Report on last weekend's SI Long Course Age Group Chamipionship meet

Long Course Age Group Championships notes from Coach Dave

First of all a huge shout out to Coach DawnElla who has spent the last 27 months taking on a group of youngers to develop them into a small but mighty force to be reckoned with. Her swimmers accounted for about 80% of our points. . . And to Coach Ben who had 6 10&U’s who competed.

CAST finished 6^th out of 22 teams attending the 2023 Summer Championship Meet. We had 26 swimmers compete in individual and relay events scoring 1100 points - just 29 points behind Heartland, a team roughly twice our size. We led them throughout the meet and they only surpassed us in the final relay events that we were void in. (soooo close). BTW the other teams ahead of us were SBA (roughly 300 swimmers), and PS, NCA and RSD all between 400 and 600 swimmers.

I’m a stats and numbers kind of guy, so I listed the records, event champions and finishes below.

The following team records were broken:

• 13-14 G 200 Free Relay 1:56.64 
• 13-14 G 200 Medley Relay 2:10.31 
• 13-14 G & Overall 200M BR  2:45.09 Kasey Gray

The following swimmers were event champions:

• Emma Mohr (12) 200 FR; 400 FR; 200 FL
• Tilly Santoro (13) 400 FR; 800 FR; 1500 FR
• Kasey Gray (13) 100 Br; 200 Br
• Bella Pitts (14) 50 FR; 100 FR; 200 FR
• Tess Forstot (17) 200 Bk
• 13-14G 200 Medley Relay

Top 16 finishes scored points for the team: We congratulate

• Millie Cobstill (12) 400IM 3^rd; 200IM 13^th; 100 FL 10^th; 200 Bk 10^th; 50 FR 14^th; 100bk 14^th
• Kasey Gray (13) 400IM 2^nd; 200IM 2^nd; 200 Br 1^st; 200 Bk 4^th; 100 Br 1^st; 100 Bk 4^th
• Bella Pitts (14) 400IM 5^th; 100FL 3^rd; 200FR 1^st; 50FR 1^st; 400FR 2^nd; 100FR 1^st
• Tess Forstot (17) 400IM 8^th; 200bk 1^st
• Emma Mohr (12) 400FR 1^st; 200IM 5^th; 200FR 1^st; 50FR 9^th; 200FL 1^st; 100FR 7^th
• Tilly Santoro (13) 1500 1^st; 100FL 5^th; 200FR 4^th; 400FR 1^st; 200FL 3^rd; 800FR 1^st
• Jude Toback (10) 200IM 7^th; 50BR 4^th; 100Br 3^rd; 200FR 9^th; 50 FR 15^th
• Aubrey Chanthavong (11) 50BR 3^rd; 200Br 8^th; 100Br 3^rd
• Eva Pike (12) 50BR 4^th; 200Br 2^nd; 50 FR 7^th; 100 Br 2^nd; 100 FR 9^th; 100 Bk 6^th
• Lane Svalstad (13) 200Br 4^th; 100Br 4^th; 400FR 7^th; 200IM 10^th; 200 FR 13^th
• Hannah Gray (10) 100 FL 3^rd; 200 FR 15^th
• Keenan Melia (14) 400IM 9^th; 200Br 13^th; 800 FR 7^th
• Claire Madden (10) 200IM 14^th; 200 FR 9^th
• Paige Young (10) 50 Br 11^th; 100 Br 12^th
• Eleanor Pike (10) 50 Br 15^th; 200 FR 10^th 50 Bk 11^th; 50 FR 14^th; 50 FL 15^th
• Elijah Araiza (13) 200 Br 9^th; 100 Br 15^th
• Cora Svalstad (14) 50 FR 9^th

Relays:

10&U G 200 Medley 5^th; 200 Free 6^th

11-12 G 200 Medley 4^th; 200 Free 5^th

13-14 G 200 Free 2^nd; 200 Med 1^st; 400 Medley 2^nd; 400 Free 2^nd

15-18 G 200 Fr 9^th; 200 Med 8^th

15-18 B 200 Fr 8^th; 200 Med 9^th

Special note: Gia Mendez (9) led off our 10&U 200 medley relay making her first JO cut in the process.

ZONES All Star Team

We are pleased to note that following swimmers have been chosen to represent the San Diego- Imperial Swimming at The Western Zone Championships in Boise ID. This meet includes the best age group swimmers from the entire western US. (including: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, Alaska, and Hawaii ---wow!!!).

• 13-14 Girls: Bella Pitts, Tilly Santoro & Kasey Gray
• 11-12 Girls: Emma Mohr, Eva Pike, & Aubrey Chanthavong. 

Congratulations to everyone!!!!

Coach Dave