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menu home page - archive index - archives (1/06 thru 12/07)  Area 5 Meet Results - 12/16/07
The Full Meet Results, Individual Shark Results, and a Photo Page from the Area 5 Championship Meet held December 15th and 16th in Fort Myers are now posted. "B" Champs Meet Results - 12/8/07
The Sharks took 45 age group swimmers to the Florida Swimming "B" Winter Championships (West) held at the Long Center pool in Clearwater on December 8th. Making new J.O. cuts were Talia Daniel (50 fly) and Matthew Pelton (50 free and 50 fly). Swimming all personal bests were: Hayden Aristizabal, Leila Ayad, Katie Boehm, Tyler Carmichael, Connor Colett, Reid Colett, Talia Daniel, Cindy Dong, Daniel Erlenmeyer, Eric Erlenmeyer, Katie Kramer, Matthew Pelton, and Daniel Pierce. Finishing in the top 3 of their events were: Hayden Aristizabal (1st - 50 fly), Keira Bartley (1st - 100 breast, 2nd - 200 IM, 3rd - 100 fly), Cameryn Bowers (3rd - 25 fly), Lisa Cesaroni (2nd - 50 fly), Talia Daniel (1st - 50 fly, 1st - 100 IM), Cindy Dong (2nd - 25 back, 1st - 25 fly), Daniel Erlenmeyer (1st - 200 IM, 2nd - 50 breast), Megan Griffiths (3rd - 50 fly), Tyler Habib (3rd - 25 breast), Michael Knoch (1st - 25 free, 1st - 25 back), Katie Kramer (2nd - 100 breast, 3rd - 50 free), Victoria Lovrey (3rd - 100 back), Drew Maddy (2nd - 50 breast), Trisha Maddy (3rd - 100 breast), Matthew Pelton (1st - 50 free, 1st - 50 breast, 1st - 50 fly), Daniel Pierce (3rd - 50 back, 3rd - 50 fly), Pablo Suarez (1st - 100 fly, 2nd - 100 back, 3rd - 50 free), and Jetta Wright (1st - 100 fly, 3rd - 100 back, 3rd - 200 IM). The Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results are available. Congratulations to these Shark swimmers! Gator Meet Results - 12/3/07The Sharks took 98 swimmers to the Gator Holiday Invitational held November 30th thru December 2nd in Gainesville and came away with a big win. Despite the shamefully overcrowded meet conditions, the Sharks won the combined title by more than doubling 2nd place Bolles' total points (1211.5 to 524 pts.), and also won the girls' and boys' team titles. New Shark records were set in the following individual events: Ashlee Linn set a new mark in the girls 13-14 200 yard backstroke with a time of 2:02.75; Corinne Showalter broke Bridget Bowman's 1989 record in the senior girls' 200 IM with a time of 2:02.03; Mark Cox reset his own record in the boys' 15-16 200 fly with a 1:50.90; and last, but certainly not least, Ian Amistoso broke a pair of Shark records in the boys' 11-12 category - twice in the 50 breast (from 1981) with a 30.77 and again with a 30.68, and in the 200 breast with a 2:26.19 breaking the old record by an amazing 9.7 seconds. In relay events, Shark records also took a beating: the girls' 13-14 200 free relay team of Ashlee Linn, Shelby Leonard, Rachel Harrington, and Cha-cha Bugatti broke the 2006 record with a time of 1:38.90; the girls' Senior 400 medley relay record was actually broken by both the "A" and "B" teams with the "A" team of Blair Collins, Sara Conner, Corinne Showalter, and Kata Fodor getting the record with a time of 3:52.57; and the boys' 11-12 200 medley relay team of Roman Zaremba, Ian Amistoso, Liam McKane, and Patrick Wall continued to lower their own record with a time of 1:55.17. Shark Individual High Point Winners in their age groups were Ashlee Linn (13-14 girls), Patrick Ceddia (15-16 boys), and Corinne Showalter (Senior girls). Other Sharks finishing in the top 10 of their age group were: 10 & under girls - Spence Atkins (2nd) and Nancy Hu (T-10th); 10 & under boys - Campbell Lee (4th); 11-12 girls - Charlotte Wilhelm (3rd); 11-12 boys - Ian Amistoso (2nd) and Patrick Wall (10th); 13-14 girls - Shelby Leonard (4th), Cha-cha Bugatti (5th), Rachel Harrington (6th), and Ashley Reid (10th); 13-14 boys - Tucker Atkins (3rd); 15-16 girls - Lauren Piper (3rd), Mckayla Lightbourn (4th), Rocky Raybon (7th), Jesse Bessire (8th), and Marissa Harrington (T-9th); 15-16 boys - Mark Cox (5th); and Senior girls - Sara Conner (2nd) and Kata Fodor (T-5th). New Y-Nat cuts were made by: Tucker Atkins, Jesse Bessire, Meghan Buckley, Cha-cha Bugatti, Alex Catena, Patrick Ceddia, Mckenzie Clark, Blair Collins, Mark Cox, Mike Czupryna, Pat Czupryna, Kirt Davis, Kata Fodor, Rachel Harrington, Ava Jones, Tori Kontor, Shelby Leonard, Mckayla Lightbourn, Jesi Piper, Lauren Piper, Rocky Raybon, Ashley Reid, Tyler Revels, Derek Samies, and Matt Torres. New J.O. cuts were made by: Rebekah Baker, Michael Berdusco, Phil Czupryna, Keanan Dols, Faryn Duff, Dirk Hamel-Wood, Natalie Hegwein, Yusuf Kadibhai, Tori Kontor, Kristine Montoya, Joanna Murphy, Tyler O'Brien, and Andy Watts. Full Meet Results, Individual Shark Results, and a Photo Page are now available. Fodor is Triple Bronze Winner in Hungarian Championships - 11/21/07Senior 1 swimmer Kata Fodor competed in the Hungarian National Short Course Meters Swimming Championships held November 16th-18th. Kata finished with three 3rd place bronze medals (200, 400 & 800 free) and one 6th place (100 free). Kata is hoping to make the Hungarian National Team for next month's European Championships and next August's Summer Olympics. Congratulations and Good Luck to Kata! Turkey Meet Results - 11/19/07The Sharks hosted 260 visiting swimmers from as far away as Barbados and Jamaica at the annual Tom Herrington Memorial Meet held at Selby over the November 16th-18th weekend. The weather was great and the swimmers came through with some outstanding swims. Ian Amistoso reset his Shark record in the boys 11-12 100 yard breast with a time of 1:06.65, and then joined his 11-12 teammates Roman Zaremba, Liam McKane, and Patrick Wall to set a new Shark mark in the 200 yard medley relay with a time of 1:56.89. Sarasota's Corinne Showalter set a new pool record in the women's 1000 free with a time of 9:55.95. Finishing in the top 5 of their respective age groups in total points were: 8 & under girls - Cindy Dong (1st), Kaleigh Balagh (3rd), Jade Coury (4th), and Cameryn Bowers (5th); 8 & under boys - Michael Knoch (2nd), Tyler Habib (4th), and Matthew Smithburger (5th); 9 & 10 girls - Spence Atkins (2nd), Nancy Hu (3rd), Shealyn Atkins (4th), and Samantha Smithburger (5th); 9 & 10 boys - Campbell Lee (1st), and Patrick Bowers (2nd); 11 & 12 girls - Charlotte Wilhelm (1st), Joanna Murphy (3rd), and Cameron Davis (4th); 11 & 12 boys - Ian Amistoso (1st), Roman Zaremba (2nd), Liam McKane (T-3rd), and Patrick Wall (T-3rd); 13 & 14 girls - Ashlee Linn (1st), Cha-cha Bugatti (2nd), Rachel Harrington (4th), and Shelby Leonard (T-5th); 13 & 14 boys - Kirt Davis (1st), and Tucker Atkins (3rd); 15 & 16 girls - Mckayla Lightbourn (2nd), Rocky Raybon (3rd), Katheryne Muth (4th), and Becky Evenson (5th); 15 & 16 boys - Patrick Ceddia (1st), Mark Cox (2nd), Derek Samies (3rd), and Matt Torres (4th); Senior girls - Corinne Showalter (1st), Sara Conner (2nd), Blair Collins (3rd), Corey Allison (4th), and Elizabeth Marchese (5th); and Senior boys - Austin Detra (1st), John Orban (2nd), Drew Crete (3rd), Jonathan Everhart (4th), and Matt Kaminske (5th). Making new J.O. cuts were: Ian Amistoso, Rebekah Baker, Ellen Berdusco, Michael Berdusco, Alex Catena, Rees Cattermole, Sophie Cattermole, Gregg Cesaroni, Alex Clark, Mckenzie Clark, Phil Czupryna, Grace DiMeo, Faryn Duff, Jacque Garcia, Matthew Garcia, Dirk Hamel-Wood, Rachel Harrington, Karl Hegwein, Natalie Hegwein, Amy Kroening-Coury, Shelby Leonard, Danielle Manthey, Liam McKane, Matthew Pelton, Jessica Piper, Derek Pridemore, Lexy Raybon, Ashley Reid, Samantha Smithburger, and Gabrielle Theofanous. Making new Y-Nat cuts were: Cha-cha Bugatti, Patrick Ceddia, Mckenzie Clark, Blair Collins, Sara Conner, Mark Cox, Drew Crete, Austin Detra, Jonathan Everhart, Rachel Harrington, Mckayla Lightbourn, Ashlee Linn, Katheryne Muth, John Orban, Tyler Revels, Derek Samies, and Corinne Showalter. The Full Meet Results, Shark Individual Results, and Photos are now posted. WFLA Results - 10/22/07The Sharks took over 100 age group swimmers to the WFLA Fall Invitational (aka "The Halloween Open") and came away with another combined team win. Ian Amistoso did his magic again and broke another Shark record, this one in the 11-12 boys 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:07.29. This swim also qualified as a "National Reportable Time". Finishing in the top 10 in total points in their age groups were: 8 & under girls - Cindy Dong (8th); 8 & under boys - Michael Knoch (7th); 10 & under girls - Nancy Hu (4th), Spence Atkins (5th), and Shealyn Atkins (8th); 10 & under boys - Campbell Lee (5th) and Patrick Bowers (9th); 11 & 12 girls - Charlotte Wilhelm (2nd), Faryn Duff (6th), and Joanna Murphy (9th); 11 & 12 boys - Ian Amistoso (1st), Patrick Wall (4th), Liam McKane (5th), Roman Zaremba (6th), Karl Hegwein (9th), and Rees Cattermole (10th); 13 & 14 girls - Ashlee Linn (2nd) and Jesi Piper (4th); 13 & 14 boys - Derek Pridemore (4th), Gregg Cesaroni (5th), Andy Watts (7th), and Yusuf Kadibhai (9th); and Senior boys - Peyton Leeson (8th) and Jordan Fortin (9th). Sharks making new qualifying Y-Nat cuts for this Spring were: Ashlee Linn and Jesi Piper (both in the 400 IM). Sharks making new J.O. cuts (based on 2007 standards) were: Shealyn Atkins (100 IM), Sarah Cahoone (50 fly), Alex Catena (200 IM, 200 free), Sophie Cattermole (50, 100 free), Jack Clark (50 fly), Phillip Czupryna (400 IM, 100 free, 200 fly), Cameron Davis (50, 100 free), Keanan Dols (100, 200, 500 free, 100 back), Karl Hegwein (100 free, 100 fly), Nancy Hu (200 free), Yusuf Kadibhai (200 free), Amy Kroening-Coury (200 IM), Liam McKane (200 IM, 200 free), Joanna Murphy (100 IM), Niamh O'Grady (50 free, 50 back), Carter Page (200 IM, 50 fly), Matthew Pelton (200 free, 100 back), Anna Schmitz (100 breast, 100 IM), Samantha Smithburger (100 IM), Gabriel Theofanous (500 free, 50 fly), Patrick Wall (100 IM), Andy Watts (200, 400 IM, 100, 200 free, 200 fly), and Roman Zaremba (200 IM, 200 free). The Full Meet Results, Individual Shark Results, and a Photo Page are now posted. Coaches Collect Florida Swimming Honors - 10/17/07At the Florida Swimming House of Delegates Meeting held this past weekend Sherwood Watts was named the age group coach of the year for the 3rd time in the past 4 years, and Larry Shofe was named the co-senior coach of the year (Coach Shofe has received this award for the past 3 years). Congratulations to Coach Watts and Coach Shofe for winning these awards! Five Sharks Named to Scholastic All-American Team - 10/13/07For the 3rd straight year Brooke Barnett, a freshman at LSU, has been named to the Scholastic All-American Team by USA Swimming. Joining Brooke on the prestigious list were Shark swimmers Becky Evenson, Marissa Harrington, Drew Crete, and Matt Kaminske. More than 1,000 swimmers, nationwide, were named to the team for combining athletic and academic success. Swimmers have to achieve at least a 3.50 GPA as a high school sophomore, junior or senior AND must compete in an individual event in a selected national championship. The award is based upon a point system for grades and competition. For a complete list of Scholar Athletes and further information click on the following link: USA Swimming. Congratulations to these student-athletes!! Siesta Key Triathlon Results - 10/7/07Thanks to all the Shark volunteers who gave up their Sunday morning and congratulations to all the participants in this year's Siesta Key Shark Triathlon. The Results are now posted. SPA Meet Results - 9/23/07The Sharks took 100+ swimmers to St. Petersburg the weekend of Sept. 21st thru 23rd for the SPA Fall Invitational swim meet. The Sharks brought home the combined team title despite the absence of the high school swimmers. Finishing in the top 5 of their age groups in individual points were: 8 & under boys - Michael Knoch (3rd); 9 & 10 girls - Natalie Hegwein (high point winner) and Nancy Hu (5th); 9 & 10 boys - Campbell Lee (2nd); 11 & 12 girls - Kara Plocharsky (high point winner), Charlotte Wilhelm (4th), and Joanna Murphy (5th); 11 & 12 boys - Ian Amistoso (high point winner), Patrick Wall (3rd), and Justin duTreil (4th); 13 & 14 girls - Ashlee Linn (2nd); and 13 & 14 boys - Derek Pridemore (T-3rd). Individual event winners were: Ian Amistoso with an amazing 9 out of 10 wins (50, 100, 500, 1000 free, 50 & 100 breast, 50 & 100 fly, and 200 IM); Gregg Cesaroni (200 breast); Natalie Hegwein with 6 of 10 wins (50 & 100 free, 50 & 100 breast, 50 & 100 back); Campbell Lee (200 & 500 free); Ashlee Linn with 5 of 10 wins (50 & 1000 free, 200 back, 200 breast, and 200 IM); Jesi Piper (400 IM); Kara Plocharsky with 4 wins (50 & 1000 free, 100 fly, and 200 IM); Derek Pridemore (500 free); and Charlotte Wilhelm (50 fly, 100 free, and 100back). Making new qualifying J.O. cuts (based on 2007 standards) were: Rebekah Baker (100 & 200 breast); Michael Berdusco (1000 free); Patrick Bowers (500 free); Samantha Cahoone (50 breast & 100 fly); Sarah Cahoone (100 fly); Alex Catena (500 & 1000 free); Rees Cattermole (100 free); Sophie Cattermole (200 IM); Gregg Cesaroni (100 back & 1000 free); Phil Czupryna (200 free & 200 IM); Keanan Dols (100 fly & 200 IM); Daniel Erlenmeyer (50 back); Nancy Hu (500 free); Yusuf Kadibhai (200 breast); Danielle Manthey (200, 500 & 1000 free); Niamh O'Grady (100 fly & 100 back); Carter Page (50 & 200 free, 50 & 100 back, 100 fly); Matthew Pelton (50 back & 200 IM); Lexy Raybon (100 fly); Samantha Smithburger (100 & 500 free); Gabby Theofanous (1000 free); Patrick Wall (100 free, 50 & 100 back); and Roman Zaremba (100 & 1000 free). Making new Y-Nats cuts was Ashlee Linn (500 & 1000 free, and 200 breast). The Shark Results and Full Meet Results are posted. SYS Friday Night at the Races Results - 9/8/07The Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results from the Friday Night at the Races Meet held September 7th at Selby are now posted. Sharks Picked for National Select Camps - 9/5/07Senior 1 swimmers Mckayla Lightbourn, Patrick Ceddia, and Mark Cox have been picked to attend the 2007 Speedo National Select Camps joining 57 other elite young swimmers from around the country. Coach Steve Brown has also been named as an assistant men's coach for the camp. The camps will be held October 11th - 14th. Selection is based upon fastest event times and total IMX Power Point scores from May 1st to August 31st. The list of camp invitees is posted. Congratulations to Mckayla, Patrick, Mark, and Coach Brown! Fodor Swims in Hungary - 8/18/07Senior 1 swimmer Kata Fodor competed in the Hungarian Swimming Championships held July 25-29, in Budapest. Kata had lifetime bests in five of the six events she entered (50, 100, 400 & 800 free and the 400 IM). Kata also had three top 8 finishes (3rd - 800 free, 7th - 400 free, and 8th - 200 free). She broke the Shark senior girls record in the 100 meter freestyle (from 1981) with a 58.95. She now has a chance to compete in the European Short Course Championship to be held in December in Hungary.
