Bannockburn Swim Team
Dolphin
Times
Issue 4, Season 2014
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Bannockburn Just Short vs. Little Falls
By Doll Finn
Senior Dolphin Correspondent
Swimming can come down to just 1/100th of a
second.
Just asking the Bannockburn Dolphins, which fell on Saturday
to Little Falls in a match that appeared much closer than the final 43 point
margin would have indicated.
It appeared that just a few more surges to the wall could
have well tilted the meet in favor of the Dolphins. Yet when you enter the
season as the lowest ranked team in the division, it means that there is no
margin for error. And that is how it played out at Little Falls.
The meet started with two hotly contested 100 IMs. Shifra
Eskin took second for the girls with Katie MacIsaac in third and Maya Lall in
sixth. Gideon Helf missed first place by
half a finger with Andrew O’Brien in second and Lucca Scott in fifth.
In both 200 Medley Relays, Bannockburn took second and
third. For the girls, Elena Palermo, Hannah Melrod, Jessie Kline and Bryna
Steele were followed by the team of Samantha Kline, Alexa Crist, Gabriela Helf
and Caitlin Ryan. For the boys, the team of Jack MacIsaac, Jack Blazes, John
Janezich and Vince Steis was followed by the team of Owen Wassiliew, Alex
Burbelo, Ethan Wendel and Alex Butman.
There are two other IMs. In the 13/14 IM. Jeffrey Su scored
an all star time and the win. Jack Blazes took third and Ray Crist was sixth.
For the girls, Katya Damskey took second, Danielle Lair-Ferrari was third and
Caitlin Ryan was fifth.
For the 15/18 IM, John Janezich took first by a second with
Owen Wassiliew and Vince Steis in fifth and sixth. Jessie Kline took third with
Bryna Steele in fifth.
It has become almost a cliché in the Dolphin Times to argue
that meets are won and lost based on the eight and unders. They are always the
heart of the team and often the margin in the 175 relays at the end of the
meet.
For this meet, the under eights were critical. Will Spooner
took first in 25 free with Max Kroloff in third and Anthony Noya in sixth and
Aidan O’Brien in seventh. For the girls in 25 free, Darby LeFaivre took first
with Taylor Pyle in fifth and Annie Kessner in sixth. Maya Clancy got eighth,
Clara Baisinger-Rosen was ninth and Nadia Lall took 12th.
In 25 back, Will got his second win of the day. James
LeFaivre was fifth and Alex Spooner was sixth. Maya Clancy took second for the
girls with Annie in fourth and Taylor in fifth.
Max kept up the under 8 boys winning ways in the 25 breast
with James and Aidan in third and fourth. Max won by two seconds. Darby also
continued to win with first in 25 breast. She was an impressive 10 seconds
faster than anyone else in the heat and scored an all star time. She led off a
Dolphin sweep of the event with Taylor Celia getting second and third.
In 25 fly, Will got his third win as part of a Dolphin
sweep. Max was second and Aidan was third. Darby easily won the 25 fly as none
of the Little Falls swimmers were legal in the stroke.
Yet the top performance of the day may have gone to five
year old Nadia Lall who swam a legal 25 fly to finish second. Nadia initially
was expected to be on pre-team this season but she clearly takes too much after
her sister for that.
In 9/10, it was going to be a challenge. Andrew O’Brien got
an all star time in 50 free but still came in third. Cole Wassiliew was fourth,
Matthew Wu was eighth, Meyer Eskin was 10th, Jack Burke was 11th
and Jacob Seiberg was 12th though his goggles came in 13th.
For the girls, Evelyn Wassiliew was second, Maya Lall was fourth, Ella Scott
took eight, Sam MacIsaac was 10th, Lucy Lauren Caddell was 11th
and Anna-Louise Cobau was 12th.
For 25 back, Matthew took fourth, Jacob took fifth and Meyer
was sixth. On the girls side, Evelyn was second, Maya was third and Ella was
sixth.
Andrew got another all star time, but finished second in 25
breast. Cole and Meyer were third and fourth.
Maya took second for the girls. This theme continue with 25 fly as
Andrew got an all star time and second place. Evelyn was second for the girls.
The 11/12 age bracket was more of a mixed bag. Gideon Helf
took first in 50 free with Ali Shafi in fourth, Lucca Scot in fifth, Tyler
Crist in sixth Morgan White in seventh
and Duncan Ryan in eighth. For the girls, Shifra had a strong swim but still
finished second. Colleen Zeugin took seventh.
In 50 back, Gideon and Lucca were one and two while Katie
MacIsaac was second and Colleen was fifth. Shifra and Katie took first and
second in 50 breast with Gideon taking first for the boys and Morgan White in
third. Ali took fourth.
Lucca won the 50 fly with Duncan in third. Shifra took
second for the girls.
Bannockburn fought back in the 13/14 races with Jeffrey Su
and Ray Crist taking first and second in 50 free. Jack Blazes, Jack MacIsaac, Alex
Butman and Ethan Wendel were fifth through eighth. Jeffrey won the 50 back in
an all star time with Jack Blazes in fourth and Ray in fifth.
Jack Blazes took first in the 50 breast with Jeffrey Su in
second and Jack McIsaac in fifth. Ray took second in 50 fly.
