SOBA Places First at 2012 SCAA Summer Championship-Congratulations

CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic SCAA Summer Championship Meet on August 11, 2012 at Mira Costa High School Pool!

SOBA earned the most points at Saturday’s Summer Championship Meet, coming in first in our division and winning the entire meet. We were so thrilled to share that big trophy with everyone at our awards celebration Monday.

Each and every swimmer who participated Saturday scored points for the team – this was truly a TEAM EFFORT! That means everyone earned at least one medal, and some of you even more.
  88% of you had at least one personal best time at Summer Champs – WOW!!
    20% had one best time
     37% had two best times, and
      31% had best time in ALL THREE EVENTS – that is FANTASTIC – so proud of you, swimmers!

Most Time Dropped – Max Rocha 65.31 total
He gets to take the trophy home for the entire winter break. Way to go Max! Close runners-up are Jenniffer Morales with a total drop of 37.31; Alex Fuqua with 23.35; Sean Dorr with 21.49; then Isabelle Chiu with 19.20

High point earner – Ryan Rossow with 147 Points
1^st place in their three individual events (3 x 21 points) + 1^st place in two relays (2 x 42 points) – Congratulations, Ryan Rossow! He will take the trophy home one night after his family is back from vacation. Close runners-up are Danny Gonzalez with 144 points and Alyssa Bosch with 141 points.

The Big Trophy
After our ‘most time dropped’ achievers and our high point earners have had their time with the trophy, each swimmer will have the opportunity to take it home for a few days at a time. We’ll go in order of most time dropped (i.e. ‘best’ of the personal best times)

New Team Records
We had 3 new team records set at Saturday’s Summer Champs meet. Congratulations to:
   Ryan Brankovic: B 13-14 50Y Freestyle 25.37
   Ryan Brankovic: B 13-14 100Y Backstroke 1:03.37
   Kent Zeballos: B 9-10 50Y Breaststroke 43.57

New Red/Blue/JO Club Members
The Red, Blue and JO Club represent the different ‘Time Standards’ by age groups outlined by Southern California Swimming. These represent the ‘top’ level of swimming in our region, with the Spring Junior Olympic (JO) being the toughest category, followed by Summer JO, then Blue Times, then Red. Coach Dede has created recognition stars for each level, and she tracks the progress (thank you Coach Dede!). Congratulations to new members of…
-The Red Club: Lucas Hurtado, Lily Kramer, Gavin Pierce, Nina Valdes
-The Blue Club:  Sean Brankovic, Dede Carranza, Sophie Credo, Riley Pierce
-Summer JO: Relays: Sean, Danny, Ryan R, Kent + Ryan B, Andrew, Forrest, Jacob
-Spring JO: Kevin Zeballos

If you want to check out the Time Standards (and maybe set out a new goal for yourself), they are available Online at the Southern California Swimming website; the time standards are updated annually.

Special SOBA Champs “Milestones”
-Congrats to our ‘first timers’ at a Championship Meet: David B, Lexi C, Giselle C, CJ C, Bridget D, Sean D, Sally G, Ruka G, Taylor K, Ashley L, Bianca L, Chris M, Austin M, Alexander M, Sergio M, Joshua R, Jude R, Levi S!
-New Category – Completing THREE championship Meets: Sean B, Alexis C, Vaughn D, Adrian G, Giselle G,Ina G, Collin G, Marisa H, Kate K, Lily K, Gavin P
-Honored for participating in FIVE championship meets: Sophia A, Renato P
-Recognized for participating in SEVEN championship meets: Isabelle C, Lauren C, Sophie C, Ryan F, Carolina G, Danny G, Audrey M, Eric M, Ryan R
-Shout out for participating in TEN championship meets: Alex F, Gabriel H, Kaio M
-12 Champs: Paola C, Lexi T. 13 Champs: Jacob V. 14 Champs: Breana J, Leana J, Gabi T
-Most champs to date: Julianna Gomez at 15 champs!! (tie for highest # with Elisa Carranza)
-YES, we do have swimmers with 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 champs to their credit (you know who you are!); the aforementioned swimmers hit certain ‘milestones’ which we recognized at Awards Day.

Relays at Champs
We don’t get to do relays often, so it’s really special when we have so many relay teams at champs meets! This year, we had a relay entered in every gender and age group. Relays are important to the team, because they earn DOUBLE points. Medals are awarded for teams who place 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rdBUT points are awarded to all teams who place 1^st thru 6^th

Congratulations on Promotions!
At the conclusion of each season, we often promote swimmers who are ready for the next skill level group. Congratulations to the swimmers whom we are promoting!
-Promoted from C to C1: CJ, Nicholas, Bridget, Drea, Ruka, Ashley, Max, Taylor, and Kayla (earlier in the season, Levi S); (these swimmers now have the option of coming up to four days per week: M-Th)
-Promoted from C1 to B: Brandon, Jaylin, Marisa, Adam, Makenna, Kate, Alex, Sergio, Riley, Britney
-Promoted from B to B1: Raeann, Sean B, Isabelle, Danny, Giselle G, Madeleine, Ryan, Kent
-Promoted from B1 to A: Alexandra, Paola C, Alex F, Lexi T, Alex F

Plus we know a couple more of you are really close to promotion to the next group, so keep working hard, and I'm sure we'll have more promotions after we get into the fall season! All newly promoted swimmers can finish out the season in their current group (though the Cs who were just promoted could also come on M & W this and next week), and we'll 'officially' start off in our new groups starting in September for the Fall/Winter season.

Parents
THANK YOU for all your help with all the ‘jobs’ we were assigned by the league. We really appreciate you pitching in to help make this meet run as smoothly as possible. We are lucky to have so many fantastic team families with SOBA!


Way to go swimmers – we are so proud of you!

This was a FANTASTIC way to end the season! We are so thrilled for our team, and so excited for all of your successes at summer champs.