U.S. Nationals Results - 8/15/07Coach Shofe and ten Shark swimmers made the trip to Indianapolis July 31st thru August 4th for the ConocoPhillips U.S. National Championships. Top 50 performances were turned in by Corinne Showalter (9th - 1500 free, 12th - 800 free), Ashley Largo (20th - 1500 free, 23rd - 800 free, 48th - 400 free), Ryan Crete (30th - 800 free), Austin Detra (36th - 800 free, 45th - 1500 free), and Lindsey Largo (38th - 800 free, 44th - 1500 free). Qualifying National cuts for next year's meet were made by Ryan Crete (400 & 800 free), Austin Detra (800 & 1500 free), Ashley Largo (800 & 1500 free), Lindsey Largo (800 free), and Corinne Showalter (800 & 1500 free). Three new Shark records were set: Ryan Crete broke the 1982 record of Jeff Wentz in the Open 400 IM with a time of 4:38.16; the girls' 800 free relay team of Nicole Maglich, Corinne Showalter, Ashley Largo, and Lindsey Largo broke the record set last year at Nationals with a time of 8:22.76; and the boys' 800 free relay team of Spencer Maglich, Austin Detra, Jordan Hershberger, and Ryan Crete reset their record from last Summer's Sectionals with a time of 7:46.14. The girls' team finished tied for 38th in the team category, while Corinne Showalter finished tied for 53rd in the individual girls' points standings. The Individual Shark Results are posted. Sharks Lead Florida to Southern Zone Win - 8/13/07Fourteen Shark swimmers helped to lead the Florida Zone team to the combined team win in the 2007 Southern Zone Age Group Championship held July 31st thru August 4th at the University of Houston. The Florida Zone girls team also won their category and the Florida boys finished a close third in theirs. Finishing in the Top 30 of Individual High Point by Age Group were: 11-12 boys - Ian Amistoso (14th); 13-14 girls - Ashlee Linn (winner) and Ashley Reid (T-26th); 13-14 boys - Tucker Atkins (18th) and Kirt Davis (T-25th); 15-18 girls - Mckayla Lightbourn (T-5th), Sara Conner (T-5th), and Rocky Raybon (T-7th); 15-18 boys - Patrick Ceddia (T-2nd), Matt Kaminske (12th), Mark Cox (T-13th), Drew Crete (T-25th), and John Orban (T-27th). Nine Shark records were broken - Ashlee Linn set new records in the 13-14 girls' 100 free and the open girls' 50 back; Ian Amistoso reset his own record in the 11-12 boys' 100 breast; Pat Ceddia broke Tripp Schwenk's record in the 15-16 boys' 200 free; and Mark Cox set new records in 5 different categories - the 15-16 boys' 50 free, 100 fly and 200 fly, and the open boys' 100 and 200 fly. Earning new U.S. Summer National qualifying cuts were: Matt Kaminske in the 1500 free, Pat Ceddia in the 400 free, and Mark Cox in the 200 fly. The Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results are posted. In the Open Water portion of this meet, the Florida Zone team won all three categories - combined, boys, and girls teams. The following Sharks participated in these events: 11-12 girls 3K swim - Charlotte Wilhelm (24th); 11-12 boys 3K swim - Ian Amistoso (24th); 13-14 girls 5K swim - Ashley Reid (29th) and Ashlee Linn (51st); 13-14 boys 5K swim - Kirt Davis (43rd) and Tucker Atkins (44th); 15 & over girls 5K swim - Sara Conner (2nd), Rocky Raybon (14th), and Mckayla Lightbourn (15th); 15 & over boys 5K swim - Pat Ceddia (winner), Matt Kaminske (3rd), John Orban (13th), Drew Crete (23rd), and Mark Cox (26th). Shark Wins Florida Swimming Scholarship - 8/1/07Florida Swimming announced that Shark Senior 1 swimmer Kelsey Clark is the 2007 female recipient of the Irene & Bud Hackett Scholarship award. The scholarship award of $1,000.00 was presented to Kelsey at the 2007 FS Senior Championship meet at Indian River Community College. Each year, Florida Swimming awards two $1000.00 scholarships, one to a male and one to a female member of Florida Swimming, in memory of Florida Swimming's long time Executive Director, Irene Hackett and her husband Bud. The criteria for the Scholarship is as follows: The nominee must show the ability to be a strong leader with his or her peers; Must be a graduating high school senior; The nominee must be a current Florida Swimming Member in good standing and has been with Florida Swimming as a member for at least 2 years; They must graduate with at minimum of a 3.25 GPA (unweighted); The nominee should be a well-respected member of their community (i.e. volunteer, civic organizations, church, school, etc.) Kelsey also had to write an essay explaining what it means to be a leader to your peers in today’s society. Congratulations and Good Luck to Kelsey who will be attending and swimming for Dartmouth College, in Hanover, NH this Fall. Sharks - 3 Straight Senior Champ Titles - 7/30/07Sixty-two Shark swimmers were in Ft. Pierce as the Sharks won their 3rd straight Senior Champs title over the July 26th thru 29th weekend. The Sharks won the combined title with a total of 2,176.5 points to 2nd place ATAC's total of 879.5 pts. The girls won by almost 1,000 points over 2nd place Bolles, and the boys won by almost 200 points over 2nd place ATAC. Finishing in the Top 10 of Individual High Point by Age Group were: 15-16 girls - Lauren Piper (winner), Katheryne Muth (2nd), and Blair Collins (6th); 15-16 boys - Matt Torres (8th); Open girls - Lindsey Largo (winner), Nicole Maglich (T-6th), Cha-cha Bugatti (T-6th), and Brooke Barnett (9th); and Open boys - Jordan Hershberger (3rd). One Shark record was broken - Katheryne Muth toppled Annie Babicz's 15-16 girls 50 free record with a blazing 27.67. Earning new U.S. Summer National qualifying cuts were: Lindsey Largo (800 free) and Nicole Maglich (200 free). Earning new qualifying Y-Nat cuts for next Spring's meet were: Cha-cha Bugatti (200 IM), Blair Collins (100 free), Sara Conner (200 breast), Mark Cox (800 free), Jonathan Everhart (100 & 200 breast), Rachel Harrington (100 free and 200 IM), Katheryne Muth (100 back), Tyler Revels (100 breast and 200 IM), Corinne Showalter (100 fly), Hayley Tilton (50 free), and Matt Torres (100 fly and 200 IM). The Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results are posted. Area 3/5 Results Posted - 7/29/07The Sharks sent 90 swimmers to the Area 3/5 Summer (SC) Championships held in St. Petersburg over the July 27th - 29th weekend. This is a "below J.O." meet which requires swimmers to not have their J.O. cut in the age group events they enter. Making new qualifying J.O. cuts (2007 cuts) for next Spring's meet were: Samantha Cahoone (100 IM, 100 & 200 free), Sophie Cattermole (100 fly), Keanan Dols (50 fly and 100 breast), Ava Jones (100 free and 200 IM), Jessica Piper (100 fly and 200 breast), Derek Pridemore (400 IM), and Pablo Suarez (200 IM). The Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results from Area 3/5's are now posted. SYS Wins 4th Straight J.O. Championship - 7/22/07The Sharks, all 70 strong, won the Florida Swimming Long Course Junior Olympics by a whopping 511 points over second place Bolles. This was the 4th straight J.O. win for the Sarasota Sharks dating back to Spring 2006. The four day meet was held July 19th through 22nd at the UF Pool in Gainesville and featured 45 teams from around Florida. Six new individual and four relay Shark records were set over the weekend. Natalie Hegwein and Tucker Atkins each got a pair of individual Shark records, Natalie in the 10 & under girls 50 free and 100 back, and Tucker in the boys 13 & 14 100 and 200 fly. Additionally, Ian Amistoso broke the boys 11 & 12 100 breast record from 1982 and Ashlee Linn broke the girls 13 & 14 100 back record from 1984. On the relay side, the boys 13 & 14 relay team of Kirt Davis, Derek Pridemore, Tucker Atkins, and Johnny Silvers broke both the 200 and 400 free relay records (the 200 being 21 years old). Other relay records were set by the 10 & under girls team of Natalie Hegwein, Spence Atkins, Shealyn Atkins, and Nancy Hu in the 200 free relay, and the 13 & 14 girls team of Ashlee Linn, Cha-cha Bugatti, Rachel Harrington, and Shelby Leonard in the 400 free relay. Finishing in the Top 10 of Individual High Point by Age Group were: 10 & under girls - Natalie Hegwein (3rd) and Nancy Hu (T-7th); 11 & 12 girls - Charlotte Wilhelm (5th); 11 & 12 boys - Ian Amistoso (4th), Van Miller (T-7th), and Patrick Wall (10th); 13 & 14 girls - Ashlee Linn (2nd) and Ashley Reid (7th); and 13 & 14 boys - Tucker Atkins (3rd) and Kirt Davis (5th). Finishing in the Top 3 of their individual events were: Ian Amistoso (JO Champ - 50 & 100 breast), Tucker Atkins (JO Champ - 100 free & 100 fly, 2nd place - 200 free & 200 fly, 3rd place - 200 IM), Cha-cha Bugatti (3rd place - 800 & 1500 free); Kirt Davis (2nd place - 800 free, 3rd place - 100 back, 100 free, 400 free), Natalie Hegwein (JO Champ - 100 breast, 2nd place - 50 & 100 back, 200 IM, 3rd place - 50 breast), Nancy Hu (2nd place - 100 fly), Campbell Lee (2nd place - 400 free), Shelby Leonard (3rd place - 100 & 200 back), Ashlee Linn (JO Champ - 100 & 200 back, 2nd place - 100 & 200 free, 200 IM), Van Miller (3rd place - 400 & 800 free), Ashley Reid (2nd place - 200 breast, 200 back), Charlotte Wilhelm (3rd place - 50, 100 & 200 free, 100 fly), and Roman Zaremba (3rd place - 100 back). Earning new qualifying Y-Nat cuts for next Spring's meet were: Tucker Atkins (100 & 200 fly, 200 & 400 free), Alex Catena (200 fly), Mckenzie Clark (400 & 800 free), Kirt Davis (100 & 200 back), Jacque Garcia (400 IM), Rachel Harrington (200 fly, 400 free, 400 IM), Tori Kontor (100 free), Shelby Leonard (100 & 200 free), Jessica Piper (200 IM), and Ashley Reid (100 back, 200 breast, 200 IM). The Full Meet Results, Individual Shark Results, and a Photo Page are posted. Click for Team Photo. Showalter Takes Bronze at Pan Am Games - 7/22/07Shark swimmer Corinne Showalter (USA) finished 3rd in the women's 400 meter freestyle at the Pan Am games being held in Brazil. Corinne swam a pair of lifetime bests (4:13.62 and 4:13.72) in the prelims and finals with a podium finish and a bronze medal to show for her efforts. Fellow Shark swimmer Mckayla Lightbourn (Bahamas) narrowly missed the semi-finals in the 100 breaststroke finishing 17th with a lifetime best 1:15.97; in the 400 IM, Mckayla finished 10th with a 5:10.12; she also swam on the seventh place finishing women's 800 meter freestyle relay team. Mckayla finished 7th in the 200 IM, 13th in the 200 Breast, and 14th in the 200 Back. Mckayla also broke the Shark 15-16 girls' 200 IM record from 1989 with a 2:22.80. The Swimming Results will be posted as they are available from the Pan Am games July 16th thru 22nd in Rio. Sectional Results - 7/15/07The Sharks took 32 swimmers to Ft. Lauderdale for the Southern Sectionals meet held the weekend of July 12th thru 15th. The Sharks ended up 4th overall despite skipping Sunday's final session, with the girls and boys teams both finishing 6th in their respective categories. New Shark records were set by Mark Cox in the boys 15-16 200 fly, John Orban in the boys 15-16 400 IM, and Ryan Crete in the Senior boys 400 free. The Shark Results and Full Meet Results are posted. Last Chance Meet Results - 7/15/07The Shark Results for the SYS Last Chance Meet held July 14th at Selby are now posted. Zone Team Announced - 7/9/07The preliminary Zone Team Roster has been released by Florida Swimming. The meet, scheduled for July 31st thru August 4th in Houston, will feature the following Sharks: Coach Mark Matuszak, Manager Helena Wilhelm, Ashley Reid, Ashlee Linn, Charlotte Wilhelm, Mckayla Lightbourn, Raquel Raybon, Sara Conner, Drew Crete, Mark Cox, Pat Ceddia, Matt Kaminske, John Orban, Ian Amistoso, Tucker Atkins, and Kirt Davis. Brandon Results - 7/8/07The Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results from Saturday's last chance meet at Brandon (July 7th) are now posted. Santa Clara Grand Prix Results - 7/2/07Coach Shofe took eleven of his Senior 1 swimmers to California for the Toyota Grand Prix Swim Meet held in Santa Clara from June 28th through July 1st. The Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results are now posted. High School All-Americans Listed - 6/29/07The 2006-07 NISCA/Speedo Swimming and Diving All Americans list has been released with the following Sharks making the grade: Boys - Austin Detra (200 & 500 free) and Patrick Ceddia 500 free); Girls - Corinne Showalter (200 & 500 free), Ashley Largo (200 & 500 free), Lauren Piper (100 back & 200 IM), Kata Fodor (500 free), Sara Conner (500 free), Marissa Harrington (500 free), Brooke Barnett (500 free), and Blair Collins (100 back). Relays included the 200 Medley Relay team of Carlyn Lungmus, Showalter, Piper and Kelly Kane; and the 200 Free Relay team of Showalter, Lungmus, Chelsea Gillespie, and Collins - both from Sarasota Riverview. Making All-American consideration were Rocky Raybon (500 free) and Carlyn Lungmus (100 back). Congratulations to all these swimmers! Shark Open Final Results - 6/25/07The Shark Open, blessed with the best weather in its 7 year history, attracted over 500 swimmers from 20 teams including many Olympians. The good weather may have contributed to the fact that 10 individual and 3 relay Selby Pool records were broken during the meet. Swim Atlanta swimmers claimed 7 of the individual records and all 3 of the relay records with UF swimmers taking the remaining three individual marks. Amanda Weir and Kathleen Hersey (Swim Atlanta) each set 3 new records with Weir taking the women's 50, 100, and 200 free while Hersey set the marks in the 100 & 200 fly and the 200 IM. Their teammate, Craig Jennings, set the new mark in the men's 50 free. UF swimmers Omar Pinzon (200 fly), Dustin McLarty (200 IM), and Samantha Vanderbilt (100 back) set the final 3 individual records. Swim Atlanta women's relay teams reset their records from 2006 in the 200 free and 200 medley, while their male teammates reset their 200 free relay mark. The Sharks finished first in overall team points in the boys, girls, and combined categories with Swim Atlanta taking home the visiting team's trophy in the same three categories; Fast Lane aquatics was runner-up to Swim Atlanta with Gator Swim Club finishing 3rd. Individually, Shark swimmers finishing in the top 5 overall points in their age group were: 10 & under girls - Natalie Hegwein (winner), Nancy Hu (2nd), Spence Atkins (4th), and Bethany Leap (5th); 10 & under boys - Patrick Bowers (winner), Campbell Lee (3rd), and Keanan Dols (4th); 11 & 12 girls - Charlotte Wilhelm (winner) and Kara Plocharsky (2nd); 11 & 12 boys - Patrick Wall (T-2nd), Van Miller (T-2nd), Liam McKane (4th), and Justin duTreil (5th); 13 & 14 girls - Ashlee Linn (2nd); 13 & 14 boys - Kirt Davis (winner) and Tucker Atkins (T-3rd); 15 & 16 girls - Mckayla Lightbourn (4th); 15 & 16 boys - Patrick Ceddia (2nd). Shark swimmers making new J.O. qualifying cuts for July's meet were: Rebekah Baker (200 IM), Ellen Berdusco (200 free), Patrick Bowers (100 fly), Samantha Cahoone (50 breast), Gregg Cesaroni (100 breast), Faryn Duff (400 free), Justin duTreil (100 fly), Jacque Garcia (200 back, 400 IM), Dirk Hamel-Wood (200 free), A.J. Jones (100 back, 200 IM), Yusuf Kadibhai (200 IM), Danielle Manthey (400 free), Joanna Murphy (100, 200 , 400 free, 50 breast, 200 IM), Kara Plocharsky (400 