SEMS Recap

The Winona Water Wizards were tearing up the pool last weekend in Woodbury for the SEMS Mutial of Omaha Spring ABC Open

I couldn't make it, I had a wedding to go to, but the results are as follows.

Leading off, they managed to DQ Grant in the 50 free. Virtually unheard of and I am guessing someone made a mistake here interpreting his turn.
Event # 10 Male 50 Free 8 & Under
50.14Y DQ F Wolner, Grant M. WIN-MN 7 --- --- ---

Grif dropped almost a second on his 100BR and places second, way to go Grif!!!
Event # 14 Male 100 Breast 9-10
1:41.70Y F Wolner, Griffin S. WIN-MN 9 2 --- -0.73

Grant completes the 50 BR clean and gets his best time!
Event # 16 Male 50 Breast 8 & Under
1:03.78Y F Wolner, Grant M. WIN-MN 7 4 --- ---

Z swims a consistent 50 back.
Event # 17 Female 50 Back 11-12
37.45Y F Porter, McKenzie J. WIN-MN 12 10 --- 0.29

Griff drops almost 5 seconds on his 50 back to bring home another 2nd place!!
Event # 20 Male 50 Back 9-10
42.74Y F Wolner, Griffin S. WIN-MN 9 2 --- -4.44

And drops a full second and 1/3 to finish 5th in the 50FR
Event # 30 Male 50 Free 9-10
34.67Y F Wolner, Griffin S. WIN-MN 9 5 --- -1.38

Z swims a SOLID 200IM and takes 2nd in her class and just outside a B time!
Event # 31 Female 200 IM 11-12
3:03.63Y F Porter, McKenzie J. WIN-MN 12 2 --- ---

Reese drops 11 seconds on her time from last winter and starts to flirt with the Minutewoman Club (Steve Burt's HS Team achievement recognition) and moving up to a low B time!
Event # 39 Female 100 Free 13-14
1:04.61Y F Galewski, Reese M. WIN-MN 13 2 --- -11.46

McKenna swam another solid showing with Grace . Gonna have to watch these girls come Fall HS season!
1:06.88Y F Marg, McKenna J. WIN-MN 13 8 --- 0.29
1:08.40Y F Ell, Grace WIN-MN 14 3 --- ---

Mallory dropped 3 1/2 seconds off of her 100FL to make a strong showing.
Event # 45 Female 100 Fly
1:19.87Y F Porter, Mallory C. WIN-MN 16 4 --- -3.54


Reese also show mega improvement on her fly dropping 2 seconds and flirting with an A time.
Event # 47 Female 100 Fly 13-14
1:09.60Y F Galewski, Reese M. WIN-MN 13 2 --- -2.13

McKenna swam w/o a seed time and finished strong with Grace right behind her.
Event # 51 Female 200 Back 13-14
3:01.52Y F Marg, McKenna J. WIN-MN 13 6 --- ---
3:03.36Y F Ell, Grace WIN-MN 14 7 --- ---


Event # 55 Female 200 IM 13-14
2:39.31Y F Galewski, Reese M. WIN-MN 13 3 --- -3.86
2:51.19Y F Marg, McKenna J. WIN-MN 13 1 --- ---

Event # 69 Female 100 Free 11-12
1:16.82Y F Beseler, Brianna R. WIN-MN 11 8 --- 1.69

Event # 79 Female 100 Back 11-12
1:24.30Y F Porter, McKenzie J. WIN-MN 12 3 --- ---

Event # 83 Female 50 Breast 11-12
46.96Y F Beseler, Brianna R. WIN-MN 11 5 --- -0.46


Brianna and Z swam the 500 again and this time reversed the order. Z was out in front at this meet and managed to hold on even though Brianna had more in the tank at the end going negative on her last three splits. Z managed to get her this time by 2 seconds.
Event # 89 Female 500 Free 11-12
7:22.00Y F Porter, McKenzie J. WIN-MN 12 4 --- -22.26
7:24.04Y F Beseler, Brianna R. WIN-MN 11 5 --- ---

This weekend's swimming

First and foremost, the Winona Water Wizards are off to Woodbury in the Twin Cities for the
SEMS & Mutual of Omaha’s ABC Open. It will be a big meet, nearly 200 swimmers in the Am and 100 in the afternoons.

The 8 - 12 year old swimmers compete Sat & Sunday morning. The Wolner boys, Grant & Griffin are back in the pool after a weekend off. McKenzie Porter makes it 3 meets in 3 weekends coming off a great 400M FR swim in the Twinvite and breaking the B barrier in her 100IM in the Northfield Dip into Spring. Saturday AM she is doing the 50 BK and then taking a stab at the 200IM. On Sunday she'll swim the 100BK and be joined by Brianna Beseler swimming the 500FR along with the 100FR and 50 BR.

