SOBA Places 1st at SCAA Summer Championship Meet

SOBA Is First Place at 2022 SCAA Summer Championship-Congratulations!

CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic Summer Championship Meet on Saturday!

SOBA earned the most points at the 2022 SCAA Summer Championship Meet, coming in FIRST place in our division and FIRST place overall - earning a nice big Trophy. .

Every swimmer who participated Saturday scored points for the team – this was truly a TEAM EFFORT!
  Nearly 90% of you had at least one personal best time at Summer Champs – WOW!!
    18% had one best time
     37% had two best times, and
      33% had best time in ALL THREE EVENTS - that is FANTASTIC - so proud of you!

Most Time Dropped – Ella Agostoni  24.06 total 
She gets to take the trophy home for the entire summer break. Way to go Ella! Close runners-up are Zailee Tucker with a total drop of 21.19; Jozie Rodasguillen with a drop of 19.39; Jackson Paine with a total drop of 17.72; Katie Fleming with a total drop of 17.52;
Alex Z with a total drop of 17.38, Lukas Key 16.27, Stephen Blois 15.63, Adam Tittle 15.53, Erene Abdelkoddous 15.19

High Point Earner – Diana Calta & Alyssa Melling 144 Points
Both Diana and Alyssa had 2 x 1^st Place Finishes and a 3^rd Place Race in their individual events – Gold Division, and swam on both the Medley and Freestyle relays, which placed 1^st (2 x 42 points). Congratulations De-Hana and Alyssa! Close runner-up: Asher Rea 143 Points!
Others: are: Sky T and Alex Z 133, Will B 132, Sally G 132, Nico M 131, Georgia L-W 130, Ethan H & Henry G 128, Sebi P 127, and Matthew M with 125 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)

Special SOBA Champs “Milestones”
-Congrats to our ‘first timers’ at a Championship Meet: Erene E, Ella A, Will B-H, Diana C, Jacob C, Emma E, Nolan G, Willa H, Dylan J, Christian K, Lukas K, Mila K, Arabelle K, Vivienne L, Sophia L, Coral L, Lydia M, Nico M, Luca N, Yuka N, Jackson P, Lilia P, Blake R, Paxton R, Landon R, Asher R, Macsen R, Rylee R, Jozie R, Kian R, Soraya R, Kai S, Sao S, Cody T, Zack T, Adam T, Sky T, Hana T, Charlee W, Sofia W, Cora W, Elliot Y, and Evan Y!

-Completing THREE championship Meets:
Tegan B-H, Katie F, Tristan G, Zachary Y

-Honored for participating in FIVE championship meets:
Ava E, Emily G, Skylar H, and Annabel M! Also Coaches Rachel and Adriano!

-Recognized for participating in SEVEN championship meets: Kylie H

-Shout out for participating in TEN championship meets:
Fabi DP, Loyal G, and Alexander Z! Also Coach Sue
More Than 10:
-11 Champs: Will B & Sebi P  /  -16 Champs: Georgia L-W  /  -17 Champs: Sally G
 
<Most champs to date: TIE Danny Gonzalez, Kaio Miatti and Lexi Tecun at 20 champs!>
-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.

Special Recognition
Our Great Eight:
The following swimmers and families have been waiting a LONG time for their very first Championship Meet – these swimmers joined in late February 2020, and have been at it since their start was cut short in March 2020; and then again for the past 2 years, after pools could re-open:
Diana C, Sophia L, Coral L, Nico M, Kian R, Cody T, Zack T, and Cora W – our Great 8!

Our Fab 33
The following swimmers and families have been waiting a LONG time since their previous Championship Meet – The SCAA Winter Championship Meet in February 2020. These swimmers and families have been with the team for quite a long time, and stood in solidarity with us during the uncertain pandemic times. THANK YOU for your dedication to SOBA:
Peter A, Emiko, Will B, Stephen B, Tegan BH, Fabi DP, Ava E, Katie F, Sally G, Emily G, Erica G, Tristan G, Cassidy G, Kenzie G, Loyal G, Skylar H, Ethan H, Kylie H, Danielle J, Georgia LW, Annabel M, Alyssa M, Matthew M, Chloe N, Sasha P, Sebi P, Ayla R, Arianna S, Zailee T, Hana W, Zachary Y, Sarah Y, and Alex Z
 

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 almost 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^rd BUT points are awarded to all teams who place 1^st thru 6^th.

Relays are a unique group experience for swimmers. The league only allows us to enter one relay team per event; given that we have so many awesome swimmers, it is a challenge to create those teams. We would love it if everyone got to swim on at least one relay; but in some cases, we just have way more swimmers than spots on relay teams. In creating the relay teams, coaches take into account not only the swimmers’ best times, but also workout participation, attitude and work ethic at regular practice. We tried to offer relay spots to as many swimmers as possible, keeping those guidelines in mind.

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 who are being promoted to the next group!

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! Service Hours (those done or near done?)