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Meet Roundup

The final championship meets of the season are almost here! This summer has been a strong one so far for SAC swimmers. Check out the highlights below:

Summer Sizzle - Six in a row!

Scarlet won the team championship for the 6th year in a row. In the meet Julien Zhu broke an 11-12 team record in the 200 fly with a time of 2:38.19. Scarlet swimmers also swam to 197 new personal best times in the meet.

Sothern Zone Sectionals - Gainesville, FL

Scarlet swam to a 9th place finish (out of 45 teams) in the meet. Nick Ankosko achieved his first Summer Junior National cut in the 400 free with a time of 4:06.75. Kristine Ng (400 IM - 5:02.51) swam to new short course junior national cuts and Eric Stobbe swam to a super sectional cut in the 400 IM with a time of 4:52.25.

Silver/Bronze Meets

Over the two silver/bronze weekends 19 Scarlet swimmers swam to 30 new JO cuts. New gold times went to Karen Wang, Joanna Han, Dan Gayetsky, Samantha Soto, Jeffrey Wu, Ashley Illenye, Karen Castaneda, and Scott Huang in the 13 and over meet. The weekend before, Charles Chen, Jordan Chen, Kenisha Liu, Audrey Zhou, Michael Wu, Eli Bogomolny, Aubrey Marish, Victoria Ling, Shay Mallick, Jeffrey Ho, and Henry Chen swam to new gold cuts in the 12 and under meet.

Congratulations and good luck at JO's this weekend!

Gym Memberships

Some parents have been asking about renewing gym memberships for next fall as the current memberships expire June 30. Memberships can only be given to parents of Scarlet swimmers, so we will again require a deposit for next season to be put on the list for gym membership renewal. Rutgers WILL NOT renew your membership if you are not on the list so please get your $300 deposit toward next season to Tom ASAP if you wish to renew before the deadline.

Barcelona Mare Nostrum

Head Coach Tom Speedling will be heading to Barcelona this week for the Barcelona leg of the Mare Nostrum Series. Coach Speedling is the Head Coach of the Men's USA National Youth Team comprised of 44 swimmers. Click here to see the complete roster and staff. Go USA!

Summer Practice Schedule

Below is the schedule for summer 2010. Schedule starts Monday June 28. All practices will be held at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center.

SR 2 - Monday-Saturday 7AM-10:30AM/Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 5-7PM

SR 1A - Monday-Saturday 8:15AM-11AM

SR 1B - Monday-Saturday 7AM-9:45AM

SR Prep - Monday-Friday 9AM-11AM

JR 2 - Monday - Friday 9AM-11AM

Note that June 28-June 31 SR1A, SR Prep, and JR 2 practices will end at 10:30AM due to swim camp.

Memorial Day Meet

The Memorial Day weekend is the unoffical start of summer and instead of going to the beach Scarlet swimmers took the opportunity to swim to one New Jersey State Record, two team records, and 115 new best times.

Eric Stobbe continued to rewrite the New Jersey record books with a new State Record in the 100 back. His time of 1:02.12 is also a new 13-14 boys team record.

Eli Bogomolny broke his own record in the boys 10 and under 50 fly with a time of 35.38.

Last week in the Hall Sprint short course yard meet Charles Chen broke three 8 and under team records in the 50 breast (43.15), 50 fly (37.43), and 100 fly (1:24.23).

Congratulations on the start of a great summer racing season!

Zone Select Camp

Congratulations to Scarlet swimmers Joanna Han and Eric Stobbe who have been selected to attend the Eastern Zone Select Camp May 20-23 at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. USA Swimming sponsors four Zone Select Camps. USA Swimming seeks to identify the emerging young athletes in each Zone, offering them a unique motivational and educational experience. The Zone Select Camps are viewed as an integral step for athletes to move from the local and Zone level onto to the national scene. For more info on the Zone select Camps click here.

The 22 Scarlet swimmers who qualified for individual events at sectionals spent last weekend in Columbus, OH for the Columbus Grand Prix at Ohio State University. Following the lead set by USA Swimming, the senior team has made LC swimming it's main focus since December. Instead of attending one of the SCY sectional meets, (we define sectionals as the Northeast sectional meet where the cuts are more difficult than any in the country) we attended the LC Grand Prix meet. Long Course swimming is the true measure of a swimmer's ability. Swimmers must have LC times to qualify for the Olympic Trials, the National Team, the World Youth Team, the National Select Camp, and the Zone Select Camp. None of those can be achieved with SCY times.

