PVS Swimmers excel at USA Winter Nationals
By: Reach for the Wall Staff
The weekend of November 30 through December 1, swimmers from 7 clubs and two Universities within PVS descended upon Greensboro NC to compete in the USA Swimming Winter Nationals. NCAP captured the Women’s and team title while RMSC placed 6th in the men’s and 7th as a team and the Mason Makos finished 13th.
You are looking at the Combined 2018 Winter National Champions! Congrats, NCAP!!!! @USASwimming @SwimmingWorld @swimswamnews pic.twitter.com/LaaJgehM47
— NCAP Swim Club (@NCAPswim) December 2, 2018
In the women’s standings, Arlington Aquatic Club finished 10th, The Fish and Machine tied for 24th and York achieved 40th. AAC, Fish, Machine and York were not included in the Combined standings as they only had Women swimming. Since the Fall/winter season began in September the meets have been competed in the short course (25 yards) format. Winter Nationals was competed in the long course (50 meter) format and served as the first opportunity for swimmers to attain their 2020 Olympic Trial cuts. According to SwimSwam, 192 cuts were achieved by 62 women and 49 men, here’s who made cuts and in parentheses how many, from PVS:
Phoebe Bacon(4), Sean Conway (1), Madelyn Donohue (1), Torri Huske (4), Anna Keating (2), Katie Ledecky (4), Katie Mack (1), Paige McKenna (2) Chase Travis (3), and Ryan Vipavetz (2)
Doing the math, that’s 24 cuts of the 192 or ~12.5% of the total- way to go!!!
Congratulations to all teams and swimmers from PVS that competed in the meet and achieved their goals- here’s who:
RMSC:
- Ryan Vipavetz, 200 Butterfly Champion
- Alex Colson
- Jacob Rosner
- Catherine Belyakov
- Kaitlin Gravell
- Joyce Wu
Senior Ryan Vipavetz (VT commit) won his first national title in the 200 butterfly at the 2018 US Winter Nationals. Vipavetz won the final with a 1:59.43. Ryan also qualified for the 2020 Olympic Trials in both 200 fly and 400https://t.co/iL8kKAsJrB pic.twitter.com/PHbaRRKuwr
— Good Counsel (@OLGCHS) December 5, 2018
NCAP:
- Katie Ledecky, 200, 400, 800 Freestyle Champion
- Will Tenpas
- Brett Feyerick
- Sean Conway
- Abby Harter
- Katie Mack
- Phoebe Bacon
- Paige McKenna
- Caroline Bentz
- Mackenzie McConagha
- Erin Gemmell
- Carly Sebring
- Katie Mack
- Eleanor Sun
- Brooke Travis
- Chase Travis
- Allison Kopac
Machine:
- Daniel Gyenis
- Anna Keating
AAC:
- Torri Huske
- Kayle Park
The Fish:
- Madelyn Donohoe
York:
- Brynn Curtis
Mason Makos:
- Lexi Cuomo
- Anthony Grimm
George Mason University:
- Michael Pettinichi
- Chris Stankiewicz
- Logan Eubanks
- Ryan Donnelly
- Andres Alarcon
Georgetown University:
- Brett Sherman
- Drew Carbone
- Seth Maslowski
- Carlson Temple
USA Swimming uploaded each day/race to their YouTube account. We’ve provided a link to the top video/race for each day, you can then navigate to whichever event you want to see…enjoy!
Day 1: 800 Freestyle
Day 2: 400 Free, 200 IM, 50 Free