WHAT Senior Circuit and Bronze Champs recap

Below is the info for Senior Circuit. This is for WHAT(woodland hills)

This is a special year. Last year WHAT had no qualifiers for this meet. This year we have five swimmers competing in sixteen individual events and two relays! Congrats to the competitors for their achievement. Day 1 - Friday We had a great start to the meet with swims by Ellis Cannon, Benito Countouris and Aidan Demkee. Aidan posted a personal best in the 200 freestyle. Ellis qualified for finals in 100 breaststroke and 100 butterfly. Benito qualified also for finals in 100 butterfly. In finals Ellis posted a personal best in breaststroke and improved is finish place while in butterfly he posted his second best time bettering his preliminary time. Benito finished butterfly with a personal best; which was also a team record and achieved his first qualifying time for the Eastern Zone Senior Champs! Day 2 - Saturday The second day included swims by Riley Aul, Ellis, Benito and Mian Laubscher. Riley started prelims with a personal best 50 freestyle. Ellis, Benito and Mian each posted excellend morning swims in the 50 freestyle. Ellis posted a personal best in 100 backstroke and qualified for finals. Finals is always exciting and Ellis rose to the occasion posting a personal best in 100 backstoke improving his finish by four places. The finals session concluded with Aidan, Ellis, Benito and Mian setting a team record in the 400 medley relay; additionally Aidan led off with a personal best backstroke (also a team record) and Mian anchored with a significant improvement in his 100 freestyle. Day 3 - Sunday What a great start! Personal bests by Riley, Ellis, Aidan and Mian in 100 freestyle. We had a great night at finals. Benito made a small adjustment to his strategy which enabled him to drop three seconds in the 200 butterfly, setting a new team record and achieving an Eastern Zone Age Group Champs qualifying time (his second). The meet concluded with the 400 freestyle relay of Aidan, Ellis, Mian and Benito. The boys set a new team record and leading-off Aidan achieved his first Eastern Zone Age Group Champs qualifying time! Congrats to all five swimmers for their achievements this weekend (gotta like when the hard work pays off). Bronze Champs: WHAT This weekend six WHAT swimmers competed in Bronze Champs at the Olympic Swim & Health Club in Penn Hills; Colby Bernard, Mary Gotaskie, Franny LaRoche, Warren Sipe, Luka Stratimirovic and Stefan Stratimirovic. The team competed in 23 individual events achieving personal best times in 13 swims with two first-time swims. The group dropped a combined 44.28 seconds! Two of the swims qualified for Silver Champs; Stefan in 200 IM and Franny in 400 FR. Congrats to all of our swimmers for their achievements! Haymaker-  Wednesday July 6, 2016 Haymaker competed in the 49th Highland Relays in Penn Hills.  The last three years our team has come in third place.  This year we broke the streak and earned a second place title out of 6 teams.   The following relays earned first place #2 11-12 Boys 100 meter Medly Relay Dylan Cook, Dom Byrne, Drew Holmes, Chris Ireland #6 8& under Boys 100 Meter Freestyle Relay Colton Matthews Aaron Burdell Josh Silnutzer Logan Matthews #14 Boys 13-18 200 meter Medley Relay Drew Myers Mitchell Wholfarth Marc Migliorini Mike Yakubisin #16- Boys 11-12 200 Meter Freestyle Relay Dylan Cook Dom Byrne Chris Ireland Drew Holmes # 19 Girls 13-18 200 Meter Freestyle Relay Anna Zolyak Mackenna Yackovich Emma Winchell Hannah Muro  THINGS:   WHAT will compete this Saturday in North park in Silver Champs.   Hayamker will try to defend our title of the #1 Team in Monroeville .  We swim in the Monroeville Invitational.  There are seven teams in the Monroeville area.  We have our eyes on the prize and hopefully we will be as victorious at last year.