Competing against some of the world's top swimmers, our team did a great job, amassing three new Summer Junior National Cuts, three new SC Junior National cuts, one new Super Sectional cut, one New Jersey State Record, one team record, and 53 new best times.

New Summer Junior National cuts went to Chris Cipolla (400 IM - 4:37.40, 100 breast - 1:07.55), and Alex Galinskiy (100 free - 53.07).

New SC Junior National cuts went to Nick Ankosko (100 free - 53.99), Christie Clarke (200 fly - 2:20.47), and Bernadette D'Alonzo (100 free - 59.24).

Eric Stobbe smashed his own New Jersey State and team Record in the 200 back swimming to a time of 2:09.87. His old record was 2:13.44. His swim ranks him as the 30th fastest swimmer of all time in his age group. Eric also swam to a new Super Sectional cut in the 400 free (4:17.12).

For results of the entire meet, plus on-demand videos from finals go to Swimnetwork.com.

JO WEEKEND

Congratulations to all the swimmers and coaches for a great JO weekend!  Scarlet had a great team showing despite our senior team essentially skipping the meet as they prepare for the Ohio State Grand Prix meet.   Even with that, Scarlet swimmers swam to one New Jersey State Record, four team records, two new SCY Junior National cuts, six new sectional cuts, and 190 new best times.  In addition, two age group swimmers will be attending Zones April 1-3.  Highlights are below.

Eric Stobbe, who was unrested as he prepares for the Ohio State Grand Prix, swam and won three events at the JO meet.  He broke a 15 year old New Jersey State Record in the 13-14 200 back with a time of 1:51.96.  This time ranks as the 15^th fastest time ever swum by an American 13-14 year old boy.  This time is also Eric’s first SCY Junior National cut.  Eric also broke the team record in the 13-14 200 fly (1:57.34 – new sectional cut), and led off the boys 13-14 400 medley relay in a team record in the 100 back (54.19) as the boys team of Eric, Scott Huang, Nick Riepe, and Dan Gayetsky destroyed our team record with a time of 3:44.80 (old record was 3:51.67).

Christie Clarke achieved the SCY Junior National cut as well in the 500 free with a time of 4:56.90.

New sectional times went to Joanna Han (400 IM - 4:34.61), Scott Huang (1650 – 16:28.06, 500 free – 4:46.05), Kristine Ng (200 fly – 2:08.50), and Kevin Wang (200 free – 1:46.36). 

Congratulations also to Karen Wang and Julien Zhu who will be attending the Zone meet April 1-3.

Great job to all and remember - the summer season has already started!  Let’s get back to work!

GET OUT THE VOTE!

SCARLET AQUATIC ALUM REBECCA SONI IS NOMINATED FOR THE 80th ANNUAL AAU SULLIVAN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING AMATEUR ATHLETE.

See the article at USA Swimming showing her accomplishments and how to cast your vote for Rebecca. ( Go to USA Swimming)

CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON IS HERE!

The Championship season is in full swing and Scarlet swimmers are churning out best times and new JO cuts every weekend.  Through the past few silver/bronze weekends SAC swimmers have achieved 361 new best times and 24 swimmers have achieved JO cuts in 33 events.  New JO cuts have gone to:

Victoria Ling             Tara Reddy               Matt Gold                  Jasmine Ling

Shay Mallick              Ricky Gupta              Julianne Torres         Joanna Han

Karen Wang              Karen Castaneda      Scott Huang               Dan Gayetsky

Kendrick Liu             Melissa Co                  Justine Grilli              Tim Gorka

Erik Kral                   Jeffrey Ho                  Emily Zhu                  Casee Le

Kenisha Liu               Kevin Doo                  David Kim                 Thomas Li

Congratulations and keep up the fast swimming!

SEASON SUMMARY

Computer problems have led to a lack of updates on meet results, but those problems are now fixed and the last few months should not go overlooked.  There was one NJ State Record set and there were 13 new team records set since December.  Eric Stobbe reset his own 13-14 team and NJ State Record in the 200 meter back at the CeraVe Invite with a time of 2:13.44.  In that meet Eric also broke 13-14 team records in the 100 back (1:02.81) and 100 free (56.25).  Eric also broke the team record in the 100 yard back at Holiday Classic with a time of 54.60.  Charles Chen has rewritten the 8 and under record book with new team records in 7 events.  Charles now holds the records in the following events: 25 free (15.27), 25 fly (17.63), 50 free (34.86), 50 fly (38.14), 50 breast (45.07), 100 free (1:16.26), and 100 IM (1:28.90).  Eli Bogomolny has also been hammering the butterfly record books with two new team records in the 10 and under 200 fly (2:39.63), and the 50 fly (31.18). 

