LIHU‘E — Swim Kaua‘i Aquatics hosted a swim meet Saturday in preparation for sending 16 swimmers to O‘ahu this weekend. Two new swimmers were inaugurated to the atmosphere of competitive swimming as Quentin Allen, 11, and Imara Joroff, 11, each
LIHU‘E — Swim Kaua‘i Aquatics hosted a swim meet Saturday in preparation for sending 16 swimmers to O‘ahu this weekend.
Two new swimmers were inaugurated to the atmosphere of competitive swimming as Quentin Allen, 11, and Imara Joroff, 11, each participated in four individual events and team relays.
Erik Safford, 12, finished with his first State Qualifying time as well as adding three new AA time standards to his credit.
Safford’s qualifying time came in the 50 Yard Freestyle where he sliced almost two seconds off his previous swim, stopping the clocks at 30.09. His AA times came in the 200 Yard Freestyle (2:30.70), the 50 Yard Backstroke (41.43) and the 100 Yard Freestyle (1:08.42).
Stacey Machorek of SKA said there were 79 personal best times overall coming out of the Saturday meet.
“Four of those times were new State Qualifying times, and 11 were new AA time standards,” said Billy Brown, coach of SKA. “It was a great meet. The kids were all so fast, and so focused.”
Eight swimmers posted perfect meets by netting new personal best times in each of the events they swam in, Stacey Machorek said.
Sophie Britzmann, 13, Saber Fairbanks, 11, Sean Holzman, 11, Maliana Kaui, 11, Kate Machorek, 11, Juan Pigott, 11, Safford, and Sinead Sims, 18, were the SKA swimmers posting perfect meets.
“I was really impressed with our 10-12 year olds this weekend,” Brown said. “They posted some phenomenal times.”
Kate Machorek posted two new state qualifying times in the 100 Yard Butterfly (1:13.22) and the 50 Yard Freestyle (28.53) and Pualei Pratt, 10, posted a state qualifying time in the 200 Yard Freestyle (2:45.10) to round out the SKA swimmers earning state times.
Terrence “Brother” Schoenwether, 7, dropped 15 seconds off his 50 Yard Freestyle and went on to anchor the Boys 12 and Under 200 Yard Freestyle relay team to lead some of the younger SKA swimmers’ efforts.
Mikayla Holzman, 5, trimmed 10.05 seconds from her 25 Yard Backstroke time and Brandi Baligad, 7, posted two new A times with her swims in the 25 Yard Breaststroke and the 25 Yard Freestyle.
Jazmyn Ibaan Carvalho, 12, dropped 13.23 seconds off her previous best in the 100 Yard Breaststroke and just missed the state qualifying by 0.16 second in the 50 Yard Backstroke.
Britzmann finished the meet by dropping 31.77 seconds off her 400 Yard Individual Medley event to earn a new AA time standard of 1:48.07.
Brown said he is looking forward to a strong showing and a great team-building weekend at the Bill Smith Invitational Swim Meet.
