Olympic Trials Update

Olympic Trials Update:  SC Swimming Rippin It Up!!!

Update by Kile Zeller--SCSDD

First of all, congratulations to all of our South Carolina Swimming Olympic Trials Qualifiers:

CAT/Clemson:  Chris Reinke, Mark Schindler, Seth Broster, Eric Brunk, Harry Foster, Meg Anderson.

CA/USC:  Michael Flach, Brooks Ross, Rachel Schaffer, Matt Navata, Alex Vance, Jay Warner, Matt Columbus, Abbey Galbreath, Whitney Avers, Annika Johnson.

MPSC:  Megan Kingsley, Zach Lierley, Jon Lierley (U of Pitt/MPSC).

YSSC:  Danielle Galyer, Annie Gillig, Haley Lips, Kendall Crawford, Chrissy Oberg, David Ingraham (UVA/YSSC), Katrina Konopka.

For a small LSC, that is a ton of Trials Qualifiers!!!  Congrats to all of our swimmers, and all of our coaches, who are doing a fantastic job of representing SC on the National level!

A couple items to note:

Megan Kingsley has been dropping time left and right.  Her crowning achievement is an 11^th place finish in the 200 fly—and she is just 16--AWESOME!!!  This swim puts Megan 79th in the world out of any age-group!

Michael Flach finished 8^th in the 200 fly—Super GREAT!!!

Haley Lips, at her 2^nd Olympic Trials, right on her best in the 200 and 400 freestyles—NICE!!!

Friday Update:

Zach Lierley went a best time in the 200 Back: 2:02.97 and moved up 30 places from 61st to 31st.  Zach also went a best time in the 200 IM 2:05.61 and moved up almost 70 places from 124th to 56th. That looks like it is the 17-18 state record.

Zach and Megan went best times in 5 of 6 events.

Zach - 33rd 400 IM, 31st 200 Back, 56th 200 IM

Megan - 11th 200 Fly, 25th 400 IM, 61st 100 Fly

Thank you to all of our swimmers and coaches who are bettering our LSC by representing at Olympic Trials—Keep up the good work!  Coaches, please continue to send me your Trials Info and I will keep everyone posted:  kzscsdd@gmail.com