The 13 & over swimmers, McKenna Marg, Reese Galewski, Grace Ell and Mallory Porter all returning after a fun weekend at the Twinvite III at the U of M. They'll be swimming a mix of speed events with Reese, McKenna and Grace doing the 100FR, and work horse outings , with Reese and McKenna in the 200IM, Reese the 100FL, McKenna & Grace in the 200BK. Mallory is still on her Fly kick doing the 100FL on Sat and the 200 fly (again?) on Sunday.

I will post results when they are available.

GRAND PRIX SWIMMING IN CHARLOTTE

If by chance you have spare time this weekend, there is big time swimming on the Net. Many of the big Olympics names including Michael Phelps are competing in the Charlotte UltraSwim, the fifth stop on the 2008-2009 USA Swimming Grand Prix Series, (that started right here in MN last September) which will award the highest-scoring swimmer of the series with a $20,000 prize.

Competition footage from the Charlotte UltraSwim will be broadcast by both Universal Sports and Swimnetwork.com. Universal Sports will air footage from the finals Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17 on its digital cable channel. Swimnetwork.com will provide a live online stream of the Universal Sports broadcast. In addition, Swimnetwork.com will webcast the finals on Thursday, May 14, and the prelims from each day of competition. Swimnetwork.com will also feature on-demand footage of the Friday, Saturday and Sunday night finals as well as behind-the-scenes interviews from the pool deck.

You can watch Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) and Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones (New Brunswick, N.J.), Olympians Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Katie Hoff (Towson, Md.), Aaron Peirsol (Irvine, Calif.), Christine Magnuson (Tinley Park, Ill.), Peter Vanderkaay (Rochester, Mich.), Eric Shanteau (Lilburn, Ga.), Mark Gangloff (Akron, Ohio), and Julia Smit (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.), Ricky Berens (Charlotte, N.C), Kara Lynn Joyce (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Elizabeth Beisel (Saunderstown, R.I), Caroline Burckle (Louisville, Ky.), and Amanda Weir (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

Check out the complete article at http://www.usaswimming.org/usasweb/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=1205&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&ItemId=2441&mid=4005

or better yet, the Psych Sheet at: http://www.charlotteultraswim.com/results09/Psych.htm to see what kind of seed times are being posted.

Results of the Winona Water Wizards at the Twinvite III

Here are results for the Winona Swimmers:

Remember:

this is a 50 meter long course (MLC) meet so there are less flip turns AND a meter is 3.13 yards so the events are longer (except for the distance events, they shorten them from 500 to 400 and 1650 to 1500.)

All events were OPEN CLASS - meaning everyone was seeded and placed purely based on time, age was not included.

Individual Meet Results

2009 MN Twin III Invite 09‑May‑09 to 10‑May‑09 LC Meters
Sanction: MN08‑04‑119Y Location: University of Minnesota Aquatic Center


Name F/P/S Time Age Place

Event # 1 Female 50 Back

This event had 159 entries, filling 20 heats of swimmers. The girls did well finishing in the top half to McKenna finishing in the top 1/4 of swimmers.

Marg, McKenna 39.99L F WIN‑MN 13 36

Porter, McKenzie J. 44.34L F WIN‑MN 12 68

Crowson, Morgan E. 44.61L F WIN‑MN 13 73 ‑‑‑ ‑‑‑

Event # 2 Male 50 Back
There were 80 entrants here, so Cal placed in the top 1/4 also!

Dretske, Cal 40.14L F WIN‑MN 13 17 ‑‑‑ ‑‑‑

Event # 3 Female 200 Free

O'Neill, Haley J. 2:39.07L F WIN‑MN 13 86

Galewski, Reese M. 2:43.05L F WIN‑MN 13 95

Kleinow, Gabby 2:43.59L F WIN‑MN 13 98

Ell, Grace 2:52.44L F WIN‑MN 14 116


Event # 4 Male 200 Free

Danzinger, Josh 2:25.21L F WIN‑MN 17 43

Kleinow, Joey 2:40.98L F WIN‑MN 15 64

Essar, Mitchell F. 2:52.32L F WIN‑MN 14 73

Suman, Tyler 3:23.91L F WIN‑MN 11 87


Event # 5 Female 100 Fly

Galewski, Reese M. 1:20.59L F WIN‑MN 13 35


Event # 7 Female 100 Back

This event too had 168 entrants!

