Wellington Sailfish see dramatic improvements in times at first home meet
Aidan Young of Wellington Sailfish cuts 29.75 seconds on 200 IM.
by Bliss Baird, Wellington Swim Team correspondent — Expect Wellington swimmers to be “tatted up†in the coming weeks – with the rub-on kind, of course.
Team members have the opportunity to earn temporary tattoos by achieving personal best times, and the coupons were flying out of Coach Lyndsie Oathout’s hands at the home meet versus Haysville last Tuesday.
Wellington swimmers cut time on two-thirds of their races for a net drop of 418 seconds. That is just under seven minutes!
The biggest cut of the night came on Rogan Wetta’s 100 free.
Rogan Wetta has biggest improvement in 100 free.
The six year-old improved his time by a whopping 46.46 seconds! Travis Cody cut the largest sum of time. In his three individual races, 50 Free, 50 Fly, and 100 Free, Travis cut a total of one minute 17 seconds! With substantial cuts on all of their races, Averie Burns, Alec Gonzalez, and Eliesse McComb also showed major improvement, dropping totals of thirty-two, twenty-six, and twenty-four seconds, respectively.
Aidan Young even made the coaches second-guess their arithmetic when he cut 29.74 seconds on the 200 IM (give us a break – 10:45 on a summer night is not the time for mental math). Quinn McCue, Jaxson Irey, Mya Sowersby, Matt Pryce, Aurora Young, Rose Dickinson, and Marisa Black each accumulated double-digit drops on the night. Wellington’s first year swimmers made impressive improvements in just one week of practice. On the 50 Free, Aarilyn Farley cut over six seconds, Alara Wilson dropped nearly ten, and Hayden Stow and Michael Davis each cut almost twenty seconds.
Ashtyn Sowersby in the butterfly.
Two Wellington swimmers earned new Districts times this week. Mackinze Tracy shaved 1.34 seconds to qualify in the 50 Free, and Marisa Black qualified her 50 Free as well. She, along with Emberly Gonzalez, Chance Hamel, and Jensen Lynnes, bettered their seeds at Districts with best times on previously qualified races. Jordan Thompson and Kailey Klein have also qualified.
This week’s top finishers deserve extra commendation. The Haysville team is nearly three times the size of Wellington’s, so the meet resembled five basketball players trying to score against fifteen opponents. Needless to say, Wellington did not win, but despite the odds, many Sailfish did. Here are the Wellington swimmers who scored in the top three on individual events or won relays:
- • Marisa Black (First – 15-18 Girls 400 Free; Second – 50 Free; Second – 100 Back)
- • Travis Cody (Second – 9-10 Boys 50 Fly)
- • Rose Dickinson (Second – 13-14 Girls 200 Free; Second – 100 Back)
- • Emberly Gonzalez (Second – 13-14 Girls 50 Free; Second – 200 IM; Third – 100 Breast)
- • Macy Gonzalez (First – 11-12 Girls 50 Back; Second – 200 IM; Third – 50 Breast)
- • Colin Green (Second – 11-12 Boys 50 Breast; Third – 50 Back)
- • Chance Hamel (First – 13-14 50 Free; First – 100 Breast; First – 200 IM)
- • Derick Kotchavar (Second – 13-14 Boys 100 Free)
- • Dakota Lynnes (First – 13-14 Boys 100 Back; Second – 50 Free; Second – 200 IM)
- • Jensen Lynnes (First – 9-10 Girls 200 IM; Second – 50 Back; Second – 50 Fly)
- • Quinn McCue (First – 13-14 Boys 400 Free; Second – 100 Back; Third – 50 Free)
- • Eliesse McComb (First – 5-8 Girls 100 Free; Third – 50 Free)
- • Matt Pryce (Second – 11-12 Boys 50 Fly; Second – 100 Free)
- • Rogan Wetta (Second – 5-8 Boys 100 Free)
- • Aidan Young (First – 11-12 Boys 200 IM; Third – 50 Free)
- • Paizley Gooch, Alexis Tracy, Emberly Gonzalez, and Rose Dickinson (First – 13-14 Girls 200 Medley Relay)
A big thank you to all the volunteers who made Tuesday’s successes possible! Next week, the Sailfish travel to Winfield for the first long course meet of the season. Mark your calendars: we will be back at home on June 30th and July 7th.
See full results here.
