Bannockburn Swim Team
Dolphin
Times
Issue 3, Season 2014
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Bannockburn Keeps it Close at Half, but
Loses Momentum in Lakelands Loss
By Doll Finn
Senior Dolphin Correspondent
This might be best known as the All Star qualifying meeting.
Darby LeFaivre, Andrew O’Brien, and Jeffrey Su all won three
of their respective individual events with All Star times.
Despite the impressive triple plays, the times on Saturday
tended to be on the slower side for both teams.
This reporter suspects the chilly temperatures had something to do with
that.
The Bannockburn Dolphins entered the pool at Lakelands full
of spirit and hope with only a few signs of left over frosting from Cake Wars
the night before.
Whether it was the sugar high from Friday night or the
gentle drizzle, the team excelled in the first half of the meet and out
performed expectation against a stronger team.
Yet without any new frosting to power the team in the second
half and the weather starting to clear, the Dolphins could not keep pace and
ended up losing by about 60 points to Lakelands.
As always, the meet starts with the under 12 IM. For the
girls, Shifra Eskin took third and Katie MacIsaac grabbed fourth. Maya Lall was
sixth. The boys were similar with Gideon Helf in second, Andrew O’Brien in
fourth and Lucca Scott in fifth.
Lakelands won the boys 200 Medley relay with the team of
Jack MacIsaac, Jack Blazes, Evan Steingass and Vince Steis taking second and
the team of Owen Wassiliew, Alex Burbelo, Ethan Wendel and Alex Butman in
third.
The girls team of Samantha Kline, Hannah Melrod, Jessie
Kline and Kaili Gregory took first while the team of Caitlin Ryan, Alexa Crist
, Bryna Steele and Gabriela Helf was third.
The strength of any team is always the under 8s.
For the boys in 25 free, Will Spooner and Max Kroloff were
second and third. Aidan O’Brien was the next Dolphin, finishing ninth. In backstroke, it was all Spooner with Will
taking first and Alex fifth. James LeFaivre was sixth. Max Kroloff scored
second in 25 breast. For fly, Will, Max
and Aidan were second, third and fifth.
The girls saw Darby LeFaivre finish first with an All Star
time. Annie Kessner and May Clancy were the next Dolphin finishers, coming in
sixth and seventh. Darby scored another All Star time with a win in 25 back.
Annie and Clara Baisinger-Rosen were fifth and sixth. Ceila Noya was fourth in
25 breast. Darby got her third All Star time with a win in 25 fly.
The Dolphins did well in 9/10. For the boys, Andrew O’Brien
won 50 free in an All Star time with Cole Wassiliew in third, Matthew Wu in
seventh, Meyer Eskin in ninth and Jacob Seiberg in tenth. Andrew got his second
win and second All Star time in 25 back. Matthew Wu was fourth and Jacob
Seiberg was sixth. For breast stroke,
Cole Wassiliew won with Meyer Eskin in second.
Andrew O’Brien took home his third win and third All Star time in 25
fly.
Evelyn Wassiliew won for the girls in 50 free with Maya Lall
in fourth, Sam MacIsaac in 10th and Lucy Lauren Caddell in 11th. Evelyn and Maya were second and third in 25
back. Evelyn took a half second off her seed time. In breast stroke, Maya Lall was fourth, Sam
MacIsaac was fifth and Ella Scott was sixth. Evelyn took first in 25 fly.
While many if the 11/12 were in IM, the meat of their meet
began with the 50 free. Gideon Helf took second and Tyler Crist was fourth. .
Gideon was first in 50 back with Lucca Scott in third. Duncan Ryan, Morgan
White and Alie Shafii were second, third and fourth in 50 breast. In fly, Lucca
Scott took nearly a second off his seed time to finish second.
For the girls, Shifra Eskin took third with Katie MacIsaac
dropping a second to secure fifth. Cecily McArdle was sixth and Colleen Zeugin
was seventh. Katie MacIsaac took second in 50 back. Shifra got an All Star time
with second place in 50 breast. In fly, Shifra was third.
In 13/14, the boys were strong. Jeffrey Su won 50 free in an
All Star time with Ray Crist in third, Jack Blazes in fourth, Jack MacIsaac in
fifth and Owen Wassiliew in seventh. In the IM, Jeffrey got first in an All
Star time with Jack Blazes in second and Ray Crist in fourth. Jeffrey also took first in 50 back with Jack
Blazes and Ray in second and third. Jack
Blazes won in 50 breast with Jack MacIsaac in third. Jeffrey Su took first in
50 fly with an All Star time.
The girls in 50 free saw Katya Damskey take second, Danielle
Lair Ferrari in third, Caitlin Ryan in fourth, Gabriela Helf in sixth, Naomi
Seiberg in eighth, and Alexa Crist in 10th. Katya took first in the
100 IM. Katya was second in the 50
back. Alexa Crist had a great reach for
the wall in 50 breast to take second place. Katya Damskey took first in 50 fly
with an All Star time.
