Katie Grimes Rips 9:16 1000 FR, 1:41.10 200 FR on First 2 Days of CA-NV December Sectionals

2024 CA-NV December Sectionals

• December 19-22, 2024
• Mt. San Antonio Faculty Aquatic Complicated, Walnut, CA
• Hosted by BREA Aquatics
• SCY (25 Yards)
• Outcomes on MeetMobile
  • “2024 CA-NV December Sectionals at BREA”

TOP 5 TEAM SCORES (THRU DAY 2)

COMBINED

1. Sandpipers of Nevada – 1725
2. La Mirada Armada – 1035
3. Alpha Aquatics – 687.5
4. Riverside Aquatics Affiliation – 614
5. Sierra Marlins Swim Staff – 596.5

BOYS

1. Sandpipers of Nevada – 749
2. La Mirada Armada – 497
3. Alpha Aquatics – 460.5
4. Pleasanton Seahawks – 416
5. Sierra Marlins Swim Staff – 307.5

GIRLS

1. Sandpipers of Nevada – 976
2. La Mirada Armada – 538
3. Riverside Aquatics Affiliation – 421
4. Irvine Novaquatics – 385
5. Canyons Aquatic Membership – 312

BREA Aquatics is internet hosting the annual CA-NV winter Sectional meet this weekend in Walnut, CA. The meet kicked off on Thursday, that includes a ways races and relays, then was in full impact on Friday.

Sandpipers of Nevada 18-year-old Katie Grimes is off to an superior begin in Walnut this weekend. She kicked the meet off with a decisive victory within the girls’s 1000 free, ripping a 9:16.69. That efficiency marked a profession greatest for the Olympic medalist by 10.49 seconds, however greater than that, it additionally makes her the Third-fastest performer of all-time within the occasion. Katie Ledecky is the quickest swimmer in historical past within the 1000 (8:59.65), whereas Katie Hoff held a profession better of 9:10.77. Grimes is now Third all-time total and within the 17-18 age group.

Following her efficiency within the 1000, Grimes would go on to assist the Sandpipers ‘A’ relay to victory within the girls’s 200 free relay. She cut up 22.21 on the anchor leg. Claire Weinstein (22.51), Emery Vannah (23.20), Billie Blu Mondonedo (23.38), and Grimes teamed as much as earn the win in 1:31.30. Grimes would additionally assist the SAND girls’s 800 free relay to victory with a 1:43.65 anchor cut up in her Third race of the evening. Vannah (1:50.68), Mondonedo (1:48.51), and Weinstein (1:41.59) made up the opposite legs of the relay, which swam a 7:04.43.

Grimes didn’t cease there, she saved the momentum rolling proper into Friday. She kicked the Friday evening finals session off with a blistering 1:41.10 within the girls’s 200 free, profitable the race by a whopping 5.67 seconds. Grimes’ earlier greatest was 1:42.90, which she swam at this Sectional meet final December. With the efficiency, she strikes as much as #4 all-time within the ladies 17-18 age group. She swam an incredible race final evening, splitting 23.78 on the primary 50, then going 25.34, 25.97, and 26.01 respectively the remainder of the best way.

Grimes then went on to win the ladies’s 400 IM as properly, swimming a 3:57.07. That point is available in simply off Grimes’ profession greatest of three:57.02.

Grimes then capped off her evening by serving to yet one more Sandpipers relay to victory. She cut up 52.10 on the fly leg of the 400 medley relay. Applejean Gwinn (56.73), Weinstein (1:02.33), Grimes, and Mondonedo (50.36) made up the relay, which swam a 3:41.52.

Sandpipers 17-year-old Claire Weinstein confirmed off her versatility final evening, swimming a 1:00.53 within the girls’s 100 breast. That was an enormous efficiency for Weinstein, who entered the meet with a private better of 1:03.45, which she swam earlier this fall. It was 47-year-old Gabrielle Rose (Alpha Aquatics) who gained the ladies’s 100 breast final evening, swimming a 59.75.

Equally, it was 35-year-old Brandon Fischer who gained the lads’s 100 breast, swimming a 52.12. La Mirada Armada’s Elonzo Madison Santos, 16, had an incredible swim, clocking a 54.39, which marks a brand new profession greatest.

One other veteran swimmer, 38-year-old Brooke Boak, gained the ladies’s 100 fly with a 52.88. Irvine Novaquatics 15-year-old Alyssa Ton got here in 2nd with a 54.23, a brand new private greatest. Sandpipers 16-year-old Emery Vannah had an enormous swim for Third, clocking a 54.38. Vannah got here into the day with a private better of 56.01.

Sanpipers 18-year-old Luke Ellis is swimming properly this weekend too. Ellis kicked off his meet by profitable the lads’s 1650 free in 14:50.16. He was properly off his profession better of 14:29.48, which he swam at this Sectional meet final 12 months. Shifting into Friday, Ellis then went on to swim a profession better of 1:37.44 within the 200 free. He entered the meet with a private better of 1:39.09. Ellis then gained the lads’s 400 IM in 3:46.27, which is available in a bit off his private greatest of three:42.94, which he swam final week on the Winter Junior Championships West.

Behind Ellis within the males’s 1650, Sandpipers teammate Noah Mudadu got here in 2nd with an enormous profession better of 14:53.49. Mudadu’s earlier greatest was 15:26.23, which he swam at this meet final 12 months.

Pleasanton Seahawks 16-year-old Songrui Wu had an enormous Friday evening, profitable each his occasions. It began within the males’s 200 free, the place Wu clocked a 1:37.09. He was simply off his private better of 1:36.44. He then went on to win the lads’s 100 fly in 47.72, which was additionally simply off his private better of 47.50.