Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club participated in the November Rain Invitational swim meet last weekend at Petersburg’s Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n
Eight swimmers lowered at least one of their baseline times through a variety of events.<\/p>\n
“The meet was a good in-season opportunity to gauge where kids are,” GSC coach Scott Griffith said. “All showed improvement while swimming many races over 48 hours. Some swam 14 races including relays.”<\/p>\n
Natalie MacKinnon, age 13, swam all best times.<\/p>\n
MacKinnon placed third in the Open 200 Back in a time of two minutes 53.93 seconds, a 9.83-second improvement for a new baseline. She placed fifth in the 11 & Over 500 Free in 6:46.05 (a -29.56 second improvement); sixth in the Open 200 Free in 2:33.24 (-18.94); seventh in the Open 100 Back in 1:21.34 (-1.86); eighth in the Open 100 Free in 1:09.18 (-3.22) and 11th in the Open 50 Free in 31.92 (-1.87).<\/p>\n
“Lots of new age group champs qualifying times,” Griffith said. “Natalie MacKinnon was the best overall performer for GSC, all best times and some by large margin.”<\/p>\n
Cora Soboleff, 13, placed first in the Open 200 Free in 2:13.55; and had second-place finishes in the 11 & Over 200 IM with 2:29.87, Open 100 Back in 1:11.73, Open 100 Breast in 1:17.68 (-0.83), Open 100 Free in 1:02.11, Open 200 Breast in 2:44.92 (-1.79) and the Open 50 Free in 28.82.<\/p>\n
Clara Van Kirk, 13, bested all her baselines, placing fourth in the Open 100 Fly in 1:32.53 (-12.36); sixth place in the Open 100 Breast in 1:28.60 (-12.11); seventh in the Open 200 Back in 3:12.99 (-0.75); eighth in the 11 & Over 200 IM in 3:03.44 (-22.15) and the Open 200 Free in 2:44.43 (-10.28); ninth in the Open 50 Free with 30.92 (-2.14); 11th in the Open 100 Free with 1:13.95 (-1.49) and 13th in the Open 100 Back in 1:27.43 (-2.11).<\/p>\n
Henry Thatcher placed second in the Open 200 Fly in 3:21.64; had third-place finishes in the Open 200 Back with 3:07.70 and Open 400 IM in 6:01.33 (-28.47); fourth place in the Open 200 Free in 2:27.03 (-0.65); fifth place finishes in the 11 & Over 500 Free with 6:32.62 (-1.91), Open 100 Back in 1:25.97 (-20.05), Open 100 Breast in 1:21.81 ((-0.84), and Open 100 Fly in 1:22.88 (-47.11); and seventh in the 11 & over 200 IM in 2:46.93 and the Open 50 Free in 29.39.<\/p>\n
Joshua Ely, 12, had second place finishes in the 11 & Over 1650 Free in 24:5.23 (-3:34), the 11-12 100 Back in 1:25.94, the 11-12 Breast in 1:35.76 (-18.35) and the 11-12 100 Fly in 1:35.36 (-15.35); third places finishes in the 11-12 100 Free in 1:08.13 (-4.76), 11-12 IM in 1:22.80 (-0.03), 11-12 50 Fly in 37.99 (-2.08), 11-12 Free in 31.29; and ninth in the 11 & Over 200 IM 3:01.66 (-3.03).<\/p>\n
Ellinore Higgins, 13, placed sixth in the Open 200 Back in 3:01.30 (-3.59); seventh in the 11 & Over 200 IM with 2:59.09 (-19.07) and the Open 100 Breast with 1:30.66 (-10.12); and 10th in the Open 100 Back with 1:23.37 and Open 50 Free with 31.37 (-2.16).<\/p>\n
Zachary Holden, 13, placed first in the Open 200 Fly with 3:00.17 and Open 200 Free with 2:09.14 (-5.59); placed second in the Open 100 Fly with 1:06.79 (-1.85), the Open 100 Free with 57.25 (-1.37) and the Open 400 IM with 5:38.73; and third place finishes in the 11 & Over 200 IM with 2:28.53, 11 & Over 500 Free with 6:06.70 (-4.34) and the Open 50 Free with 26.74; and sixth place in the Open 100 Breast with 1:22.87 (-0.77).<\/p>\n
Leon Ward, 12, placed first in the 11-12 200 Free in 2:47.62; third place in the 11-12 100 Back with 1:27.89 (-8.33) and 11-12 100 Fly in 1:44.46; fourth in the 11-12 50 Free with 33.81 (-1.63) and seventh in the 11 & Over 500 Free with 7:28.92 (-15.36).<\/p>\n
“It is great to reinforce what coaches are working on daily with results at a meet,” Griffith added.<\/p>\n
Soboleff (32.64), Van Kirk (38.73), MacKinnon (35.75) and Higgins (32.03) placed second in the Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay with 2:19.15<\/p>\n
Ward (40.29), Thatcher (36.52), Ely (39.32) and Holden (25.99) placed second in the Boys 200 Yard Medley Relay with 2:22.12.<\/p>\n
Next up for GSC is the Dec. 7 home Time Trial and the Dec. 13 First City Invitational in Ketchikan.<\/p>\n
• Contact Klas Stolpe at klas.stolpe@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club participated in the November Rain Invitational swim meet last weekend at Petersburg’s Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":113735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[240,404],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-113734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113734"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=113734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}