SOBA Places First at 2013 SCAA Winter Championship Meet

CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic Winter Championship Meet! SOBA earned the most points at Saturday’s Winter 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. This year we had some solid competition from ZAP. They were within 400 points of beating us.

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.
  86% of you had at least one personal best time at Winter Champs – WOW!!
    22% had one best time
     39% had two best times, and
      25% had best time in ALL THREE EVENTS – that is FANTASTIC – so proud of you, swimmers!

Most Time Dropped – Thomas Rudy 20.08 total
He gets to take the trophy home for the entire winter break. Way to go Thomas!
Close runners-up are Maddie Hoye with a total drop of 19.04; Alexis Covarrubias with 18.99; then Jordan Pearce 18.37.

High point earner – Jasmine Wu 145 Points
1^stplace in two of her individual events (2 x 21 points) and 2^ndplace in one individual event (19 points) + 1^stplace in two relays (2 x 42 points) – Congratulations, Jasmine! She gets to take the trophy home for a couple of nights this week. Close runners up:
two-way tie at 143 points: Alyssa B and Lexie T. then Kent Z with 141 points, and Sophie C with 137 points

The Big Trophy
After Jasmine and Thomas 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 4 new team records set at Saturday’s Winter Champs meet. Congratulations to:
   Matthew Cullen: B 7-8 25Y Butterfly 17.99 (2011 Chang)
   Matthew Cullen: B 7-8 100Y IM 1:31.81Y(2008 Crist)
   Breana Jacobs: G 15+ 100 Freestyle 1:00.45Y (2007 Davidson)
   Kent Zeballos: B 9-10 50Y Breaststroke 41.86Y(2012 Gonzalez)

Special SOBA Champs “Milestones”
-Congrats to our ‘first timers’ at a Championship Meet: Luqumaan A-C, Jordan B, Matthew C, Kendall D, Mila F, Theo F, Daniel G, Raina H-D, Maddie H, Josh H, Malaya J, Kayla K, Georgia L-W, Ewan M, Miles M, Andrea M, Rylee N, Kohei N, Jake O, Justin O, Jordan P, Emily R, Thomas R, Eliette S,
-Completing THREE championship Meets: Nicholas C, Brian C, Jaylin H, Andrew H, Michael M
-Honored for participating in FIVE championship meets: Allison C, Brandon C, Tony D, Madi L, Jenniffer M, Riley P, Max R, Forrest W, Jasmine W, Kent Z, and Coach Dean
-Recognized for participating in SEVEN championship meets: Alyssa B, Cade B, Adam H, Britney R, Nina V, and Coach Mark
-11 Champs: Alex F, Gabe H, Kaio M. 13 Champs: Paola C, Lexi T. 14 Champs: Jacob V.
-Most champs to date: Three-Way Tie with Breana Jacobs & Gabi Tecun (+ Julianna Gomez) at 15 champs!!
-YES, we do have swimmers with 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^stthru 6^th

Congratulations to New Members of the Red Club, Blue Club and JO Club
Red club: Paola C., Ryan F., Danny G., Ashley L., Alex M., Sergio M., Ryan R., Jacob V.
Blue club: Jay H., Kohei N., Justin O., Gabi T.
Summer JO: Lexie T., Kevin Z.,  9-10 boys medley relay Collin G., Kent Z., Sergio M., Gavin P.

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!

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: Sally G, Georgia L-W; and earlier in the season Raina H-D & Malaya J (these swimmers now have the option of coming up to four days per week: M-Th)
-Promoted from C1 to B: Vaughn D, Justin O, Lars S and Nina V
-Promoted from B to B1: Alexis C, Max R
-Promoted from B1 to A: Sophie C, Madi L, Kohei N
plus we know a couple more of you are really close to promotion to the next group, so work hard, and stay tuned for details!

Thank You to Outgoing Team Captain Kevin Zeballos
Time to start thinking of elections for our next Team Captain. Let Coach Kathy know if you are interested.

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 winter champs.