KYA Autumn Classic
KYA Autumn Classic Blog!
TRITON Swimming goes back-to-back weekends with swimming in Lexington, KY. The team competed at the University of Kentucky Lancaster Aquatic Center. The following training groups of Senior 2, Senior 3, AGP, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Pre-Comp had swimmers participating in a 3rd place combined team effort!
Team Scores:
Kentucky Aquatics – 3,279.5
Lexington Aquatics – 2,428.5
TRITON Swimming – 1,862
Senior II
The Senior II group had two representatives and , wow, did they go to swim with a purpose! Hartley Brinkmoeller and Emily Morrow went to Lexington and swam well under all of their best times.
100% Best Times:
Hartley Brinkmoeller
Emily Morrow
Notable Achievements:
Emily Morrow - Open State Cut in the 1000 Freestyle (Dropped a little over 38 seconds)
Swimmer of the Meet for Senior II:
Hartley Brinkmoeller - swam in eight events over the weekend. Earned new 13-14 State Cuts in the 200 IM, 100 Freestyle, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Backstroke, and the 100 Breaststroke. Due to her performance in the 200 IM, Hartley earned a spot to compete in the "Mystery IM" at the end of Sunday's competition. Hartley's random order of strokes were: Fly, Back, Free, Breast. Congratulations to Hartley for being the Victor of the mystery IM. Great work, awesome weekend!
Senior III
The Senior III group had a great meet in Lexington. Everyone came away from the meet with at least one best time. Five individuals recorded 100% best times! This group has come a long way since the beginning of the season. I really enjoy their enthusiasm towards each other and their racing. Let's buckle down these next three weeks and get ready for our December meet.
First Time Swimming in a Meet for Triton:
Andrew Crothers
100% Best Times:
Charlie Heneman
David Joynt
Andrew Crothers
Paulo Conde
Andrew Davis
Notable Achievements:
Andrew Crothers - "BB" Motivational Time in the 50 Freestyle
Rinad Mohamed - "BB" Motivational Time in the 100 Butterfly
Isabelle Bodart - "BB" Motivational Times in the 500 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, and 200 Freestyle; "B" Motivational Time in the 100 Freestyle
Swimmer of the Meet for Senior III:
Charlie Heneman - swam all best times and reached Motivational "BB" Times in the 200 IM and 100 Breaststroke. Charlie has been working really hard at practice so it was great to see that hard work paying off. Way to go, Charlie!
AGP:
AGP had two swimmers at the KYA Autumn Classic this past weekend. Bella Mcwhorter swam the 200 IM and the 500 free on Saturday and dropped nearly 5.52 seconds in the IM and 19.61 seconds in her 500 free!
Aiden Albritton swam a full weekend of events and he swam well both days. On Saturday, he dropped 1.27 seconds in his 100 fly and he finished the weekend strong by dropping 2 seconds in his 100 backstroke and a whopping 44 seconds in his 500 free on Sunday!
Excellent job Aiden and great swimming Bella! Triton Strong! #ALL-IN
GOLD:
Gold KILLED it once again. I am so proud of the hard work they have been putting into each and every practice; it is showing in their meet performances. The meet was a little chaotic with the two pools, three coaches, and about 100 swimmers but no one from gold missed their event (yay)! There were a bunch of new state cuts and more personal bests! I still think there is room to improve on our turns, coming off of our walls, and being positive about events that are not our best. But overall, I was happy with the results.
We had 31 Swimmers do 217 events with 162 BEST TIMES (75.7%).
State Cuts (new):
Asher Albritton (100 BREAST & 100 IM)
Logan Brown (50 BACK)
Ava Cohen (50 BREAST)
Molly Dailey (100 BREAST)
Charlotte Dawkins (100 IM)
Anna Grugel (50 & 100 BREAST)
Marko Kristo (200 IM & 100 FLY)
Jamie Lewis (100 & 200 IM, 100 & 200 FREE, 50 FLY)
Kai Page (50 FREE)
Madeline Peyton (100 FREE & 50 FLY)
Evy Seifert (100 BREAST)
Lana Shapero (50 BREAST & 100 IM)
Rory Wildman (50 & 100 BREAST)
Zoe Zheng (200 FREE)
Swimmers with 100% of best times:
Abigail Coty
Charlotte Dawkins
Lyla Hottman
Emerson Northup
Kai Page
Reese Wigger
Rory Wildman
SILVER:
What a great job to all of the Silver swimmers this last weekend in Lexington! Seeing the whole group at the swim meet was great and seeing everyone get a long and having great team spirit all throughout the weekend was great to see. Going into the weekend we worked on a bunch of open turns and making sure we work those under waters to the flags. Watching what I could between both pools everyone executed the open turns great! Seeing how they brought their feet up to the wall and seeing them elbow underwater and push off in the streamline was great. I even got some compliments from other teams how great the open turns were on their events! We will now get ready for our mid-season meet down at UofL and I can’t wait to see how awesome we do!
FIRST TIME SWIMMING TRITON MEET:
Layton Angermeier
100% best times:
Lilly Best
Edison HU
Sean Northup
Jackson Ogburn
Victoria Pritchard
Sky Pruet
New State A Cuts:
Zack Vlahos- 100 IM
Carter Schardein- 100 free
Bronze
Training Group Percentage of Best Times @ 66%
Biggest Time Drops
Charlotte Bohannon – 50 Breast @ 11.03
Adelynn Craft – 25 Breast @ 11.61
Wyatt Thompson – 50 Free @ 19.17
100 % Club
Finley Huff
Westin Jones
Adelyn Knight
Wyatt Thompson
Meet Highlights from Coach Mike
Madison Couch – 25 Back – 1st Place – a personal best time and dropping .04 – Great Job!
Emma Kellie – 50 Fly – 1st Place – Great Job!
Adalyn Knight – 25 Free – 1st Place – a personal best time and dropping .47 – Great Jo!
Pre-Comp
Training Group Percentage of Best Times @ 40%
The following swimmers competed during the weekend. Luke Best, Owen Compton, William Compton, Andrew Coty, Maci Couch, Lainey Craft, Advik Kaithi, Hannah Kannapel, James King and Zoey Vlahos
Biggest Time Drops
Zoey Vlahos – 50 Back @ 6.94
100 % Club
Luke Best