County Wrapup

Benicia Stingrays

Congratulations to all of our Stingray County Qualifiers!  The season is now officially over!  It was such a long hot weekend.  The T-shirts are an odd mustard yellow color.  There were stinging wasps in camp.  AND it was Coach Miguel's birthday AND we had a great weekend of swims AND two team records were broken!

 

For those of you wondering, between 40-50 teams compete at County Championships every year.  This is about 10 times the number of teams that compete at our League Meet.  County includes rec teams from all of Contra Costa County,  Solano County, and American Canyon.  The Walnut Creek and Lamorinda area are abundant with powerhouse teams.  You must swim a qualifying (gold) time to compete at this meet and this is utimately the goal of many rec swimmers.  County Meet is divided over two days.  The morning swims are preliminaries.  The top 10 finishers make it to the championship finals in the afternoon.  The next 10 finishers make it to the consolation finals in the afternoon.  

 

Teams are scored based on the number of entries they have.  There are 3 divisions. Division 1 teams have the most entries and division 3 teams have the fewest entries.  

 

Our  Individual County Qualifiers included

  • 6/Unders:  Taylor Meaders and Memphis Vargas
  • 7/8's:  Miles Shaw
  • 11/12's: Apollo Ambrose, Caden Clements, and Valerie Vargas
  • 13/14's:  Ava Ambrose, Evan Magno, and Conor Smith
  • 15/18's:  Claire Smith and Justin Magno

 

Our  Relay Qualifiers included

  • 11/12's:  Apollo Ambrose, Declan Buresh, Caden Clements, and Kieran Smith
  • 13/14's:  Ava Ambrose, Grace Blankenship, Amelee Freytag, and Naya Salindong
  • 15/18's:  Mason Godden, Nolan Kennedy, Justin Magno, Ben Thomas, and Luca Vitale 

 

Highlights of the meet  included

  • Memphis Vargas dropped almost 4 seconds in butterfly prelims to qualify for the championship round.  He dropped another second in his afternoon swim and finished fourth overall!!!  Way to go Memphis!  
  • Valerie Vargas qualified for the championship round for both back and fly and crushed her team record in backstroke.
  • Apollo Ambrose qualified for consolation finals in both breast and fly.
  • Caden Clements qualified for championship finals in both breast and back in his first-ever County Meet!
  • Ava Ambrose qualified for consolation finals in breast.
  • Evan Magno scored the most overall points for the team and qualified for both breast and back championship finals. 
  • 11/12 Boys Relay broke the team record in the freestyle relay!  

 

Here are the Team Scores, Individual High Point Scores, and Overall Individual Results!

 

Great job swimmers and thank you coaches!!!!