PCST 1st Place Visiting Team in Tallahassee!

Tsunamis Prove To Be The Top Visiting Team at ATAC Meet!

We sure have had a lot of great meets lately!  Although we have been traveling a lot and have more great swims to tell you about coming up, I didn't want to let this amazing Tallahassee meet pass by without getting it's due credit!  We had so many fantastic swims that I want to make sure everyone knows how awesome our Tsunamis were.  

As many of you know, the ATAC meets always hold a special place in my heart because of my years coaching there as a young budding coach as well as my many years living in Tallahassee.  While our main goal was simply to swim fast at this meet rather than putting a major focus on trying to win the visiting team award, we ended up achieving both at the same time!  And with this being my last ATAC meet as Head Coach of PCST, I couldn't be prouder of how great our Tsunamis competed!  Not only did we smash a bunch of team records and new all-time top 10 swims, but we also added new Southeastern cuts while coming home as the best team in the meet (outside of the home team ATAC of course).  :)

Tsunamis Break 18 Team Records In Tally!
Boy oh boy were we full of records at this meet!  Alex Fulton continued his season long assault on the 8 & under boys' records, while Kyla Hallam and Chad McGuire blasted some 13-14 records.  Maddie Campbell broke her first EVER team record for the 11-12 girls, Hannah Retherford took down the legendary Victoria Hove backstroke records in 15-16 girls, and Jonathan Ratliff broke his first of what we expect to be many new all-time marks for the 17 & older boys.

8 & Under Boys New Records
Alex Fulton 50 Free (36.42) breaks A. Fulton (37.42) from 2013
Alex Fulton 100 Free (1:20.21) breaks A. Fulton (1:23.54) from 2013
Alex Fulton 200 Free (3:02.00) breaks A. Fulton (3:05.99) from 2013
Alex Fulton 50 Fly (44.47) breaks A. Fulton (44.82) from 2013
Alex Fulton 100 Fly (1:47.13) breaks A. Fulton (1:49.12) from 2013

11-12 Girls New Records
Maddie Campbell 100 Back (1:15.94) breaks N. Blais (1:16.39) from 2001

13-14 Girls New Records
Kyla Hallam 200 Breast (2:54.21) breaks K. Hallam (2:55.24) from 2012
Kyla Hallam 200 Breast (2:51.97) breaks K. Hallam (2:54.21) from 2013
Kyla Hallam 200 Free (2:15.98) breaks A. Talkington (2:18.11) from 2013
Kyla Hallam 200 Fly (2:36.66) breaks K. Hallam (2:37.78) from 2013
Kyla Hallam 200 Fly (2:36.46) breaks K. Hallam (2:36.66) from 2013

13-14 Boys New Records
Chad McGuire 100 Breast (1:16.38) breaks J. Darnell (1:17.16) from 1994
Chad McGuire 200 Breast (2:44.69) breaks C. McGuire (2:47.51) from 2013

15-16 Girls New Records
Hannah Retherford 200 Back (2:31.24) breaks Victoria Hove (2:32.87) from 2010
Hannah Retherford 100 Back (1:09.60) breaks Victoria Hove (1:11.72) from 2010

Senior Boys New Records
Jonathan Ratliff 400 Free (4:14.71) breaks Michael Duderstadt (4:17.00) from 2012
Jonathan Ratliff 200 Fly (2:11.03) breaks Michael Duderstadt (2:14.62) from 2012
Jonathan Ratliff 200 Fly (2:07.26) breaks Jonathan Ratliff (2:11.03) from 2013

13 Different PCST Swimmers Earn New All-Time Top 10 Swims!
You know I love this category!  I love it because no matter how fast it gets, we just keep chopping away at it every single meet.  Congrats to the following swimmers who are now in the all-time top 10 for the best swims in team history.  A special congrats goes to Maddie Campbell for being the youngest swimmer this year to qualify for a top 10 swim at athe tender age of 12 years old!

**To see an updated list of the All-Time Top 10 swims for all ages and for each age group, go to our website and check out the "Team Rankings" section.

Girls New All-Time Top 10 Swims
100 Free: Kyla Hallam 6th (1:02.82), Caitlin Myers 8th (1:03.06)
200 Free: Caitlin Myers 3rd (2:14.85), Kalanne Krause 4th (2:15.85), Kyla Hallam 5th (2:15.98)
400 Free: Caitlin Myers 9th (4:56.47)
1500 Free: Taylor Wilder 8th (20:01.86)
50 Back: Maddie Campbell 5th (35.22)
100 Back: Hannah Retherford 1st (1:09.60), Taylor Wilder 4th (1:12.43), Alexis Hall 9th (1:15.87)
200 Back: Hannah Retherford 2nd (2:31.24), Kalanne Krause 4th (2:38.56)
200 Breast: Kyla Hallam 5th (2:51.97)
100 Fly: Hannah Retherford 5th (1:10.70)
200 Fly: Kyla Hallam 2nd (2:36.25), Fallon Gelsleichter 6th (2:38.56)
200 IM: Kalanne Krause 3rd (2:35.34)

Boys New All-Time Top 10 Swims
1500 Free: Liam Alexander 8th (18:26.30)
100 Back: Casey Pridgen 9th (1:06.89)
200 Back: Alex Phlegar 9th (2:27.48)
200 Breast: Chad McGuire 8th (2:44.69)
100 Fly: Jonathan Ratliff 3rd (59.48)
200 Fly: Jonathan Ratliff 1st (2:07.26)

PCST Swimmers Win 16 Individual Events at ATAC!
We had an amazing 8 different swimmers win 16 individual events at the ATAC meet!  Even if this were simply a dual meet with ATAC, that would have been an amazing accomplishment..  But when you throw all of the other very competitive teams into the mix, you get a very tough meet.  Well done to each of the following swimmers who won individual events!  Unfortunately, I do not have the overall high point scores in front of me right now, but I do know that our swimmers like Alex Fulton, Ella Hicks, Alex Phlegar and Jonathan Ratliff all finished either 1st or 2nd in their age group for high point.  Great job Tsunamis!