Results June 13-14 Long Course C/B/A+ Home Meet

BEAR Swimming’s Home Meet June 13-14, 2009 at the Contra Costa College was the team’s first long course meet of the summer.  Forty seven of the 193 races by the team were first time long course events for swimmers 14 years old and under.  The team achieved 15 new A times, 12 new B times, 3 new JO’s (Junior Olympic standards), 4 new Far Westerns, and 1 new WZCT (Western Zone).  Eighty nine of the events were A Division, 42 B Division, and 69 C Division swimming.  The boys on the team came out ahead with drops in 80 of their races compared to 68 best times by the girls.  Combining boys and girls, 76.6% of the races were best times.  GO BEAR!

 
Sixteen of the 34 BEAR swimmers were Swim For Your Life (SFL) participants.  Of this group, 70% of the races were first time long course events in which 30 placed A Division, 20 B Division, and 36 C in Division.  SFL swimmers went home with 6 new A times, 5 new B times, 2 new JO’s and 4 new Far Westerns. 
 
Congratulations to the following swimmers:
 
New A
Elliott Carr (10): 50 Breast, 100 Breast
Darren Chavez (9): 50 Free
Dominique Clark (12): 50 Back
Natalie Gomez (8): 50 Back  
Jacob Malaga (10): 200 Free, 50 Free, 100 Back, 100 Free
Ziyad Mosalam (8): 200 Free, 100 Back
Adrian Murillo (8): 50 Free, 50 Breast
Natasha Pickard (8): 50 Back
 
New B
Joshua Ayala (10): 50 Breast, 100 Free
Mikaela Chaney-DeMarse (11): 50 Free
Daniel Chavez (9): 50 Free
Darren Chavez (9): 50 Back
Natalie Gomez (8): 50 Breast
Jacob Malaga (10): 100 Breast, 50 Breast, 50 Fly
Diego Paucar (9):  100 Breast
Arielle Rogers (12): 50 Back
           
New JO
Elliott Carr (10): 50 Back
Brian Gomez (12): 50 Breast, 100 Back
 
New Far Western
Brian Gomez (12): 50 Free
Giovanni Hernandez (12): 100 Breast, 50 Breast, 50 Free
 
New WZCT
Nils Gohlke (12): 50 Breast