Long Course JO's

The Armada 12-under JO team looked outstanding last weekend.  It seemed like every day got better throughout the meet.  Five days of swimming is a tough assignment, but, you handled it well and we had multiple championship swims with numerous best times.  The goal at a heats/finals meet is to swim faster at night in the finals than you swam in the prelims – this happened over and over again.  You did a great job. 

The Armada finished in 8^th place, just ahead of Brea Aquatics.  This was a very fast meet with many very large teams, so, placing in the finals or consols was a bit harder than normal.  With the last minute loss of two very strong Jr. National swimmers and the fact that we had an outstanding unattached swimmer in the 13-14 girls, cost us many points.  We would have finished even higher in the standings. 

High Point Winner for the meet was Elise Garcia as she scored in all 6 of her events.  She was 3^rd in the 50 Free, 5^th in the 100 free, 6^th in the 100 Fly, 8^th in the 200 IM, 9^th in the 50 Fly, 12^th in the 100 Back.  Great job!

Courtney Hanson and Bianca Preciado both finished 2^nd in the 50 Brst and 1^st in the 100 Brst.  Bianca also scored in the 50 Fly (10^th) and 50 Free (12^th).   It is a very big deal to win an event at JO’s, great job girls.

Also scoring at the meet:
Mireille Codjia - 13^th in the 50 Brst. 
Dustin Lam - 11^th 50 Bk, 13^th 100 Bk, 13^th 50 free, 14^th 50 Fly.
Isabella Osuna – 7^th 400 Free, 12^th 200 Free, 14^th 200 IM.
Sarah Stacer – 12^th 100 Bk, 15^th 200 IM.
Samantha Won – 15^th 50 Bk.

Also swimming were  Ellice Huang all best times, Christian Kim all best times, Randon Zahlout all best times.  Taylor and Justin Ault, Bomi Park, Madeline Garcia, Lavona Harper, Christian Martinez, Danielle Gutierrez, Taylor MIlliken, Rocky Tarango, Michael Wang,  Also, relay swimmer Adrian Sosa.

The relays looked strong with the 10-un girls leading the way with two 3^rd place finishes.