free), Lexy Raybon (100 back, 200 free), Pepper Smith (50 fly), Pablo Suarez (100 free), Andy Watts (200 fly, 400 IM, 1500 free), and Roman Zaremba (100 free). The final results from this weekend's Shark Open are posted as follows: Full Meet Results; Team Scores; Individual Scores; Individual Shark Results. A Photo Page is also available. Shark News Articles - 6/21/07June has been a good month for the Sharks in terms of media exposure. Sharks have been featured in at least three articles in local newspapers this month. Click on the links to see the corresponding articles on Corinne Showalter (Sarasota Herald-Tribune - 6/6/07), Austin Detra (Sarasota Herald-Tribune - 6/19/07), and the Manatee County Shark swimmers (Bradenton Herald - 6/21/07). Our thanks to both of these papers for providing well-deserved coverage of our swimmers. Nick Perez News Article - 6/11/07Shark graduating senior Nick Perez was featured in a front page article in the June 11th edition of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. This is a great story on this outstanding young man, please don't miss it. The article is posted HERE. GCST Meet Results - 6/11/07The Sharks took 100 swimmers to the GCST Summer Invitational held June 7th thru 10th at the FGCU pool in Ft. Myers. Despite the heat and humidity at this 10 session, 4 day, long course meet, the Sharks turned in some excellent times and ending up winning the overall, boys, and girls team titles. Finishing in the top 5 of their age groups in overall individual points were: 8 & under girls - Grace Patrice (3rd), Cindy Dong (4th), and Kate Patrice (5th); 8 & under boys - Keanan Dols (high point winner), Brian Berdusco (2nd), and Michael Knoch (4th); 10 & under girls - Nancy Hu (high point winner), Natalie Hegwein (2nd), Bethany Leap (3rd), and Spence Atkins narrowly edging her sister, Shealyn, for 5th place; 10 & under boys - Drew Maddy (t-4th); 11 & 12 girls - Charlotte Wilhelm (high point winner) and Faryn Duff (3rd); 11 & 12 boys - Michael Berdusco (high point winner), Van Miller (3rd), and Rees Cattermole (4th); 13 & 14 girls - Shelby Leonard (4th) and Rachel Harrington (5th); and Senior girls - Courtney Hudak (5th). Making new qualifying long course J.O. cuts were: Shealyn Atkins (50 free, 400 free); Spence Atkins (50 breast, 50 back, 400 free); Patrick Bowers (400 free); Rees Cattermole (100 free, 100 fly, 200 IM); Mckenzie Clark (100 free); Grace DiMeo (100 back); Keanan Dols (100 & 400 free); Faryn Duff (50 free, 100 back, 100 breast); Jacque Garcia (100 back, 200 free, 200 IM); Dirk Hamel-Wood (400 free); Rachel Harrington (100 free); Karl Hegwein (200 IM); Natalie Hegwein (400 free); Nancy Hu (400 free); Amy Kroening-Coury (100 free); Campbell Lee (400 free); Danielle Manthey (50 free); Liam McKane (50 & 400 free); Van Miller (100 fly); Chantal Murphy (100, 200 & 400 free); Carter Page (200 free); Matthew Pelton (50 back); Kaylin Searles (200 fly); John Silvers (200 back); Samantha Smithburger (200 IM, 400 free); Pablo Suarez (200 IM, 200 fly); Patrick Wall (100 back); Andy Watts (50, 100 & 200 free, 100 fly, 200 IM); Charlotte Wilhelm (50 back); and Roman Zaremba (50 free, 200 IM). The Full Meet Results, Shark Results, and a Photo Page are now posted. Showalter and Sharks Featured in June Swimming World - 5/29/07Corinne Showalter and the Sharks will be featured in the June edition of Swimming World magazine due to hit the newsstands in the next few weeks. Corinne will be featured on the cover as well as in an article about the Sharks' victory at last April's Y-National swim championship. If you don't subscribe to Swimming World, you can sign up at swimmingworldmagazine.com, because you don't want to miss this issue. Showalter Added to Pan Am Games Roster - 5/23/07USA Swimming has announced that Corinne Showalter has been added to the US Pan American Games Team in the 400 freestyle. Corinne will join Shark teammate and Bahamas Pan Am Team member, Mckayla Lightbourn, in Rio de Janeiro, July 16th thru 22nd for the international games. Memorial Meet Results - 5/19/07The Sharks had beautiful weather on tap for the Kent B. Holdren Memorial Meet held May 18th through 20th at the Selby Aquatic Center. The Sharks played host to 250 swimmers from as far away as Jamaica for the 3 day, 5 session meet. Two Shark records fell during the weekend as Ian Amistoso broke the boys' 11-12 200 breast record by over 5 seconds posting a 2:53.96; and in the girls' 10 & under 200 medley relay, the team of Natalie Hegwein, Bethany Leap, Nancy Hu, and Spence Atkins established a new mark by posting a 2:30.01. Finishing in the Top 5 in overall points for their age groups were: 8 & under - girls: Stacia Pietraszun (3rd) and Kirsten Quinn (5th); boys - Keanan Dols (2nd) and Brian Berdusco (5th); 10 & under - girls: Natalie Hegwein (2nd) and Nancy Hu (4th); boys - Campbell Lee (2nd) and Stephen Stock (5th); 11 & 12 - girls: Charlotte Wilhelm (2nd), Cameron Davis (3rd), and Gabby Theofanous (4th); boys - Michael Berdusco (1st) and Ian Amistoso (3rd); 13 & 14 - girls: Ashlee Linn (1st), Mckayla Lighbourn (3rd), and Cha-cha Bugatti (4th); boys - Kirt Davis (1st), Gregg Cesaroni (2nd), and Tucker Atkins (3rd); Senior - boys: Patrick Ceddia (1st) and Austin Detra (3rd). The Full Meet Results, Shark Results, and a Photo Page are now posted. Sharks Annual Award Celebration - 5/10/06The Sharks celebrated the successes of the 2006-2007 year at the annual awards banquet held on Sunday, May 6th at the Pine View School Auditorium. Participation trophies were presented to all Shark swimmers and the 11 graduating Senior swimmers (Brooke Barnett, Kelsey Clark, Chelsea Gillespie, Caitlin Hudak, Kelly Kane, Ashley Largo, Gabby Leibbrandt, Carlyn Lungmus, Jessica Pall, Nick Perez, and Erin Rhoades) made their farewell speeches. Winning this year's Mary Champney award was Marissa Harrington; Matt Torres won this year's Olympic Spirit Award; and the inaugural FTT award was presented to Sara Conner. Featured speaker was former Shark and new Venice coach John Bruenning who spoke of his swimming career as a Shark to the audience. Shark Masters' Coach, Rick Walker, presented a $1,000 scholarship to Shark Masters' essay contest winner, Erin Rhoades. Special thanks to Peg Rauch and Linda Showalter for leading the effort to pull-off this year's event. Thanks to Steve Largo once again for the use of the Pine View auditorium, and Mark Davis for announcing the awards. There were many others who helped including Barb Maddy, Christie Bowers, Janet Clark, Eileen Everhart, Kyle and Mark Davis, Karen Crete, Susan Aristizabal, Susie Pelton, Julie Daniel, and Amy Conner. Thanks to all of you, as well as the coaches, and of course, as always, the stars of the show - our swimmers. Click HERE for Photos from the event. Florida Swimming Releases 2008 Meet Schedule - 5/8/07Florida Swimming has released its 2008 Meet Schedule. JO's will be in Clearwater in February and Gainesville in July; Senior Champs will be in Clearwater in February and Ft. Myers in July. To see the complete schedule, click HERE. WFLA Meet Results - 5/7/07The Shark Results from Saturday, May 5th of the WFLA Spring Invitational held in Largo are posted. Austin Detra Featured in Swimming World Lane 9 Article - 5/4/07The online edition of Swimming World magazine has a nice feature on Shark Senior 1 swimmer Austin Detra. Click HERE to read the story. Highlander Results - 4/29/07The Sharks took over 100 swimmers to the Highlander Long Course Invitational held in Orlando on April 28th and 29th. For many swimmers, this was the first long course meet of the new season, and J.O.'s, Sectionals, and Nationals are just over 2 months away. Making new qualifying cuts for this summer's J.O. meet were: Ian Amistoso (100 & 200 free); Samantha Cahoone (50 fly, 100 breast); Rees Cattermole (50 & 100 breast, 50 free, 50 fly); Sophie Cattermole (50 breast); Gregg Cesaroni (50, 100, 200 free & 200 breast); Mckenzie Clark (50 free); Cameron Davis (50 back, 100 free); Kirt Davis (100 & 200 fly); Faryn Duff (100 & 200 free, 50 fly); Justin duTreil (200 & 400 free, 50 fly, 50 back); Karl Hegwein (50 fly, 50 breast, 50 free); Natalie Hegwein (50 breast, 50 back, 50 & 200 free); Nancy Hu (50 & 100 free, 50 back, 50 fly); A.J. Jones (50 free); Campbell Lee (50 & 100 free, 50 back, 50 fly); Shelby Leonard (100 fly); Van Miller (50 back); Derek Pridemore (50, 100, 400 free); Ashley Reid (200 fly); Anna Schmitz (50 back); John Silvers (100 free); Samantha Smithburger (50 breast, 50 back, 100 free); Pablo Suarez (100 fly); Gabby Theofanous (100 free, 100 back); Patrick Wall (50 & 200 free, 50 & 100 breast); Charlotte Wilhelm (100 fly); Chyna Yelding (100 back); and Roman Zaremba (100 back, 200 free). Making new qualifying cuts for next spring's Y-Nationals were: Cha-cha Bugatti (200 free); Sara Conner (100 breast); Kata Fodor (200 fly); Ashlee Linn (50 free); Lauren Piper (200 fly); Kate Plocharsky (400 IM); and Corinne Showalter (200 fly). Making a National Age Group Reportable Time was Ellen Berdusco in the girls 10 & under 100 fly. The Full Meet Results, Individual Shark Results, and a Photo Page are posted. Brandon Results - 4/16/07The Full Meet Results, Individual Scores, and Shark Results are now available from the IMX meet held at the Brandon pool on April 14th. Making new qualifying cuts for this summer's Junior Olympics were: Samantha Cahoone (100 back, 100 fly, 200 IM); Gregg Cesaroni (200 IM); Faryn Duff (100 fly, 200 IM); Karl Hegwein (100 breast); Natalie Hegwein (100 breast, 100 fly, 200 IM); Nancy Hu (100 breast, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 free, 200 IM); Amy Kroening-Coury (100 breast); Campbell Lee (100 breast, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 free, 200 IM); Van Miller (200 IM); Joanna Murphy (100 breast); John Pelton (100 back, 200 free); and Samantha Smithburger (100 breast, 100 back, 200 free). Mckayla Shines at Carifta Games - 4/12/07Senior 1 team swimmer Mckayla Lightbourn, on a 3 week road trip with U.S. Spring Nationals, Y-Nationals, and the Carifta Games (back to back to back), again captured high point honors for the 13-14 girls and led the Bahamian Team to a second place finish at the 2007 Carifta Games held in Kingston, Jamaica, April 7th thru 10th. The Carifta Games is an annual sports competition among the island nations of the Caribbean. As she has for the past three years, Mckayla came home with plenty of individual medals, all gold, as she won all 11 events in which she was entered. Additionally, she was on the winning girls 400 medley and 800 free relays, the second place 400 free relay, and the third place 200 free relay team. Mckayla set eight new individual Carifta records in the process: the 50, 100, and 200 breast; the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles; the 200 back; and the 400 IM. In addition, Mckayla had all best times in the 11 individual events she swam. If that wasn't enough, Mckayla broke the Shark record for the girls' 13-14 200 meter breast previously held by Annie Babicz. Congratulations to Mckayla for another great Carifta meet! Sharks Sweep Y-Nats - 4/5/07
The Sharks took what was most likely their largest team ever (40 swimmers) to Ft. Lauderdale, April 2nd thru 5th, and swept the YMCA National Short Course championship by winning the girls, boys, and combined titles in convincing fashion. The Sharks scored a combined total of 903 points nearly doubling the 461 points of the second place team (YOTA). The boys scored 50 points more than second place Countryside to win their title, and the girls scored 201 points more than second place West Shore. Overall, it was a dominating show by the Sharks as the other teams just couldn't match the Sharks in speed, endurance, and overall depth. Corinne Showalter set two new individual YMCA National Records (in the 500 and 1000 freestyle) and broke a third (1650 free) as well as leading off the YMCA record setting women's 800 free relay team which included Shark teammates Kata Fodor, Marissa Harrington, and Ashley Largo. Shark records also took a pounding with Lauren Piper resetting her old record in the 13-14 girls 200 IM; Corinne breaking Kim Linehan's record in the 15-16 & Senior 500 free; Blair Collins setting the new mark in the 15-16 & Senior 200 backstroke; and the previously mentioned 800 free relay team of Showalter, Fodor, Harrington, and Largo setting the new Shark standard. On the boys' side, Mark Cox reset the Shark records in the 15-16 & Senior 200 Fly and the 15-16 100 fly, and the 800 free relay team of Austin Detra, Pat Ceddia, Mark Cox, and Drew Crete set the new Shark standard. Making new Summer National cuts were: Blair Collins (200 back), Marissa Harrington (1650 free), and Ashley Largo (1000 free). Coach Larry Shofe was named Coach of the Meet for the 2nd time in 3 years. Full Meet results are available at Meet Results; Individual Shark Results are at Shark Results. Individual top 50 finishes, team roster, and team photo are at Daily Shark recaps; a Photo Page is now available. Congratulations to all the Shark swimmers, coaches, and parents!! Spring Nats Results - 4/1/07Nine Senior Shark swimmers made the trip to East Meadow, NY for the USA Swimming Spring National LC Meet held March 27th thru 31st. Ashley Largo became a 2008 Olympic Trial qualifier when she broke the cut twice in the women's 800 meter freestyle. Two Shark records were also broken, both in the 15-16 girls category and both previously held by a Linehan: in the 200 back category, Blair Collins broke Kris Linehan's previous mark of 2:18.70 set in 1985 with a 2:18.12; and in the 200 butterfly, Raquel Raybon broke Kim Linehan's record of 2:18.18 set in 1978 with a 2:17.97. Top 16 finishes were posted by: Blair Collins in the 200 back (11th); Austin Detra in the 1500 free (13th); Ashley Largo in the 800 free (5th), 1500 free (5th), and 400 free (13th), and Corinne Showalter in the 400 free (2nd) and 800 free (2nd). Congratulations to all of these Shark swimmers! Individual results are posted. FS v. FG All-Stars Dual Meet Results - 3/26/07Six Sharks helped the Florida Swimming All-Stars to a dual meet victory over the Florida Gold All-Stars in Ft. Pierce on March 24th & 25th. Ian Amistoso, Tucker Atkins, Ellen Berdusco, Michael Berdusco, Bethany Leap, and Gabby Theofanous were all selected for this year's team. The Shark Results and a photopage are now posted. Area 3/5 Results - 3/26/07The Sharks hosted the 2007 Spring Area 3/5 Championships the weekend of March 23rd thru 25th, with over 600 swimmers in attendance. This is a non-scoring, below-J.O. meet, meaning that swimmers are not allowed to swim with their age group for events in which they have J.O. cuts. Twenty-five Shark swimmers made new qualifying J.O. cuts at this meet including: Alexandra Atkins (200 free), Anna Atkins (50 free, 200 IM), Patrick Bowers (50 & 100 breast), Samantha Cahoone (50 & 100 back, 100 breast, 200 IM), Sophie Cattermole (100 breast), Gregg Cesaroni (50-100-200-500 free, 200 back, 400 IM), Mckenzie Clark (50 free), Cameron Davis (50 back, 100 IM), Grace DiMeo (100 back), Keanan Dols (50 back), Faryn Duff (50 & 100 breast, 50 back, 100 