SR. Champs: 16 New Cuts, 4 Records Fall...Outstanding 1650 Frees on Sunday
4 Team Records Broken...Molly DuBrasky broke the GCST Senior, and 17-18 Girls record in the 100 Fly with a 56.43 and a made a Short Course National Championship qualifying time. The GCST Senior Mens 800 Free Relay broke the team record by almost 8 seconds with Tayler DuBrasky, Kyle Snew, Kyle Marshall, and Michael Pineda, and they broke the GCST Senior Mens 400 Free Relay.
40 of 70 swims are best times...GCST Results
16 New Championship Qualifying Times Made
GCST finished the meet in 22nd place.
Tayler Dubrasky has a 3rd place finish in the 1650...Molly Dubrasky Finals in 200 Fly, 100 Free, and Kyle Snew Finals 200 Fly, and 200 Back
2/27...Sunday Finals...Molly DuBrasky finished 7th in the 200 fly with a 2:04.52. Kyle Snew finished 2nd in the B Final of the 200 Fly with a personal best time of 1:57.08.
Tayler DuBrasky swam an outstanding 1650 in a 15:39 to finish 3rd. Kyle Snew finished 7th in the B Final of the 200 Back with a 1:57.05.
Matt Nielsen 16:40, Kyle Marshall 16:39, and Zach Jamieson 16:59 all swam personal best times in the 1650 free.
Molly DuBrasky, Kyle Snew have double finals swims..Tayler Dubrasky does well in 500 Free A Final
2/26...Saturday Finals...Another fast night of swimming in Orlando as GCST was led by Molly DuBrasky's 3rd place finish in the Senior Women's 500 Free as she swam a 4:48 in a close finish. Molly also swam an outstanding 2:04.75 in the 200 IM to finish 2nd in the B Final. Tayler DuBrasky continued with good swims on the comeback train as he finished 8th in the A Final of the Senior Men's 500 Free with a 4:31.90. Kyle Snew won the C Final of the Senior Men's 200 IM with a 1:55.77, and finished 6th in the Senior Men's 500 Free C FInal with a 4:42.73.
2/26...Saturday AM...GCST started the morning with more time drops and fast swimming. Michael Pineda swam a best time in the 50 Free with a 23.01, and a 2:08 200 IM. Molly DuBrasky swam a 4:50 in the 500 Free to go into the A Final as the 2nd seed. Tayler DuBrasky swam a very good 4:32 in the 500 in a tough heat with Ryan Lochte and a few other big time swimmers to make the A Final. Zach Jamieson swam a best time in the 200 IM with a 2:12. Matt Nielsen swam a personal best with a 4:46. Kyle Marshall swam a best time in the 200 IM with a 1:59 to go under 2 minutes for the first time. Kyle Snew swam a 1:56 in the 200 IM to qualify for the C Final, and swam a 4:46 to make the C Final of the 500 Free. Alex Latorre swam a very good 2:07 200 IM. Nicholas Ortega swam a best time of 2:07 in the 200 IM.
GCST Swimmers Come Through On A Fast Friday Night
2/25...Friday Finals...GCST had a great night at Sr. Champs with some nice time drops. In the 200 free, Molly Dubrasky finished 3rd in the B final with a 1:49. Tayler Dubrasky swim a very good 1:41 to finish 8th in the B final. Kyle Snew lowered his prelims time with a strong 1:43.43 to finish 4th in the C final. Kyle Marshall won the C final of the 200 breast with another drop in the 200 Breast to go 2:13.53. Molly Dubrasky swam an outstanding 56.43 to win the C final of the 100 fly. Hannah Albion finished 7th in the B final for 15-16 girls in the 400 IM. Kyle Snew finished 8th in the A final of the 400 IM with 4:10. Kyle Marshall finished 7th in the B final and dropped another second to go a 4:16.06 in the 400 IM.
2/25...Friday AM....Molly DuBrasky, Hannah Albion, Tayler DuBrasky, Kyle Snew, and Kyle Marshall make it back for finals tonight. Several outstanding morning swims today. Michael Pineda swam a personal best 1:49 in the 200 Free. Zach Jamieson swam best times in the 200 Free, and 400 IM. Kyle Marshall swam personal best times in the 200 Breast, and 400 IM. Hannah Albion swam a personal best time in the 200 Free. Nikki McCollum swam a personal best in the 200 Free. Kyle Snew swam a personal best in the 200 Free. Matt Nielsen swam a personal best in the 200 Free.
Kyle Marshall Leads the team with an 11th place finish in the 1000 and a PBT
2/24....Thursday....GCST swimmers all swim personal best times this evening in the 1000 Free with Kyle Marshall finishing 11th in the Senior event with a 9:53.82.
The GCST Senior Men's 800 free relay finished 10th.
