Bannockburn Swim Team
Dolphin Times
Issue 6 (July 9, 2013)
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Dolphins Win 3rd Straight By Beating Daleview
By Doll Finn,
Senior Swim Correspondent
Three in a row sounds pretty good.
The Bannockburn Dolphins defeated Daleview 411.5 to 379.5 on Saturday in the fourth A meet of the season. The win guarantees the Dolphins a winning record for the season and puts the team tied for second in the division.
To this correspondent, the graduated relay really summed up the meet. The boys team powered by Gideon Helf, Ray Crist, Jeffrey Su and Jacob Seiberg came within 15/100th of a second of the team record to take first place. They were followed by Andrew O’Brien, Jack MacIsaac, Jack Blazes and Ryan Kaplan to take second place. That meant the boys left only two points for Daleview and scored 12 points for Bannockburn.
Daleview tried to manage the girls relay to sweep the top two spots given their plethora of strong girl swimmers. But the Bannockburn girls would not let this strategy succeed. Seven-year old Darby LeFaivre accelerated past the Daleview B relay team to take second place in one of the most thrilling races of the day. Positioning Darby for the final push was some great swimming by Shifra Eskin, Caitlin Ryan, and Jessie Kline.
With that second place finish, any doubts about which team would win should have been erased.
The meet was supposed to be very close and the start of the competition reinforced that early view. The three amigos of Jack MacIsaac, Ray Crist and Owen Wassiliew swept the 11/12 50 free while Daleview’s amazing Sammie Grant took first for the girls. But Daleview did not sweep. Naomi Seiberg secured third and Caitlin Ryan got fifth.
That was pretty much the pattern for the meet. Bannockburn would sweep events and Dalieview would dominate some events, but leave enough points on the table for Dolphin swimmers to ensure Daleview could not pull even
The Boys 200 Medley continued the trend. Andy Lair-Ferrari, Ryan Chitwood, Nick Hopkins and Evan Steingass took first while James Cobau, Max Palermo, Pieter Fosburg, and Jack Steingass took third.
It appeared Daleview was looking for the sweep for the girls 200 Medley but Elizabeth Fosburgh, Hannah Melrod, Maddie Alagia and Bryna Steele would not relent and took second.
Heading in free, the Dolphins were up by about 10 points. Jacob Seiberg and Ryan Kaplan ensured the team kept the lead with first and second for under 8. Then the under 8 girls kicked some butt with Darby LeFaivre, Ella Scott, Sam MacIsaac, and Cassidy Eyres taking first through fourth.
Gideon Helf won for boys 9/10 in an All Star Time with Andrew O’Brien tying for third. (And thus the reason for the half points in the final score.) Shifra Eskin and Katie MacIsaac took second and fourth.
Jeffrey Su glided to a win for the 13/14 free while Jessie Kline and Kaili Gregory took second and fourth for the girls. The three amigos in 11/12 boys again swept, with Ray Crist in first, Jack MacIsaac in second and Owen Wassiliew in third. For the girls, Caitlin Ryan secured some key points with a second place finish.
In 15/18 free, the boys took four of the top five spots. Evan Steingass, Andy Lair-Ferrari, Jack Steingass, and Ryan Chitwood were the victors. Elizabeth Fosburgh and Maddie Alagia secured points with a second and fourth finish.
Jeffrey Su took first in the 13/14 IM while Jessie Kline was second.
That brought us to backstroke. Jacob Seiberg and Meyer Eskin were second and third for under 8 while May Lall, Anna Cavanagh and Ella Scott swept the top three spots for the girls. Gideon Helf in 9/10 boys won in an All Star Time.
Andy Lair-Ferrari reclaimed the pool record in an All Star Time for 15/18 boys while Elizabeth Fosburgh won for the girls in an All Star Time. In 11/12, the three amigos fell short as they only got second, third and fourth. That one could say they fell short is a testament to how dominate Jack, Ray and Owen have become.
In 13/14, Jeffrey Su won while Jessie Kline got an All Star Time and the win for the girls.
That brought the meet to the intermission with the Dolphins holding about an 11 point lead. In other words, it was really close.
Meyer Eskin opened for under 8 with a win in breast while Maya Lall and Anna Cavanagh took first and second. In 9/10, Andrew O’Brien won in breast while Shifra Eskin won for the girls. Jack MacIsaac and Owen Wassiliew were first and second in breast with Lucca Scott picking up a point in fifth. For the girls, Caitlin Ryan and Alexa Crist took second and third.
Jack Blazes won in 13/14 boys while Ryan Chitwood, Evan Steingass and Nick Hopkins were second, third and fourth for the boys in 15/18.
The last stroke is always fly and Bannockburn began with a one-two finish in under 8 with Jacob Seiberg and Meyer Eskin. Max Kroloff took fourth to maximize the Dolphin points.
