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All Ages Impressive After Day Two At Cap City by Dan Flack 2003-06-16 10:38:00 Through two days of competition, the Raleigh Swimming Association jumped out to a commanding lead at the J. Kimball Watson Capitol City Invitational at Optimist pool. Many team records, top sixteen times, JO cuts, and great swims have been turned in by swimmers of all ages so far. RSA has won individual events and relays in every age group so far. Leading the way RSA’s older swimmers on Friday and Saturday was 14 year old Kassia Shishkoff, who won the 13 – 14 girls 50 free, 400 free, and 200 free, placing 2nd in the 200 IM, and 3rd in the 400 IM. Kassia’s 200 free broke a 13 year old RSA team record. Matt McGinnis won the senior 200 freestyle swimming under the senior national time standard and the 400 freestyle just missing the national cut, but breaking the RSA 17-18 and open team record set in 1995. Katy Bland won a exciting senior 200 freestyle and placed 2nd in the 100 and 200 fly, and 3rd in the 200 IM. Bryttany Curran swam a nice 100 breast to win the 13-14 girl’s event, and Will Dove broke the RSA team record in the 15-16 boys 200 meter butterfly. Other RSA 13 & over swimmers placing in the top three were: Blair Cross 2nd 13-14 girls 50 free, Scott Dettloff, 2nd senior 50 free & 100 fly, Michelle Dettloff 2nd 13-14 girls 100 back, Nathan Farmer 2nd senior 100 breast, Zach Harris 3rd 13-14 100 back, Casey Kott 3rd senior 50 free & 100 back, and Mark Nowell, 3rd senior 100 breast. RSA’s 13-14 girls won both the 400 medley and 800 freestyle relay, and the senior boys did the same. The senior boys “B” 800 free relay of Eric McGinnis, Matt Minikus, Nathan Farmer, and Will Dove placed 3rd, crushing the 15-16 boys top 16 time standard by 15 seconds. As good as the 13 & over swimmers were, RSA’s young swimmers were even more impressive. Leading the way for the girls was 12 year old Teresa Long, who won the 11-12 girls 100 free and 200 free, both in top sixteen qualifying time, won the 100 breast, placed 2nd in the 100 back and 3rd in the 50 back. The boys were lead by 10 year old Ollie Clayton – Luce, who won the 9-10 boys 100 free and 50 back, and placed third in the 200 free and 100 back. 10 year old Brandon Bryan won the 9-10 boys 100 back, placed 2nd in the 100 breast, 200 free and 200 IM, and placed 3rd in the 50 fly and 50 back, Neville Cross won the 9-10 boys 50 fly and placed 3rd in the 100 free. Other 12 & under swimmers placing in the top three were: Elizabeth Farmer 2nd 11-12 girls 50 fly, Jonathon Keltner 2nd 11-12 boys 100 fly, Nina Mascia 3rd 9-10 girls 100 free and Zach McGinnis, 2nd 11-12 boys 200 free. The 11-12 girls won the 400 free relay, the 9-10 boys won the 200 medley relay , and the 9-10 girls were 2nd in the 200 medley relay. Weather washed out part of Sunday, a complete write up will follow after we receive the final results. Great job RSA, another great meet! |
