MCSL 2018 All Star Wrap up
By: Reach for the Wall Staff
Sunday July 29, wrapped up the final day of the 2018 MCSL season. In the individual All Star events, many competitors were decked out in their fastskins, showing that the kids in the MCSL come to championship meets ready to swim fast. For fun, we decided to score the meet using a typical scoring system you would see in a PVS Championship meet:
Individual events (places 1-16): 20, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
The top 10 teams are as follows:
Individual:
- Stonegate: 386
- Wildwood Manor: 248
- Tilden Woods: 233
- Woodley Gardens:210
- Woodcliffe:188
- Rockville:186
- Glenmont:175
- Bethesda:171
- Robin Hood:168
- Quince Orchard:160
The relay meet was competed in two sessions- Section 1 (Divisions A-H) and Section 2 (Divisions I-O), we combined the results from Section 1 and Section 2, so the point distribution is for the fastest 8 relays (places 1-8): 18, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2
Relay:
- Stonegate: 150
- Rockville: 92
- Wildwood Manor: 70
- Potomac: 64
- Stonebridge: 60
- Quince Orchard: 56
- Woodley Gardens: 54
- Damascus: 52
- Forest Knolls: 50
- Glenmont: 46
The following is how teams would fare if the points from both Individual and Relay meets were combined:
Combined:
- Stonegate: 536
- Wildwood Manor: 318
- Rockville: 278
- Tilden Woods: 269
- Woodley Gardens: 264
- Woodcliffe: 224
- Glenmont: 221
- Quince Orchard: 216
- Stonebridge: 205
- Robin Hood: 204
Keep in mind that MCSL does NOT score these meets, we just wanted to see how things would play out if they did. It’s also important to note that a lot of top swimmers opt out of this meet – many 14 an older swimmers are in the middle of a taper for some of the National championship meets, while others may have missed due to family vacations.
The teams and divisions were all well represented at All-Stars this year, with 79 of the 90 teams having a swimmer or relay compete over the weekend! We want to recognize teams that had 15 or more individual races (if a swimmer swam two events that would be counted as two races). They are as follows:
- Stonegate: 32
- Rockville: 29
- Wildwood Manor: 22
- Tilden Woods: 21
- Connecticut Belair: 18
- Woodcliffe: 18
- Woodley Gardens: 18
- Glenmont: 17
- Country Glen: 16
- Tally Ho: 16
- Stonebridge: 16
- Mohican: 16
- Regency Estates: 15
- Forest Knolls: 15
- Bethesda: 15
Individual MCSL records set at the All Star meet are as follows:
Event 9 Boys 13-14 50 SC Meter Freestyle
David Fitch, Potomac 24.27
Event 15 Boys 13-14 100 SC Meter IM
Jason Hernandez-Fuentes, Stonegate 59.85
Event 27 Boys 15-18 100 SC Meter IM
Eli Fouts, Quince Orchard 56.28
Event 46 Girls 13-14 50 SC Meter Butterfly
Carly Sebring, Damascus, 27.77
During the last two weeks of the season these other MCSL records were set:
Event 10 Girls 13-14 50 SC Meter Freestyle
Carly Sebring, Damascus, 26.33
Event 22 Girls 15-18 100 SC Meter Backstroke
Phoebe Bacon, Tally Ho, 1:00.22
Event 28 Girls 15-18 100 SC Meter IM
Phoebe Bacon, Tally Ho, 1:03.08
Event 36 Girls 13-14 50 SC Meter Breaststroke
Joyce Wu, King Farm, 32.87
The Relay all-stars on Saturday also proved to be a record breaking event – MCSL records as follows:
Event 4 Mixed 13-14 200 SC Meter Freestyle Relay 1:46.18
Stonegate: Aidan Dewey (14), Sydney Allen (13), Nina Allen (13), Jason Hernandez-Fuentes (13)
Event 13 Girls 8 & Under 100 SC Meter Medley Relay 1:19.90
Potomac: Marlowe Bellerjeau (8), Kiara Kambeyanda (8), Caitlin Groves (8), Julia Zettler (7)
Event 16 Mixed 15-18 200 SC Meter Medley Relay 1:52.85
Tilden Woods: Matthew Braviak (18), Timothy Ellett (17), Maya Drill (17), Celine Nugent (18)
Thanks again to MCSL administration for providing weekly and championship meet results, and congratulations to all the swimmers on their accomplishments, whether it was a MCSL, team or personal record you achieved!!
Phoebe Bacon wasn’t at this year’s Individual All-Star meet. She was at Nationals in Irvine.