Little Fall’s Rachel Danegger and the Dolphin’s Katya
Damskey are winter swim buddies, but they were rivals on Saturday. Rachel used
a strong final push to out touch Katya in 50 free. Danielle Lair-Ferrari took
third with Caitlin Ryan in fourth, Gabriella Helf in eighth, Mariana
Pennybacker in 10th and Naomi Seiberg in 11th. In 50 back, Katya took first with Gabriela in
fifth.
Danielle took third in 50 breast with Alexa Crist in fourth
and Caitlin in fifth. Katya was second in 50 fly with an all star time.
It is always amazing to watch the 15/18 year olds fly
through the water. John Janezich scored
an all star time and the win in 100 free.
Vince Steis took sixth. Owen Wassiliew, James Cobau and Alex Burbelo all
swam up in this age group and they took eighth, 10th and 11th.
In the 100 back, John again won with an all star time. Vince
was fourth and Owen took fifth. For 100 breast, the Dolphins used the three
swimmer who were swimming up in age group. Owen took fourth while Alex and Hugo
Burbelo tied for fifth. John continued to win, taking first in the 50 fly.
Vince was fifth and James was sixth.
For the girls, Bryna Steele was third, just 3/100 of a
second out of second. Jessie Kline was fourth, Hannah Melrod was fifth, Elena
Palermo was seventh, Samantha Kline was 10th and Sarah Cobau swam up
in age group to take 12th. In 100 back, Jessie was second, Bryna
took fifth and Hannah had sixth. Jessie took third in the 50 fly.
The meet always ends with the 175 relay. The Dolphin team of
Andrew O’Brien, Gideon Helf, Jeffrey Su and Will Spooner took first while the team of Cole Wassiliew, Ali Shafi,
Ray Crist and Max Kroloff was fourth.
The team of Evelyn Wassiliew, Shifra Eskin, Katya Damskey
and Darby LeFaivre took second while the team of Maya Lall, Katie MacIsaac,
Danielle Lair-Ferrari and Taylor Pyle was fourth.
Dolphins Beat Thunder; Finish B Meet
By Haydn the Dog
Dolphin Editor in Chief
The Bannockburn Dolphins traveled over the One Lane Bridge
for the annual B meet against Palisades.
Yet the real fight was against the weather. This editor saw
many parents constantly checking the weather maps on their phones. Despite the
constant threat of storms, the Dolphins finished the meet and all but the
automation team and B meet representatives should have had plenty of time to
get home before the weather hit.
Most Bannockburn Dolphins entered the meet with at least one
prior time in each stroke. This permits Dolphin Times to resume its tradition
of highlighting those who had some impressive time improvements in this meet.
All of the following swimmers had at least a 5% time
improvement in the events that are highlighted:
·
Hugo Burbelo took 3.24 seconds off on 50 back.
·
Jack Burke took 2.98 seconds off on 50 free.
·
Timothy Burke took 31.81 seconds off his 25 free
time.
·
Lauren Caddell took 2.82 seconds off 50 free.
·
Maya Clancy took 1.86 seconds off 25 free and
7.92 seconds off 25 back.
·
Anna-Louise Cobau took 2.88 seconds off 25
breast.
·
Alexa Crist took 2.01 seconds off 50 free and
7.95 seconds off 100 IM.
·
Nora Feldbaum took 2.79 seconds off 25 free.
·
Thaddeus Felten took 3.02 seconds off 25 back.
·
Darby LeFaivre took 1.88 seconds off 25 breast.
·
Samantha MacIsaac took 7.81 seconds off 100 IM.
·
Andrew O’Brien took 5.67 seconds off 100 IM.
·
Erin Pollack took 5.24 seconds off 50 free.
·
Caitlin Ryan took 4.88 seconds off 100 IM.
·
Jacob Seiberg dropped 3.64 seconds on 25 breast.
·
Sofia Silvertooth dropped 3.78 seconds on 50
free.
·
Alex Spooner dropped 1.96 seconds in 25 free.
Look for updated results next week from our next B meet.
What we do is compare the time at the B meet against their prior best time for
the season. Then we highlight everyone who had an improvement of at least 5%.
It is true that 5% is a big number for the older kids, but B meets are geared
toward newer and/or younger swimmers. So there are often a lot of 5%
improvements.
The software Dolphin Times uses is not the greatest so there
is always the risk that we miss something. Please email the Dolphin Times at
haydnthedogseiberg@gmail.com
with anything we accidently excluded and we will get it in the next edition.
Dolphins Take Second Loss to Thunder in 2014
By Walter Tu Kold
Dolphin Correspondent
Darn that summer weather.
The thunder rolled into Bannockburn around 4:30 pm on
Wednesday ahead of this week’s B meet vs. Somerset. As some may recall, the
Derecho caused the last home meet v. Somerset to be canceled as our pool didn’t
have power.
The hope was to wait out the storm and it appeared to stop
thundering around 5:45, which would have meant the meet could have started
around 6:15. There was a growing sense of excitement among the scores of
swimmers.
Or was that dread because they all had just downed slices of
peperoni or cheese pizza during the delay, which meant no one really wanted to
compete with a stomach full of food.
In either event, the weather did not cooperate and the meet
had to be canceled. Despite the loss of the meet, this reporter was impressed
with how the swimmers rallied by devouring 16 pizzas within the first 15
minutes of their delivery. That is a team that is destined for glory.
