Upcoming Stars Lead Tsunamis in Dothan!

Up and Coming PCST Stars Have Great Showing at Wiregrass Invitational in Dothan!

We may have only had 10 total swimmers in the Dothan meet over the weekend, but they sure did a great job!  The Tsunamis were led by a couple of young swimmers in Hannah Retherford (2nd overall) and Fallon Gelsleichter (5th overall), who are quickly becoming veterans of the team in their early years.  Both girls received high point trophies for their great overall scores from the meet and were joined by two new PCST stars, Luke Ligas and Sarah Kate Paine in their efforts to take home hardware! 

Luke (10), only swam one day at the meet and still managed to rack up enough points to finish 8th overall in the 10 & Under boys.  Sarah Kate has been on the team for over a year now and is quickly becoming one of our best young Tsunami swimmers!  She scored many points in the 8 & Under girls division to finish with a 6th place trophy overall!  Anytime 40% of your team comes away from a meet with trophies, which means Coach Sarah must have gotten those kids fired up!

That extra encouragement and individual attention from Coach Sarah helped many of our new Tsunamis gain valuable experience at the always popular Dothan Meet.  Our other 6 swimmers have only swum either a few meets or none at all and they were incredible!!  I would like to congratulate these swimmers on their fantastic swims from the weekend.  There were many time drops, some new swimmers scoring points for the team as well as all-around great efforts from everyone.  Way to go Tsunamis!

Terrific Swims in Dothan!
Valynn Bagwell (9): 100 Back (18th), 100 IM (19th)
Will Bagwell (8): 25 Free (10th), 50 Back (11th)
Anastasia Davidenko (8): 50 Breast (7th), 25 Fly (8th), 25 Free (10th), 50 Free (10th)
Croix Richardt (8): 50 Back (15th), 25 Free (18th)
Olivia Woodie (10): 100 Back (12th), 100 IM (14th)
MacKenzie Mayer (9): 50 Breast (13th), 100 Breast (15th)
Luke Ligas (10): 100 Breast (4th), 100 Free (5th), 50 Back (6th), 200 Free (6th), 50 Fly (7th)
Sarah Kate Paine (8): 100 IM (3rd), 50 Free (4th), 25 Free (5th), 100 Free (5th), 25 Breast (5th), 25 Fly (5th), 50 Back (6th)
Fallon Gelsleichter (12): 50 Breast (4th), 100 Breast (4th), 100 Back (5th), 100 Fly (5th), 100 IM (5th), 100 Free (6th), 50 Back (6th), 50 Fly (6th), 50 Free (7th), 200 Free (7th)
Hannah Retherford (11): 50 Back (1st), 50 Free (2nd), 100 Free (2nd), 200 Free (2nd), 100 Back (2nd), 50 Fly (2nd), 100 Fly (2nd), 100 IM (2nd), 100 Breast (6th), 50 Breast (7th)

New Age Group All-Time Top 10 Swims!
Hannah Retherford 11-12 Girls
100 Free 8th (1:00.82)
100 IM 8th (1:11.19)

Next Up for the Tsunamis!
Don't forget to sign up for the CMSA Meet in Mobile, AL!!  The deadline to sign up is fast approaching!  There are only a couple of chances left this fall to swim best times, earn big points for Wavemakers and make big jumps on your Tsunami Awards total.  Don't miss out.........sign up today! :)

CATCH THE WAVE!

Coach Jonathan