GPAC and Dothan Meets Bring Great Swims for PCST!

PCST Brings Home Hardware From Dothan Meet and Great Swims From GPAC Meet!

In back to back weekends, the PCST squad was split up into two fantastic meets.  On the front end of our consecutive meets fell the GPAC competition in Pensacola where our senior swimmers really showed up and swam well in spite of being tired and having the County Championships the day before.  To finish up our double meet schedule, our awesome Age Group and Novice swimmers came home from Dothan with a 3rd Place Visiting Team trophy!!  Congratulations to all of our Tsunamis who swam best times and had fantastic races.  Here are some of the highlights from those two fast weekends of swimming.

Tsunamis Finish As 3rd Place Visiting Team in Dothan!
Anytime our Age Group and Novice swimmers go to a meet on their own without the seniors, they always rise to the occassion!  In spite of not having a good chunk of our team, our young Tsunamis showed just how awesome they are by finishing right up there with very tough ATAC and ECS squads!  Here are the team scores so you can see how close it was.

Dothan Dolphins Swim Team (DDST, home team)................1,184 points
Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club (ATAC)..................................848.50 points
Unattached Emerald Coast Swimming (UN-ECS).....................646 points
Panama City Swim Team (PCST)............................................620 points (3rd Place Visiting Team)
Eufaula Waverunners (EWR)...................................................373 points

Marisa Ashley, Fallon Gelsleichter and 7 Other Tsunamis Bring Home High Point Trophies!
Marisa Ashley is proving week in and week out that she is one of the best 8 & Under swimmers in the entire Southeastern Region!  Fallon Gelsleichter showed once again why she loves the Dothan Meet by winning the high point for the 2nd year in a row!  A special congratulations also goes out to Isa Gobel for completing the 1-2 punch in the 8 & Under Girls by getting a very impressive 2nd place overall, and Luke Maggiore who won his first ever high point trophy with an incredible 5th place finish in the 8 & Under Boys!  Here is a complete list of our swimmers who brought home the individual hardware.

1st Place - Marisa Ashley (8 & U Girls); Fallon Gelsleichter (13-14 Girls)
2nd Place - Isa Gobel (8 & U Girls)
3rd Place - Kari Troia (11-12 Girls)
4th Place - Kyla Hallam (11-12 Girls)
5th Place - Luke Maggiore (8 & U Boys), Nico Gobel (11-12 Boys)
6th Place - Michaela Ashley (13-14 Girls)
7th Place - Kathryn Annette-McKinney (8 & U Girls)

PCST Relays Break All-Time Dothan Meet Records!
The fall meet in Dothan has been going on for many many years!  Great teams like ATAC, PCST, ECS, DDST have been attending these meets each year, making it that much more difficult to break a meet record.  Well guess what??  Our 8 & Under, 11-12 and 13-14 Girls went ahead and backed up what I've been saying all season by breaking 4 total meet relay records!  We really do have an incredible group of swimmers coming up through the ranks!

Here are our Meet Record Breakers at the Dothan Meet!
8 & Under Girls 100 Medley Relay (Isa Gobel, Kalani Dempsey, Kathryn-Annette McKinney, Marisa Ashley)
8 & Under Girls 100 Free Relay (Isa Gobel, Marisa Ashley, Kathryn-Annette McKinney, Ella Hicks)
11-12 Girls 200 Medley Relay (Theryn Compoc, Kari Troia, Kyla Hallam, Olivia Taylor)
13-14 Girls 200 Medley Relay (Sophia Dorr, Fallon Gelsleichter, Hannah Retherford, Tyler Miles)

Here are our Swimmers Who Won Individual Events in Dothan!
Marisa Ashley (8 & Under Girls) 25 Free, 50 Free, 100 Free, 25 Back, 50 Back, 25 Breast, 50 Breast, 25 Fly, 50 Fly)
Isa Gobel (8 & Under Girls) 100 IM
Kari Troia (11-12 Girls) 100 Breast
Fallon Gelsleichter (13-14 Girls) 500 Free, 200 Back, 100 Breast, 200 Fly, 200 IM
Hannah Retherford (13-14 Girls) 100 Back

Ashley and Duderstadt Break PCST Records!
Our younger and older swimmers decided to share the spotlight in the record category with each breaking one team record at each meet.  At the Dothan Meet, Marisa Ashley broke a VERY difficult 100 Free record previously held by PCST star Amelia Talkington, while Michael Duderstadt broke his own 200 Breast record by 0.08.  Hey..........a record is a record!!!  :)  Congratulations to both of you for proving why you are two of the best Tsunamis we have ever had!

Marisa Ashley 8 & U Girls 100 Free (1:15.01) breaks Amelia Talkington (1:16.29) from 2009
Michael Duderstadt 15-16 Boys 200 Breast (2:11.23) breaks Michael Duderstadt (2:11.31) from 2011

4 Tsunamis Improve the All-Time Top 10 List!
This is particularly exciting because we will be getting all sorts of fun new updates to the All-Time Top 10 list over the next few weeks as the high school post season begins and the GPAC Fall Championship meet concludes the first half of the short course season for many of our Tsunamis.  So for us to have new all-time top 10 swims in the middle of the season is hopefully a very exciting precursor to what's coming our way in the next month!

Taylor Wilder 100 Back 8th (1:04.96)
Jamie McDonald 400 IM 10th (4:59.84)
JD Clutch 50 Back 5th (26.16)
Michael Duderstadt  50 Back 6th (26.17), 200 Breast 4th (2:11.23)

**For a complete look at this list, go to the top toolbar and click on "Team Rankings" on the front page of our website

11 Tsunamis Add New Times to the Age Group All-Time Top 10 List!
Yes..........once again............more times to improve our age group top 10 lists.  It's so much fun to see just how much harder it is now to get into the top 10 all time for your age group than it was 5 years ago.  And yet, here with are with swimmers rising to the challenge week in and week out!   If you see your name below, go to our "Team Rankings" section to find out exactly what place you are in your new events and start setting your sights on those few swimmers ahead of you still!  If you don't see your name then keep working hard at as many practices as possible and you too will see your name on this list!

8 & Under Girls: Marisa Ashley, Isa Gobel, Kathryn-Annette McKinney
11-12 Girls: Kari Troia, Kyla Hallam
13-14 Girls: Fallon Gelsleichter
15-16 Girls: Taylor Wilder
15-16 Boys: Michael Duderstadt, Jonathan Ratliff
Senior Girls: Jamie McDonald
Senior Boys: JD Clutch

Next up for the Tsunamis are the three high school championship meets.  Here's a schedule of those meets so you can follow them and cheer on our top high school swimmers.  Then, at the GPAC Fall Championships, Nov 18-20, you can get in and show us yourself just how hard you've been working and how fast you've been getting!

District Championships (Mosley, Arnold, Rutherford): Friday, October 28th (Pensacola)
District Championships (Bay): Friday, October 28th (Panama City Beach)

Regional Championships (Mosley, Arnold, Rutherford): Thursday, November 3rd (Jacksonville; Cecil Field House)
Regional Championships (Bay): Thursday, November 3rd (Jacksonville, Bolles)

State Championships (Mosley, Arnold, Rutherford): Saturday, November 12th (Orlando)
State Championships (Bay): Friday, November 11th (Orlando)

CATCH THE WAVE!

Coach Jonathan