Rochester Swim Club Orcas

The Rochester Swim Club ORCAS competed in the 2011 Minnesota Long Course State Championships hosted by Team Foxjet at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center on July 28-31.

The ORCAS swam over 52% best times, Set 22 new individual team records, 23 new team relay records and broke 4 Minnesota State Records. The team of Hannah Baratz (14), Kallyn Barkey (14), Olivia Cook (14), and Michelle Campeau (13) set a new Minnesota State record in the girls 13-14 200 Freestyle Relay (1:50.23) making it the fastest time in the country as well. The team of Kallyn Barkey (14), Olivia Cook (14), Madison Emery (13), & Michelle Campeau (13) established a new Minnesota State record in the 13-14 Girls 800 Free relay (8:52.55). Kallyn Barkey set the new 13-14 200m Freestyle State Record (2:07.10).

The ORCAS 8 & Under boys and Senior boys won their age group with the 11-12 boys and the 13-14 girls capturing 2nd place. The ORCAS finished 3rd over-all behind Aquajets & the Edina Swim Club.

The following swimmers had outstanding performances and were named Swimmers of the meet:

8 & U- Kenzie Below, Thatcher Dowdy & Emily Pawlaski

9-10 – Lexi Freeman, Aidan Shue, Aashish Sridhar & Ella Thompson

11-12 – John Paul Becker, Christian Gostout, Franco Lanzino, Victor Nartovich & Nathaniel Shin

13-14 – Hannah Baratz, Kallyn Barkey, Michelle Campeau, Olivia Cook, Madison Emery Joe Herrli, Anila Mehta & Jason Tri

15 – 16 – John Cima, Nick Cox, Reed Fujan, Nicole Herrli & Lexi Shin.

17 & O – Nikita Dolin, Chris Freeman, Elise Guenther, & Tanner Nimke

Individual Results are as follows:

8 & Under

Chen, Bryan: 7 – 1 Best Time, 1 Top 24 Finish; Below, Kenzie: 8 – 2 Best Times, 1 Top 16 Finish;
Dowdy, Thatcher: 8 – 5 Best Times, 7 Top 3 Finishes, High Point Award Winner; George, Cassidy: 8 – 1 Best Time, 1 Top 16 Finish; Parlette, Grafton: 8 – 1 Best Time, 4 Top 8 Finishes; Pawlaski, Emily: 8 – 3 Best Times, 1 Top 16 Finish; Pfizenmaier, Grant: 8 – 3 Top 16 Finishes; Schultz, Caroline: 8 – 1 Best Time, 2 Top 24 Finishes; Wu, Annie: 8 – 1 Best Time

9-10
Bondoc, Ryan: 9 – 2 Top 16 Finishes; Freeman, Lexi: 9 – 4 Best Times, 3 Top 16 Finishes; Geng, Alice: 9 – 2 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Grimes, Norah: 9 – 2 Best Times, 1 Top 8 Finish; Shue, Aidan: 9 – 7 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Caples, Mara: 10 – 3 Best Times, 1 Top 8 Finish; DeLone, Sarah: 10 – 1 Best Time; Erickson, Meg: 10 – 2 Top 16 Finishes; Kaliappan, Preethi: 10 – 1 Top 8 Finish; Meyer, Monet: 10 – 1 Top 16 Finish; Sridhar, Aashish: 10 – 7 Best Times, 7 Top 8 Finishes; Thompson, Ella: 10 – 7 Best Times, 6 Top 8 Finishes; Wood, Jack: 10 – 1 Best Time, 2 Top 3 Finishes;

11-12
Pfizenmaier, Trevor: 11 – 5 Top 16 Finishes; Pfizenmaier, Zachary: 11 – 1 Best Time, 11 Top 16 Finishes; Shin, Nathaniel: 11 – 6 best times 3 top 16 Finishes; Wood, Lauren: 11 – 1 Best Time, 3 Top 16 Finishes; Alfred, Sophia: 12 – 2 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Becker, John Paul: 12 – 7 Best Times, 6 Top 16 Finishes; Clarke, Maya: 12 – 4 Top 16 Finishes; Cook, Anna: 12 – 1 Best Time, 3 Top 16 Finishes; Dowdy, Gretta: 12 – 1 Best Time, 2 Top 16 Finishes; Gostout, Christian: 12 – 5 Best Times, 10 Top 16 Finishes; Lanzino, Franco: 12 – 4 Best Times, 9 Top 16 Finishes & 1 new Zone qualifying time; Nartovich, Victor: 12 – 6 Best Times, 9 Top 16 Finishes; Ommen, Jack: 12 – 2 Best Times, 6 Top 16 Finishes; Perkins, Erin: 12 – 1 Best Time, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Wright, Kaitlyn: 12 – 1 Best Time, 4 Top 16 Finishes.

