CVST Wins 5th Straight Florida Swimming Spirit Award
CVST Wins 5th Straight Florida Swimming Spirit Award
The Carrollwood Village Swim Team brought home the Florida Swimming Team Spirit Award, from the Florida Swimming Harry Meisel B Championships along with a lot of great swims! This was the fifth year in a row CVST has earned the coveted banner, which will be hung back at the Carrollwood Country Club Tennis & Aquatic Center.
The team’s theme for the meet this year was Swim Wars obviously based on the new Star Wars movie, which comes out this weekend. Congratulations to all members of the team on their 5th straight spirit win!
Although the Spirit Award was and is important to the team, Swimming was the main reason they were at St. Petersburg’s Northshore Pool for the weekend, and they swam as well as they cheered. CVST was led by the 8&Under Boys Freestyle Relay (Landen Lee, Bodie Burrill, Bruno Borowiec, TJ Rodriguez) and the 10&Under Girls 100 Mdeley Relay (Olivia Byrne-Garcia, Lea Visher, Kaitlyn Labella, Ava Edwards) who all brought home the Gold Medals in both of those relays.
Other Relay Medalists included:
The 10&Under Boys Free Relay 2nd Place - Ivan Borowiec, Ayden Lee, John Gleason, Asher Gonzalez
The 8&Under Girls 100 Free Relay 3rd Place - Maddie Stenberg, Sophie Nichols, Mei-Mei Lee, Morgan Labella
The Senior Girls 200 Free Relay 3rd Place - Kayla Rodriguez, Savannah Rude, Sophia Hasara, Talia Bagby
Great individual performances came from a lot of different swimmers, including some of the following: Talia Bagby, who dropped over 13 seconds in her 200 Freestyle among a number of other personal best times; Ivan Borowiec, who slashed over 27 seconds from his 100 IM; Julia Byrnes-Garcia, wh had three personal bests along with her sister, Olivia Byrnes-Garcia, who had 5 personal bests; McKinley Cassels dropped almost 5 seconds in her 50 back, while twin sister Taylor Cassels had 3 personal bests. Ava Edwards had personal bests in both the 50 and 100 Butterfly events, Nate Gilbert slashed almost 7 seconds in his 50 Free; Asher Gonzalez bettered his personal best 200 Free by over 11 seconds; Sophia Hasara chopped another 3 seconds off her 100 Butterfly; Jackson Houck took half a second off his 50 Free for a personal best and in her 100 Free, sister, Madison Houck cut just over a second from her previous best; Savannah Kaddouri cranked out a 17+ second drop in her 100 Back; Kaitlyn Labella lopped 5+ seconds from her 100 Fly while younger sister Morgan Labella cut almost 4 seconds from her 50 Breast; Ayden Lee cut over 4.5 seconds from his 50 Free while sister Mei-Mei Lee also went a personal best in the 50 Free dropping over 10 seconds, and not to be out done in his 50 Free, brother Landen Lee dropped over 5 seconds. Sophie Nichols dropped 1.8 seconds from her personal best 25 Free; Jayden Repak not only went his personal best in the 500 Free, but made yet another Florida Age Group Champ’s (FLAGS) qualifying time; TJ Rodriguez went a personal best in the 25 Breast; Savannah Rude popped out five personal best times during the meet; Isabella Salgado had a 6+ second drop in the 200 Back; Autumn Steele dropped an amazing 15+ seconds in her 25 Free; Maddie Stenberg dropped a big 6+ seconds in her 50 Free; Chance Tirheimer dropped a whopping 31 seconds in his 200 IM, while brother Logan Tirheimer dropped 15 of his own in the 200 IM; Lea Visher had a great 100 Fly shaving 6+ seconds from her best time; Henry Walz lopped a big 18+ seconds from his 500 Free.
These were only a few examples of the great swims CVST had all weekend and what a way to cap it all off but to bring home their 5th Team Spirit Award in as many years. Congratulations to everyone who swam and cheered the team on!
