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Terrapins place 3rd at the Central Sections Championships in Iowa City

03/14/2017, 2:30pm PDT
By R

The Terrapins placed 3rd overall at the Central Section Championships held at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, behind Fort Collins Swim Team from Colorado and Edina Swim Club from Minnesota. The men’s team placed 3rd overall led by Alexei Sancov’s 5 wins and strong mens relays.

Sancov won 5 events at the meet swimming unrested and unshaved. He won the 50fr(20.29), 100fr(43.57), 200fr(1:35.60), 500fr(4:24.88) and 100fly(48.31) His 100fr,200fr and 500fr were Central Section meet records.

Alexei also combined with Nate Barsanti, Tyler James and Andrew Rodriguez to break the 800Free relay Central Section record. In addition to Alexei’s fast swims, top 8 finals swims were done by Nate Barsanti(200fr -1:39.23, 100fr -46.12), Tyler James(100BK -49.92), Andrew Rodriguez(100BK -50.66, 200BK – 1:51.76) and Skyler Liu(200fly – 2:04.56, 200BR – 2:21.71)

The meet concluded with an exciting wire to wire race in the Men’s 400Free relay event between The Fort Collins team and Terrapin team. The Terrapin men edged out the win with a fast 3:02.80 swim, anchored by Andrew Rodriguez who split a 46.18 to secure the win.

Overall the Terrapins posted 48 new Life best swims and highlighted by the following swimmers:

Jessica Larson – 50fr 23,30,  100fr 51.08, 100fly 56.83

Tyler James –  6 best times including 200bk  1:49.48,  200fr 1:41.04, 50fr 21.35

Connor Seip – 200fr 1:43.35 and a first time ever 500fr in 4:43.79

Will Nagle – in his first meet as a Terrapin  200fr 1:43.68, 500fr 4:41.05

Stephie Backlund – 4 life best swims including 100fr 52.97, 200fr 1:53.62

Anthony Vizental – 6 life best swims including 200fly 1:58.51, 200bR 2:10.71

Adrian Dulay – 200BR 2:07.83

CharlotteMeier – 3 life best swims including 50fr 24.04 100bk 57.93

Maya Price – 3 life best swims

Remy Gordillo – 2 life best swims

Rylee Gordillo -2 life best swims

Adonis Thomas -  3 life best swims including 400Im 4:15.47

Delanie Gearing – 2 life best swims

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