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ELITE PLACES 5^TH AT LCM JUNIOR OLYMPICS WITH 1,014.5 POINTS!!

11-12 GIRLS BREAK STATE RECORD

IN 200 MEDLEY RELAY!!

SEBASTIAN (2) & SLEPIAN (2) EARN SECTIONAL CUTS!!!

A DUREN (3), FU, GIOSTRA, E. IIZUKA, MALINOWSKI, C. PICK, S. SLEPIAN & STEINBERG POST ZONE TIMES!!

A IIZUKA (2), C. PICK (2) & A. RIZZO (3) & S. SLEPIAN WIN 8 EVENTS!!!

A RIZZO WINS 13-14 BOYS HIGH POINT RACE;

SEBASTIAN 2^ND IN BOYS 15 & O!!

            With 1,014.5 points (our correct score!), the Elite Swim Club placed 5^th in New Jersey Swimming’s 2011 LCM Junior Olympics competition this past weekend at Rutgers University. Elite team totals for post JO swimming now stand at: 6 swimmers qualified for 31 events at Sectionals and 24 swimmers qualified for 97 events at Zones (both new highs)!!  

            Along the way, Elite broke its 2^nd NJ Swimming LCM relay record in 3 weeks!12 year old Christina Pick (back), 12 year old Alicia Iizuka (breast), 12 year old Emily Gorham (fly) and 12 year old Isabelle Malinowski (free) smashed the 9 year old record by over 2 seconds. Ironically, the 2^nd place team was Somerset Valley YMCA, who also went under the old record (a role reversal of the 13-14 Girls Free Relay 3 weeks ago when SVY & ESC both broke that record, with SVY having the faster time).  

              14 year old Anthony Rizzo, who joined Elite this spring, scored 151 points (out of a possible 180) to win the 13-14 Boys High Point Race. Anthony won the 200 free (2.06.11), the 800 free (9.10.96), the 1500 free (17.25.98-missing a sectional cut by just 2 seconds) and placed 2^nd in the 400 free (4.22.67), the 200 IM (2.22.85) & the 400 IM (4.59.34).  

            15 year old Ryan Sebastian (who aged up less than 4 weeks ago), added 2 Sectional qualifying times (800 free-8.55.72-1^st Elite swimmer under 9 minutes & 200 fly-2.14.09) to bring his individual total to 10. Prior to SCY JOs in March, Ryan did not have a Sectional time!! Ryan’s times in the 200 IM, 400 IM and the 200 breast may also be Scholastic All-America Times; USA Swimming as not yet posted these time standards but Ryan’s times in these 3 events are lower than the 2010-11 Standards and Ryan has performed them within the designated time period. Ryan would be the 4^th Elite swimmer to earn this prestigious award. Ryan also placed 2^nd in the high point race for his new age group with 98 points. Significantly, Ryan is also tantalizingly close to Junior National qualifying times by reason of his 400 IM, 2^nd place finish of 4.40.73 (just 2 seconds over) and his 200 breast time of 2.29.11 (just 1.5 seconds).  

            13 (or 14, depending on which day as she was a birthday girl this weekend) year old Sarah Slepian grabbed her 5^th and 6^th Sectional qualifying time with finals performance in the 200 IM (2.28.04) and her 2^nd place finish in the 200 breast in 2.46.04). However, Sarah’s best race this weekend was her 8 second drop in the 400 IM (5.08.84) to win the event.  

            12 year old Alicia Iizuka, in addition to participating in the record breaking relay, won both the 100 breast (1.19.47-less than 1 second from a Sectional qualifying time!!) and the 200 breast (2.55.61).  

            12 year old Christina Pick (also a birthday girl this weekend) touched 1^st in both the 200 (2.37.02) and the 400 (5.30.50) IMs!! Christina was 3^rd in the 200 back (2.37.70), 4^th in both the 400 free (4.56.89) and the 100 back (1.13.27), 5^th in the 200 fly (2.41.24) and 6^th in the 100 fly (1.12.01). Information regarding high point scores for this age are not posted but it is likely Christina was in the mix!! Christina’s 200 IM swim was so fast that it was a Zone time in her new age group!!  

  GORHMAM SAMPLES CANADIAN SWIMMING:

            15 year old Jessica Gorham, a Canadian citizen, participated in the 2011 Canadian Age Group Championships (a meet roughly equivalent to USA Swimming’s Junior Nationals) held in Montreal, Canada this past week. 

TRYOUTS YIELDS NEW TALENT!!

15 NEW SWIMMERS WILL JOIN COMPETITIVE PROGRAM:

MARLINS GROUPS FULL;

WAVEBUSTERS & PRE-ELITE STILL HAS SPACE: 

            July tryouts for the Elite Swim Club’s Winter 2011-12 Training Session has yielded 18 new swimmers to the competitive club and 18 new swimmers to Pre-Elite.

            Joining Elite this spring will be:

Wave Blacks: Marie Fagan, Caroline Kelly & Emma Zawacki

Marlin Blacks: Alex Ferandes, Owen Healey, Keerthi Jayaraman & Naomi Lynch

Marlin Teals: Kelly Adamski, Lily Connor, Luc Francis, Abhinav Khandrika, Adithi Jayaraman, Zoe Lynch,

                       Caitlyn Sleeman, Alisa Stellini

            Also joining Elite in the Pre-Elite program will be 16 new swimmers:

Pre-Elite Wavebuster Teals: Gabriella Bellard, Cynthia Cheng, Jennifer Speckhart & Sarah Speckhart

Pre-Elite Marlins: Devanshi Banerjee, Ryan Boyd, Rebecca Brown, Stephen Chang, Evan Fagan, Alex Facq, Jonathan Fu, Anirudh

                                Khandrika, Ruby Pollack, Gabrielle Romano, Nick Slover, Michael Speckphart, Anusha Veluri

            The Supplemental Tryouts will be held Tuesday, September 6 at Newark Academy at 4:30 pm. By reason of our successful July Tryouts, the Marlin training group is now closed. Openings are available in all three Wavebuster training groups and within Pre-Elite.             

WINTER 2011-12 SEASON TO HAVE STAGGERED START:

            Elite will stagger the start of its Winter 2011-12 season. The start will occur as follows:

            Seniors & Senior Preps-begin Monday, August 29^th

            Supplemental Tryouts: Tuesday, Sept 6

            Wavebuster Golds: Wednesday, Sept 7

            Wavebuster Blacks: Wednesday, Sept 7

            Wavebuster Teals: Tuesday, Sept 13

            Marlin Blacks: Monday, Sept 12

            Marlin Teals: Monday, Sept 12

            Head Coach Bill Deatly will hold a “New Parents Meeting” on Wednesday, Sept 21 at Newark Academy at 5:00 pm.

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