Maya Lall, Sam MacIsaac and Darby LeFaivre swept for the under 8 girls.
Gideon Helf and Andrew O’Brien in 9/10 took first and second with Gideon getting an All Star Time. Evelyn Wassiliew was second for 9/10 girls. Ray Crist and Lucca Scott were first and second for 11/12 boys in fly with Ray getting an All Star Time. Naomi Seiberg and Gabriella Helf were third and fourth for 11/12 girls.
Jeffrey Su continued to dominate with a win in fly for 13/14 boys, but Katya Damskey and Jessie Kline stole the show in 13/14 with a first-second finish. That effort combined with Andy Lair-Ferrari and Evan Steingass going one-two in 15/18 fly and Elizabeth Fosburgh in 15/18 getting second that ensured the Dolphin victory.
Dolphins celebrated with the traditional plunge into the pool. This reporter saw Malena, Spenser, Nick, Kellan, Andy and Maddie all in the water. The cool down was followed by sandwiches from Moby Dick thanks to the many great parent volunteers. Go parents!
Swimmers, Parents Melt at Relay Carnival
By Flip Turn,
Junior Swim Correspondent
The Dolphins competed Sunday in one of the most fun meets of the season.
The relay carnival is a chance to stick a bunch of swimmers together and get them to do relays. There are medley relays (all four strokes) and free style relays. There are age group relays, mixed relays of boys and girls, and graduated relays featuring swimmers of different ages.
The Dolphins finished fourth in the meet, but had some great swims by several kids who were not expecting to swim in as many events or who were not event expecting to swim at all.
The real news was in the parent relay. Vladimir Eskin began in the shallow end and we are not sure he remembered to breathe. John Cobau tried the running the start from the deep end and only false started by 18 inches. Thus is was within the informal two foot parent relay false start margin. Ellen actually looked like a serious swimmer while Andy moved his arms so fast on free that it made this reporter dizzy.
As we believe all the other parent relay teams really cheated by violating the two foot false start rule, the Dolphin Time is awarding first place to the Bannockburn Parent Relay. Great job.
The coaches are a different story. They had an IM relay. Malena did almost her entire 25 backstroke in streamline underwater. We hear her split was 14.3 seconds. Nick had a 15.6 split and huge running start. Spenser clocked 14.8 while Kellan finished in 16.7 seconds.
Now the rules for coach relays are even looser than the rules for parent relays. Yet by just focusing on who touched the wall first, Bannockburn finished fourth. The key, however, seemed to be that we defeated Northwest Branch where Sarah, a former assistant for Bannockburn, is the head coach.
Bannockburn Invades Sommerset for B Meet
By Flip Turn,
Junior Swim Correspondent
Bannockburn Dolphins invaded Sommerset last week for our annual B meet against the cross town rival.
This correspondent may be a bit too generous with the term “annual” as this was the B meet that got canceled last summer thanks to the crazy storms that knocked out power to many Dolphin families and our pool.
As always, we highlight some great swims. The age of the swimmer is in brackets after the name. And rather than look at their improvement based on their lowest time of the season, we are looking at how they did against their B Meet time from the second B meet of the year, which was the Palisades meet. Also, swimmers with lucky birthdays after July 1 will show up in the list at the age they were in the meet. But they swim in the age group based on their age as of June 1. So this can get confusing……
A few swimmers to highlight who recorded at least a 5% time improvement based on their time from the prior week’s B meet:
- Benjamin Bassinger-Lee (10) dropped 9.08 seconds in 50 free.
- Anna Cavanagh (9) dropped 1.89 seconds in 25 free.
- Maya Clancy (7) dropped 2.7 seconds in 25 free and 3.5 seconds in 25 back.
- Cassidy Eyres (9) took 2.32 seconds off her 25 back time and 2.06 seconds off her 25 fly time.
- Max Kroloff (7) took 2.86 seconds off his 25 back and 7.31 seconds off his fly.
- Sarah Makl (9) dropped 4.16 seconds off 50 free and 2.99 seconds off 25 breast.
- Sawyer Makl (6) dropped 6.32 seconds off 25 free.
- Constantin Molineus (9) dropped 3.68 seconds off 25 free an and 7.5 seconds off 25 back.
- Anthony Noya (7) dropped 7.84 seconds off 25 back.
- Emma Reveiz (7) dropped 11.03 seconds in 25 back.
- Samuel Reveiz (11) dropped 3.93 seconds off 50 free and 11.03 seconds off 50 back.
- Henry Sills (7) dropped 5.11 seconds off 25 free.
- Julie Solonsky (9) dropped 6.18 seconds off 50 free.
- Cole Wassiliew (9) dropped 2.90 seconds off 25 back.
- Colleen Zeugin (11) dropped 3.27 seconds in 50 free and 4.84 seconds in 50 back.
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