We were down by 30.5 points when we began the Thursday PM finals session. For a short time we went 50+ points down, and even slipped to 3rd place behind North Texas Nadadores and the Woodlands. We came back and re-claimed the 2nd spot. When Friday’s session was completed, we closed the gap on the North Texas team, and moved back into 2nd place with only 23.5 points out of first with two days to go !!
Here are the highlights:
Congratulations to all the TAGS Finalists Tonight! (times for Long Course Meters)
- 7th – Hemstreet, Karling (12) 200 Free 2:20.75
- 12th – Davis, Natalie (13) 200 Free 2:12.45
- 1st – Artmann, Joshua (11) 200 Free 2:15.51
- 7th – Timmons, Seth (14) 200 Free 2:05.08
- 8th – Benwell, Lillian (11) 50 Breast 39.29
- 6th – Katzman, Cameron (9) 50 Breast 43.12
- 1st – Walker, Benjamin (12) 50 Breast 34.15
- 3rd – Chulavatr, Jared (12) 50 Breast 35.34
- 6th – Krebsbach, Hayley (11) 100 Fly 1:13.70
- 8th – Marvin, Sutton (11) 100 Fly 1:15.06
- 6th Strohmeyer, Ashley (12) 100 Fly 1:10.53
- 14th – Artmann, Abby (14) 100 Fly 1:08.10
- 1st – Gwin, Isaac (10) 100 Fly 1:11.93 new TAGS record (set 1982)!!
- 4th – Gwin, Luke (10) 100 Fly 1:16.08
- 4th – Walker, Benjamin (12) 100 Fly 1:06.31
- 1st – Tan, Sydney (14) 400 IM 5:05.97
- 7th – Thompson, Lauren (13) 400 IM 5:16.17
- 9th – Jonsson, Christina (14) 400 IM 5:18.08
- 11th – Davis, Natalie (13) 400 IM 5:18.56
- 13th – Morgan, Kira (14) 400 IM 5:20.04
- 15th – Bassman, Samantha (14) 400 IM 5:23.02
- 14th – Tenney, Mason (13) 400 IM 5:05.53
9th – 10&un Girls 400 Free Relay ‘A’ 5:09.14
1) Jacops, Renee 10 2) Kutz, Sarah 9
3) Fullwood, Summer 10 4) Thompson, Brittany 10
2nd – 11-12 Girls 400 Free Relay ‘A’ 4:17.52
1) Gogulski, Emma 12 2) Allen, Haley 12
3) Krebsbach, Hayley 11 4) Hemstreet, Karling 12
2nd – 13-14 Girls 400 Free Relay ‘A’ 4:05.39
1) Wu, Amanda 14 2) Tan, Sydney 14
3) Artmann, Abby 14 4) Sutton, Samantha 14
3rd – 10&un Boys 400 Free Relay ‘A’ 4:43.41 (TAGS record broken by 3 teams)!
1) Gwin, Luke 10 2) Katzman, Cameron 9
3) Lenner, Jay 10 4) Gwin, Isaac 10
2nd – 11-12 Boys 400 Free Relay ‘A’ 4:11.24
1) Makhervaks, Dave 12 2) Walker, Benjamin 12
3) Artmann, Joshua 11 4) Chulavatr, Jared 12
On Saturday morning, we qualified more than our typical number of finals swimmers. We had an even better night. I don’t have the exact breakdown of how many TAGS winners we had, how many TAGS records Josh Artmann may have set, or how fast our three top 8 finalists all swam in the 13-14 girls 100 breastroke, or that Max Jones was the ONLY 9 yr old in a finals event tonight out of all the swimmers there — you can search the results for that. I do know that I remember seeing some great “move-ups” – where we jumped up a position or three or four from preliminaries to finals. Nice to see when that happens. The relays have been SUPER as well as EXCITING. Tonight, our 13-14 girls held off a late charge by Longhorn Aquatics, and won their 200 freestyle relay. The rest of our relays contributed greatly to our team score as well. The 10 and Under Boys relay broke a twenty two year old TAGS record set in 1988, but they took SECOND. Here are the team standings following Saturday’s session:
The top 5 teams look like this:
5. Longhorn Aquatics 294
4. Alamo Area Aquatics 353
3. The Woodlands 367.5
2. North Texas Nadadores 416.5
1. (drum roll please) Nitro Swimming 447 !!! We’re 30.5 points AHEAD of the next nearest team.
Nitro Swim 