1st FNR Meet a Success!

First FNR meet a Success!!

The FCST swimmers took to the pool last Friday, Oct 25, for the first of two “Friday night at the Races” meets this season. FNR meets are designed to keep each family, age group, and achievement level together for a quick meet in lieu of traditional practice. The fun aspects of these meets come from some of the non-traditional procedures in the meet format. Boys and girls of all ages are seeded together, and our athletes get to work with new coaches, based upon what lane they’re competing.

In each FNR meet, there are usually 2 shorter “sprint” races, and 1 longer “distance” race. For some athletes, it’s their first opportunity to compete in a longer race; for others, it’s an opportunity to swim a longer race in a shorter meet session. On the flip side, many of our senior swimmers get the opportunity to swim in 50’s fly/back/breast, as these events are not typically offered at USA meets.

Meet highlights include:

Swimmers dropping more than 10 sec total time: I.Ahmed (10.71), B.Berteaux (24.91), E.Chen (14.65), A.Deniz (10.40), J.Fruge (19.16), L.Gabler (41.35), A.Guo (19.58), A.Hernandez (57.72), S.He (12.05), M.Kleimann (15.06), J.Kue (22.03), E.Le (26.69), Y.Liu (13.69), G.Narayan (11.13), A.Pan (17.12), A.Trinh (13.58), E.Wan (13yr)(24.69), M.Wang (12.46), S.Zhao (20.96), J.Zheng (29.22), T.Zilich (21.00).

Swimmers competing in their first 400 yard IM include:

Maia Abogador, Michael Brough, Justin Chang, Stone Chen, Nicholas Choo, Clayton Cooke, Ryan Dang, Tyler Dang, Ben & Eli Greene, Richelle Guice, Norah Hay, Tiffany Huynh, Matthew Kilburn, Jeran Kong, Christian Le, Marissa Liang, Anna Marlatt, Schuyler Mathews, Trey Minter, Dylan Nguyen, Shalom Oberoi, Derek Ong, Bryan Pan (11), Brandon & Nathan Quinn, Tristan Salazar, Keenan & Kyle Solanga, Robbie Stone, Mattie Strong, Grace Wey, Kayla Wort, Kristen & Tiffany Yan, Arthur Yin, Patrick Zhan, and Miriam Zuo.

The next FNR meet is scheduled for 6:00 pm on Nov 22^nd at the Aquatic Center. Events on the schedule include the 50 butterfly, 50 backstroke, and 1000 freestyle.

Special thanks to our officials and volunteers for helping the first FNR meet run so smoothly!