It was a beautiful sunny afternoon Wednesday as the Dons welcomed College Park for the season opening meet. First I want to acknowledge all the parents that work at each meet to make it happen – we have parent timers, parent starters, parents working the desk, and parents bringing snacks, setting up and taking everything down. We need dozens of parents to run each meet and the meets don’t run without these volunteers. Thank you swim parents!
The action started with the 200 Medley Relays. The JV girls team of Maddy Maurer, Ella Schlehr, Mave McAlister and Indi Perry won, while the boys team took 2nd. Ben Paulsen, Jonathan Judson, Wes Martin and Eli Rosenberg had a good race. In the varsity races, the A and B relay teams took 1st and 2nd for the girls (Malin Stone, Anna Motes, Tess Veronda and Anika Rehn made up the A team, while Karly Thor, Audrey Martin, Jayna Guiro and Jess Gerhardt made up the B team). The A team went NCS Automatic and the B team went NCS Consideration! In the boys race, Mason Schlehr, Cruz Tamayo, Braden Dunton and Gunnar Grant took 1st with an NCS Consideration time, while the B team of Dane Schurhoff, Andrew Tanimura, Peter Endemann and Thomas Butler-Kurimai took 3rd.
Ella Schlehr won the JV Girls 200 Free race, while Lily Teicher and Indi Perry finished 2nd and 3rd. Ella Del Rosario won the Varsity girls race with an NCS Cons time while Sophia Schwartz finished 3rd and Gen Balfour was 4th. Andrew Tanimura won the boys race, with Aiden Castro in 5th, Gavin Barclay in 6th, Dane Schurhoff in 7th and Lachlan Tidd in 8th.
Maddy Maurer won the JV Girls 100 IM, and Jonathan Judson took 2nd for the JV Boys. Malin Stone took the Varsity race in an NCS Cons time, and Anna Motes finished 2nd, also in an NCS Cons time. Perri Smith finished 3rd. The varsity boys took four of the top five spots with Braden Dunton and Mason Schlehr taking the top two spots. Gunnar Grant and Ryan Gerhardt finished 4th and 5th.
Lucy Kerr won the JV Girls 50 Free, with Emiko Kuniyoshi in 4th, Lulu Lancour in 5th and Ruby Hemmingsen-Smith in 6th. Elena Gerhardt was 8th. Jonathan Judson finished 2nd in the boys race, with Sean Geraghty finishing 4th and Adrian Anderson in 5th. Jack Morgan finished 6th, Cooper Morris 9th, Theo Penn 10th and Duncan Suva was 12th. Anika Rehn won the varsity race with Adelyn Horciza in 4th and Jess Gerhardt in 5th. Karly Thor was 7th and Elinor Chen was 8th. In the boys race, Max Musch finished 3rd and Thomas Butler-Kurimai finished 4th. Gavin Barclay was 7th, Jayden Hwang 9th.
Ella Schlehr also won the 50 Fly race for the JV girls, with Maddy Maurer and Mave McAlister in 2nd and 3rd. Wes Martin finished 2nd in the JV boys race, with Eli Rosenberg in 5th. Dillon Nagar was 6th, Duncan Suva 7th. Tess Veronda won the varsity girls race with an NCS Cons time, while Jayna Guiro, Anika Rehn and Lily Briones finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Cruz Tamayo won the varsity boys race with an NCS Cons time, with Braden Dunton in 2nd and Ryan Gerhardt in 3rd.
Indi Perri finished 2nd in the JV girls 100 free, with Emi Kuniyoshi and Maya Clarke in 7th and 8th. Logan Lewis won the JV boys race, with Wes Martin in 2nd and Sean Geraghty in 3rd. Ella Del Rosario won the varsity race in an NCS Cons time, with Jayna Guiro in 2nd, Addison Shiflet in 4th, Jess Gerhardt in 5th and Sophia Schwartz in 7th. Gunnar Grant, Max Musch and Thomas Butler-Kurimai took the top three spots in the varsity race.
In the (brutal) 500 races, Karly Thor took 2nd in the varsity race, less than one second off an NCS Cons time. Lily Briones was 3rd. Cruz Tamayo won the boys race, just 0.23 off an NCS Cons time, while Andrew Tanimura was 2nd and Aiden Castro finished 4th.
Both JV 200 Free Relays finished 2nd, as did the varsity girls. Elinor Chen, Gen Balfour, Addison Shiflet and Evya Smyth went NCS Cons. The boys team of Cruz Tamayo, Braden Dunton, Mason Schlehr and Gunnar Grant won the boys race, with a strong NCS Cons time. The B team of Jayden Hwang, Peter Endemann, Ryan Gerhardt and Lachlan Tidd finished 3rd.
Mave McAlister was 2nd in the JV girls 100 back, Logan Lewis was 3rd for JV boys. Finn Butler finished 4th and Adrian Anderson finished 6th. Tess Veronda (#9 all-time!) won the varsity girls race, with Malin Stone in 2nd, both going NCS Cons. Evya Smyth was 6th. Mason Schlehr won the varsity boys race, with Lachlan Tidd coming in 3rd, Dane Schurhoff in 4th and Owen Andre in 5th.
Lucy Kerr won the JV girls 100 breast race, with Lily Teicher in 2nd. Jack Morgan was 4th in the boys race. Addison Shiflet and Anna Motes went 1st and 3rd in the varsity race, both in NCS Cons times. Elinor Chen was 4th, Perri Smith 5th, Adelyn Horciza, 6th. Jayden Hwang and Jay Shoenhair went 2nd and 7th for the boys.
In the 400 Free Relay races, the JV girls team of Indi Perry, Lily Teicher, Mave McAlister and Ella Schlehr won their race, while the boys team of Logan Lewis, Wes Martin, Adrian Anderson and Jonathan Judson finished 2nd. The Varsity girls team of Karly Thor, Jayna Guiro, Ella Del Rosario and Anika Rehn won in an NCS Cons time, while the boys team of Andrew Tanimura, Thomas Butler-Kurimai, Max Musch and Aiden Castro finished 2nd.
Great meet! Next meet is at Northgate on Friday. GO DONS!