2008 NEWS & RESULTS

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TSM Meet Wrap-Up November 8-9, Santa Monica - Results

NOVA vs CANYONS vs ROSE BOWL November 1, Rose Bowl-  Results

LA MIRADA SENIOR DEVELOPMENT MEET October 25-26, La Mirada - Results

Rose Bowl 4th at Summer Jr Olympics

July 30-August 3, Mission Viejo - Rose Bowl placed 4th (ahead of over 50 teams) at the Southern California Junior Olympics.  results

11-12 Girls made it a clean sweep, breaking all four Team Relay Records!  Matt Varraveto breaks 10 and under 100 and 200 Free team records!

Record Run at US Open & Jr Nationals

July 29-August 8, Minneapolis, MN  

Individuals - Alex Campbell, 15-16 Boys 100 Bk; Kevin Kuhn, 17-18 Boys 50/100 Free;  Shane Tusup, Open Boys 100 Bk;

Rachael Krager, 17-18 Girls 100/200 Fly

Relays - 15-18 Boys 400 Free (Campbell, James Gillette, Chris Myers, Kuhn), 15-18 Boys 400 Medley (Campbell, Ryan Cunningham, Andrew Muller, Kuhn),  Open Men's 800 Free (Tusup, Alec Alders, Scott Farley, Gillette)

Rose Bowl Captures Pacific Championships!

July 18-20, Los Angeles - results

Rose Bowl Record Setters

Eight year-olds Taylor Hughes & Caitlin Smith together established five new 8 & under team records during this summer long course season!  Taylor's 1:47.34 100 Breastroke erased the previous standard of 1:47.46, set a full decade ago (before Taylor was even born)! 

Caitlin continues to rewrite the 8 & under girls' record book, recently wiping out two 11 year-old records; the 100 Backstroke by four seconds (1:31.54) & 200 IM (3:17.08) by over 11 seconds!  She's also bettered her own 2007 Butterfly records with a 39.73 in the 50 & 1:28.24 in the 100.  Congratulations Caitlin & Taylor!

More Record Setters:

Rachael Krager - 17-18 Girls 100 Fly, Emily Adamczyk - Open & 17-18 Girls 200 Breast & 17-18 400 IM, Kevin Kuhn - 17-18 Boys 50 Free, Jason Lezak - Open 50 & 100 Free, Open & 15-18 Girls 200 Medley Relay (Jessica Lopez, Emily Adamczyk, Rachael Krager, Kenzie Heaton), Open Boys 200 Medley & Free Relays (Shane Tusup, Alec Alders, Eric Kim, Kevin Kuhn), 15-18 Boys 200 Medley Relay (Alex Campbell, Ryan Cunningham, Chris Myers, James Gillette), 15-18 Boys 200 Free Relay (Chris Myers, Alex Campbell, James Gillette, Peter Raptis)

June Age Group Invitational

Rose Bowl places 3rd in the mid-season warm up for the Junior Olympics, and has numerous best times along the way.  results

100% Best Times:

Katie Altmayer, Daniel Castro, Rebeca Fernandez, Meghan Fuelling, Kate Herrill, Mackenzie Hobby, Stephanie Samudro,

Haley Shewfelt, Kirsten Vose & Matt Varraveto

Westside Meet  Saturday, June 9 - Westside Meet Results

Congratulations to swimmers who posted 100% Personal Best Times!..

Andrew Angeles, Reece Damron-Elson, Luke Geiger, Rebekah Geiger, Kristine Kuhn, Rachel Lee, Emily Smith & Luna Trejo

Canyons Memorial Day Meet  May 23-25 - Memorial Day Meet Results

Team Santa Monica Meet Saturday, May 10 - TSM Meet Results

Culver City Royal Meet

Saturday, April 26-  Royal Meet Results  Congratulations to swimmers posting 100% Personal Bests!..

Katie Altmayer, Megan Baxter, Hailey Bloch, Grace Carey, Justin Carr, Marius Corwin, Joe Costa, Janica Crisostomo, Hannah Edens, Johnathan Erickson, Hannah Rae Finchamp, Ryan Flynn, Ariel Forbes, Emmanuel Forbes, Gabriel Forbes, Michael Forbes, Rachel Forbes, Meghan Fuelling, Uma Gyene, Brian Hong, Sarah Hughes, Taylor Hughes, Iva Icheva, Corey John, Shirley Lopez, Steve Lopez, Jennifer Montejo, Matt Olson, Sarah

Olson, Kaitlin Powers, Laura Reilly, Stephanie Samudro, Haley Shewfelt, Caitlin Smith, Mary Elizabeth Spearman, Luna Trejo, Matt Varraveto, Ryan Wang, Tiffany Warmuth, Lauren Warshaw & Jason Zhong 

COLA Meet

April 12, Los Angeles - 11 Year-Olds Haley Shewfelt & Briant Leytman are Rose Bowl's Newest Summer Jr. Olympic Qualifiers!   

