It was a busy day at the Heaston Aquatic Center on Thursday afternoon as the Dons hosted a very large, very strong Cougar swim team. After such a strong showing at the Mission Viejo Invitational last weekend, it’s pretty normal not to see many improved times after such a fast and competitive meet. Campo’s swim team is very strong since their pool is home to the year-round swim team Orinda Aquatics, so many of those strong swimmers also swim for Campo.
Once again, three of the four Medley Relays went CONS again – Taryn Veronda, Anna Motes, Kendall Lee and Liv Hoppe went 1:53.63 – just 1.01 sec off an NCS Automatic time! Brooklyn Plomp, Audrey Martin, Tess Veronda and Sara Williams went 2:00.07 (CONS cutoff 2:04.99). The boys A team of Mason Schlehr, Will Dreyer, Tony Yamamoto, and Alex Butler went 1:49.54 (CONS is 1:52.99), while the B team of Will Paulsen, Jayden Hwang, Tyler Gerhardt and Jace Carter JUST missed CONS with 1:53.09.
In the 200 Free, Cale Hanson finished 3rd, coming close to his CONS time that he swam last weekend. Braden Dunton improved his time by 0.02. In the 200 IM, Sadie Suppiger earned her 5th CONS time, finishing 3rd in 2:11.95 – only 0.58 sec off an NCS Automatic time!
The 50 Free saw a lot of improved times for our JV swimmers! Audrey Tugade, Sydney Clarke, Gemma Greenaway and Fiona Greenaway all shaved a few tenths off their times, while six JV boys improved – Liam Parks, Dane Schurhoff, Moah Moseley, Sean Geraghty all shaved a few tenths off. Daniel Kim went from 28.95 to 27.01 – a huge improvement! Giovanni Forte also cut 1.38 seconds off his time! In the varsity races, Liv Hoppe finished 3rd, Sophie Hendrickson finished 6th and Nina Bundy finished 9th – all shaving time. Alex Butler went 4th in 23.25, while Toby Brock-Utne, Will Dreyer, Jace Carter and Jayden Hwang all improved their times by a few tenths!
Will MIller finished 2nd in the JV 50 Fly with a 28.39, while Kendall Lee finished 8th in the 100 Fly, with a 1:03.40 – only 0.41 off her second CONS time!
In the 100 Free, several of our JV swimmers improved times – Zoe Stafford, Hannah Geraghty, Amina Martinez, Sydney Clarke and Maya Bleich all cut time – Amina popped by 3.64 seconds! Gabi Serrano and Sean Geraghty cut time in the boys race – Gabi broke 1 minute (59.79)! In the Varsity races, Sadie Suppiger finished 2nd with a CONS time of 54.71, Taryn Veronda went 5th with 57.35 while Sophie Hendrickson was 6th with 58.00. Jessica Gerhardt, Juliet McIlwain and Nina Bundy also improved their times! On the boys side, Parker Etnyre finished 1st with 49.29 and Toby Brock-Utne was 5th in 53.06. Braden Dunton popped his 500 free time he set at Mission Viejo by 2.61 seconds!
The 200 Free Relays were close! Both Varsity A teams finished within a second of the Campo A teams. Liv Hoppe, Jessica Gerhardt, Sophie Hendrickson and Sadie Suppiger finished 2nd with 1:44.03 (NCS AUTO is 1:42.29) and Parker Etnyre, Will Dreyer, Andrew Tanimura and Toby Brock-Utne went 1:31.68 in their 2nd place finish (NCS AUTO is 1:30.28).
The 100 back saw Gemma Greenaway improve her time by almost a second in the JV Girls race. In the varsity races, Taryn Veronda and Brooklyn Plomp went 3rd and 4th in CONS times. Evya Smyth improved her time by almost a second as well! Parker Etnyre finished 2nd in the boys race!
In the 100 Breast, five of our JV swimmers improved times – Erin Lerch (0.82 sec) and Hanna Wisniewska (4.89 sec!), Saul Rao (0.28 sec), Daniel Kim (11.87 sec!) and Malleus Kadai (0.36 sec)! Anna Motes finished 2nd in the Varsity race with a CONS time of 1:09.64.
Finishing out the meet, both 400 Free Relay A teams swam CONS times. Brooklyn Plomp, Taryn Veronda, Sophie Hendrickson and Sadie Suppiger finished 3rd in 3:49.77 (NCS AUTO is 3:46.63) while Parker Etnyre, Cale Hanson, Andrew Tanimura and Mason Schlehr went 3:28.67 (CONS 3:37.99).
The season is more than half over! Our swimmers are getting faster and faster! Next meet is Thursday, 3/28 at Acalanes against Berean Christian, Concord and Mt. Diablo. GO DONS!!!!!