13-14
Campeau, Michelle: 13 – 8 Best Times, 7 Top 8 Finishes, 2 State Records; Chen, Ellen: 13 – 1 Top 16 Finish; Cima, William: 13 – 3 Best Times, 5 Top 16 Finishes; Emery, Madison: 13 – 5 Best Times, 5 Top 4 Finishes, 1 New Zone Time, 1 State Record; Hayward, Sam: 13 – 2 Best Times, 7 Top 16 Finishes; Kofler, Alex: 13 – 1 Best Time, 7 Top 16 Finishes, 1 Zone Time; Koplin, Eva: 13 – 1 Top 16 Finish; Baratz, Hannah: 14 – 6 Best Times, 7 Top 8 Finishes,1 State Record, 1 New Zone Time; Barkey, Kallyn: 14 – 7 Best Times, 6 First Place Finishes, 12 Top 4 Finishes, High Point award winner & New State Record Holder in the 200 Free; Chen, Shavonne: 14 – 3 Best Times, 1 Top 16 Finish
Cook, Olivia: 14 - 9 Best Times, 12 Top 16 Finishes, 2 State Record; Cox, Jessalyn: 14 – 2 Best Times
Herrli, Joe: 14 – 4 Best Times, 7 Top 16 Finishes, 1 New Zone Time; Lanzino, Roberta: 14 – 4 Best Times, 1 Top 16 Finish; Mehta, Anila: 14 – 5 Best Times, 1 Top 16 Finish, 1 new Zone qualifying time; Nimke, Scott: 14 – 3 Best Times, 5 Top 16 Finishes; Tri, Jason: 14 – 12 Best Times, 11 top 8 Finishes, 3rd In High Point;

15-16
Becker, Anna: 15 – 2 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Cox, Nicholas: 15 – 5 Best Times, 6 Top 16 Finishes; Koplin, Jack: 15 – 2 Best Times, 5 Top 16 Finishes; Perkins, Erica: 15 – 2 Best Times, 1 Top 8 Finish; Shin, Lexi: 15 – 5 Best Times, 3 Top 16 Finishes, 1 New Zone Time; Cima, John: 16 – 6 Best Times, 10 Top 16 Finishes, 1 New Zone Time; Fujan, Reed: 16 – 10 Best Times, 12 Top 16 Finishes, 1 New Zone Time; Herrli, Nicole: 16 – 5 Best Times, 7 Top 16 Finishes, 1 New Zone Time; Kalwasinski, Lauren: 16 – 4 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Tabatabai, Nina: 16 – 3 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes

17 & O
Dolin, Nikita: 17 – 6 Best Times, 7 Top 16 Finishes; French Krahn, Haley: 17 – 3 Best Times, 7 Top 16 Finishes; Grill, Shannon: 17 – 1 best Time, 2 Top 8 Finishes; Jones, Alex: 17 – 1 Best Time, 1 Top 16 Finish; Miller, Alex: 17 – 2 Best Times, 7 Top 8 Finishes; Nimke, Tanner: 17 –7 Best Times, 11 Top 16 Finishes; Oberholtzer, John: 17 – 4 Best Times, 2 Top 16 Finishes; Tri, Chris: 17 – 6 Best Times, 5 Top 8 Finishes; Aksamit, Claire: 18 – 2 Best Times, 8 Top 16 Finishes; Becher, Willow: 18 – 2 Top 16 Finishes; Freeman, Chris: 18 – 6 Best Times, 11 Top 8 Finishes, High Point Award Winner; Fujan, Caitlin: 18 – 1 Best Time, 9 Top 16 Finishes; Grosbach, Andrew: 18 – 2 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes
Guenther, Elise: 18 – 5 Best Times, 5 Top 8 Finishes; Ricard, Risa: 18 – 1 Best Time, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Strom, Jenny: 18 – 5 Best Times, 4 Top 16 Finishes; Fujan, Brianna: 19 – 6 Best Times, 5 Top 8 Finishes; Bachman, Kendrick: 20 – 3 Best Times, 9 Top 8 finishes

The Following swimmers contributed to the over all success of the ORCAS by participating on relays:

Asha Kaliappan 9, Kaitlyn Hui 10, Nicholas Pittner 9, Matthew Strom 9, Alec Wood 9, Ece Kremers 11, Amber French Farley 11, Lauren Fee 11, Kellie Nordquist 13, Collin Miller 13, Joshua Larson 13, Delaney Shin 13, Phoebe Wu 14, Susannah Alfred 16, Sharon Chen 15, and Paige Tierney 16.