Tsunamis Of All Ages Post Incredible In-Season Times at Coast Aquatics Long Course Meet!
For the second straight year, PCST has been fortunate enough to be a "visiting" team at our home pool thanks to Coast Aquatics hosting their long course meet here in Panama City Beach at Frank Brown Park. The best part about it is that Coast did a fantastic job of bringing in a large number of swimmers from outside of the area, resulting in new faces and fun competitive races for all of our swimmers. It's not often you get to race at home while competing against a large number of swimmers you normally do not get to race with any frequency.
The result was not only a 3rd place overall team finish in a highly contested meet, but more importantly a ton of great swims, team records and new Southeastern qualifying times. As many parents know, May can be a tough time to travel and train with school, end of the year tests, activities, etc. This is simply all the more reason why we were thrilled with all of the great swims from our Tsunamis. Awesome job guys!!
Tsunamis Finish 3rd Overall In A Great Team Competition!
Although our main focus at this meet was more on trying to post fast swims rather than scoring the points needed in order to win the overall meet, I must say that I am super proud of the impressive overall team finish we had! Our mission was accomplished as we had best times in every age group. However, for us to also finish 3rd overall only behind two incredible teams and ahead of two other incredible teams is nothing to pass quickly by. In a meet that had over 450 swimmers competing from 16 different teams, I'd say 3rd is pretty darn good. Congratulations to all Tsunamis who helped score team points and who helped encourage one another; bringing home yet another team trophy to add to the collection.
Overall Team Scores
Huntsville Swim Association (HSA).................765 points
Chattahoochee Gold (GOLD)..........................646 points
Panama City Swim Team (PCST)..................610 points
Coast Aquatics (CA)........................................586.5 points
City of Mobile Swim Association (CMSA) .......509 points
Fulton Leads Tsunamis With 5 New Team Records! 13 Total For the Team!
One of the final age groups to withstand the onslaught of team record breakers over the last 7 years has been the 8 & Under boys. Well............they have fallen! The young rising Tsunami star, Alex Fulton, broke 5 new PCST records at the Coast Meet and is not slowing down one bit. Speaking of rising stars...............Nico Gobel in the 11-12 Boys broke his first 3 individual team records ever, proving that he is one of the best to ever come out of the entire program! Sprinkle on there a small handfull of other records from Amelia Talkington, Kyla Hallam and Chad McGuire, and PCST ended up with 13 overall records at the meet! Not bad for an in-season competition!
8 & Under Boys
Alex Fulton 100 Free (1:23.54) breaks Alex Fulton (1:24.06) from 2013
Alex Fulton 200 Free (3:05.99) breaks Christopher Duncan (3:07.54) from 2001
Alex Fulton 50 Fly (44.82) breaks John Greer (46.97) from 2000
Alex Fulton 100 Fly (1:49.12) breaks Alex Fulton (1:50.09) from 2013
Alex Fulton 200 IM (3:37.82) breaks Alex Fulton (3:41.70) from 2013
11-12 Boys
Nico Gobel 50 Free (28.89) breaks Kevin Faulhaber (28.96) from 2004
Nico Gobel 100 Free (1:03.43) breaks Mikey Faulhaber (1:03.93) from 2008
Nico Gobel 200 IM (2:38.00) breaks Jonathan Ratliff (2:42.46) from 2009
13-14 Girls
Amelia Talkington 200 Free (2:18.11) breaks Kalanne Krause (2:18.13) from 2011
Kyla Hallam 100 Fly (1:09.91) breaks Kalanne Krause (1:10.74) from 2012
Kyla Hallam 200 Fly (2:37.78) breaks Carlee McDonald (2:44.24) from 2007
13-14 Boys
Chad McGuire 50 Breast (36.14) breaks Chad McGuire (36.80) from 2013
Chad McGuire 200 Breast (2:47.51) breaks Chad McGuire (2:49.08) from 2013
New PCST All-Time Top 10 Swims
The best of the best! Don't get used to these times because they are going to get DESTROYED later this summer! However, for just a minute, think about it............how impressive is it that our All-Time Top 10 list continues to get completely rewritten each year, and yet here we are already breaking into the list with TONS of swims this early in the season? Great job everyone!