Marg, McKenna J. 1:25.36L F WIN‑MN 13 70

Porter, McKenzie J. 1:37.07L F WIN‑MN 12 107

O'Neill, Hanna M. 1:38.72L F WIN‑MN 11 114


Event # 8 Male 100 Back

Essar, Mitchell F. 1:28.97L F WIN‑MN 14 53

Suman, Tyler 1:56.41L DQF WIN‑MN 11

Event # 9 Female 100 Breast

There were 152 entrants, so Krinstina finished in the top 1/3!

Kleinow, Kristina E. 1:35.33L F WIN‑MN 18 46


Event # 10 Male 100 Breast

There were 88 entrants, so both guys finished in the top 1/4 and for a 13 yr old, Cal did great!

Danzinger, Josh 1:27.64L F WIN‑MN 17 19

Dretske, Cal 1:28.19L F WIN‑MN 13 20 ‑‑‑ ‑‑‑

Event # 11 Female 200 IM

Galewski, Reese M. 3:02.82L F WIN‑MN 13 55

O'Neill, Haley J. 3:05.38L F WIN‑MN 13 57

Marg, McKenna 3:08.02L F WIN‑MN 13 59

Ell, Grace 3:24.97L F WIN‑MN 14 68


Event # 12 Male 200 IM


Danzinger, Josh 2:47.95L F WIN‑MN 17 23

Dretske, Cal 3:05.61L F WIN‑MN 13 38

Suman, Tyler 4:08.99L F WIN‑MN 11 41


Event # 13 Female 200 Fly

In an afternoon session that had 472 entrants, only 15 entered the 200 butterfly, and Mallory was one of them. Gutsy move!

Porter, Mallory C. 3:44.77L F WIN‑MN 16 13


Event # 15 Female 50 Free

The 50 Free had 175 entrants!

Kleinow, Gabby 32.85L F WIN‑MN 13 50

O'Neill, Haley J. 33.15L F WIN‑MN 13 55

Ell, Grace 34.10L F WIN‑MN 14 67

Crowson, Morgan E. 36.70L F WIN‑MN 13 96

Porter, McKenzie J. 38.98L F WIN‑MN 12 110

O'Neill, Harper K. 44.38L F WIN‑MN 9 128

Event # 16 Male 50 Free

The Male 50Fr had 100 entrants!

Kleinow, Joey R. 31.16L F WIN‑MN 15 39

Essar, Mitchell F. 33.10L F WIN‑MN 14 42


Event # 19 Female 100 Free

The 100FR had 267 entrants!

Kleinow, Gabby 1:15.16L F WIN‑MN 13 127

O'Neill, Hanna M. 1:23.71L F WIN‑MN 11 186

Beseler, Brianna R. 1:24.43L F WIN‑MN 11 195

Event # 20 Male 100 Free

The Male heats had 150 swimmers

Kleinow, Joey R. 1:08.59L F WIN‑MN 15 62

Dretske, Cal 1:15.85L F WIN‑MN 13 90

Event # 21 Female 50 Breast 155 entrants

Ell, Grace 45.83L F WIN‑MN 14 37

Porter, McKenzie J. 52.16 F WIN‑MN 12 88

O'Neill, Harper K. 1:03.46L F WIN‑MN 9 127


Event # 23 Female 200 Back 95 Entrants


Beseler, Brianna R. 2:41.25L F WIN‑MN 11 25

Kleinow, Kristina E. 3:05.87L F WIN‑MN 18 78


Event # 25 Female 50 Fly 176 Entrants

ONeill, Hanna M. 38.36L F WIN‑MN 11 66

Porter, McKenzie J. 44.74L F WIN‑MN 12 106



Event # 28 Male 200 Breast

Dretske, Cal 3:08.51L F WIN‑MN 13 19

Event # 29 Female 400 Free 81 entrants

This was a great race to watch! Kristina pulled out a great time her time converted to a yards time is a 6:14!. The best part was the next heat with Brianna and McKenzie in it, they swam nearly side-by-side the whole way. Brianna started out a body length or so in front for the first 4 lengths, then Z pulled even and they exchanged positions a few times and then Brianna kicked it in at the end and touched out Z by a second and a half! Great times for their first Long course 400FR!


Kleinow, Kristina E. 5:37.11L F WIN‑MN 18 44

Keinow, Gabby 5:48.25L F WIN‑MN 13 55

Beseler, Brianna R. 6:33.40L F WIN‑MN 11 70

Porter, McKenzie J. 6:35.25L F WIN‑MN 12 71

Porter, Mallory C. 6:41.93L F WIN‑MN 16 72


Event # 30 Male 400 Free

Tyler's goggles filled with water early on and he had to gut it out. Way to go Tyler.

