Mustangs Strong at US 2006 Summer National Meets!

A super showing was displayed by our Mustangs at this year’s United States Summer Junior Nationals and National Swimming Championships held in Irvine, CA. The Championships were held over a two week period in early August.

Junior Nationals

Our team had a fantastic showing! Our men’s team stroked to a second place finish and our women and men combined for 5th place team finish at the United States Junior National Championships. Matt Thompson won the 100 back, 200 back and 200 IM, and broke the meet record in each event. Max Murphy picked up Senior National qualifying times in the 100 and 200 back and Caleb Veazey dropped over 20 seconds in the 1500 free to score valuable points for the team. The following are the Mustang swimmers who made up this summer’s Junior team and how they placed in their events.

Alyssa Landino – 800 free (75th), 100 free (101st), 200 free (99th)

Meredith Monroe – 200 back (69th), 200 free (86th), 100 back (54th)

Catia Weickgenant – 200 fly (52nd), 100 fly (84th)

Kannon Betzen – 100 breast (26th), 200 IM (67th)

Lauren Roth – relays

Maddie Steiner – relays

Nick Kalivas – 100 free (28th), 200 free (65th), 100 fly (20th), 50 free (64th)

Matt Thompson – 200 back (1st), 400 IM (3rd), 100 Back (1st), 200 IM (1st)

Max Murphy – 200 back (5th), 100 back (3rd)

Clint Hallum – 800 free (32nd), 200 free (101st), 400 free (23rd), 1500 free (39th)

Caleb Veazey – 800 free (58th), 400 free (52nd), 1500 free (14th)

Jack Dwyer – 50 free (63rd)

Lamar Weeks – relays

Women’s 200 medley relay (22nd) Monroe, Betzen, Weickgenant, and Landino

Women’s 200 free relay (27th) Steiner, Roth, Landino, and Betzen

Women’s 800 free relay (17th) Roth, Landino, Weickgenant, and Monroe

Women’s 400 free relay (14th) Roth, Steiner, Landino, and Monroe

Women’s 400 medley relay (7th) Monroe, Betzen, Weickgenant, and Roth

Men’s 200 medley relay (9th) Thompson, Murphy, Kalivas, and Dwyer

Men’s 200 free relay (12th) Kalivas, Thompson, Murphy, and Dwyer

Men’s 800 free relay (9th) Kalivas, Hallum, Weeks, and Thompson

Men’s 400 free relay (14th) Kalivas, Dwyer, Murphy, and Thompson

Men’s 400 medley relay (6th) Thompson, Hallum, Kalivas, and Dwyer

Nationals

This year’s United States National Championships brought together some of the biggest names in swimming – Michael Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, Brendon Hansen, Katie Hoff, Natalie Coughlin and Kaitlin Sandino. The Mustangs took nine swimmers to the competition and finished 23rd as a team. Matt Thompson won the 18 and under national championship in the 100 back and our Women’s 400 Free Relay broke a team record by averaging better than 57.5 per person. The following is this summer’s team and how they faired:

Candace Blackman – 200 free (48th), 50 free (33rd), 100 free (66th)

Jennifer Blackman – 200 free (88th), 100 free (73rd)

Katie Roberts – 400 free (42nd), 200 free (73rd), 800 free (55th)

Leane Darling – 50 free (61st), 100 free (22nd)

Jenny Basil – 100 breast (44th), 200 breast (58th), 200 IM (68th)

Matt Thompson – 400 IM (25th), 100 back (14th), 200 back (17th)

Nate Clark – 200 fly (59th)

Justin Smith – 200 IM (62nd), 200 fly (29th)

Brett Dunham – 100 fly (57th)

Women’s 400 free relay (4th) Blackman, Darling, Roberts, and Blackman

Women’s 800 free relay (12th) Blackman, Roberts, Darling, and Blackman

Great Going Mustangs!!!