New Girls All-Time Top 10 Swims
50 Free: Kyla Hallam 3rd (28.69)
100 Free: Caitlin Myers 7th (1:03.15), Amelia Talkington 8th (1:03.42), Kyla Hallam 9th (1:03.66), Taylor Wilder 10th (1:03.74)
200 Free: Caitlin Myers 5th (2:17.06), Amelia Talkington 7th (2:18.11)
800 Free: Amelia Talkington 8th (10:12.66)
50 Back: Maddie Campbell 7th (36.06)
100 Back: Amelia Talkington 10th (1:16.01)
200 Back: Taylor Wilder 2nd (2:31.60), Kalanne Krause 4th (2:39.51), Alexis Hall 9th (2:42.69)
50 Fly: Kyla Hallam 7th (32.96)
100 Fly: Kyla Hallam 3rd (1:09.91)
200 Fly: Kyla Hallam 2nd (2:37.78), Fallon Gelsleichter 7th (2:41.77)
200 IM: Kyla Hallam 4th (2:36.46), Taylor Wilder 5th (2:38.35)
400 IM: Kyla Hallam 6th (5:38.71), Amelia Talkington 10th (5:42.65)
New Boys All-Time Top 10 Swims
200 Free: Michael Duderstadt 3rd (1:59.47)
800 Free: Liam Alexander 9th (9:45.61)
200 Back: Michael Duderstadt 4th (2:15.59)
50 Breast: Chad McGuire 9th (36.14)
200 Breast: Chad McGuire 9th (2:47.51)
Nico Gobel Leads Tsunamis With First Ever Overall High Point Award!
While he has come VERY close to taking down the overall title many times at meets all across the area, young Tsunami, Nico Gobel, finally did something he's dreamed of doing for a while. He won the overall high point award for the 11-12 Boys! Now that the accomplishment has been reached, it's very exciting to think about all of the new "first evers" Nico has coming his way in the 13-14 age group. Congratulations to all of the other awesome swimmers below who showed that they too are among the best in the region in their age group!
8 & Under Girls: Ella Hicks (4th)
8 & Under Boys: Alex Fulton (3rd), Luke Maggiore (4th)
10 & Under Girls: Marisa Ashley (3rd)
11-12 Boys:
Nico Gobel (1st)
8 Tsunamis Win Individual Events At Coast Meet!
With all the teams coming down from Atlanta, Hunstville, Mobile, Louisiana, etc................they brought great competition with them in each age group. That simply made it that much tougher to pull off an individual event victory at the Coast Meet. Great job to each of the 8 swimmers below who won individual events over the weekend!
Alex Fulton (8&U Boys) - 50 Back
Marisa Ashley (10&U Girls) - 200 Free, 400 Free
Isa Gobel (10&U Girls) - 100 Breast
Chloe Griskie (10&U Girls) - 100 Free
Nico Gobel (11-12 Boys) - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 50 Breast, 100 Breast, 200 IM
Chad McGuire (13-14 Boys) - 200 Breast
Michael Duderstadt (Senior Boys) - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 Back, 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM
Jonathan Ratliff (Senior Boys) - 800 Free, 200 Fly
An Amazing 21 PCST Swimmers Earned 38 New Southeasten Cuts!!!
I told you it was an incredible weekend! The new SES cuts just kept flying in like fish jumping into a fisherman's boat! A HUGE congratulations goes out to all of the swimmers below who have either earned their way onto the PCST Championship team in Nashville this July, or have added new events to their already impressive list of swims. We very well could have the largest most powerful team in PCST history in Nashville, but we're not done adding to the list just yet!
New SES Cuts!
Isa Gobel (10&U G) - 50 Fly
Natalie McKenzie (10&U G) - 100 Back, 100 Breast
Alex Fulton (10&U B) - 200 Free, 100 Breast, 50 Fly, 200 IM
Noah Vaden (10&U B) - 50 Free
Jordan Vahabzadeh (10&U B) - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 50 Fly
Maddie Campbell (11-12 G) - 50 Free
Sarah Kate Paine (11-12 G) - 50 Fly
Sean Adams (11-12 B) - 50 Free, 200 Free
Ethan Andes (11-12 B) - 50 Breast
Ben Hicks (11-12 B) - 100 Back, 100 Fly
Jack Lehnhardt (11-12 B) - 50 Fly, 100 Fly
Kyla Hallam (13-14 G) - 200 Fly
Amelia Talkington (13-14 G) - 100 Back, 400 IM
Chad McGuire (13-14 B) - 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 Back, 200 IM
Alex Phlegar (13-14 B) - 200 Free, 200 IM
Cole Tillman (13-14 B) - 50 Free
Caitlin Myers (Senior G) - 200 Free
Hannah Retherford (Senior G) - 50 Free, 100 Free
Taylor Wilder (Senior G) - 100 Breast, 200 IM
Casey Pridgen (Senior B) - 50 Free
Jonathan Ratliff (Senior B) - 100 Back
Awesome job at the meet Tsunamis! We still have some great swims coming our way in Tallahassee for the ATAC meet as well as here in Panama City Beach at our home meet before heading to Nashville for Southeasterns. Stay tuned because just like the summer temperatures here on the beach..........our Tsunamis are just getting warmed up and we're only gonna get hotter!
CATCH THE WAVE!
Coach Jonathan