Suman, Tyler 7:10.93L F WIN‑MN 11 39

First Day at the Twinvite Meet at the U of M

The kids did great today. I love going to the U of M for swim meets. It is a great venue. Of all the times I have been there for meets and officiated this is the first when the bulk head had been moved to the end and it was set up as a 50 meter long course pool. It is the same length as our Bob Welsh Aquatic Center pool, but indoors in that natatorium, it can be an intimidating sight.

Being early in the season and starting with a new Team Manager data base, the Wizards are shy some seed times. So many are swimming in the early heats with NT seed times. Which makes it tough to be swimming with no one around you.

I was officiating, so I couldn't record times, I will report on those the next few days when the download is available. Suffice it to say the Winona Water Wizards represented themselve well. The parents were all sitting together in the stands and looked to be having a good time.

Winona Swim Club Wizards head off for Twinvite at the U of M

Seventeen swimmers from the WSC will be attending the Twin Cities Swim Club Twinvite this weekend along with 500 other swimmers.

The event will be at the Aquatic Center at the University of Minnesota and the pool will be set up in the 50 long course configuration. So there will be longer lengths and fewer turns.

Teams attending include TWIN, Silver Rays, SEMS, Med-City, Storm, Faribault, Badger, Minnesota Aquatics, Blackdog, NHCP, Northfield, Eau Claire.

I will report back on how our swimmers do and some of the highlights of he meet.

WSC takes part in Northfield "Dip Into Spring" Meet

Last weekend 10 swimmers and their families headed up to Northfield Middle school and swam Sat, Sun or both. It was a great weekend of swimming. The Northfield Middle School pool is a GREAT 8 lane facility with stadium style bleachers, plenty of deck space for teams, coaches, AND officials! It was a great format, the sessions were only 2+ hours long, so things moved along quickly and legs and butts did not get sore. Swimmers were given time to recover after each event, and we still were done quickly, (quick enough to all ow a drive up to Bloomington and play 18 holes with my mother and brother that afternoon!)

But enough about that. Some good early season swimming took place, the Wizards that were there went to flex their muscles. Many of the younger swimmers, as you will see below, skipped the 50 and even 100 yrd events and swam the 200's ( and one 500 by McKenzie Porter, although I admit, it was my idea. The advantages of being the one to submit the meet entries).

With the smaller number of swimmers, they allowed mixed relays, so the boys and girls were elbow to elbow behind the blocks taking advantage of the rare opportunity to swim together.

Mixed 12 & Under 200 Yard Medley Relay

6 Winona Swim Club-MN 'A' NT 2:55.13 1) Wolner, Griffin M9 2) Porter, McKenzie W12 3) Suman, Tyler M11 4) Beyer, Lilly W11 47.18 44.90 43.21 39.84

Grif & Tyler teamed up with Z and Lilly for a 6th place finish.

Mixed 12 & Under 200 Yard Freestyle Relay

5 Winona Swim Club-MN 'A' NT 2:41.64 1) Porter, McKenzie W12 2) Suman, Tyler M11 3) Wolner, Grant M7 4) Wolner, Griffin M9 1:02.38 28.47 37.86 32.93

(Z didn't really get the 1:02, the swim order was different than reported)


Girls 11-12 50 Yard Freestyle
28.29 11-12 CH
29.79 11-12 A
34.09 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
6 Quandahl, Abbey 12 WIN-MN NT 30.28 B
17 Beyer, Lilly 11 WIN-MN NT 42.04

Girls 11-12 200 Yard Freestyle
2:14.09 11-12 CH
2:20.99 11-12 A
2:40.99 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
1 Porter, McKenzie 12 WIN-MN 2:46.55 2:49.89
37.63 43.66 46.22 42.38

Girls 11-12 500 Yard Freestyle
5:53.89 11-12 CH
6:11.89 11-12 A
7:04.79 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
1 Porter, McKenzie 12 WIN-MN NT 7:44.26
38.66 46.06 48.55 47.98 49.70 49.77 48.08 48.50 44.48 42.48

Girls 11-12 50 Yard Backstroke
32.49 11-12 CH
34.19 11-12 A
39.09 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
5 Porter, McKenzie 12 WIN-MN NT 37.16 B

Girls 11-12 100 Yard IM
1:10.89 11-12 CH
1:14.59 11-12 A
1:25.19 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
6 Quandahl, Abbey 12 WIN-MN NT 1:18.94 B
35.53 43.41

