Boland, Englestead, Miller, Daigler, Gravley, & Deem make Junior National Team

Boland, Englestead, Miller, Daigler, Gravley, & Deem make Junior National Team

July 25^th, the final count of new Junior National members was 6 making it the largest Sandpiper group of Junior National members in team history. Friday night Catie Miller rallied the team with a huge leap to the Junior National level being 13 years old swimming a 5:01.47. Hannon Daigler bettered his prelim time from the morning to a 400 IM and finished 5^th in finals with new time of 4:35.91 just 2 seconds off Nationals. Friday night Hannon came back to swim the 200 IM with a new junior national time and also dominated his heat that night with Junior National time of 2:08.92 which was almost a 4 second drop from his prelim swim of 2:12.50. Finishing off the weekend JR Deem swam his junior national time in the 100 Breaststroke making it our 6^th individual qualifier and 8 total new events for the team over this 5 day meet. JR’s 100 Breaststroke time was a 2 second drop to a 1:06.73 and then went faster in finals to a 1:06.63.

Members attending National for our team:

Cody Miller, Garret Peterson, Olivia Barker, and Meghan Boland

Members attending Junior Nationals for our team:

Cody Miller, Hannon Daigler, JR Deem, Billy Gravley, Olivia Barker, Meghan Boland, Lindsey Englestead, and Catie Miller.

Overall this was one of our best performances as a team swimming at an elite level we had 13 members of the team attending this competition. All members in attendance swam exceptional with a high percentage of best times by everyone at some point in the meet and great racing by everyone. All though it isn’t time for everyone or possible for everyone to achieve Junior National and National times our team was very visible as one the most outstanding teams in attendance. The Sandpiper National group is now living up to its name “National Group”.  – Congratulations guys this is what make coaching fun, and swimming fun. Hard work and dedication pays off for all of you.

Free tickets are available to Nationals and Junior Nationals for 14 and unders. Nationals will be from August 3rd to August 7th and Junior Nationals will be from August 9th to the 13th in Irvine California. Informationa on the meet will be available on deck Tuesday at Desert Breeze or email ronaitken1@gmail.com

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Boland makes Nationals in the 200 Breaststroke

Meghan Boland finished 4^th in 200 Breaststroke finals at Sectionals with a new National Qualifying time of 2:36.46. Lindsey Englestead makes Junior Nationals with a new time of 2:38.41.

This morning Hannon Daigler qualified for Junior Nationals in the 400 IM and seed 5^th for tonight with a time of 4:37.37 add to the Junior National team list of Cody Miller, Billy Gravley, Olivia Barker, Meghan Boland, and Lindsey Englestead. Catie Miller is seeded 9^th tonight in the 400 IM with a 5:02.29 just 2 tenths off junior nationals that would up the list to 7 junior national qualifiers.

Swimmers qualified for nationals so far Cody Miller, Garret Peterson, Olivia Barker and Meghan Boland.

Watch Hannon and Catie at www.canyons.org

July 22nd

Billy Gravley and Meghan Boland qualify for Summer Junior Nationals

The first night of competition and first swim of the night was Billy Gravley in the 800 Freestyle with a 14^th place finish and new  Junior National Qualifying time of 8:35.59. Billy will be eligible to compete in two weeks at the Jr Nationals in Irvine.

Starting off the morning Meghan Boland also qualified for Jr National in the 200 Breaststroke with a time of 2:38.96 and is seeded 8^th in tonight’s finals. Lindsey Englestead is 16^th in the 200 Breast just 2 seconds off the Jr National pace and Hannon Daigler Qualified for 200 Backstroke C final with a 2:12.65 just 3 seconds off the Jr National time standard for the summer.

Watch the swims tonight on USA Swimming webcast or www.canyons.org