The Swim Florida team at this year’s Southern Zone South Sectionals ~ Day 2, continued to produce new personal records. Emma Best, Izabella Wreski, Sophie Pellegrino and Skye Persechino combined to drop 1.12 seconds in the 200-meter Freestyle Relay entry time with a 1:57.74. Emma Best lowered her time in the 200-meter Individual Medley finishing in 2:36.01 (-1.99). Skye Persechino completed the 400-meter Freestyle in 4:40.66 (-1.06).

Over seven hundred swimmers have merged in Orlando at the Southern Zone South Sectional Championships beginning today. Emma Best, in an event that included Olympian Katie Ledecky, the Senior 200-meter Freestyle, turned her best time at 2:16.12 (-2.60). In her next event, the 100-meter Butterfly, Emma stopped the clock with an new personal best 1:07.83 (-3.04).

Day 2 was even colder than yesterday, but our swimmers were on fire, leaving smoke on the water.
Nolan Best
200-yard Individual Medley 2:39.99 (-24.21) 10th
100-yard Freestyle 1:00.63 (-2.91) 19th
200-yard Breaststroke 2:58.87 (-9.38) 7th

Chelsie Best
200-yard Individual Medley 3:09.07 (-15.93) 17th
100-yard Freestyle 1:13.77 (-1.48) 17th

Aayden Dugan
200-yard Backstroke 2:08.31 (-7.74) 1st

Kenny Upton
200-yard Individual Medley 2:45.73 (-7.17) 15th
200-yard Breaststroke 3:19.88 (-2.29) 9th
Emma Best
200-yard Breaststroke 2:42.24 (-17.35) 4th

Jacob Gadzalski
100-yard Freestyle 1:21.28 (-11.74) 13th

Skye Persechino
1650-yard Freestyle 19:06.41 (-2:20.24) 1st

Despite challenging weather conditions the past couple of weeks, our swimmers had a great first day at the SRQ Winterfest meet in Sarasota.

Ava Romine
200-yard Free 2:17.11 (-7.46) 7th
100-yard Backstroke 1:13.50 (-.43) 8th
100-yard Butterfly 1:14.51 (-9.33) 5th

Nolan Best
50-yard Freestyle 27.94 (-1.86) 16th
400-yard Individual Medley 5:21.26 “B” Not yet scored

Chelsie Best
100-yard Backstroke 1:30.12 (-19.90) 18th
50-yard Freestyle 33.88 (-.23) 25th

Aayden Dugan
100-yard Backstroke 58.34 (-.37) 1st
100-yard Butterfly 56.23 (-1.36) 1st
50-yard Freestyle 24.10 (-.67) 2nd

Alisa Varlam
100-yard Backstroke 1:22.11 (-3.11) 14th

Amy Barcena
200-yard Free 2:28.56 (-6.61) 11th
100-yard Backstroke 1:23.84 (-4.65) 15th

Evan Chaney
200-yard Free 2:13.09 (-4.45) 12th
100-yard Butterfly 1:15.26 (-32.50) 17th
50-yard Freestyle 27.84 (-.93) 15th

Joey Stevens
50-yard Breaststroke 43.01 (-4.33) 5th
50-yard Backstroke 40.04 (-.41) 5th
50-yard Butterfly 35.88 (-.25) 6th
50-yard Freestyle 28.75 (-1.63) 3rd

Jacob Ricke
100-yard Butterfly 1:23.58 (-7.98) 19th

Jacob Gadzalski
50-yard Breaststroke 51.00 (-1.15) 12th
50-yard Freestyle 36.11 (-5.59) 16th

Despite rain and cold temperatures, our swimmers posted 25 best times and qualified for finals in 22 events. Our next competition will be this coming weekend, the SRQ Winterfest meet at the Arlington Park pool in Sarasota.