In the really big kids division (15-18), there were several
strong performances. These kids really know how to motor. Evan Steingass dropped 2.5 seconds to win 100
free while Jessie Kline, Bryna Steele and Hannah Melrod were second, third and
fourth for the girls.
In 100 back, Even took second with Vince Steis in fourth and
Alex Butman in sixth. For the girls, Jessie Kline took second with Bryna Steele
in third. This same pattern continued in the 100 back with Evan taking second
and Jessie taking second. In 100 breast, Alexander Burbelo was fourth and Hugo
Burbelo was fifth. James Cobau was sixth. For the girls in 100 breast, Hannah
Melrod took second and Samantha Kline was fifth.
The 15/18s ended with the 50 fly. Evan Steingass took second
for the boys with Jessie Kline, Bryna Steele and Kaili Gregory swept the top
three spots for the girls.
Relay Breaks Record at Relay Carnival
By Haydn the Dog
Dolphin Editor in Chief
Relay Carnival came very early in the season this year.
Despite this, the team scored several excellent performances at this meet,
which does count toward the end of season standings.
The team made a return trip to Lakelands for the meet, which
meant we at least knew where everything was. Due to budget constraints at the
Dolphin Times, we did not have our typical army of reporters covering the
event.
Yet we did have a special, super-secret source who fed us
the following:
We had one team record broken, for the 13-14 Boys 200 Medley Relay.
Jack MacIsaac (back), Jack Blazes (breast), Jeffrey Su (fly) and Ray
Crist (free) broke the previous record set in 2009 by Andy Lair-Ferrari, Alex
Spigler, Jackson Janezich and Jack Steingass. They broke the record by
nearly 3 seconds (new record is 2:10.83, prior 2:13.70).
Exceptional races also in three other relays: Mixed 13-14 200
Freestyle Relay (Ray Crist, Katya Damseky, Danielle Lair Ferrari and Jeffrey
Su), Girls Open 200 Medley Relay (Jessie Kline, Hannah Melrod, Katya Damskey
and Bryna Steele) and Girls 13-14 200 Medley Relay (Caitlin Ryan, Alexa Crist,
Katya Damskey and Danielle Lair Ferrari.)
We also would flag the Boys 13/14 200 Meter Medley Relay
which featured Jack MacIsaac, Jack Blazes, Ray Crist and Jeffrey Su.
Olaf Takes the Cake in First Dolphin Cake War
By Walter Tu Kold
Dolphin Correspondent
Now this is the type of swimming this reporter can get into.
The pavilion at the Bannockburn Swim Club on Friday evening
was transformed into the set of Cake Wars as teams of Dolphin swimmers battled
to produce the cake that most appealed to the coaches.
Dolphin Times fully expected the winning cake to be a
pictorial representation of the coaching staff or something related to the
World Cup, which is of particular interest to a certain head coach.
But instead the winning team decided to pull on the heart
strings with a rendering of Olaf, the snowman from Frozen. This reporter was
impressed with the casual use of the vegetable in the cake. After all, a carrot
nose for a snowman just looks normal.
Taking second place was Cheesy Backstroke with Sunny Day at
the Bannockburn Pool grabbing third.
As near as this reporter could tell, none of the coaches or
parents actually ate any of the cakes. That was probably wise as it appeared
there was a penalty for the use of any type of proper hygiene.
We were especially impressed (or was it horrified) with the
post-judging celebration by Owen Wassiliew, Cole Wassiliew and Tyler Crist.
They immersed their faces in the blue frosting on the top of the cake.
To the relief of most, others did not follow in their foot
steps. And we don’t believe anyone ate any of that cake despite its creative
use of asparagus.
Editor’s Note: B Meet Coverage Next Week
By Haydn the Dog
Dolphin Editor in Chief
The staff at Dolphin Times was a bit overwhelmed this week
so we did not produce our typical B meet highlights. Also, very few swimmers
had seed times so it was hard to pick out big improvements.
That said, a few events to highlight from the contest
against Carderock Springs:
·
Sawyer Makl
dropped nearly 5 seconds in 25 free.
·
Maddox Feldbaum dropped nearly four second in 50
free.
·
Colleen Zeugin dropped nearly 3.5 seconds in 50
free.
·
Tim Burke dropped nearly six seconds in 25 back.
·
Celia Noya dropped more than eight seconds in 25
back.
·
Aidan O’Brien dropped 6.5 seconds in 25 breast.
We didn’t have many seed times because of the thunderstorms
that interrupted the Mars v. Venus meet. Now that many more swimmers have seed
times, we will do more analysis for the next issue.3p]]]