44 Swimmers Post 100% Personal Bests!  Congratulations to...

Fred Abramyan, Katie Altmayer, Anna Billy, Grace Carey, Daniel Chao, Justine Cheng, Melissa Cienega, Joe Costa, Sean Cunningham, Hannah Edens, Sarp Elaziz, Isabella Faith, Gabriel Fernandez, Ises Fernandez, Rebeca Fernandez, Luke Geiger, Mickey Guevara, Susan Harrison, Shelby Hopkins, Taylor Hughes, Iva Icheva, Corey John, Jennifer Langen, Kasey Lee, Irene MacPherson, Nell Malone, Matt Olson, Sarah Olson, Krystle Ouh, Alexandra Pastron, Shelby Powell, Kaylee Racs, Krysten Racs, Laura Reilly, Austin Richards, Meghan Ryan, Stephanie Samudro, Isabelle Seeto, Haley Shewfelt, Mary Spearman, Matthew Spearman, Matt Varraveto, Tiffany Warmuth & Jason Zhong  Results 

Spring Intrasquad Meet

March 22, Rose Bowl - Mikey & Rachel Forbes post Summer J.O. Times!  Results

Congrats to Swimmers Posting 100% Personal Bests:  

Kris Abramyan, Shant Abramyan, Danielle Abubakkar, Axie Acosta, Katie Altmayer, Jose Arrevillaga, Juan Arrevillaga, Rebecca Arrevillaga, Jesus Bautista, Megan Baxter, Juliana Bechguenturian, Brett Bell, Nick Bell, Hailey Bloch, Alexa Bohorquez, Jeffrey Caballero, Kevin Caballero, Sammi Campbell, Grace Carey, Ray Chao, Jocelyn Cisneros, Marius Corwin, Joe Costa, Matthew Crabtree, Diego Cruz, Marisol Dakan, Tomas Dakan, Marco De La Torre, Nuvia De La Torre, Omar De La Torre, Hannah Edens, Isabelle Edens, Genevieve Emerson, Ramiro Flores, Ryan Flynn,  Emmanuel Forbes, Gabriel Forbes, Michael Forbes, Rachel Forbes, Raphael Forbes, Meredith Foster, Meghan Fuelling, Lola Gaines, Luke Geiger, Hannah Grotzinger, Heather Grotzinger,  Mickey Guevara, Uma Gyene, Nicholas Halaby, Carolyn Halley, Morgan Harrick, Susan Harrison, Kate Herrill, Thomas Hoffman, Brian Hong, Shelby Hopkins, Artur Hovhannisyan, Anna Huang, Sarah Hughes, Taylor Hughes, Iva Icheva, Bryan In, Issac Jin, Trenton Julian, Eleanor Kim, Noah Kim, Kristine Kuhn, Andy Langen, Jennifer Langen, Caitlyn Lasorsa, Gary Lee, Kasey Lee, Rachel Lee, George MacPherson, Irene MacPherson, Nell Malone, Nick Malone, Rachel Min, Jennifer Montejo, Ella Murphy, Sarah Olson,  Monica Pernecky, Shelby Powell, Kaitlin Powers, Kaylee Racs, Krysten Racs, Meghan Ryan, Stephanie Samudro, Lucy Schouweiler, Isabelle Seeto, Nick Seger, Haley Shewfelt, Cinnia Smith, Mary Spearman, Matthew Spearman, Emily Sullivan, Xander Trimis, Matt Varraveto, Anthony Vega-Fujioka, Kirsten Vose, Ryan Wang, Tiffany Warmuth, Carter Woodruff & Meaghan York

Hayley McGregory Sets World Record!

Hayley McGregory, who recently trained with the Rose Bowl National group in October & November while taking classes at USC, set a WORLD RECORD in the 50 backstroke! ROSE BOWL sends a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Hayley!

Four Rose Bowl Scholastic All-Americans

 National Group swimmers Katherine Tse, Brooke Bennett, Chris Luu & Chris Myers were named to the 2006-2007 USA Swimming Scholastic All American Team.  Congratulations for achieving excellence in both school & in the pool!

Seven at Jr. Nationals

March 18-22, Orlando, Florida

Seven swimmers represented Rose Bowl at the Spring Junior Nationals in Orlando, Florida.  Great job Emily Adamczyk, Scott Farley, Kenzie Heaton, Rachel Krager, Andrew Muller, Kevin Tovar & Katherine Tse!

