Another Successful Championship Meet and Season

On Saturday, July 14, the Stingrays participated in an all day Championship swim meet. At this final meet of the swim season all 10 teams from the Marin Swim League came together to battle for points. The Stingrays finished the meet right in the middle of the pack placing 5^th place overall with 760 points.

The final point scores for the meet were:
1    SLEEPY HOLLOW SEA LIONS       2090
2    SCOTT VALLEY SEA SERPENTS  2063
3    STRAWBERRY SEALS                    1292
4    TERRA LINDA ORCAS                      958
5    ROLLING HILLS STINGRAYS           760
6    LUCAS VALLEY LIGHTNING            748
7    TIDALWAVES                                    739
8    NOVATO RIPTIDE                             678
9    SWIMARIN                                         604
10   MARINWOOD WATERDEVILS        469

A huge shoutout goes to the record-breaking Daniel Hardman of the 13-14 boys, who broke yet another record. This time he broke the Championship record for the 50 yard backstroke. He swam it in 25.46 seconds. The old record was set in 1988 by Brian Mathews at 25.88. Way to go Daniel!

More congratulations go out to all our swimmers for attending Champs and for the swimmers below who placed in the top 16 for their events. Here is a list of the top 16 swimmers broken out by age group.

8 and Unders:
Medley Relay: 9^th
Freestyle Girls: 2^nd  Bianca Bayer
Backstroke Girls: 3^rd Bianca Bayer & 12^th Katherine Hautau
Breaststroke Girls: 9^th Lauren Houlahan & 16^th Lillian Gray
Butterfly Girls: 1^st Bianca Bayer
Freestyle Relay: 8^th

9-10:
Medley Relay: 9^th
Freestyle Girls: 6^th Ruby Gonzalez & 8^th Alexis Sittenfeld/Parkhurst
Backstroke Girls: 4^th Ruby Gonzalez & 12^th Natalie Boyd
Breaststroke Girls: 13^th Clare Girtler
Breaststroke Boys: 9^th Michael Lu
Butterfly Girls: 7^th Ruby Gonzalez & 9^th Alexis Sittenfeld/parkhurst
Butterfly Boys: 6^th Michael Lu
Individual Medley Boys: 5^th Michael Lu
Freestyle Relay: 7^th

11-12:
Medley Relay: 8^th
Freestyle Girls: 3^rd Gisell Chavez & 13^th Emilie Claire Schneider
Freestyle Boys: 11^th Noah Prochnow & 12^th Nathan Luis
Backstroke Boys: 13^th Noah Prochnow & 15^th Sebastian Dow
Butterfly Girls: 4^th Gisell Chavez & 11^th Emilie Claire Schneider
Butterfly Boys: 12^th Noah Prochnow & 13^th Peyton Oga
Individual Medley Girls: 9^th Emilie Claire Schneider & 14^th Gisell Chavez
Individual Medley Boys: 15^th Nathan Luis
Freestyle Relay: 6^th

13-14:
Medley Relay: 2^nd
Freestyle Girls: 6^th Patty Dougherty
Freestyle Boys: 1^st Daniel Hardman
Backstroke Girls: 2^nd Patty Dougherty & 9^th Elise Styles
Backstroke Boys: 1^st Daniel Hardman (Champs Record) & 4^th Arjun Saxena & 5^th Conrad Raymond & 13^th Sawyer Ikeda
Breaststroke Girls: 4^th Elise Styles
Breaststroke Boys: 5^th Conrad Raymond & 16^th Sawyer Ikeda
Butterfly Boys: 1^st Daniel Hardman & 3^rd Arjun Saxena
Individual Medley Girls: 6^th Patty Dougherty
Individual Medley Boys: 2^nd Arjun Saxena & 6^th Conrad Raymond
Freestyle Relay: 3^rd

15-18:
Medley Relay: 9^th
Backstroke Boys: 7^th William Hardman
Breaststroke Girls: 6^th Ellie Cantor
Breaststroke Boys: 9^th William Hardman & 12^th Quinton Ashley
Butterfly Boys: 13^th Charles Winter
Individual Medley Boys: 7^th William Hardman
Freestyle Relay: 9^th

Go Stingrays!

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Contact Lou Rigney (Head Coach, Rolling Hills Club Stingrays Swim Team)
lourigney@yahoo.com.