Swim Kaua‘i Aquatics chalked up 137 lifetime best swims out of 199 events, coach Greg Davis said in an e-mail following the two-day Mokihana Aquatics Fun Meet. Emma Rausch finished the two-day Fun Meet with six new lifetime best times,
Swim Kaua‘i Aquatics chalked up 137 lifetime best swims out of 199 events, coach Greg Davis said in an e-mail following the two-day Mokihana Aquatics Fun Meet.
Emma Rausch finished the two-day Fun Meet with six new lifetime best times, Davis said.
In addition to earning personal best times in six events, the 14-year-old added two new state cut times to her portfolio, he said.
One of those events came in the 200 Individual Medley where Rausch stopped the clock at 2:29.53Y for second place below Meaghan who topped the event at 2:26.22Y, both times earning state qualifying honors.
But Rausch came back in the 100 Back, winning the event on a 1:08.23Y swim and earning another state qualifying time while besting Meaghan who filled in second at 1:10.13Y, another qualifying swim.
Joining Rausch in leading the SKA performances at the meet hosted by Mokihana Aquatics, Ryann Linthicum, 12, had five personal bests in six events entered, her personal bests also good enough to win those five events.
Among Ryann’s swims, she topped the Girls 11-12 100 Free (1:00.62Y-Qual), the 50 Fly (31.29Y-Qual), the 50 Breast (38.84Y-HIAA), the 100 IM (1:11.71Y-Qual), the 50 Back (33.04Y-Qual), and the 50 Free (28.06Y-Qual).
Meaghan Sims, 18, also chalked up five lifetime best times in six events, winning in four events, and in many of the events, providing a benchmark from which Rausch could perform.
Sinead Sim, Meaghan’s younger sister, also finished with five personal bests in six events.
Rolling off a highly-successful and influential showing in the county’s Junior Lifeguard program where SKA swimmers were key in the swimming events, Rausch and Meaghan were two of the three girls who performed 59-second swims in the Girls 100 Freestyle event.
Coach Orlando Anaya said the last time someone swam a 59-second mark was in 1983 when Alicia Golden swam the event in 59.99.
Finishing second and third in the event, Meaghan stopped the clock at 59.31, just .07 of a second back of Kesia Anaya of Mokihana who won the event at 59.25.
Rausch stopped the clock at 59.78 for third place.
Tyson Chihara, Matthew Ross and Nick Krueger set the pace for SKA boys, Chihara and Ross earning qualifying times with their second and third finishes in the Boys 18 Under 100 Free on swims of 52.98Y and 53.37Y, respectively.
Krueger finished that event
in seventh with a 59.16Y showing, good enough for a HIAA time.
According to its Web site, SKA was founded to teach swimming skills and improve proficiency for children and adults on Kaua‘i.
For more information, visit www.swimkauai.com, or call 332-5356