free, 200 IM), Justin duTreil (50 & 100 fly, 50 free, 50 breast), Jacque Garcia (100 fly, 200 back, 200 breast, 500 free), Megan Griffiths (100 breast, 100 free), Dirk Hamel-Wood (500 free), Natalie Hegwein (500 free), Tori Kontor (500 free), Amy Kroening-Coury (100 breast), Danielle Manthey (100 free), Kara Plocharsky ( 100 IM), Derek Pridemore (50-100-200 free, 200 IM), John Silvers (200 back), Samantha Smithburger (100 breast, 200 free, 200 IM), Alex Stock (200 breast), and Roman Zaremba (500 free). Making a new Y-National cut was Mckenzie Clark (500 free). The corrected Full Meet Results, Shark Results, and Photos are now posted. Coaches' TM Results File is also posted. New Venice Coach Hired - 3/20/07John Bruenning, a current Shark record-holder, has been hired as the new Head Swimming Coach at the Venice YMCA. Coach Bruenning, who grew up swimming in Sarasota for Sherwood Watts and competed for the Sharks through high school, will begin his duties on Monday, March 26th. Please read the following Press Release for further information. Summer Zone Meet Info. - 2/27/07From Coach Watts: The Summer Zone Meet will be July 31st thru August 4th with Open Water on August 5th. The team will be picked off of the Florida Top 10 as of mid-April. That would be the entire 15-18 age group and all but two spots for the 11-12 and 13-14 age groups. The final two spots will be chosen at the LC JO's based off of the individual high points. Applications and further info. can be downloaded from the Florida Swimming website (via the "Links" tab on the left side of this page). Senior Circuit Results - 3/19/07The Full Meet Results and Shark Results from the Senior Circuit Meet held in Clearwater on March 16th thru 18th are now posted. Sharks Win Senior Champs - 3/5/07The Sharks won their second Florida Swimming championship title in as many weeks as the Senior team swimmers outscored Clearwater Aquatic 1,328 to 1,149 points. The FS Short Course Senior Championship meet was held March 1st thru 4th at the Long Center in Clearwater. Finishing in the top 10 of their respective age groups in overall individual points were: 15 & 16 girls - Corinne Showalter (3rd), Rocky Raybon (7th), and Sara Conner (8th); 15 & 16 boys - Austin Detra (9th); and Senior girls - Kata Fodor (T-4th) and Ashley Largo (9th). Making new qualifying Y-Nat cuts were: Corey Allison (1000 free), Kelsey Clark (1650 free), Christine Clayton (200 back), Sara Conner (200 breast), Drew Crete (100 free), Patrick Czupryna (1000 split & 1650 free), Becky Evenson (100 back), Jonathan Everhart (1000 & 1650 free), Chelsea Gillespie (200 fly), Ashley Largo (200 IM), Carlyn Lungmus (50 & 100 free, 200 back), and Matt Torres (200 back & 400 IM). The Full Meet Results and the Shark Results are now posted. Three Straight as Sharks Win J.O.'s - 2/26/07The Sharks won their third consecutive Florida Swimming Junior Olympic championship title at the UF pool in Gainesville over the Feb. 22nd - 25th weekend. The Sharks pulled out one of the closest, and certainly one of the most exciting, finishes in J.O. history as they rallied from 54 points down with just 2 events remaining to pull out a 22 point victory over Bolles. The 13-14 girls, led by Lauren Piper, Shelby Leonard and Ashlee Linn's 1-2-3 finish in the 200 backstroke, started the comeback charge by erasing the deficit with a 70 point net gain for the Sharks. The 13-14 boys then took over, led by Derek Samies' 3rd place finish in the 200 back, to secure the 2007 short course title with a total of 2,661 points. Mckayla Lightbourn, Lauren Piper, and Derek Samies, in their final J.O. meet, went out in style as they led the Sharks with a combined total of 308 individual points and took part in rewriting 8 of the 9 Shark records broken during the meet. Lauren brought home the girls' 13-14 high point award and set Shark records in 4 individual events (100 back, 200 back, 100 fly, and 400 IM). She also set a new Florida J.O. record in the 400 IM with a time of 4:20.05. Derek reset the Shark record in the 13-14 boys' 400 IM with a time of 4:14.40. Four Shark relay records were reset all in the 13-14 age group: the girls 200 medley relay team of Shelby Leonard, Mckayla Lightbourn, Lauren Piper, and Ashlee Linn set a new mark with a time of 1:51.36, while the girls 400 medley relay team of Linn, Lightbourn, Piper, and Cha-cha Bugatti set the new mark of 3:58.96; on the boys' side the 400 free relay team of Kirt Davis, Lucas Thompson, Tucker Atkins, and Derek Samies smashed the old mark set in 1977 by over 3 seconds with a time of 3:20.65, while the 400 medley team of Mufaddal Kadibhai, Davis, Atkins, and Thompson set the new mark of 3:48.76. Top ten overall point finishers in their respective age groups were: 10 & under girls - Ellen Berdusco (2nd) and Gabby Theofanous (3rd); 13-14 girls - Lauren Piper (1st), Mckayla Lightbourn (4th), Ashlee Linn (7th), and Cha-cha Bugatti (10th); 13-14 boys - Derek Samies (4th) and Kirt Davis (7th). New Spring National cuts were made by Mckayla Lighbourn (1650 free) and Lauren Piper (100 back and 400 IM). New Y-National cuts were made by Meghan Buckley (200 back), Cha-cha Bugatti (200 back), Mckenzie Clark (1650 free), Kirt Davis (500 & 1000 free, 400 IM), Rachel Harrington (500 free), Jessica Piper (100 & 200 back), Ashley Reid (200 breast, 200 back, 200 IM), and Derek Samies (500 free and 200 back). National age group reportable times were set by Ellen Berdusco (100 fly), Cha-cha Bugatti (1650 free), Kirt Davis (1000 free), Mckayla Lightbourn (1650 free), Lauren Piper (100 & 200 fly, 100 & 200 back, 400 IM), and Derek Samies (500, 1000 & 1650 free). It should be noted that the Sharks also won the "Spirit Award" which is given to the team which exhibits the best cheers, sportsmanship, originality, parent attitude & sportsmanship, team area & clean-up, and coaches' attitude & sportsmanship. Congratulations to the Shark swimmers, coaches, and parents. The Full Meet Results, Shark Results, and Photos are now posted. US Grand Prix Results - 2/20/07The Full Meet Results and the Shark Results from the Missouri Grand Prix held Feb. 16th thru 19th in Columbia, MO are now posted. Y-State Results - 2/11/07
The Sharks entered a whopping 203 swimmers in the 2007 Y-State swimming championships held Feb. 9th thru 11th at the YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando. When it was all over the Sharks had won their 20th Y-State championship and 3rd in a row. One new Shark record was set by Samantha Cahoone who broke the girls 8 & under mark in the 200 IM with a time of 2:54.03. Finishing in the top 3 overall in total points in their respective age groups were: 8 & under girls - Samantha Cahoone (1st); 8 & under boys - Keanan Dols (2nd); 10 & under girls - Gabby Theofanous (1st), Grace DiMeo (2nd), and Ellen Berdusco (3rd); 10 & under boys - Campbell Lee (1st), and Patrick Bowers (3rd). Individual high points appear to be incorrectly totalled on the official results for 11 and overs and thus there is some uncertainty to the actual standings, however, unofficially the following Sharks finished in the top 3 of their age group: 11 & 12 girls - Jessica Piper (2nd) and Kara Plocharsky (3rd); 11 & 12 boys - Gregg Cesaroni (1st), Ian Amistoso (2nd), and Van Miller (3rd); 13 & 14 girls - Kaitlyn Plocharsky (1st), and Cha-cha Bugatti (2nd); 13 & 14 boys - Kirt Davis (1st), Derek Samies (2nd), and Marty Rauch (3rd); and Senior girls - Corey Allison (T-3rd). Making new qualifying J.O. cuts were: Alexandra Atkins (100 back); Anna Atkins (500 free); Patrick Bowers (50 free & 100 back); Sarah Cahoone (200 free); Alex Catena (100 fly); Rees Cattermole (50 & 100 fly, 100 & 200 IM); Cameron Davis (500 & 1000 free); Faryn Duff (100 IM & 200 free); Justin duTreil (500 free & 200 IM); Jacque Garcia (200 IM); Megan Griffiths (500 free); Karl Hegwein (100 breast & 100 IM); Natalie Hegwein (200 free); Nancy Hu (100 breast); Tori Kontor (200 & 1000 free); Campbell Lee (50 free); Drew Maddy (200 free & 100 back); Danielle Manthey (50 free); Liam McKane (500 free); Joanna Murphy (200 free); John Pelton (100 back); Kara Plocharsky (100 & 1000 free, 200 IM); Ashley Reid (100 breast); John Silvers (50 & 100 free); Samantha Smithburger (100 back); Phillip Sterbinsky (200 free, 200 & 400 IM); Stephen Stock (200 free); Pablo Suarez (200 fly); and Roman Zaremba (100 back). Making new Y-Nat cuts were: Lauren Piper (200 fly) and Tyler Revels (400 IM). The Full Meet Results, individual Shark results, and Photos are posted. Y-Qualifier Results - 2/5/07The Full Meet Results are Individual Shark Results from the Y-Qualifier Meets held last weekend at the Selby Aquatic Center are now posted. Orlando IMX Results - 1/29/07The Sharks took a large contingent of 14 & under swimmers to the Team Orlando IMX Challenge meet held Jan. 26th thru 28th in Altamonte Springs. The combined team finished 2nd overall with the following Sharks finishing in the top 5 of their age group: 9 & under girls - Samantha Smithburger (3rd) and Spence Atkins (5th); boys - Campbell Lee (1st), Patrick Bowers (2nd), and Matthew Pelton (3rd); 10 year old girls - Ellen Berdusco (2nd), Bethany Leap (4th), and Annalee Bowers (5th); 11 year old girls - Faryn Duff (3rd); boys - Roman Zaremba (2nd), Karl Hegwein (3rd), and Rees Cattermole (4th); 12 year old girls - Jessica Piper (1st) and Joanna Murphy (3rd); boys - Michael Berdusco (5th); and 13 year old boys - Gregg Cesaroni (3rd). The following swimmers had all personal best times: Keanan Dols, Kalah Harford, Karl Hegwein, and Natalie Hegwein. New qualifying cuts for this Spring's J.O. were made by: Alexandra Atkins (50 & 100 free, 50 breast, 100 IM); Anna Atkins (100 free); Michael Berdusco (50 free); Annalee Bowers (100 & 200 IM); Patrick Bowers (200 free); Sarah Cahoone (100 free, 200 IM); Gregg Cesaroni (200 IM); Faryn Duff (50 free - leadoff); Karl Hegwein (50 fly & 50 breast); Natalie Hegwein (100 free, 50 breast, 100 & 200 IM); Nancy Hu (100 free, 100 back, 100 & 200 IM); Bethany Leap (100 & 500 free); Van Miller (50 fly & 200 IM); John Pelton (100 & 200 free, 50 back - leadoff); Samantha Smithburger (50 back); Patrick Wall (50 & 100 breast, 200 free); and Andy Watts (1650 free). The Full Results, Shark Results and Photos are posted. Indian River C.C. Dual Meet Results - 1/29/07The Shark Junior and Senior teams hosted the Indian River Community College swim team for a dual meet on Saturday, Jan. 27th at Selby. Both teams were coming off long bus trips the day before, but the SYS girls outswam the IRCC girls by the score of 175 to 84 while the IRCC boys beat the SYS boys 183 to 79; overall, the IRCC team narrowly outpointed the Sharks by the score of 267 to 254. The Full Meet Results and the Individual Shark Results are posted. Shark Sr. Circuit Meet Results - 1/14/07In a warm-up to the 2007 championship season, the Sharks hosted 210+ swimmers for the Senior Circuit Long Course Meet held January 12th thru 14th at the Selby Aquatic Center. Two pool records fell as American Record Holder (in the 100 meter free) Amanda Weir from USC and Swim Atlanta broke the Selby 100 free mark with a 58.10 effort, and Ricardo Monasterio from Gator Swim Club reset his own pool record in the 800 free with a time of 8:18.96. Shark swimmer Phillip Sterbinsky made two new qualifying J.O. cuts in the 100 back and 200 free. Full Meet Results, Shark Results, and a photo slideshow are posted. Coaches TM Results File is also posted. Linn & Ceddia Picked for Zone Select Camp - 1/11/07Junior 1 swimmer Ashlee Linn and Senior 1 swimmer Patrick Ceddia have been selected to attend the 2007 USA Swimming Southern Zone Select Camp to be held June 7-10 in Chattanooga, TN joining 54 other elite young swimmers from around the South. Selection is based upon fastest event times and total IMX Power Point scores from May 1st to August 31st. Congratulations Ashlee and Patrick! Sharks Dominate All-Area HS Swimming Team - 12/29/06
The Sarasota Sharks again dominated the Sarasota-Herald Tribune's "All-Area High School Swimming" team. Riverview High's Corinne Showalter and Sarasota Christian's Austin Detra were named as the top high school swimmers of the year from the area; this was Corinne's second consecutive year as the top girl swimmer. Shark girls making it to the All-Area team were: Brooke Barnett and Sara Conner from Sarasota Christian; Blair Collins, Chelsea Gillespie, Kelly Kane, Carlyn Lungmus, Lauren Piper, and Rocky Raybon from Riverview High; Ashley Largo, Kelsey Clark, Kata Fodor, and Mckayla Lightbourn from Booker High; and Marissa Harrington from Manatee High. Shark boys making it to the All-Area Team were: John Orban and Nick Perez from Sarasota Christian; Drew Crete, Jonathan Everhart, Mufaddal Kadibhai, Matt Kaminske, Marty Rauch, and Derek Samies from Riverview High; Patrick Ceddia from Cardinal Mooney; Matt Torres from Lakewood Ranch; and Mark Cox, Tyler Revels, and Stephen Taylor from Venice High. Honorable Mention picks from the Sharks included: Corey Allison (Lakewood Ranch), Jesse Bessire (Sarasota), Courtney Dowling (Cardinal Mooney), Becky Evenson (Riverview), Caitlin Hudak (Riverview), Ashley Knoch (Riverview), Danie McCoy (Venice), Maura McDonald (ODA), Kaycee Perry (Bayshore), Kaitlyn Plocharsky (Riverview), Kaitlin Quinn (Cardinal Mooney), Erin Rhoades (Riverview), Hayley Tilton (St. Stephens), Tim Bradley (Booker), Michael Czupryna (Lakewood Ranch), Patrick Czupryna (Lakewood Ranch), Lucas Thompson (Lakewood Ranch), and Chip Whittemore (Venice). For the second straight year, Coach Larry Shofe (Riverview) was named as Coach of the Year on the girls' side with Coach Steve Brown (Sarasota Christian) again picking up the honor on the boys' side. Congratulations to all of these Sharks! CAT Jingle Bell Results - 12/18/06The Sharks took over 100 swimmers to Clearwater's Long Center the weekend of December 15th-17th for the CAT Jingle Bell Meet. The following swimmers finished in the top 10 of their age group for overall points: 10 & under girls - Ellen Berdusco (4th), Gabby Theofanous (6th), and Grace DiMeo (T-8th); 11 & 12 girls - Jessica Piper (8th); 11 & 12 boys - Michael Berdusco (T-5th) and Rees Cattermole (10th); 13 & 14 girls - Raquel Raybon (7th) and Meghan Buckley (9th); 13 & 14 boys - Lucas Thompson (6th); and Senior boys - Tyler Revels (9th). Making new qualifying cuts for Spring J.O.'s were: Ryan Agabani (50 free); Alexandra Atkins (200 IM); Anna Atkins (50 fly); Meghan Buckley (200 IM); Alex Catena (200 fly); Faryn Duff (100 fly); Natalie Hegwein (100 fly & 100 back); Kara Plocharsky (500 free, 100 fly, 100 back); John Silvers (200 IM); Phillip Sterbinsky (500 free); Michael Stock (200 IM, 200 breast, 200 fly); Lucas Thompson (200 back); and Roman Zaremba (50 back). Making at least 5 new personal best times were: Alexandra Atkins, Annie Berdusco, Ellen Berdusco, Michael Berdusco, Tim Bradley, Meghan Buckley, Rees Cattermole, Lisa Cesaroni, Grace DiMeo, Jennifer Dong, Faryn Duff, Daniel Everhart, Kalah Harford, Karl Hegwein, Natalie Hegwein, Juana Lopez, Trisha Maddy, Danielle Manthey, Matthew Pelton, Kara Plocharsky, Lexy Raybon, Tyler Revels, Michael Stock, Pablo Suarez, Gabby Theofanous, and