Fantastic Season-Ending Meet at Las Vegas Super Finals
Las Vegas, NV -- Twenty-eight FAST swimmers traveled to Las Vegas to compete in the Sandpipers of Nevada Super Finals. The meet was a great success with an amazing 125 lifetime best times achieved, including 49 new National Age Group time standards.
- New AAA times - 4
- New AA times - 15
- New A times - 9
- New BB times - 10
- New B times - 11
Six swimmers posted lifetime bests in all of their races. This was extra impressive as it was the first travel meet for all 6 of them! Congratulations to Laiora Cohen, Sophia Lee, Kaitlyn Nguyen, Jennifer (Nyunseo) Noh, Nicholas Trobaugh, and Alice Woodward!
In addition to the 100% crew, 21 swimmers achieved lifetime bests throughout the weekend. Congratulations to Nataly Agnew, Ellie Guayan, Aarya Halankar, Bree Heath, Autumn Johnston, Gregory Kim, Yena Liu, Hunter Lavold, Aileen Lee, Bryce Pak, Hudson Pak, Mykel Park, Victoria Ruge, Amin Shah, Finn Shook, Erin Soo Hoo, Miranda Stocco-Guia, Cadis Wang, Declan Wang, Cora Woodward, and Olivia Woodward!
Eight swimmers scored points in individual events by earning Finals swims. The * indicates lifetime best time in Prelims, Finals, or both.
- Ellie Guayan - 200 Free (8th)*; 50 Back (5th)*
- Autumn Johnston - 50 Breast (7th)*
- Bryce Pak - 50 Back (1st)*; 100 Free (3rd); 200 IM (3rd)*; 50 Back (2nd)*; 50 Free (3rd)*
- Mykel Park - 100 Back (8th); 50 Fly (6th)*
- Victoria Ruge - 100 Breast (1st)*; 50 Breast (1st); 50 Fly (6th); 200 Breast (3rd)*
- Finn Shook - 100 Back (7th)*; 200 Free (4th)*; 50 Breast (6th)*; 50 Free (8th)*
- Erin Soo Hoo - 100 Back (13th)*; 100 Breast (12th)*
- Olivia Woodward - 50 Free (8th)
Special congratulations to FAST's two event champions:
- Bryce Pak - 12&U Boys 100 Back
- Victoria Ruge - 12&U Girls 100 Breast; 12&U Girls 50 Breast
Victoria's time of 1:12.26 in the 12&U Girls 100 Breast was an improvement of 0.46 seconds, resetting her own FAST Team Record which she set in October of this year!
A shout out to a few outstanding FAST relays which raced to Top 3 finishes:
- 2nd Place - 12&U Girls 200 Free Relay team of Olivia Woodward, Ellie Guayan, Victoria Ruge, and Katie Ho (1:54.03)
- 2nd Place - 12&U Boys 200 Free Relay team of Mykel Park, Finn Shook, Gregory Kim, and Bryce Pak (1:52.77)
- 3rd Place - 12&U Boys 400 Free Relay team of Finn Shook, Mykel Park, Gregory Kim, and Bryce Pak (4:06.48)
The largest time drop of the meet for the boys was posted by Delcan Wang in the 200 Free. His time of 2:23.67 was an improvement of 7.22 seconds and new AA time!
The largest time drop of the meet for the girls was posted by Aileen Lee in the 100 Back. Her time of 1:28.08 was an tremendous improvement of 25.36 seconds!
Complete meet results can be viewed
here.
What a great finish to the year! We look forward to what 2025 has in store for FAST swimmers!
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