2024 Connecticut Lengthy Course Senior Championships
- July 11-14, 2024
- Wesleyan College Freeman Athletic Constructing, Middletown, Connecticut
- Lengthy Course Meters (50m)
- Full Meet Outcomes
The most effective instruments within the toolbox for a younger coach with out a huge resume is the flexibility to flex somewhat bit on their athletes and present them that what they’re educating is predicated on expertise.
US Olympian Jacob Pebley, the pinnacle age group coach at Yale-adjacent Bulldog Swimming, did that final weekend on the Connecticut Swimming LSC Championships, successful the 100 backstroke in 57.16. He beat out Bulldog Swimming alum Brendan Conners, who simply completed his freshman season at Alabama.
Conners completed 2nd in 57.55.
Whereas Pebley’s presence within the pool in his first meet in over two years was a thrill for a few of the youthful swimmers on the meet, Xavier Ruiz of the Ridgefield Aquatic Membership, a North Carolina commit, discovered himself atop essentially the most podiums with 5 occasion wins on the meet.
That included the 100 breast (1:02.11), 200 breast (2:15.12), and 400 IM (4:27.75) individually, although none of them had been finest instances.
He helped lead his membership to the boys’ staff title, a part of a sweep of the staff awards on the occasion.
Prime 5 Boys’ Groups
- Ridgefield Aquatic Membership – 871.5
- Cheshire Y Sea Canine Swim Membership – 664
- Zeus Swim Staff – 403
- Bulldog Swimming – 307
- Farmington Valley YMCA Tsunami – 276
Prime 5 Ladies’ Groups
- Ridgefield Aquatic Membership – 664
- Cheshire Y Sea Canine Swim Membership – 599.5
- Greenwich YWCA Dolphins Swim Staff – 347
- Bulldog Swimming – 333.5
- Westport Weston Household Y – 324
On the women’ aspect, Lily Archibald and Bridget Kelly from Ridgefield picked up 6 and 5 wins, respectively.
114 particular person factors made Archibald the meet’s excessive scorer, successful the 50 free (26.11), 100 free (56.61), 200 free (2:05.85), 100 fly (1:01.03), and 200 IM (2:24.12). All of these except for the 100 fly had been new lifetime bests for her, and the 50 and 100 free swims are each US Open cuts.
Archibald is dedicated to swim at Rice starting fall 2025, the place she is going to arrive as one of many most-impactful recruits in program historical past.
Kelly, in the meantime picked up a win within the 800 free in a brand new private better of 9:22.74 and likewise cut up a finest time of 57.86 leadinf off Ridgefield’s 400 free relay, flexing her big selection. Kelly is a highschool junior dedicated to swim at Georgetown in fall 2025.