Scarlet finished as the top New Jersey team overall in both the Holiday Classic and CeraVe Invitational meets.  In the Holiday Classic meet there were many new meet qualifiers for meets from sectionals up to Nationals.  They are listed below:

Kristine Ng – First time SCY National Qualifier in 200 breast, SCY JR National qualifier 400IM, sectional qualifier 1000 free, 200IM. Melanie Leonhard was a SCY Junior National qualifier in the 1000 free.

Sectional qualifying times went to Chris Cipolla in the 200IM,  Alex Galinskiy in the 200IM, 400IM and the 200 fly, Scott Huang in the 100 and 200 breast, Hannah Perna in the 1000 free, Eric Stobbe in the 200 free, Kevin Wang in the 100 back, and Susan Xiong in the 1000 free. 

SCARLET ALUMN COMPETE AT RUTGERS COLLEGE CARNIVAL MEET

Former Scarlet swimmers Ashley & Kristin Steenvoorden and Lovette Leonhard were among the top level collegiate swimmers who competed in this weekend's SwimmingWorld College Carnival meet at Rutgers. Also competing in the meet were several All-Americans, NCAA qualifiers and Olympians.

On Friday evening SAC's 11-12 Girls & Boys medley relays also competed against some of the other top relays in the state.

To view videos of the swims from the meet, click here.

SCARLET SWIMMER IN THE NEWS

Scarlet's latest National Team member - Ashley Steenvoorden - is featured on the USA Swimming website this week.

Click here to read the interview.

EARLY MEET RESULTS

There have been a flurry of early season meets, and Scarlet swimmers are starting the year off on a great note. In the early season meets SAC swimmers have achieved two new sectional cuts, a NYC Open meet record, 18 new JO cuts, and 382 new best times. Highlights are below.

At the Sonny Werblin Invitational, new sectional cuts were achieved in the 1650 free by Susan Xiong (17:50.32), and Hannah Perna (17:51.32).

Chris Cipolla broke the meet record at the NYC Open in the LCM 200 breast with a time of 2:33.15.

New JO cuts have been achieved by the following age group swimmers

Julien Zhu                Emily Zhu               Justin Torres               Kevin Doo               Jeffrey Wu

Erik Kral                  Karen Wang           Casee Le                     Eli Bogomolny         Shay Mallick

Swimming at a high level is a gateway into the college of your choice and the fall signing date is approaching rapidly for athletes. Several Scarlet swimmers have made their calls to college coaches to committ for next fall. Chris Cipolla has committed to Penn State University, and Holly Rebovich has committed to the University of Maryland. Congratulations! There are more to come, so look for updates in the upcoming weeks!

SCHOLASTIC ALL AMERICAN TEAM

Congratulations to the Scarlet swimmers who were named to the 2009 USA Swimming Scholastic All American Team. The Scholastic All-America program is open to all 10th-12th grade USA Swimming members who earn a 3.5 GPA or better and achieve a Junior National Bonus Time Standard or swim in a selected disability championship meet or the Open Water National Championships. The Scarlet swimmers who made the team are Missy Lang (third consecutive year), Melanie Leonhard (second consecutive year), Holly Rebovich (second consecutive year), and Bernadette D'Alonzo (first year). Great job and congratulations for showing that swimming and academics go together!

NEWEST SCARLET ALUMNI

Good luck this year to the Scarlet Class of 2009. We had a small but successful class with three swimmers leaving us for college this fall. Missy Lang accepted an athletic scholarship to swim for the University of Michigan, Ilya Galinskiy will be swimming for Boston University, and Namib Walcott is attending Penn State University. Congratulations and good luck!

Championship season ends as one of our best ever

The 2008 Olympic summer was a hard one to match but our 2009 LC championship season will go down as one of our best ever as our club continues to show that we are fulfilling our mission statement of having success at the highest levels of swimming. Scarlet swimmers and alumni ended the long course season with the following achievements -

Two World Records, two American Records, ten NJ State Records, and 34 team records. Two of our alumni swam in the World Championships in Rome and two are members of the USA Swimming National Team.

World/American Records and National Teamers

Our last two banquet speakers - both SAC alumni - have produced more evidence that we are fulfilling our mission statement and producing world class athletes here at Scarlet -

Rebecca Soni swam to a new World and American Record in the 100 breast at the World Championships in Rome in a time of 1:04.84 - becoming the first woman in history to break 1:05. She also swam to a new American Record in the 50 breast in a time of 30.11.

