CVST Has Great Tampa Bay Swim Classic
CVST Has Great Tampa Bay Swim Classic
This year’s Tampa Bay Swim Classic was a great success with fast swims and best times. The 10 & unders swam super fast with Morgan Labella (9) dropping a total of 16.38 seconds and Maddie (Mad Dog Jr.) Stenberg (8), dropping 21.84 seconds total for the meet. The 11&12 year olds showed great improvement with Lea (Vish) Visher (12) dropping a whopping 52.11 seconds total and Cat Salgado (11) dropping 42.29 seconds total in the meet. The 13&Over’s improved time with Henry Walz (15) dropping a mind boggling 269.97 seconds! To top off this record breaking meet Sky Steele (23) dropped 29.55 total seconds.
Other great swims came from:
Talia Bagby (17) swam a solid 400 Freestyle dropping over 39 seconds;
Peyton Balseiro (10) going 2:17.08 for the 100 Breaststroke in his first ever long course meet;
Bodi Burrill (10) dropping over 28 seconds in his 100 Breaststroke;
Kaitlyn Coles (6) cranking out a 1:06 in her first long course 50 Freestyle, while her sister “Smiley” Kylie Coles (8) went a blistering :50.31 in her first 50 Freestyle;
Julia Cox (11) also had a great 50 Freestyle breaking the 40 second barrier and going :39.51, while brother Stephen Cox (9) went a swift 1:38.05 in his 100 Backstroke;
Ava Edwards largest drop came in the 100 Freestyle taking off over 4 seconds;
Sam Forman (12) chopped over 37 seconds from his previous best in the 50 Breaststroke while his sister Abby Forman (15) went a :31.7 in the 50 Free;
Sophia (Bubbles) Hasara (14) took over 40 seconds off her best 1500 Freestyle time;
KK (7) dropped over 2.5 seconds in the 50 Freestyle while brother Matthew (9) went a 1:00.9 in his 50 Butterfly.
Isabella Herrera (6) swam her first long course meet going a blistering 1:17.8 in the 50 Freestyle;
Katie Labella (12) dropped in all seven events she swam for the meet
Alex (Pony) Myers (5) had three really fast swims in her first ever ling course meet;
Sophie (That Girl) Nichols (8) swam a smokin’ 200 Freestyle going 3:39.56,
Peyton Osborne (5) swam a great 50 Freestyle in her first long course meet;
Maddie (Major) Polk (9) was on fire in her 50 Butterfly going a 1:01.45 and younger sister Molly (Minor) Polk (7) had a blazing 50 Freestyle going 1:01.12, while youngest sister Mckinnley (Mini) Polk put the fires out with her 1:17.35 50 Backstroke;
Jayden Repak (11) dropped over 3.5 seconds in his 400 Freestyle;
Isabella Salgado (14) had a good first ever long course 200 Butterfly;
Ben Smith (9) had a great 50 Breaststoke pulling out a 1:25.8;
Connor (Big C) Smith (8) had a big 50 Freestyle stroking to a :50.94; while big sister McKenna (Big Mac) Smith (9) killed on her 200 Freesytyle going a 3:26.99;
Autumn (Winter) Steele (6) cranked out a quick :56.73 in her 50 Freestyle;
Hadley Stenberg (7) swam a great 50 Freestyle, 1:12.95, in her first long course meet; and
Melissa (the Waitress) Umholtz (8) had a great meet, especially the 50 Freestyle at :53.22.
This year’s amazing meet is now in the books and we need to congratulate all of the swimmers on some fast swimming and we need to thank all of the CVST Parents, Officials, Volunteers and Coaches who put on a great put the meet on, without all of your support we couldn’t pull it off.
