Bannockburn Keeps It Close; But Falls to Lakelands

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 10^th and Lucy Lauren Caddell in 11^th.  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 10^th. 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]]]