7 Porter, McKenzie 12 WIN-MN 1:33.03 1:24.57 B+
37.46 47.11

Girls 13-14 100 Yard Freestyle
59.59 13-14 CH
1:02.69 13-14 A
1:12.59 13-14 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
1 Marg, McKenna 13 WIN-MN NT 1:06.59 B
31.06 35.53

Girls 13-14 100 Yard IM
1:07.09 13-14 CH
1:11.19 13-14 A 1:21.49 13-14 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
4 Marg, McKenna 13 WIN-MN 1:16.29 1:17.39 B
35.01 42.38

Girls 15-16 50 Yard Freestyle
26.89 15-16 CH
28.29 15-16 A
32.39 15-16 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
1 Quandahl, Samantha 16 WIN-MN NT 27.72 A

Girls 15-16 200 Yard IM
2:20.89 15-16 CH
2:28.09 15-16 A
2:49.29 15-16 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
2 Quandahl, Samantha 16 WIN-MN NT 2:33.84 B
31.30 38.89 48.16 35.49

Boys 8 & Under 50 Yard Freestyle
39.69 8&U CH
41.69 8&U A
47.69 8&U B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
7 Wolner, Grant 7 WIN-MN NT 57.53

Boys 8 & Under 50 Yard Backstroke
46.39 8&U CH
48.79 8&U A
55.69 8&U B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
-- Wolner, Grant 7 WIN-MN NT DQ

Boys 9-10 50 Yard Freestyle
31.59 9-10 CH
33.29 9-10 A
38.19 9-10 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
3 Wolner, Griffin 9 WIN-MN NT 36.05 B

Boys 9-10 100 Yard Freestyle
1:10.79 9-10 CH
1:14.39 9-10 A
1:25.49 9-10 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
2 Wolner, Griffin 9 WIN-MN NT 1:21.53 B
39.09 42.44

Boys 9-10 100 Yard Breaststroke
1:31.79 9-10 CH
1:36.59 9-10 A
1:50.29 9-10 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
1 Wolner, Griffin 9 WIN-MN NT 1:42.43 B
48.06 54.37

Boys 9-10 50 Yard Butterfly
36.69 9-10 CH
38.59 9-10 A
44.29 9-10 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
3 Wolner, Griffin 9 WIN-MN 44.55 44.18 B+

Boys 9-10 200 Yard IM
2:55.29 9-10 CH
3:04.19 9-10 A
3:31.49 9-10 B

Name Age Team Seed Finals
1 Wolner, Griffin 9 WIN-MN NT 3:13.42 B
45.02 49.66 1:38.74

Boys 11-12 50 Yard Freestyle
28.59 11-12 CH
30.09 11-12 A
34.39 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
6 Vaslow, Alex 12 WIN-MN NT 37.82

Boys 11-12 100 Yard Freestyle
1:02.69 11-12 CH
1:05.89 11-12 A
1:15.39 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
1 Vaslow, Alex 12 WIN-MN NT 1:29.96
39.54 50.42

Boys 11-12 200 Yard Freestyle
2:16.19 11-12 CH
2:23.09 11-12 A
2:43.59 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
2 Suman, Tyler 11 WIN-MN NT 2:55.42
39.92 44.69 1:30.81

Boys 11-12 100 Yard Backstroke
1:12.29 11-12 CH
1:15.99 11-12 A
1:26.89 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
2 Suman, Tyler 11 WIN-MN NT 1:41.69

Boys 11-12 50 Yard Butterfly
32.09 11-12 CH
33.79 11-12 A
38.59 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
5 Vaslow, Alex 12 WIN-MN NT 49.30

Boys 11-12 100 Yard IM
1:11.49 11-12 CH
1:15.19 11-12 A
1:25.99 11-12 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
5 Suman, Tyler 11 WIN-MN NT 1:41.46
47.06 54.40

Boys 13-14 50 Yard Freestyle
25.19 13-14 CH
26.49 13-14 A
30.39 13-14 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
5 Essar, Mitchell 14 WIN-MN NT 28.91 B

Boys 13-14 50 Yard Butterfly
Name Age Team Seed Finals
3 Essar, Mitchell 14 WIN-MN NT 34.97

Boys 13-14 100 Yard IM
1:02.49 13-14 CH
1:06.09 13-14 A
1:15.19 13-14 B
Name Age Team Seed Finals
3 Essar, Mitchell 14 WIN-MN NT 1:21.56
35.37 46.19