Jetta Wright. The Full Meet Results and the Individual Shark Results are posted. Sharks Receive Honors - 12/18/06Senior 1 swimmer Marissa Harrington was honored as the Bradenton Herald's "Hign School Girl Swimmer of the Year" in their December 17th edition. Marissa swam for Manatee High School and finished 4th (500 free) and 6th (200 free) at the State Championships last month. Making Honorable Mention honors were Shark swimmers Kaycee Perry (Bayshore), Patrick Ceddia, Kaitlin Quinn and Courtney Dowling (Cardinal Mooney), Maura McDonald (ODA), Corey Allison, Chelsea Williams, Matt Torres, Mike Czupryna, Patrick Czupryna, and Lucas Thompson (Lakewood Ranch), and Haley Tilton and Annie Berdusco (St. Stephens). Senior 1 swimmer Brooke Barnett was recently honored by Sarasota's Channel 40 as their "High School Athlete of the Week". Brooke, a Senior at Sarasota Christian, was featured on a TV segment which included scenes filmed at her school and Selby. Congratulations to all of these swimmers! B Championship Results - 12/10/06The Full Meet Results and Shark Results for the Florida Swimming "B" Championships held Dec. 9th in Clearwater are now posted. New qualifying J.O. cuts were made by: Samantha Cahoone (50 fly); Rees Cattermole (50 breast); Faryn Duff (50 fly); and Natalie Hegwein (50 free & 50 back). Spring J.O.'s Set for Gainesville - 12/7/06The location for the 2007 Spring Junior Olympics Meet has now been set for Gainesville (Feb. 22nd thru 25th). The Sharks have a block of rooms reserved at that location (please see the Hotel Block page in the "Shark Zone"). If you have reservations in Orlando, it is suggested that you cancel them. If you have any questions, contact your child's coach. Gator Invitational Results - 12/5/06The Sharks took 68 swimmers to the Gator Holiday Meet held Dec. 1st thru 3rd at the UF Pool in Gainesville and came away with team wins in the boys, girls, and combined categories. Individual high points appear to be incorrectly totalled on the official results and thus there is some uncertainty to the actual standings of the 13 & overs, however, unofficially the following Sharks finished in the top 10 of their age group: 10 & under girls - Ellen Berdusco (T-5th) and Bethany Leap (7th); 11 & 12 girls - Jessica Piper (4th); 11 & 12 boys - Gregg Cesaroni (10th); 13 & 14 girls - Ashlee Linn (3rd) and Katheryne Muth (T-9th); 13 & 14 boys - Kirt Davis (4th) and Marty Rauch (6th); 15 & 16 girls - Kata Fodor (6th) and Sara Conner (10th); 15 & 16 boys - Mark Cox (T-4th), Patrick Ceddia (T-7th), and John Orban (T-10th); and Senior girls - Brooke Barnett (T-8th) . Two Shark records fell at this meet, both on the boys' side: Mark Cox set two new short course records in the butterfly - in the 100 fly, Mark broke the 3 year old record with a 51.53, and in the 200 fly, he broke the 24 year old record with a 1:53.39. New qualifying Y-Nat cuts were made by the following swimmers: Corey Allison (500 & 1650 free); Brooke Barnett (200 IM & 100 free); Cha-cha Bugatti (1000 (split) & 1650 free); Patrick Ceddia (400 IM); Mark Cox (200 IM & 50 free); Drew Crete (200 free); Kirt Davis (200 back & 1650 free); Marissa Harrington (100 free); Rachel Harrington (1650 free); Caitlin Hudak (400 IM & 100 back); Ava Jones (500 free); Matt Kaminske (200 free); Caroline LaCamera (1650 free); Ashlee Linn (200 & 400 IM, 200 back); Katheryne Muth (100 back); John Orban (200 IM & 200 back); Kaitlyn Plocharsky (400 IM & 200 back); Marty Rauch (400 IM & 200 fly); and Ashley Reid (400 IM). Making new qualifying J.O. cuts were: Ian Amistoso (500 free); Patrick Bowers (100 & 200 IM, 100 free); Cha-cha Bugatti (100 fly); Cameron Davis (200 free & 50 fly); Kirt Davis (1650 free); Rachel Harrington (100 fly); Yusuf Kadibhai (200 fly); Tori Kontor (100 free); Bethany Leap (100 IM); Campbell Lee (100 IM); Liam McKane (50 free); Ashley Reid (100 free); Patrick Wall (200 IM & 500 free); and Charlotte Wilhelm (100 IM). The Full Meet Results and the individual Shark Results are posted. U.S. Open Results - 12/3/06The Sharks took 7 swimmers (photo) to the U.S. Open held in West Lafayette, Indiana the weekend of Nov. 30th - Dec. 2nd: Blair Collins, Corinne Showalter, Austin Detra, Ashley Largo, Rocky Raybon, Lauren Piper, and Mckayla Lightbourn (representing the Bahamas). In addition, former Ohio State swimmer Nicole Maglich also represented the Sharks at the meet. Top 16 finishes were recorded by: Blair Collins (11th - 200m back), Ashley Largo (12th - 800 free, 16th - 400 free); and Corinne Showalter (11th - 800 free and 6th - 400 free). The women's 800 free relay team of Maglich, Showalter, Largo, and Collins finished 11th. The women's team finished 11th overall in the women's club team category. In addition, Corinne Showalter finished tied for 34th in the women's individual high point standings with 24 points. Rocky Raybon reset her own Shark record in the 200 meter fly with a 2:17.67. Rocky (200 fly) and Blair (200 back) are now less than 1 second off the 2008 Olympic Trial cuts. The Individual Shark Results are posted. Sharks Sign Letters of Intent - 11/24/06Shark Senior 1 swimmers Ashley Largo and Brooke Barnett recently signed National Letters of Intent to attend and swim for Southeastern Conference schools next fall. Ashley signed with the University of Arkansas and their new coach Jeff Poppell, while Brooke will swim for Louisiana State University. Click for University of Arkansas press release. Congratulations to both of these swimmers. Turkey Meet Results - 11/19/06The Sharks broke out the parkas for the first time this season, as the temperatures dropped into the 50's during the annual Tom Herrington Invitational (Turkey) Meet held November 17th thru 19th at Selby. Three pool records fell as Megan Romano (200 back) and Robert Margalis (200 back and 400 IM), both of St. Pete Aquatics, set new marks - Romano had set the Selby 100 free mark last month at 2A Regionals; Blair Collins also broke the old pool record in the 200 back but finished second to Romano. Five Sharks made Y-National cuts including: Cha-cha Bugatti (500 free & 400 IM); Mark Cox (400 IM; Kata Fodor (100 & 200 back) ; Mckayla Lightbourn (200 back); and Ashlee Linn (100 back). Thirty five Sharks made new qualifying cuts for next Spring's Junior Olympics including: Ian Amistoso (200 & 1000 free); Alexandra Atkins (100 breast); Anna Atkins (50 back); Annalee Bowers (50 fly); Patrick Bowers (50 & 100 fly); Meghan Buckley (1000 & 1650 free); Cha-cha Bugatti (1650 free); Sarah Cahoone (200 IM); Rees Cattermole (100 breast); Mckenzie Clark (1000 & 1650 free, 200 back); Cameron Davis (100 back); Justin duTreil (1000 free); Jacque Garcia (1650 free); Nikki Gutzmann (50 free, 200 IM); Rachel Harrington (1650 free); Nancy Hu (50 fly); Ava Jones (1650 free); Yusuf Kadibhai (100 fly); Bethany Leap (50 free - relay lead-off); Campbell Lee (200 & 500 free, 50 & 100 breast, 200 IM); Shawn Leonard (50 & 100 free, 100 & 200 fly); Ashlee Linn (100 back, 1650 free); Liam McKane (50 & 100 back); Van Miller (50 & 1000 free, 100 back); Joanna Murphy (50 & 100 breast); Derek Pridemore (1000 free); Ashley Reid (1000 & 1650 free); John Silvers (200, 1000, 1650 free, 200 fly); Phillip Sterbinsky (100 free, 200 back); Stephen Stock (500 free, 100 back); Gabby Theofanous (50 free); Lucas Thompson (50, 100, 200 free, 100 fly, 100 back, 200 IM); Laura Toth (50 & 100 back); Patrick Wall (1000 free); and Charlotte Wilhelm (500 (split) & 1000 free). The corrected (12-8-06) Full Results, Shark Results, and Photo Page are posted. LC Invitational Results - 11/5/06
The Full Meet Results and the Shark Results for the SYS Long Course Invitational held Nov. 5th at Selby are now posted.
USA Swimming Releases Top 16 Lists - 10/25/06USA Swimming has released its fiinal Top 16 lists for the year 2005/2006. Fourteen Sharks made the lists for individual swims: Raquel Raybon, Corinne Showalter, Kata Fodor, Cameron Davis, Cha Cha Bugatti, Lauren Piper, Ashley Largo, Kirt Davis, Mark Cox, Austin Detra, Ryan Crete, Ian Amistoso, Tucker Atkins, and Patrick Ceddia. Making the list as members of Shark relay teams were: Katheryne Muth, Ashlee Linn, Lauren Piper, Shelby Leonard, Kata Fodor, Corinne Showalter, Mandy Snell, Ashley Largo, Jessica Piper, Cha Cha Bugatti, Tori Kontor, Charlotte Wilhelm, Mckayla Lightbourn, Raquel Raybon, Roman Zaremba, Ian Amistoso, Liam McKane, Patrick Wall, Yusuf Kadibhai, Derek Pridemore, Tucker Atkins, Andy Watts, Gregg Cesaroni, Mufaddal Kadibhai, Kirt Davis, Marty Rauch, and Patrick Ceddia. Congratulations to these swimmers! To view the Top 16 lists, click Here. 2 Sharks Picked for National Select Camp - 10/22/06Senior 1 swimmers Austin Detra and Lauren Piper have been picked to attend the 2006 USA Swimming National Select Camps joining 58 other elite young swimmers from around the country. The camps will be held in Colorado Springs from November 9th - 12th (girls) and 16th - 19th (boys). Selection is based upon fastest event times and total IMX Power Point scores from May 1st to August 31st. Congratulations Lauren and Austin! Siesta Key Triathlon Results & Photos - 10/19/06Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's Siesta Key Shark Triathlon. The Results are now posted. Photos of the event and participants are available for viewing and purchase from hocophoto.com. The Sharks swim team will receive a percentage of the sales generated by hocophoto. WFLA Results - 10/15/06The Sharks took 106 swimmers to Largo the weekend of October 13th thru 15th for the WFLA Halloween Open and came away with a 1st place combined team finish. In the first big age group meet of the season, many Sharks had a great weekend in the pool. Finishing in the top 10 of their age groups in combined points were: 8 & under girls - Samantha Cahoone (4th); 8 & under boys - Patrick Bowers (1st place), Keanan Dols (2nd), Brian Berdusco (T-7th), and Daniel Erlenmeyer (T-7th); 10 & under girls - Ellen Berdusco (6th); 10 & under boys - Patrick Wall (2nd) and Roman Zaremba (8th); 11 & 12 girls - Jessica Piper (2nd), Rebekah Baker (T-9th), and Alex Clark (T-9th); 11 & 12 boys - Derek Pridemore (4th), Gregg Cesaroni (5th), Ian Amistoso (6th), Andy Watts (8th), and Liam McKane (9th); 13 & 14 girls - Cha-cha Bugatti (10th); 13 & 14 boys - Kirt Davis (3rd) and Tucker Atkins (4th); and Senior girls - Gabby Leibbrandt (3rd). Winning their individual events were: Patrick Bowers with 8 total wins (25 & 50 free, 25 & 50 breast, 25 & 50 fly, 25 & 50 back - looks like a future IM'er); Gregg Cesaroni (50 & 100 breast); Kirt Davis (100 breast); Shelby Leonard (100 & 200 back); Jessica Piper (50 & 100 back, 200 & 400 IM, 100 breast); Derek Pridemore (50 back); and Patrick Wall (100 IM & 100 breast). Finishing 2nd or 3rd in at least one of their events were: Ian Amistoso, Tucker Atkins, Ellen Berdusco, Cha-cha Bugatti, Samanth Cahoone, Alex Catena, Gregg Cesaroni, Alex Clark, Kirt Davis, Keanan Dols, Daniel Erlenmeyer, Tori Kontor, Gabby Leibbrandt, Jessica Piper, Derek Pridemore, Patrick Wall, Andy Watts, and Roman Zaremba. Making new qualifying cuts for next Spring's J.O. meet were: Ian Amistoso (100 & 200 IM, 100 fly, 100 free); Alexandra Atkins (50 & 100 fly); Anna Atkins (100 fly, 100 back); Tucker Atkins (100 & 200 fly, 400 IM); Annalee Bowers (50, 100 & 500 free); Meghan Buckley (500 free); Cha-cha Bugatti (200 fly, 200 back, 200 breast, 400 IM); Sarah Cahoone (50 & 100 fly, 100 back); Mckenzie Clark (200 free); Cameron Davis (200 IM); Megan Griffiths (100 & 200 IM); Nancy Hu (100 fly); Tori Kontor (100 & 200 breast, 200 IM); Bethany Leap (200 IM); Campbell Lee (100 back); Drew Maddy (200 IM); Liam McKane (100 fly); Van Miller (100, 200 & 500 free); Ashley Reid (200 & 500 free, 200 back, 400 IM); Stephen Stock (100 & 200 IM, 100 fly, 100 free); Gabby Theofanous (50 & 100 breast, 100 fly, 100 IM, 500 free); Laura Toth (50 fly); and Charlotte Wilhelm (50 & 100 fly, 50 back, 200 IM). Making new Senior Champ cuts (2006 cuts) were:Cha-cha Bugatti (200 & 500 free, 200 back, 400 IM); Jacque Garcia (200 back, 200 fly); Gabby Leibbrandt (200 fly, 200 IM); Jessica Piper (400 IM); and Ashley Reid (200 & 400 IM, 200 back). Congratulations to all these Shark swimmers! Full Results, Team and Individual Scores, Individual Shark Results, and a Photopage are posted. Sharks Collect Florida Swimming Honors - 10/2/06At the Florida Swimming House of Delegates Meeting held this past weekend, the Sharks collected the following honors for 2006: Lauren Piper was named the 13-14 girls LC swimmer of the year; Corinne Showalter was named the female senior swimmer of the year; Sherwood Watts was named the age group coach of the year; and Larry Shofe was named the senior coach of the year. Coach Watts won the age group coach award in 2004 and Coach Shofe won the senior coach award in 2005. Congratulations to these swimmers and coaches! Two Sharks Named to Scholastic All-American Team - 9/28/06Brooke Barnett, a senior at Sarasota Christian School and Kelsey Clark, a senior at Pine View School, both Senior 1 team members, have been named to the 2005-2006 Scholastic All-American Team by USA Swimming. This is Brooke's second consecutive year achieving this honor. More than 1,100 swimmers, nationwide, were named to the team for combining athletic and academic success. Swimmers have to achieve at least a 3.50 GPA as a high school sophomore, junior or senior AND must compete in an individual event in a selected national championship. The award is based upon a point system for grades and competition. For a complete list of Scholar Athletes and further information click on the following link: USA Swimming. Congratulations, Brooke and Kelsey!! Daytona Meet Results - 9/12/06The Sharks took a reduced team of 43 swimmers to the Tom Kingston Invitational swim meet held in Port Orange, FL the weekend of September 8th - 10th. The Shark boys finished first in the team score with the girls and combined team finishing 2nd overall. High Point Winners in their age groups were: Patrick Bowers in the 8 & under boys; Jessica Piper in the 11 & 12 girls; and co-winners in the 13 & 14 boys - Tucker Atkins and Kirt Davis. Other Sharks finishing in the top 10 of their age group combined points were: Samantha Cahoone (3rd) in the 8 & under girls; Brian Berdusco (T-10th) in the 8 & under boys; Ellen Berdusco (T-3rd), Ashley Ehmann (7th) and Megan Griffiths (T-9th) in the 10 & under girls; Patrick Wall (5th) and Hayden Aristizabal (T-9th) in the 10 & under boys; Alex Clark (9th) in the 11 & 12 girls; Derek Pridemore (3rd), Michael Berdusco (5th), Andy Watts (6th), and Christian Rauch (9th) in the 11 & 12 boys; Ava Jones (T-5th) and Ashley Reid (9th) in the 13 & 14 girls; Pablo Suarez (8th) in the 13 & 14 boys; Gabby Leibbrandt (6th) in the Senior girls; and Derek Pridemore (T-7th) in the Senior boys. Qualifying cuts for next Spring's J.O.'s (based upon 2006 cuts) were achieved by: Tucker Atkins (200 back, 500 free); Ellen Berdusco (100 back); Michael Berdusco (50 fly); Annalee Bowers (100 back, 100 fly, 200 free); Kirt Davis (100 fly); Jacque Garcia (200 fly); Megan Griffiths (200 free); Natalie Hegwein (100 breast); Campbell Lee (50 & 100 fly, 100 free); and Ashley Reid (200 breast). The Full Results, Shark Results, and Photos are posted. Shark Olympic Trial Qualifiers - 8/12/06USA Swimming has released the current women's and men's list of 2008 U.S. Olympic Trial qualifiers. Included on the list are Corinne Showalter (400 & 800 free), Ryan Crete (1500 free), Austin Detra (1500 free), and Annie Babicz (50 free & 100 breast). National Championships Results - 8/12/06Coach Shofe took 7 swimmers to the ConocoPhillips National Championships held Aug. 1st thru 5th in Irvine, CA. This meet attracted the elite swimmers from around the country. Representing the Sharks were Corinne Showalter, Kata Fodor, Ashley Largo, Nicole Maglich, Spencer Maglich, Austin Detra, and Ryan Crete. Also in the meet was Shark record holder Annie Babicz, swimming for California Aquatics. Making their Olympic Trial cuts were Austin Detra and Ryan Crete in the 1500 free (Corinne also lowered her Trial cuts in both the 400 and 800 free). New National Championship cuts were made by Ashley Largo in the 800 free and Austin Detra in the 400 free. Top 50 individual finishers for the Sharks were: Corinne Showalter (10th - 400 free and 12th 800 free); Ryan Crete (21st - 1500 free); Ashley Largo (33rd - 800 free); and Austin Detra (33rd - 1500 free). Annie Babicz finished 26th in the 100 breast and was on the 6th place 400 free relay team and the 18th place 400 medley relay team for Cal Aquatics. New Shark records were set by: Austin Detra who broke Jeff May's 1997 record in the 15-16 boys 400 free by almost 2 seconds with a time of 4:01.77; Spencer Maglich who reset his own record in the senior boys 200 free with a 1:54.03; and the girls relay team of Corinne Showalter, Nicole Maglich, Kata Fodor, and Ashley Largo who finished 13th and smashed the senior 800 free relay record by over 10 seconds with a time of 8:24.04, and the 400 free relay record with a time of 3:58.70 (finishing 32nd). Shark Results are posted as are the final Meet Results. Congratulations to these Sharks! Three Sharks go to Zones - 8/8/06Three Shark swimmers, Tucker Atkins, Cha-cha Bugatti and Jessica Piper, competed at the Southern Zone Championship held August 1st thru 5th in Atlanta. Tucker, who had just aged-up into the 13-14 boys category the week before, had one top 20 individual finish (19th - 50 free) and one top 20 relay finish (11th - 200 free relay); Cha-cha had two top 20 finishes (15th - 200 IM and 19th - 200 free); Jessica had three top 20 individual finishes (18th - 50 back, 19th - 100 back, and 20th - 100 breast) and one top 20 relay finish (6th - 200 medley relay). These three swimmers helped their Florida Swimming team to a 7th place finish of 14 teams from across the South. Coach Rene Piper also made the trip as an assistant coach for the Florida Swimming squad. Congratulations to these Sharks!! Sharks Win Senior Champs - 7/30/06The Sharks won the Florida Swimming Senior Champs in rather lopsided fashion outscoring the second place team by over 1500 points. The season-ending meet was held July 27th-30th at the Indian River CC pool in Ft. Pierce. New Shark records were set by Cha-cha Bugatti in the 11-12 girls 1500 freestyle, and Mark Cox in the boys 15-16 200 fly. A new National Championship cut was made by Blair Collins in the 200 back - her first. Top 3 High-Point finishers were: 14 & under girls - Lauren Piper (1st), Mckayla Lightbourn (2nd), and Katheryne Muth (3rd); 14 & under boys - Kirt Davis (1st) and Marty Rauch (2nd); 15-16 girls - Sara Conner (1st); 15-16 boys - Mark Cox (1st) and Drew Crete (T-2nd); 17 & over girls - Lindsey Largo (1st), Brook Barnett (3rd); and 17 & over boys - Seth Clayton (3rd). Full Meet Results and Shark Results are posted. Area 3/5 Results - 7/30/06Over 60 Sharks journeyed to St. Petersburg the weekend of July 28th - 30th, for the Area 3/5 Summer Championships. This short course meet does not award team and individual point winners, but it is a great opportunity for swimmers to improve their times, make new cuts, and swim a prelim/finals format. Making new qualifying J.O. cuts were Meghan Bang (200 breast), Justin Dutreil (200 free), Fernando Gutierrez (100, 200 & 500 free, 100 fly, 400 IM), Nikki Gutzmann (100 free), Rachel Harrington (100, 200 & 1000 free, 200 IM), Bethany Leap (200 free), and Campbell Lee (50 back). Top 3 event finishes were turned in by Hayden Aristizabal (2nd - 50 & 100 back, 100 breast; 3rd - 50 free & 50 breast), Meghan Bang (1st - 200 breast; 3rd - 400 IM), Samantha Cahoone (1st - 25 & 50 fly; 2nd - 25 breast; 3rd - 50 back & 50 breast), Sarah Cahoone (3rd - 200 IM), Rees Cattermole (3rd - 100 breast), Keanan Dols (1st - 25 breast), Justin Dutreil (1st - 50, 200 & 500 free), Daniel Erlenmeyer (3rd - 25 breast), Fernando Gutierrez (1st - 100 fly, 400 IM; 2nd - 100, 200 & 500 free), Nikki Gutzmann (2nd - 25, 50 & 100 free, 100 fly, 200 & 400 IM), Rachel Harrington (1st - 100 & 200 free, 200 fly, 200 & 400 IM; 3rd - 50 & 1000 free), Nancy Hu (1st - 50 back & 100 IM; 2nd - 25 free & 50 breast; 3rd - 50 free), Jocelyn Hung (3rd - 100 back), Bethany Leap (1st - 100 IM, 200 free, 25 breast; 2nd - 50 & 100 free; 3rd - 25 free), Campbell Lee (1st - 25 & 50 back, 50 free, 50 breast, 100 IM; 2nd - 50 fly, 200 IM; 3rd - 200 free), Shawn Leonard (1st - 200 fly; 2nd - 100 breast, 200 back; 3rd - 400 IM), Danielle Manthey (3rd - 50 back), Rose Panik (2nd - 200 fly), Kaycee Perry (1st - 100 fly; 3rd - 200 fly & 400 IM), Daniel Pierce (3rd - 25 back), Derek Pridemore (1st - 50 fly & 100 breast), Christian Rauch (2nd - 100 free & 100 back; 3rd - 50 back & 200 free), John Silvers (3rd - 500 free), Pablo Suarez (3rd - 200 back & 200 breast), and Charlotte Wilhelm (3rd - 100 IM). Click on the following links for the respective results: Full Meet Results and Shark Results. A photo page is also available. Junior Olympic Champs - 7/24/06
The Sharks took one of their largest teams (68 strong) to Gainesville, July 20-23, for the Florida Swimming Long Course Junior Olympic championship. By the end of the weekend, the Sharks had won the combined team title by a whopping 216 pts. over 2nd place Bolles. The Sharks also won the girls and boys team titles. This win completed a sweep of the 2006 J.O. titles for the Sharks following their win last March in the Short Course championship. There were many memorable swims over the weekend, including Rocky Raybon's J.O. record breaking effort in the girls 13&14 400 IM with a time of 4:59.82. High point winners in their age groups were: Rocky Raybon (13-14 girls - 52 pts.) and Tucker Atkins (11-12 boys - 47 pts.). Finishing in the top 3 of their age group were: Cameron Davis (3rd - 10 & under girls - 38 pts.) and Patrick Ceddia (3rd - 13 & 14 boys - 39 pts.). Other Sharks earning individual points were: Lauren Piper (42 pts.), Ian Amistoso (30 pts.), Cha-cha Bugatti (27 pts.), Jessica Piper (24 pts.), Mckayla Lightbourn (24 pts.), Jesse Bessire (17.5 pts.), Katheryne Muth (15 pts.), Patrick Wall (14 pts.), Derek Samies (12 pts.), Liam McKane (11 pts.), Derek Pridemore (11 pts.), Andy Watts (10 pts.), Faryn Duff (8 pts.), Gregg Cesaroni (8 pts.), Michael Stock (8 pts.), Yusuf Kadibhai (6 pts.), Ashlee Linn (5 pts.), Becky Evenson (5 pts.), Kirt Davis (4 pts.), Ellen Berdusco (3 pts.), Kaitlyn Plocharsky (3 pts.), Roman Zaremba (2 pts.), Meghan Buckley (2 pts.), Marty Rauch (2 pts.), Charlotte Wilhelm (1 pt.), and Michael Berdusco (1 pt.). J.O. Champions in their events were: Rocky Raybon with 5 out of 6 wins (800 & 1500 free, 100 & 200 fly, 400 IM); Tucker Atkins with 3 wins (50, 100 & 200 free); Jessica Piper with 2 wins (50 & 100 back); Patrick Ceddia with 2 wins (200 & 400 free); Ian Amistoso (100 breast); Mckayla Lightbourn (200 breast); and Katheryne Muth (50 free). Shark records were rocked for the 2nd weekend in a row with a total of 8 individual and 10 relay records broken. New individual records were set by: Cameron Davis in the girls 10 & under - 50 & 100 fly; Rocky Raybon in the girls 13&14 - 100 & 200 fly and 400 IM; Ian Amistoso in the boys 10 & under - 100 breast; Tucker Atkins in the boys 11&12 - 50 free; and Patrick Ceddia in the boys 13&14 - 200 free. New Shark relay records were set by: the 10 & under girls 200 medley relay team of Cameron Davis, Bethany Leap, Ellen Berdusco, and Ashley Ehmann; the girls 13 & 14 200 free relay team of Katheryne Muth, Ashlee Linn, Lauren Piper, and Mckayla Lightbourn; the girls 13 & 14 400 medley relay team of Piper, Lightbourn, Raybon, and Muth; the boys 10 & under 200 medley relay team of Roman Zaremba, Ian Amistoso, Liam McKane, and Patrick Wall; the boys 11 & 12 200 free relay team of Yusuf Kadibhai, Michael Stock, Andy Watts, and Tucker Atkins; the boys 11 & 12 400 free relay team of Kadibhai, Derek Pridemore, Atkins, and Watts; the boys 11 & 12 400 medley relay team of Pridemore, Gregg Cesaroni, Kadibhai, and Atkins; the boys 13 & 14 400 free relay team of Pat Ceddia, Marty Rauch, Mufaddal Kadibhai, and Kirt Davis; and the boys 13 & 14 200 & 400 medley relay team of Kadibhai, Davis, Rauch, and Ceddia. Congratulations to all the Shark Junior Olympic swimmers, coaches, and parents! Complete Meet results are available at Meet Results; individual results are at Individual Shark Results; and a few photos are at Photo Page. Click J.O. Champs for a team picture and a list of the swimmers who made the trip. Sharks Finish 3rd at Sectionals - 7/17/06The Sharks took 40 swimmers and came away with a 3rd place combined finish at the Southern Zone - South Sectionals Meet. The Shark girls finished 2nd overall and the boys finished 5th. A total of 80 teams attended the 5 day meet in Ft. Lauderdale over the July 12th - 16th weekend, with the Sharks sending the 3rd largest team in size and the largest team in number of entries. Corinne Showalter again went under the 2008 Olympic Trial cuts in winning the 400 and 800 freestyles; Ashley Largo won the girls' 1500 free and Ryan Crete won the boys' 1500 free. In addition, new U.S. National cuts were made by Austin Detra (1500 free) and Spencer Maglich (200 free). New U.S. Open cuts were made by Ryan Crete (400 free), Austin Detra (400 free), Kata Fodor (400 free), Ashley Largo (800 & 1500 free), Spencer Maglich (200 free), Lauren Piper (400 IM), Rocky Raybon (200 fly & 400 IM), Corinne Showalter (200 free), and Mandy Snell (200 fly). Top 5 individual point getters for the Sharks were: Corinne Showalter (94 pts), Ashley Largo (65), Ryan Crete (62), Austin Detra (58), and Spencer Maglich (44). Shark records were again under assault with a total of 5 individual and 7 relay records being reset. In the individual category, Spencer Maglich grabbed three new Senior boys' records: In the 50 free, he topped his own record set in 2004, and in the 100 and 200 free, he reset 1980's records held by Tripp Schwenk. The other individual records were set by Carlyn Lungmus in the girls' Senior/Open 50 back (relay leg) with a 31.51, topping Chelsea Gillespie's record set last year at Sectionals; and Rocky Raybon in the girls 13-14 200 fly breaking Kylie Schaefer's record from 1998. In the relay category the girls reset three of the Senior records as follows: the 800 free relay team of Showalter, A. Largo, Fodor and Mandy Snell reset the record from 2005 with a 8:34.48; the 200 medley relay team of Lungmus, Sara Conner, Nicole Maglich and Katheryne Muth reset the 2005 record with a 2:03.64; and the girls 400 medley relay team of Blair Collins, Conner, N. Maglich and Showalter reset the record from 2005 with a 4:29.97. On the boys side: the 200 medley relay team of Luis Vargas, Jason Shoemaker, Mark Cox, and S. Maglich reset the Senior/Open record from 2001 with a time of 1:53.42; the 400 medley relay team of R. Crete, Shoemaker, Cox, and Maglich reset the 1979 record with a 4:04.92; and the 800 free relay team of Maglich, Detra, Crete and Jordan Hershberger reset their own record from 2005 with a 7:47.85. Full Meet Results, Individual Shark Results, and a Photo Page are now posted. Shark Meat & Time Trial Results - 7/15/06Results are now posted for the Shark Meat and Time Trial held on Saturday, July 15th at the Selby Aquatic Center. Special congratulations to Rachel Harrington, Trish Maddy, and John Silvers for qualifying for next weekend's J.O.'s.
Shark Open Results - 6/25/06The Sharks hosted just over 350 visiting swimmers at the 6th Annual Shark Open held at Selby on June 22nd thru 25th. For the first time, this meet was increased to 10 sessions over 4 days and the weather held out fairly well until Sunday. The final session, Sunday's finals, was washed out by a severe thunderstorm cluster that was stirred up by a tropical low over the state. All in all, the weekend was a success with two Shark long course records falling: 10 year old Cameron Davis broke the 10 & under girls 50 butterfly record from 1998 by a scant 0.06 seconds with a 34.43; and the boys 10 & under 200 medley relay team of Roman Zaremba, Ian Amistoso, Liam McKane, and Patrick Wall reset their own record from 2 weeks ago by an even slimmer 0.01 second margin with a 2:30.42. A total of 10 long course pool records were reset (4 relays and 6 individual) with Kathleen Hersey from Swim Atlanta and Ricky Berens of Mecklenburg picking up 3 individual records each. Making new qualifying J.O. cuts were: Rebekah Baker (50 free, 100 breast, 200 IM); Ellen Berdusco (100 & 400 free); Annalee Bowers (200 IM); Cha-cha Bugatti (50 breast); Mckenzie Clark (200 free); Grace DiMeo (50 & 100 back, 50 fly); Faryn Duff (100 breast); Megan Griffiths (100 free); Nikki Gutzmann (200 free); Ava Jones (200 IM); Tori Kontor (50 free); Bethany Leap (50 fly); Dakota Lindstrom (100 free); Danielle Manthey (100 & 200 free); Ashley Reid (200 free); Philip Sterbinsky (100 free, 200 back); Pablo Suarez (50 back); Gabrielle Theofanous (50 free); and Charlotte Wilhelm (50 fly, 400 free). Top 10 point finishers in their respective age groups were: 10 & under: girls - Cameron Davis (1st), Faryn Duff (2nd), Ellen Berdusco (T-6th), Ashley Ehmann (T-6th), Grace DiMeo (8th), Gabrielle Theofanous (T-9th), and Megan Griffiths (T-9th); boys - Ian Amistoso (2nd), Patrick Wall (4th), Liam McKane (5th), and Roman Zaremba (6th); 11 & 12: girls - Cha-cha Bugatti (2nd), Jessica Piper (3rd), Tori Kontor (9th), and Megan Buckley (10th); boys - Tucker Atkins (2nd) and Derek Pridemore (9th); 13 & 14: girls - Lauren Piper (1st), Rocky Raybon (4th), Mckayla Lightbourn (T-6th), Ashlee Linn (8th), and Katheryne Muth (10th); boys - Patrick Ceddia (4th) and Kirt Davis (10th); 15 & 16: girls - Corinne Showalter (3rd) and Sara Conner (T-6th); boys - Austin Detra (1st), Luis Vargas (4th), and Mark Cox (5th); Senior: boys - Ryan Crete (9th). Finally, two Shark swimmers made National Age Group Reportable Times: Cameron Davis in the 100 fly and Ian Amistoso in the 100 breast. Meet results are posted as follows: Full Results; Shark Results. A photo page is also available. Developmental Meet - 6/21/06We have posted a photo page from the Shark Developmental Meet held Saturday, June 17th at the Selby Aquatic Center. Thanks to Shark Dad Peter Hegwein for supplying the photos of these future Y-Nat champions.
