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2010 SCSC STROKE AND GROUP EVALUATION MONTH
July
Board Meeting Minutes
July
& August 2010 schedule adjustments are now AVAILABLE
2010
International Meet Results
Summer
2010 Schedule for all groups
SCSC
Senior Group Top Short Course / Long Course times
posted
College Updates
Congratulations
Santa Clara Swim Club's All-American athletes
Volunteer
Hours Tracking Update - Check your current hours online
SCSC Junior National Championships and Summer Wrap-up
The summer ended with a bang as the club finished in 3rd place among Men’s teams and 6th place Combined at the USA Swimming Junior National Championships held August 9 through the 13th in Irvine, California. The team consisted of 17 swimmers and of the 17 swimmers who attended the team was represented in the scoring column by 14 of the athletes. Top 8 finishes were tuned in by Siri Kristiansen in the 100 Breast with a new club record time of 1:10.78. This was also a Norwegian Junior National record. Jackson Partin also finished in the top 8 in the 800 Free with a personal best of 8:12.15. On the Men’s side the 4 x 100 Free Relay, the 4 X 200 Free Relay, and the 4 X 100 Medley Relay all finished in the top 8 with both the A and B Men’s 4 X 200 Free Relay finishing in the top 8. Besides Siri’s new tem record, Jackson Partin and Charlotte Ruby sent new team records for 18 and unders in the 400 Free and 100 Fly respectfully. Jackson was also picked up to represent the USA at the Junior Pan-Pacific Competition held August 26-30 in Maui, Hawaii. Jackson will be swimming the 200, 400, and 800 Free, plus the 10K Open Water swim. The Junior Pan-Pac Meet is a new event on the international calendar and the meet will bring together the top 18 and under swimmers from the United States, Australia, Japan, Canada, and the other Pacific Rim countries. Head Coach John Bitter was also selected as one of the Assistant Coaches for this event.
At the USA Swimming National Championships, the Men’s 800 Free Relay team of Ryan Hinshaw, Jackson Partin, Sam Shimomura, and Kevin Owens swam to an eighth place finish.
SCSC finished 4th at the Pacific Swimming Far Western Championships, July 28-August 1, held in Concord, California. At the meet Sarah Shimomura broke the 11-12 Women’s 200 Free record with a time of 2:08.34. Congratulations to Sarah and to all of the SCSC swimmers who competed at Far Western and to a job well done in the team competition.
At the Pacific Swimming Junior Olympics held July 15-18, 2010, Virginie Qian broke the Pacific Swimming 8 and under 50 Backstroke record. Congratulations to Virginie for her achievement.
Finally, the following swimmers from SCSC represented Pacific Swimming at the North American Challenge Cup or Western Zone Championships, Aiden Burns, Chris Grey, Raime Jones, Sophie Krivokapic-Zhou, Timothy Kou, David McKenna, Sarah Shimomura, and Jared Yongyuth. The Pacific Swimming team at the North American Challenge Cup finished 3rd, while the Western Zone team finished 1st. Again congratulations to these SCSC swimmers and to all oft the SCSC swimmers for a job well done this summer.
Santa Clara Swim Club Moves into Top 50 for 2009-2010 Virtual Club Championships
The Virtual Club Championships was started by USA Swimming as a way to rank clubs and their swimming performances against each other for swimmers age 11 and older. This is one of many markers used by clubs and club coaches to gauge the overall success and improvement upon performances each year not only within their own club, but also in comparison to the country. During the short course season for 2007-2008, Santa Clara Swim Club finished the season 77th with a score of 164,384 points. The following year 2008-2009 the club improved to 67th with a score of 175,921. This year the club has again continued its improvement and moved into the top 50 in the country with a score of 190,326 and a placing of 43rd.
Congratulations to all of our swimmers who have continued to stretch their swimming, challenging themselves to improve in not only their preferred events, but also in events that they were hesitant in the past to explore. As a coaching staff we are proud of each of you for your efforts.
College Updates
As the school season starts to wind down, we are pleased to announce the following Seniors have declared their intent for colleges next year. Grace Hamilton will be attending the United States Military Academy at West Point, Lauren Opatrny will be attending Georgetown University in Washington D.C., Daniel Tan will be off to New York City and Columbia University and Julia Hu will also be heading east to attend Princeton University next year. Lindsay Oosterhouse will be headed to San Diego and UC San Diego as well as Eric Owens and Justine Tran who will be studying nano biology. Victoria Owens, Alyssia Kim, and Emily Tompkins are all attending Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in September. At SCSC we are proud of each of these graduating swimmers and their selection of schools for next year. We wish them the best of luck as they prepare for this next important step in their lives.
Congratulations
SCSC Swimmers
The 2008-2009 USA Swimming Scholastic
All-American team was announced this past week by
USA Swimming and 9 swimmers from Santa Clara Swim
Club were selected for the 2008-2009 school year.
SCSC swimmers Arenne Clark, Natalie Garland, Morgan
Lee, Maddie Takaki, Stephanie Wei, Sean Fronczak,
Jackson Partin, Jeff Peters, and Daniel Tan were
named to this team. To qualify for the Scholastic
All-American team a swimmer must be in grades 10th
to 12th and have a grade point average of 3.5 or
better and have achieved a Junior National bonus
time standard during that school year.
In the prior year, 2007-2008, SCSC
had 3 swimmers qualify for this team and we are
excited by the addition of 6 new swimmers to the
group. SCSC is extremely proud of the achievements
of these swimmers and their dedication to truly
being the best they can be as individuals both in
and out of the water. Again our congratulations
to each of these swimmers for their dedication and
hard work in the classroom and in the pool and we
hope to continue to see this list grow in the years
to come.
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