Mokihana Aquatics 11-year-old swimmer Keenan Anaya spent his Thanksgiving weekend churning through the waters at the 21st Pearl City Invitational Swim Meet. Swimming in the 11-12 year old age group, Anaya competed in 11 events. He improved on the time
Mokihana Aquatics 11-year-old swimmer Keenan Anaya spent his Thanksgiving
weekend churning through the waters at the 21st Pearl City Invitational Swim
Meet.
Swimming in the 11-12 year old age group, Anaya competed in 11
events. He improved on the time he qualified at in nine of those 11. Anaya’s
biggest drop in time came in one of the tougher races at any meet, the 200
freestyle. Anaya came in with a qualifying time of 2 minutes, 34.79 seconds. He
bettered that by over 20 seconds, swimming a 2:13.87 and finishing fifth
overall at that distance.
His times in the other events were as follows
(his place overall is in parenthesis):
200 individual medley-2:37.85
(7)
100 breastroke-1:28.89 (24)
100 butterfly-1:11.10 (6)
50
backstroke-33.01 (6)
100 freestyle-1:03.00 (9)
50 butterfly-31.56
(8)
100 individual medley-1:11.46 (7)
50 breastroke-39.82 (17)
50
freestyle-29.04 (14)
100 backstroke-1:16.66 (9)
Another Kaua’i swimmer,
Dyllan Strong, 12, also competed at the meet. He is not affiliated with any
club.
Here are his results:
100 individual medley-1:22.90 (25)
100
breastroke-1:27.93 (20)
100 freestyle-1:11.93 (33)
50 backstroke-35.78
(18)
50 breastroke-40.81 (22)
