FAST SWIMMERS ACHIEVE 358 LIFETIME BESTS AT SEASON FINALE
Anaheim, CA -- FAST swimmers achieved an astounding 358 lifetime best times at the Orange Committee Meet, February 21-22, 2026! Results included 34 new USA Swimming National Age Group Motivational Times:
- 9 New B times
- 25 new BB times
Forty-eight swimmers achieved lifetime bests in all of their races. Special congratulations to Seungwoo Bae, River Cho, Nathan Choi, Aubrey Dippold, Zachary Garcia, Reeve Girod, Jackie Hua, Jerry Jiang, Woosung Jo, Mateo Jimenez, Javier Kikawa, Joaquin Kikawa, Lucia Kikawa, Allison Kim, Brandon Kim, Dongjoon Kim, Ezekiel Kim, Wilton Le, Ryan Lee, Ishah Ramirez, Karis Ramirez, Annette Ryu, Ayla Shields, Austin Villanueva, and Matthew Zajc!
The largest time improvement of the meet for the girls was posted by Norah Chowtham who cut an incredible 35.67 seconds off of her time in the 200 Free. Her final time of 3:28.39 earned 4th place overall. The largest time improvement of the meet for the boys was posted by Matthew Zajc with his astounding drop of 30.81 seconds in the 200 IM. His time of 3:12.57 earned 5th place overall.
Monster drops were commonplace for FAST swimmers at this meet! Additional improvements of 10 seconds or more were achieved by:
- Kei Chen - 50 Breast (-16.83), 50 Fly (-13.55)
- Nathan Choi - 100 IM (-17.26)
- Aubrey Dippold - 100 IM (-19.11), 50 Fly (-10.41)
- Emma Espiritu - 200 Free (-21.54)
- Valentina Flores - 200 IM (-18.67)
- Reeve Girod - 200 Free (-13.07 and a new BB time)
- Nathan Ju - 200 Free (-17.13)
- Noah Jung - 100 IM (-11.74 and a new B time)
- Allison Kim - 200 Free (-14.09 and a new BB time)
- Parker Kim - 100 IM (-14.95 and a new B time)
- Emerson Lee - 100 Free (-23.46)
- Reagan Lee - 200 IM (-16.38)
- Jordan Lin - 100 IM (-20.98)
- Evelyn Liu - 50 Back (-11.21)
- Wyatt McLean - 100 Breast (-12.17)
- Harrison Nagamoto - 100 IM (-12.25)
- Elizabeth Nordin - 200 Free (-11.12 and a new B time)
- Liam Park - 50 Fly (-12.87)
- Ayla Shields - 1000 IM (-11.36)
- Aiden Villanueva - 200 Free (-14.93)
- Austin Villanueva - 200 Free (-13.71)
- Hannah Zajc - 200 IM (-12.87)
Additional swimmers who achieved lifetime bests were Rocco Alvarino, Chase Angderson, Aria Asavasumrid, Chelsea Badral, Samuel Bettfreund, Jayden Choe, Eagan Chan, Starry Cho, Kyle Chong, Laiora Cohen, Lauren Cruz, Xavier Cruz, Lucy Delgado, Annaliese Do, Espen Do, Connor Edwards, Leandro Espiritu, Rylann Glidewell, Amelia Hong, Vera Kwan, Jonathan Kang, Kaitlyn Kao, Elijah Kim, Emily Kim, Lucas Kim, Eugene Lee, Sawyer Le, Jamie Lee, Jayden Lee, Sophia Lee, Ji Yu Lim, Penny Maciel, Shereen Madi, Olivia Maldonado, Calah McLean, Sarah Militaru, Madison Nagamoto, Liam No, Jennifer Noh, Alannah O'Connor, Elise Pa, Audrey Paragas, Jisoo Park, Bradwell Phung, Ashley Sanchez, Austin Sattler, Ethan Sattler, Adrienne Sayao, Emma Shue, Ryan Suk, Chloey Swanson, Milan Tran, Sophia Vazquez, Allan Webber Arias, Alice Woodward, Lucas Zhang, and Luwen Zhang.
What a fantastic winter season finale meet!
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