX meet, Clovis accumulated 76,829 points to TNTs 53,593 points. The third team was the 36 swimmers who were still unattached in Central California Swimming and they accumulated 23,169 points. Including the unattached group, there were 12 teams that competed at the meet from throughout Central California.

Age divisions were established for the 8-under, while the 9, 10, 11 and 12 year old divisions were separately awarded. Five of our young swimmers went undefeated at the meet for their respective ages by winning each of the five events that they had entered. Perfect performances in terms of placing went to: Kyle Grissom training in Visalia (age 11), Thys Jacobi training in Tulare (age 9), JD Koster training in Visalia(age 8), Preston Niayesh training in Tulare (age 8) and Blaire Williams training in Porterville (age 10).

Other champions in individual events included Bre Abell (500 free), Owen Ansel (100 back & 200 IM), Thomas Brown (500 free), Crista Droney (50 back), Allyson Duffy (100 IM), Jacob Harms (50 breast), Katelyn Herrera (100 free, 100 fly & 200 IM), Cori Hoover (200 back), Ashley Hughes (50 breast), David Jacobs (200 back), Michael Jia (50 back & 50 fly), Dax Korenwinder (200 free & 100 IM), Mallory Korenwinder (100 fly & 100 IM), Jacqui Koster (100 IM), Josh Koster (200 back), Colin Landweer (200 back & 200 breast), Makenna Mason (200 IM), Khloe McCarthy (200 IM), Madison McCarthy (100 free, 100 back & 50 free), Mia Newkirk (100 free, 100 back & 100 fly), Ella Niederreiter (100 IM), Christopher Nolan (200 fly & 200 IM), Savanah Nolan (100 fly & 50 breast), Ira Porchia (200 free & 50 free), Allison Ross (200 breast), Breann Santos (50 fly), JT Scott (500 free), Carter Shaw (50 fly), Taylor Shaw (200 back), and Keshin Visahan (50 back).

Seventeen of our swimmers improved all of their events that had been previously recorded with the team in events that were 50 yards and longer. Congratulations to: Tristian Abell, Bryan Brown, Thomas Brown, Taralyn DeLeeuw, Trevor DeLeeuw, Chris Ewins, Madison Gilbert, Jacob Harms, Tristin Herrera, Cori Hoover, Mallory Korenwinder, Joe Koster, Josh Koster, Kelsey Nickel, Nick Orton, Ira Porchia and Keshin Visahan.

Finally, 9-year old Dax Korenwinder achieves his first Far Western time standard in the 100 yard breaststroke event. His 1:28.57 is currently the 5^th fastest time on record for TNT and approximately one second off of the team record held by Micah Storey and set in 1987 at the Fig Garden racquet club. Micah went on to qualify for the US Open and Junior Nationals while in high school.

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