2021 Virginia Commonwealth Games | LY June Jam | Long Course

Jolanthe Erb (Director of Operations)

 

2021 Virginia Commonwealth Games | LY June Jam - Long Course

From June 25 - June 27, thirty of our swimmers traveled to Lynchburg, VA for the Virginia Commonwealth Games (long course) - another great team turnout for our kids! This was a prelims/finals long course meet held at Liberty University. Our team swam a total of 248 events over the course of 3 days, and 18 of these races were first time swims and 96 were best times!

Most exciting - relays are back!! So many of our kids had the opportunity to participate over the course of the weekend. Kudos to our parents in the stands who survived the weekend with the A/C not working inside and many thanks for stepping in to volunteer on deck. 

8/under Swimmers: Bryson Long (7) and Harper Mancini (6)

9-10 Swimmers: Igor Dmytriyev (9), Jed Gorby (9), Eliza Hewitt (9), and Caelee Long (9)

11-12 Swimmers: Sadie Deeble (12), Boris Dmytriyev (11), Lila Gorby (12), James Hewitt (11), Hayley Mancini (11), and Naomi Shafer (11) 

13-14 Swimmers: Molly Beckwith (14), Rebecca Couric (13), Kaleb Erb (14), Tessa Gorby (14), Madison Keller (13), Albert Krasheninnkov, (13), and Isabelle Thompson (13)  

15/older Swimmers: Mia Constantin (18), Lydia Couric (15), Zoe Deeble (15), Lada Dmytriyev (15), Aiden Dupuis (17), Zachary Erb (16), Phineas Kasten (17), Cole Martin (15), Eliza Thompson (16), Isaac Wenger (15), and Alexia Wright (16)

Seven of our swimmers placed in the top three in twenty-four different events, with fifty-nine overall top 10 placements:  WAY TO GO!! Congratulations to Molly Beckwith for placing 1st in the 13/14 Girls 200 Free finals!

There were 31 new motivational cuts achieved from B through AAA.  Those swims and swimmers are called out below.  Great meet, everyone!! We hope you all had fun and were encouraged by your times over the course of the weekend and can't wait to see your end-of-season swims at both Age Group and Senior Championships in July!