GCST Results - 6/12/06The Sharks took 120 swimmers to the GCST Summer Invitational held at the Florida Gulf Coast University aquatic center in Fort Myers on June 9th - 11th. It was a hot and soggy weekend thanks to Tropical Storm Alberto but when it was all over the Sharks came out on top winning the combined, boys, and girls team championships. Two new Shark records were set: the boys 10 & under 200 meter medley relay team of Roman Zaremba, Ian Amistoso, Liam McKane, and Patrick Wall smashed the old record set in 1998 by over 6 seconds with a 2:30.43 - way to go!; also the boys 11-12 200 free relay team of Yusuf Kadibhai, Andy Watts, Michael Stock, and Tucker Atkins broke the old record set last year with a 2:00.86. Two Sharks won age group high point honors: Spence Atkins won the 8 & under girls title and Cameron Davis won the 10 & under girls title. Other Sharks finishing in the top 5 of their age group included: 8 & under: girls - Samantha Cahoone (2), Shealyn Atkins (T-3); boys - Campbell Lee (2), Keanan Dols (T-5); 10& under: girls - Ellen Berdusco (3), Faryn Duff (4), Ashley Ehmann (5); boys - Ian Amistoso (T-5); 11 & 12: girls - Cha-cha Bugatti (T-3), Jessica Piper (T-3); boys - Tucker Atkins (2), Michael Stock (T-3), Andy Watts (T-3); 13 & 14: girls - Mckayla Lightbourn (4), Ashlee Linn (5). New qualifying cuts for this summer's J.O.'s were made by: Ellen Berdusco (50 fly, 100 breast, 200 free, 200 IM); Michael Berdusco (50 free); Cha-cha Bugatti (100 breast); Alex Clark (50 back, 200 free); Cameron Davis (50 free, 400 free); Faryn Duff (400 free); Ashley Ehmann (100 fly, 400 free); Jacque Garcia (100 fly, 200 fly); Megan Griffiths (200 IM, 400 free); Dirk Hamel-Wood (200 & 400 free, 100 fly, 200 IM); Mufaddal Kadibhai (200 free); Tori Kontor (50 breast, 200 free); Shawn Leonard (100 fly); Dakota Lindstrom (50 free); Drew Maddy (50 back); Danielle Manthey (50 fly); Liam McKane (200 IM, 400 free); Van Miller (400 free); Kara Plocharsky (200 free); Derek Pridemore (50 free); Christian Rauch (400 free); Marty Rauch (400 IM); Ashley Reid (100 back, 200 breast); Kaylin Searles (100 fly); Michael Stock (50 & 100 free, 100 breast, 100 fly, 200 IM); Stephen Stock (100 fly); Pablo Suarez (50 & 100 fly, 100 back, 200 free); Gabrielle Theofanous (400 free); Patrick Wall (100 fly, 400 free); and Roman Zaremba (400 free). Two Shark swimmers made National Age Group Reportable Times: Tucker Atkins in the 50 free and Ian Amistoso in the 100 breast. The Shark results are posted as are the Full Meet Results and a Photo Page. Ultra-Swim Results - 6/12/06Coach Shofe and 13 of his fastest swimmers flew to the Ultra Swim Grand Prix meet held in Charlotte, NC over the June 8th thru 11th weekend. Current Shark swimmers making the trip were: Brooke Barnett, Blair Collins, Sara Conner, Ryan Crete, Austin Detra, Kata Fodor, Ashley Largo, Lauren Piper, Raquel Raybon, Corinne Showalter, and Mandy Snell; college Sharks Lindsey Largo and Spencer Maglich also made the trip. The field included many Olympians including Michael Phelps, Amanda Weir, and Ryan Lochte. Top 24 finishes by the Sharks were made by: Blair Collins (19th - 200 back); Ryan Crete (10th - 1500 free, 12th - 800 free, 20th - 200 back); Austin Detra (17th - 1500 free, 18th - 800 free); Ashley Largo (12th - 1500 free); Spencer Maglich (17th - 100 free); Lauren Piper (21st - 200 back); Corinne Showalter (9th - 1500 free, 10th - 800 free); and Mandy Snell (16th - 1500 free). The girls 400 free relay team of Lauren Piper, Sara Conner, Mandy Snell, and Kata Fodor finished 17th, while the same group finished 20th in the 400 medley relay. The 400 medley relay team of Blair Collins, Corinne Showalter, Raquel Raybon, and Ashley Largo also finished 22nd. The girls and boys teams both finished 33rd overall, while the combined team finished 38th. The Shark results are posted.
Memorial Meet Results - 5/21/06It was a very small (350 swimmers), but star-studded Kent B. Holdren Memorial Meet held May 19th thru 21st at the Selby Aquatic Center. A total of 5 Olympians (Brad Ally, Vipa Bernhardt, Renate DuPlessis, Ryan Lochte, and J.B. Walsh) made the trip from Gainesville and were on hand to take part in the meet. One pool record fell, as Ryan Lochte reset his own 100 back record from last year with a time of 58.27. Likewise, one Shark record fell as Derek Pridemore broke the 11-12 boys 200 back record with a time of 2:36.14. Sharks finishing in the top 3 of their age group point totals were: 8 & under: girls - Spence Atkins (1) and Samantha Cahoone; boys - Campbell Lee (1), Patrick Bowers (2), and Daniel Pierce (3); 10 & under: girls - Cameron Davis (1), Faryn Duff (2), and Ashley Ehmann (3); boys - Patrick Wall (1), Liam McKane (2), and Peyton Gilbert (3); 11 & 12: girls - Cha-cha Bugatti (1), Tori Kontor (2), and Ashley Reid (3); boys - Tucker Atkins (1), Yusuf Kadibhai (2), and Derek Pridemore (3); 13 & 14: girls - Lauren Piper (1), Ashlee Linn (2), and Mckayla Lightbourn (3); boys - Pat Ceddia (1), and Matt Torres (2); Senior: girls - Kata Fodor (3). New qualifying J.O. cuts were made by: Hayden Aristizabal (100 & 200 free); Tucker Atkins (50 fly); Annalee Bowers (50 back, 100 & 200 free); Alex Catena (50 & 100 fly); Gregg Cesaroni (200 IM); Faryn Duff (50 back, 50 breast, 50 free); Ashley Ehmann (50 & 100 back, 50 free, 100 breast); Megan Griffiths (100 fly); Nikki Gutzmann (50 free); Dirk Hamel-Wood (50 & 100 back, 100 breast, 100 free); A.J. Jones (200 back); Ava Jones (1500 free); Tori Kontor (100 fly, 100 back, 200 IM, 400 free); Bethany Leap (200 IM, 50 & 100 breast); Shawn Leonard (50 free); Mckayla Lightbourn (1500 free); Ashlee Linn (800 free); Drew Maddy (50 breast, 200 IM); Danielle Manthey (50 free); Liam McKane (50, 100 & 200 free, 50 & 100 back); Van Miller (200 free); Kaitlyn Plocharsky (400 free); Derek Pridemore (100 free); Rhet Rheinlander (200 back); Derek Samies (100 back); Kaylin Searles (50 fly); Michael Stock (200 & 400 free, 50 breast); Stephen Stock (100 & 200 free, 200 IM); Pablo Suarez (200 IM); Gabrielle Theofanous (50 back); Patrick Wall (50 back, 50 free); Andy Watts (50, 100, 200 & 800 free, 50 & 100 fly, 100 back); and Roman Zaremba (50 free, 100 fly). Full results are available at Meet Results; individual Shark Results are also available. Meet Photos (2 pages) are posted. Men Win - Team 2nd at Masters Y-Nats - 5/21/06The Shark Masters Team, led by Coach Rick Walker, won the Men's competition and was 2nd in the combined at the YMCA Masters swim meet in Ft. Lauderdale last weekend. The women's team finished 4th. For the full story click on the YMCA National link via the "links" tab on the left side of this page.
Sharks Annual Award Celebration - 5/8/06The Sharks held their annual awards celebration on Sunday, May 7th at the Pine View School Auditorium. Participation trophies were presented to all Shark swimmers and the 7 graduating Senior swimmers (Seth Clayton, Ryan Crete, Patricia Duret, Kristen Murphy, Jason Shoemaker, Kevin Shofe, and Mandy Snell) made their farewell speeches. Winning this year's Mary Champney award was Mark Cox; Ryan Crete won this year's Olympic Spirit Award. Featured speaker was former Shark Olympian and multiple record holder Kim Linehan who spoke of her swimming career to the hundreds in the audience. Another Shark Olympian, Tripp Schwenk, was in attendance and gave a short talk to the crowd. Special thanks to Peg Rauch and Donna Barnett for leading the effort to pull-off this year's event. Thanks to Steve Largo once again for the use of the Pine View auditorium, and Pat Piper for announcing the awards. There were many others who helped and we thank all of you, as well as the coaches, and of course the stars of the show, our swimmers. WFLA Results - 5/6/06The Saturday PM Results are now available for the May 6th WFLA meet in Largo. Individual Shark Results are also available.
Highlander Results - 4/30/06It was an exciting weekend, as the Sharks took just over 100 swimmers to the Highlander Long Course Invitational meet held in Orlando, April 29th-30th. This was the first long course meet for the whole team this season, and as you can imagine, personal best times were everywhere. A total of 51 Sharks (nearly 50%) had at least 5 or all personal best times. These swimmers included: Ian Amistoso, Hayden Aristizabal, Alexandra Atkins, Anna Atkins, Tucker Atkins, Rebekah Baker, Annalee Bowers, Tim Bradley, Christine Butler, Samantha Cahoone, Sarah Cahoone, Rees Cattermole, Sophie Cattermole, Alex Clark, Mark Cox, Drew Crete, Cameron Davis, Faryn Duff, Elise duTreil, Justin duTreil, Ashley Ehmann, Jonathan Everhart, Megan Griffiths, Kalah Harford, AJ Jones, Amy Kroening-Coury, Shawn Leonard, Ashlee Linn, Drew Maddy, Van Miller, Katheryne Muth, Jessica Piper, Lauren Piper, Derek Pridemore, Christian Rauch, Lexy Raybon, Ashley Reid, Tyler Revels, Derek Samies, Madison Schwartz, Kaylin Searles, John Silvers, Phillip Sterbinsky, Pablo Suarez, Matt Torres, Patrick Wall, Andy Watts, Charlotte Wilhelm, Chelsea Williams, Chyna Yelding, and Roman Zaremba. Qualifying J.O. cuts for this summer's meet were made by: Hayden Aristizabal (50 & 100 fly, 200 IM), Tucker Atkins (100 fly, 400 free, 200 IM), Jesse Bessire (100 back, 200 breast), Annalee Bowers (100 back), Gregg Cesaroni (50 & 100 breast, 50 free), Alex Clark (100 back), Kirt Davis (200 back, 400 IM), Faryn Duff (100 & 200 free, 100 back, 200 IM), Justin duTreil (100 free), Ashley Ehmann (100 & 200 free, 200 IM), Megan Griffiths (100 back, 200 free), Fernando Gutierrez (100 back), Ashlee Linn (200 breast, 200 back, 400 IM), Van Miller (50 & 100 free), Katheryne Muth (200 IM), Jessica Piper (400 free), Derek Pridemore (200 & 400 free, 50 back, 100 fly, 200 IM), Marty Rauch (200 free), Ashley Reid (200 IM), Derek Samies (100 & 200 fly, 100 breast, 200 back), Gabrielle Theofanous (100 & 200 free, 100 fly, 100 back, 200 IM), Patrick Wall (100 free, 100 back, 200 IM), Charlotte Wilhelm (100 & 200 free), and Roman Zaremba (100 & 200 free, 50 & 100 back, 200 IM). Congratulations Sharks! Even the ride home was exciting as the charter bus carrying the Juniors and Seniors broke down near Lakeland and the swimmers spent over 2 hours outside in the hot sun waiting for a replacement bus. Special thanks to charter bus driver "Willie" for hitch-hiking to the nearest store to bring the swimmers much-needed water, gatorade and ice cream. The Full Meet Results and the Individual Shark Results are posted. Mckayla Lightbourn Sizzles at Carifta Games - 4/12/06Junior 1 team swimmer Mckayla Lightbourn captured high point honors for 13-14 girls and led the Bahamian Girls Team to the championship title at the 2006 Carifta Games held in Bridgetown, Barbados, April 6th thru 9th. The Carifta Games is an annual sports competition among the island nations of the Caribbean. As she did last year, Mckayla came home with plenty of medals, including 4 individual gold, 4 individual silver, and 1 individual bronze. In addition, she won another silver medal as part of the 13-14 girls 800 free relay team. Mckayla set two new Carifta records in the process: in the 200 meter IM (2:27.64) and the 400 meter IM (5:11.25), and five new Bahamian national age group records (400 & 800 free, 200 fly, and 200 & 400 IM). Congratulations to Mckayla for another great Carifta meet! Girls Win - Team 2nd at Y-Nats - 4/9/06The Sharks Y-Nat Team made up of 35 qualifiers competed in the 2006 Spring Y-Nationals Short Course Championship held April 4th thru 7th at the International Swimming Hall of Fame Complex in Ft. Lauderdale. This meet is the YMCA national short course championship with over 1500 swimmers competing from over 225 YMCA teams from all over the country. The Sharks, led by the girls' winning total of 417 points, finished 2nd overall to the YMCA of the Triangle Area (NC) in a repeat of the Sharks' 2005 results. The girls team bested 2nd place Triangle, to win the girls' category by a scant 7.5 points. The boys team ended up tied for 6th place with the Triangle boys winning the title. Kata Fodor had a national championship win in the 1000 free along with a 3rd (1650 free), 4th (500 free), and 6th place finish (400 IM). Other top 8 finishes were turned in by: Sara Conner (5th - 1000 free); Ryan Crete (2nd - 500, 1000 & 1650 free, 4th - 400 IM); Austin Detra (3rd - 500, 1000 & 1650 free, 7th - 200 free); Ashley Largo (5th - 1650 free); Lauren Piper (7th - 400 IM, 8th - 100 back); Raquel Raybon (6th - 200 fly, 8th - 1650 free); Corinne Showalter (2nd - 200 & 1650 free & 200 IM, 3rd - 400 IM); and Mandy Snell (4th - 1650 free). In the relays, the Girls 800 free relay team of Kata Fodor, Corinne Showalter, Mandy Snell, and Ashley Largo got the national championship win with a 7:26.77. Top individual point earners were: Corinne Showalter (67 pts.), Ryan Crete (66 pts.), Kata Fodor (64 pts.), Austin Detra (60 pts.), Raquel Raybon (35 pts.), Ashley Largo (32 pts.), Lauren Piper (30 pts.), Mandy Snell (29 pts.), Sara Conner (21 pts.), John Orban (5 pts.), Blair Collins (4 pts.), Luis Vargas (3 pts.), Seth Clayton (3 pts.), Matt Kaminske (3 pts.), Brooke Barnett (2 pts.), and Christine Clayton (1 pt.). Seven Shark records were also broken during the meet: Corinne Showalter reset her 15-16 record in the 400 IM (4:19.90) and broke Annie Babicz's record in the 200 IM (2:03.87); she also broke the National YMCA record in the 1650 free; Lauren Piper broke 3 Shark records including two held by Shark coach Helena Wilhelm in the 13-14 100 and 200 back with times of 57.84 and 2:05.51, respectively. Lauren also broke Annie Babicz's 13-14 200 IM record with a 2:07.08. Ryan Crete broke Jeff May's 1650 Shark (and YMCA National) record with a blazing 15:12.33. Finally, Austin Detra reset his own Shark record in the 15-16 500 free with a 4:30.76. Highlights of the meet included Corinne Showalter's 1650 freestyle neck and neck duel with Westshore's Leah Gingrich with the girls finishing 0.02 seconds apart and both breaking the National Y record, Ryan Crete's similar 1650 duel with Triangle's Charlie Houchin with both breaking the National Y record, and the Girls' 400 medley relay team securing the win with a "must have" 10th place, come from behind finish. This year's team was made up of the following swimmers: Brooke Barnett, Jesse Bessire, Patrick Ceddia, Kelsey Clark, Christine Clayton, Seth Clayton, Blair Collins, Sara Conner, Mark Cox, Drew Crete, Ryan Crete, Austin Detra, Patricia Duret, Becky Evenson, Kata Fodor, Chelsea Gillespie, Marissa Harrington, Caitlin Hudak, Matt Kaminske, Kelly Kane, Bailey Laban, Ashley Largo, Shelby Leonard, Ashlee Linn, Katheryne Muth, John Orban, Lauren Piper, Raquel Raybon, Erin Rhoades, Derek Samies, Jason Shoemaker, Kevin Shofe, Corinne Showalter, Mandy Snell, and Luis Vargas. Congratulations to all 35 swimmers and their coaches (Head Coach Larry Shofe, Coaches Steve Brown, Mark Matuszak, and Sherwood Watts). Individual Shark results are available by clicking Shark Results. Complete results and other meet information are available at the YMCA Meet Site. