FCST SCORES TOP 10 FINISH AT SPEEDO WINTER JUNIOR NATIONALS

FCST RACES TO TOP 10 A FINISH AT USA SWIMMING’S SPEEDO WINTER JUNIOR NATIONALS

This past week a group of 9 Senior FCST swimmers competed against the very best 18&Under athletes from the Western United States in Austin, TX.  The top shelf performance earned the team a 10^th Place finish in the combined team scoring.  It’s highest finish in the past 8 years.  The scoring was led by the dynamic trio of Hayden Bellotti, Logan Brown, and Kayla Fu.  The trio accounted for all of the individual points scored by the Ducks with each swimmer scoring Top 8 swims and FCST team records.

Hayden started the Top 8 A Final results with an 8^th place finish in the 50FR.  He continued his great performance with a huge 2^nd Place finish in the 100Fly.  Hayden closed out the meet with another A Final 8^th place finish in the 100FR.  All three swims were FCST team records and huge chunks of points.  Congrats to Hayden for a ground-breaking week of swimming.

Hayden’s Results:

50FREE 19.99 (P) Team record

100FLY 46.44 Team Record

100FREE 43.71 Team Record

The scoring continued with Logan Brown’s impressive week of swimming.  Day 1 had Logan swimming a B Final 200IM finishing 10^th. Logan had a huge Friday Finals session scoring a B Final 100FLY finishing in 13^th place.  Logan switched gears and stepped on the gas for his second swim finishing in 3^rd place in the 100BR breaking his own team record.  Logan completed his week of excellence with a monster 2^nd Place finish in the 200BR.  Congrats to Logan for another week of outstanding Junior National swimming.

Logan’s Results:

200IM 1:46.41

100FLY 47.83

100BR 53.06 Team Record

200BR 1:55.49

Not to be outdone by the men, Kayla Fu put together the best week of swimming in her career.  Kayla swam 100% Life time best times throughout the weekend in both prelims and finals.  She scorched the B Final in both the 50 and 100FR’s scoring huge points with her 9^th place finishes.  In addition, Kayla swam her first Junior National A Final with a 5^th Place finish in the 100FLY on the way to crushing the team record.  Kayla’s incredible attitude and confidence never waivered throughout the weekend.

Kayla’s Results:

50FR 22.56

100FLY 52.86 Team Record

100FR 49.03

Finally, FCST was able to record their first scoring relay of the week with a 16^th Place finish in the Men’s 200FR Relay.

Congrats to the team of Logan Brown, Hayden Bellotti, Jack Boysen, and Kyle Kulow for racing a great relay!

Tuesday 12/13 Update: Congrats to the 200Medley Relay of Danny Chen, Logan Brown, Hayden Bellotti, and Jack Boysen for breaking the Senior and Open Team Records! 1:31.05.

Thanks to all of our FCST Winter Juniors families for their incredible support.  Your energy and efforts to get the team to Austin is greatly appreciated.

Great Job to the Winter Juniors Team.  Great job DUCKS!