Stefan Hirniak was part of Canada's 800 freestyle relay which broke the short course meter World Record at the British Grand Prix in Leeds, England. Stefan split a 1:43.41 on his leg. He becomes the second swimmer Scarlet has produced to break a World Record.

Rebecca Soni will continue her run on the USA Swimming National Team and this season she will be joined by Ashley Steenvoorden who qualified based on her performance in the 800 free at the World Championship Trials in Indianapolis and the 400 free at the US Open.

Meet Results

Junior Olympics

Many, many thanks to the parents who volunteered and helped us run the newly formatted four day trials/finals JO meet. The meet was the fastest one in recent memory and allowed swimmers from all over the state to have a real championship meet to end their season or qualify for bigger meets in August. Our swimmers were outstanding as we swam to one new state record, nine team records, five spring junior cuts, four sectional cuts and 194 new best times.

Eric Stobbe swam to a new State and team record in the 13-14 200 back with a time of 2:14.14. Eric also set team records in the 800 free (8:47.72) and 100 back (1:03.41). Joanna Han set four team records in the 11-12 400 IM (5:20.74), 200 fly (2:39.15), 200 IM (2:33.21), and 200 breast (2:48.76). Ashley Illenye set two team records in the same event as she swam to the 800 free record in 10:00.57 while completing a team record in the mile (18:46.63).

New spring junior cuts went to Christie Clarke (200 free - 2:07.51), Bernadette D'Alonzo (50 free - 27.62, 100 free - 59.44), Alex Galinskiy (100 free - 53.85), and Holly Rebovich (200 fly - 2:23.15).

New sectional cuts went to Nick Ankosko (100 free - 55.28), Joanna Han (200 breast - 2:48.76 - first time qualifier!), Elias Mloukhiyeh (200 breast - 2:38.26 - first time qualifier!), and Hannah Perna (200 fly - 2:25.92 first time qualifier!).

Sectionals

Our sectional team swam to a 7th place overall team finish in Buffalo, NY at the super sectional meet. SAC swimmers achieved one new short course national cut, two new spring junior cuts, four new sectional cuts, and 53 new best times during the weekend.

Brynja Winnan swam to her first short course national cut in the 100 back with a time of 1:06.47.

Christie Clarke (17:43.65) and Erin Henn (17:43.78) swam together for the entire 1500 and both achieved a new spring junior cut in the event.

New sectional cuts went to Simone Christen (100 fly - 1:07.38), Alex Galinskiy (100 breast - 1:11.87), Erin Henn (100 free - 1:01.01), and Holly Rebovich (400 IM - 5:13.13).

Top 16 finishes went to:

Nick Ankosko - 6th 800 free (8:38.09), 7th 1500 (16:32.93).

James Capparell - 3rd 200 IM (2:09.31), 16th 100 free (53.69), 5th 200 free (1:55.19), 2nd 400 IM (4:35.45).

Veronica Feltrin 10th 100 free (58.96).

Melanie Leonhard 11th 1500 free (17:35.08).

Kristine Ng 10th 200 breast (2:42.42).

Holly Rebovich 12th 1500 free (17:35.78), 12th 800 free (9:16.38).

US Open

Kristen and Ashley Steenvoorden competed in the US Open in Federal Way, WA and came away with eight team records and seven NJ State records. Ashley broke team and State records in the 200 free (2:01.03), 400 free (4:10.14), and 1500 free (16:26.50). The swims were 15-18 and open state records and 15-19 and open team records. Kristen broke the 15-19 and open team records and the 15-18 state record in the 400 IM with a time of 4:49.01.

Junior Nationals

Seven Scarlet swimmers traveled from sectionals in Buffalo, NY to Federal Way, WA to compete in the USA Swimming Junior Nationals. At the meet there were three new short course national cuts and one new sectional cut achieved.

Missy Lang swam to new short course national cuts in the 200 breast (2:38.33) and 400 IM (5:03.17) and Christie Clarke swam to her first national cut in the 100 fly (1:04.23) - a great achievement as Christie started the season in September without even having a sectional cut!

Chris Cipolla swam to a new sectional cut in the 200 IM with a time of 2:14.82.

Zones

Congratulations to the nine Scarlet swimmers who chose to continue their season and compete in the Eastern Zone meet. Competing in zones means valuable extra weeks of training and competing that will benefit these swimmers into next year. Great job to our zone team listed below:

Eli Bogomolny

Ashley Illenye

Jasmine Lee

Kenisha Liu

Nick Riepe

Julianne Torres

Justin Torres

Karen Wang

Emily Zhu

Congratulations and great job to our swimmers, coaches and parents who helped make this season a memorable one!