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune article on the Sharks win and the Team Championship Photo are also available. FHSAA Finally Gets It Right - 2/6/06The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) has finally woken up and changed the antiquated qualification rules for the Regional and State Final high school meets that have been in effect for the last few seasons. Click on Qualification Rule Changes to read the full text of the changes. Also, in response to an increasing amount of abuse of the system, the FHSAA has severly restricted the ability to transfer schools for athletic participation purposes. To read the text of these changes, click on School Transfer Changes. Spring Nationals - 4/2/06Coach Shofe took 4 qualifiers (Corinne Showalter, Ashley Largo, Austin Detra, and Ryan Crete) to Seattle to participate in the U.S. Spring Nationals Meet March 28th thru April 1st. The results of the meet are available at Spring Nationals Results. All-Stars Meet - 4/2/06Congratulations to those Sharks who competed on this year's All-Stars Team for the Dual Meet between Florida Swimming and Florida Gold LSC's held April 1st & 2nd in Ft. Pierce. The Florida Swimming All-Stars defeated the Florida Gold All-Stars in the Boys and Combined categories. Shark swimmers attending the meet were: Ellie Berdusco, Patrick Wall, Liam McKane, Cameron Davis, Ian Amistoso, Rees Cattermole, Jessica Piper, Andy Watts, Michael Stock, Cha-cha Bugatti, Tucker Atkins, Meghan Buckley, Ava Jones, Mufaddal Kadibhai, Marty Rauch, Tim Bradley, and Matt Torres. The Full Meet Results are now available. Sharks 2nd at Senior Champs - 3/29/06The Sharks finished 2nd at the Florida Swimming Senior Short Course Championships held the weekend of March 23rd thru 26th at the Long Center in Clearwater. The Shark results are available at Shark Results; the full meet results are available at Meet Results. Sharks Win Short Course J.O.'s - 3/19/06
The Sharks took a record 67 swimmers to Orlando the weekend of March 16th - 19th and came away with a combined team victory at the 2006 Florida Swimming Short Course Junior Olympics championship. The boys also finished first while the girls finished 2nd. Similar to the J.O. win in July 2004, the most impressive part of the combined victory was that it was a balanced effort for the Sharks. The team had no swimmers in the Top 3 individual high point competitions and no age group team high point winners yet outscored 2nd place Bolles by 20.5 points. One individual and 4 relay Shark records fell: Raquel Raybon reset her Shark record in the girls 13-14 200 yard fly by over a second with a 2:04.41; the 11-12 girls 400 yd relay team of Meghan Buckley, Ava Jones, Charlotte Wilhelm, and Cha-cha Bugatti broke the 1 year old record with a 3:50.03; the girls 13-14 200 free relay team of Katheryne Muth, Ashlee Linn, Lauren Piper, and Shelby Leonard broke the 1980's era record with a 1:39.85; the girls 13-14 400 medley relay team of Lauren Piper, Mckayla Lightbourn, Raquel Raybon, and Katheryne Muth smashed by 4 seconds the 1980's record with a 4:00.38; and finally the boys got in the act too, with the 13-14 400 medley relay team of Mufaddal Kadibhai, Kirt Davis, Mark Cox, and Pat Ceddia breaking the 1991 record by over 2 seconds with a 3:38.97. Individual point winners (top 8 event finishers) for the Sharks included: Ian Amistoso, Tucker Atkins, Ellen Berdusco, Jessica Bessire, Meghan Buckley, Cha-cha Bugatti, Rees Cattermole, Patrick Ceddia, Mark Cox, Cameron Davis, Kirt Davis, Faryn Duff, Becky Evenson, Ava Jones, Yusuf Kadibhai, Shelby Leonard, McKayla Lightbourn, Ashlee Linn, Liam McKane, Katheryne Muth, Jessica Piper, Lauren Piper, Kara Plocharsky, Raquel Raybon, Derek Samies, Michael Stock, Patrick Wall, and Andy Watts. Other J.O. team members making the trip included Hayden Aristizabal, Rebekah Baker, Michael Berdusco, Tim Bradley, Kathleen Carter, Alex Catena, Greggory Cesaroni, Alex Clark, Mckenzie Clark, Sarah Ashley Demshar, Grace DiMeo, Justin duTreil, Ashley Ehmann, Peyton Gilbert, Megan Griffiths, Fernando Gutierrez, Nikki Gutzmann, Dirk Hamel-Wood, Nora Jones, Mufaddal Kadibhai, Tori Kontor, Caroline LaCamera, Bethany Leap, Dakota Lindstrom, Kaitlyn Plocharsky, Derek Pridemore, Christian Rauch, Marty Rauch, Lexy Raybon, Ashley Reid, Rhet Rheinlander, Anna Schmitz, Kaylin Searles, Pablo Suarez, Gabrielle Theofanous, Matthew Torres, Charlotte Wilhelm, Chelsea Wilhelm, and Roman Zaremba. Congratulations to these Shark swimmers and coaches Larry Shofe, Sherwood Watts, Steve Brown, Rene Piper, Terri Leap, and Mark Matuszak!! Complete Meet Results and Individual Shark results are available. Click J.O. Champs for 2 team photos and a list of J.O. team members who made the trip. Shark Time Trial Results - 3/13/06The Sharks held a "last chance" time trial on Saturday, March 11th with the following swimmers earning qualifying J.O. cuts: Annalee Bowers (50 back); Gregg Cesaroni (50 breast); Alex Clark (50 back & 200 free); Daniel Dorman (50 free); Megan Griffiths (50 fly); Nora Jones (200 IM); Kaylin Searles (100 fly); Gabrielle Theofanous (50 back & 50 fly); Chelsea Williams (200 breast); and Roman Zaremba (50 free & 100 back). Congratulations to these swimmers. Southern Sectionals Meet - 3/13/06The Sharks sent an elite group of nine Senior 1 swimmers to Orlando the weekend of March 9th - 12th to compete in the Speedo Southern Sectionals Championship. Despite the lack of swimmers, the Sharks still managed a respectable 10th place overall. The results of the meet can by obtained by clicking Full Results. The individual Shark results are at Shark Results. Area 3/5 Results - 3/5/06The Shark results (corrected) from the Area 3/5 meet held at Selby March 3rd thru 5th are now available at Shark Results; full corrected results are available at Meet Results; photos of the event are at Photos. New qualifying Y-Nat swims were made by the following Sharks: Kelsey Clark (1000 free); Christine Clayton (1000 free); Drew Crete (400 IM); Kelley Kane (500 free); Bailey Laban (200 & 500 free); John Orban (500 & 1000 free, & 400 IM); and Kevin Shofe (500 & 1000 free). Qualifying J.O. cuts were made by: Ian Amistoso; Hayden Aristizabal; Ellen Berdusco; Michael Berdusco; Tim Bradley; Cha-cha Bugatti; Alex Catena; Patrick Ceddia; Cameron Davis; Grace DiMeo; Justin duTreil; Ashley Ehmann; Peyton Gilbert; Megan Griffiths; Dirk Hamel-Wood; Ava Jones; Nora Jones; Yusuf Kadibhai; Bethany Leap; Shelby Leonard; Ashlee Linn; Liam McKane; Katheryne Muth; Marty Rauch; Lexy Raybon; Ashley Reid; Rhet Rheinlander; Derek Samies; Michael Stock; Gabrielle Theofanous; Matt Torres; Patrick Wall; Charlotte Wilhelm; and Roman Zaremba. Congratulations to these swimmers and thanks to everyone who supported the team by fulfilling their volunteer commitment! Y-States Results - 2/22/06If the scores can be believed the Sharks racked up 11,191.5 points at the 2006 Florida YMCA State Championship Meet nearly doubling the 5,679 points of the second place team. The girls scored 6,250 points to the 2nd place total of 2,612 points and the boys scored 4,941.5 points to the second place 3,066.5 points. Two Shark records tumbled: Raquel Raybon broke the 13-14 girls record in the 200 fly set in 1988 by Olympic Trial Qualifier Bambi Bowman with a 2:05.60; and the boys 13-14 200 medley relay team of Luis Vargas, Tyler Revels, Mark Cox, and Tim Bradley reset the Shark record from December 2005 with a 1:44.37. Congratulations to the following high point medalists from the Sharks: Alexandra Atkins (1st place), Anna Atkins (2nd), and Samantha Smithburger (3rd) in the 8 & under girls division; Toby Howell (2nd) and Campbell Lee (3rd) in the 8 & under boys; Charlotte Wilhelm (1st), Anna Schmitz (2nd), and Kara Plocharsky (3rd) in the 10 & under girls; Ian Amistoso (3rd) in the 10 & under boys; Ashlee Linn (2nd) and Shelby Leonard (3rd) in the 11 & 12 girls; Tucker Atkins (3rd) in the 11 & 12 boys; Lauren Piper (2nd) and Raquel Raybon (3rd) in the 13 & 14 girls; Luis Vargas (1st) and Zach Voigts (3rd) in the 13 & 14 boys; Blair Collins (3rd) in the senior girls; and Ryan Crete (1st) and Austin Detra (3rd) in the senior boys. New qualifying Y-Nat swims were made by the following Sharks: Jessica Bessire (200 IM); Patrick Ceddia (1650 free); Kelsey Clark (1650 free); Mark Cox (200 fly); Mckayla Lightbourn (400 IM); Ashlee Linn (500 free); Katheryne Muth (500 free); Lauren Piper (100, 200 & 500 free, 100 breast); Mandy Snell (100 & 200 breast); and Luis Vargas (1650 free). Qualifying J.O. cuts were made by: Ian Amistoso (100 back); Hayden Aristizabal (50 fly); Tucker Atkins (100 IM); Ellen Berdusco (100 & 200 free, 100 IM); Jessica Bessire (100 free); Cha-cha Bugatti (100 IM); Kathleen Carter (200 back); Rees Cattermole (100 fly); Patrick Ceddia (200 breast); Alex Clark (100 back); Mark Cox (400 IM); Kirt Davis (200 back); Grace DiMeo (50 & 100 fly, 100 back); Faryn Duff (50 breast, 100 IM); Ashley Ehmann (50, 100 & 200 free, 200 IM); Rebecca Evenson (400 IM); Peyton Gilbert (50 & 100 back, 100 free, 100 fly, 100 breast); Nikki Gutzmann (500 & 1650 free); Dirk Hamel-Wood (100 & 200 free, 50 fly, 100 breast, 200 IM); Mufaddal Kadibhai (400 IM); Yusuf Kadibhai (1000 free); Tori Kontor (50 fly split); Bethany Leap (100 breast); Mckayla Lightbourn (100 fly split); Katheryne Muth (400 IM); Lauren Piper (100 free); Kaitlyn Plocharsky (200 & 500 free, 200 fly); Derek Pridemore (100, 500 & 1000 free, 200 IM); Christian Rauch (1000 free); Lexy Raybon (200 free); Raquel Raybon (100 breast split); Ashley Reid (50 & 100 fly, 100 & 200 IM); Rhet Rheinlander (200 back); Derek Samies (200 fly, 1650 free); Michael Stock (200 free, 50 breast); Gabrielle Theofanous (200 free, 200 IM); Patrick Wall (50 & 100 free, 100 back, 100 fly, 100 IM); Andy Watts (50 fly split); and Roman Zaremba (50 back, 200 free). The full meet results are available at Full Meet Results. The individual Shark results are now available at Shark Results. Two pages of photos of the weekend are available at Photos. Congratulations to all the Shark swimmers, coaches and parents! Orlando IMX Challenge Results - 1/31/06Eleven of the younger Sharks represented the team well in Orlando the weekend of January 27th-29th at the Central Florida Racing IMX Challenge. Over 1,000 swimmers from 24 teams participated in this unique meet with swimmers competing in selected distance events similar to a pentathlon in track and field. When it was all over the Sharks (all 10 & unders) finished 14th overall with Gabrielle Theofanous taking home 2nd place in the Girls 9 & under pentathlon (200 free, 100 breast, 100 fly, 100 back, 200 IM). Gabrielle also had all personal best times for the weekend. Other Sharks finishing in the top 20 overall in their age groups were: 9 & under girls pentathlon - Bethany Leap (7th) and Megan Griffiths (8th); 10 year old girls pentathlon - Ashley Ehmann (18th); and 10 year old boys pentathlon - Rees Cattermole (17th) . New J.O. cuts were made by: Faryn Duff (100 IM); Ashley Ehmann (50 free, 100 back); Bethany Leap (100 breast); and Gabrielle Theofanous (100 back). The individual Shark results are available at Shark Results. Full meet results are available at Meet Results. Congratulations to these young Sharks! IRCC Results - 1/30/06The Sharks took some of their Junior 1 and Senior 1 swimmers to Ft. Pierce on Saturday, Jan. 28th for a dual meet against Indian River Community College. The results can be found at the following links: Full Meet Results and Individual Shark Results. Senior Circuit Meet Results - 1/15/06The wind was whipping and the mercury was dropping, but 250 athletes braved the elements to swim in the Florida Swimming Senior Circuit Long Course Meet held at Selby on January 14th & 15th. The conditions were anything but ideal for fast times, but the following Shark swimmers came through and qualified with new Junior Olympic cuts despite the whitecaps on the pool surface: Kathleen Carter (200 back); Mark Cox (50, 100, 200 free, 100 & 200 fly); Kirt Davis (1500 free); Becky Evenson (800 free); Rachel Harrington (50 fly); Mufaddal Kadibhai (200 IM); Tori Kontor (100 breast); Jessica Piper (50 & 200 free, 50 fly); Lauren Piper (100 free); Kaitlyn Plocharsky (200 free, 400 IM); Marty Rauch (1500 free); Ashley Reid (100 back); Derek Samies (1500 free); and Matt Torres (200 free, 100 & 200 back). Qualifying with new Sectional cuts were: Jessica Bessire (800 free); Seth Clayton (1500 free); Blair Collins (800 free); Mckayla Lightbourn (800 free); John Orban (1500 free); and Kaitlyn Plocharsky (100 back).
Meet results are available by clicking Full Meet Results; the individual Shark results are available by clicking Shark Results. Photos of the meet are at Photos. Showalter Gets a 5th & 7th in Australia - 1/9/06Senior 1 swimmer Corinne Showalter journeyed to Melbourne, Australia with the U.S. National Junior team to compete in the 2006 Victorian Championships held January 3rd thru 7th. Corinne helped the USA team to a first place finish with a 5th place in the 800m free and a 7th in the 400m free. Corinne also swam on the women's 800m free relay team which finished 5th. She took a 12th in the 200m butterfly, a 15th in the 400m IM, and a 16th in the 200m free. You can check the results at Victorian Championships or at USA Swimming. Congratulations, Corinne!
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