Highlights from the meet:

Scott Farley had a fantastic meet, breaking 13-14 team records in the 200, 500 & 1000 yard freestyle events, as well as the 1500 meter freestyle.  Andrew Muller finished 19th in the 200 Fly & set new "Open" team records in the 100 & 200 yard Fly & 200 meter Fly.  On the girls' side Emily Adamczyk finished 21st in the 200 Breastroke.  Congratulations to all for representing

Rose Bowl Aquatics on the National stage.

Spring Sectionals 

Jason Lezak dominated the sprint Freestyle events with wins in the 50 & 100.   Kenzie Heaton surprised many, including herself by improving a full second on the 50 Free, qualifying for her first Junior National Championships!  Scott Farley, 14, set new team records in the 200, 400 & 800 Freestyles.  Two more records were set by relays; 15-18 Girls 400 Medley (Berklie Oscarson,

Emily Adamczyk, Rachael Krager, Katherine Tse) & the Open Boys 400 Medley (Alex Campbell, Chris Luu, Andrew Muller, Jason Lezak).  Results

Rose Bowl Runs Away With Pacific Championship

February 22-24, Pasadena - Almost 200 Rose Bowl swimmers easily captured the TEAM title at the Pacific Committee Spring Championships.  Highlights started with five new team records and many swimmers posted their first-ever Jr. Olympic and/or Invitational times.  Megan Baxter's 100 Freestyle became her first-ever 10&un Summer Jr. Olympic event, & Tyler Halley & Alexa Bohorquez both achieved their first-ever June Invitational time-standard, while just off the JO time, in the 11-12 50 Backstroke. 

FIVE TEAM RECORDS!

Caitlin Smith continues to bring down the 8&un girls butterfly TEAM records, as she reset her own records with a 35.78 in the 50 Fly & 16.76 in the 25 Fly.  She also added the 25 Backstroke to her list of TEAM records with an 18.08!   Matt Olson, in his last short course meet as a 10 year-old, established a new 100 Butterfly TEAM Record.  Then, Scott Farley "smashed" the 13-14 Boys' 200 Freestyle record by .01!

100% Personal Best Times Posted By: 

Megan Baxter, Jeffrey Caballero, Tomas Dakan, Sarp Elaziz, Johnathan Erickson, Isabella Faith, Jessica Gallegos, Karlie Garrity, Luke eiger, Rebekah Geiger, Morgan Harrick, Grant Haxton, Emily Hoffman, Artur Hovhannisyan, Bryan In, Eleanor Kim, Caitlyn Lasorsa, Kasey Lee, Jessica Lopez, Shirley Lopez, Katrine Madsen, Andrew Muller, Ellie Oscarson, Harutun Panosyan, Laura Reilly, Meghan Ryan, Isabelle Seeto, Caitlin

Smith, Emily Sullivan, Kevin Sung, Kristin Varraveto, Ryan Wang  (results)

Rose Bowl 9th at So Cal Jr Olympic Championships!

OLDER JO's - 13-14 & 15-18 age-groups

February 7-10, Long Beach - 36 Rose Bowl swimmers earned a sixth place TEAM finish at the Older Jr. Olympic Championships.  Their effort, combined with the Younger's (ages 11-12, 10 & un) 16th place finish a week earlier put the Rose Bowl Jr. Olympic TEAM in 9th.  Our goal was to finish  in the top eight, & ended up just a few points short. 

A few highlights among our 73 life-time best performances:  Ray Chao placed 8th in the 100 & 9th in the 200 Breastroke races.  Clark Fisher did a great job getting into the meet & provided valuable racing on relays, dropping 14 seconds in his Mile, & edging even closer to that Sectionals time!  Daniel Adamczyk, Joe Costa & Mickey Guevara all achieved 100% best times.  (results)

13 Relay Records Broken & One Individual Record Set!...

Chris Luu - 17-18 Boy's 200 Breaststroke - 2:08.42

15-18, Open Boys 200 Medley Relay (A. Campbell, C. Luu, A. Muller, C. Myers)

ELEVEN GIRLS' RELAY TEAM RECORDS!!...

15-16 400 Free (E. Adamczyk, K. Sher, K. Heaton, K. Tse)

15-16 & 15-18 800 Free (E. Adamczyk, K. Sher, T. Hotvet, J. Lopez)

15-16, 15-18, Open 200 Free (K. Tse, K. Sher, B. Oscarson, E. Adamczyk)

15-16, 15-18 & Open 200 Medley (B. Oscarson, E. Adamczyk, K. Sher, K. Tse)

15-16 400 Medley (B. Oscarson, E. Adamczyk, K. Sher, K. Tse)

YOUNGER JO's - 10 & un, 11-12 age-groups

February 1-3, Long Beach - Twenty Rose Bowl swimmers earned a 16th place TEAM finish at the Younger (10&un, 11-12) Junior Olympic Championships, which included top swimmers from teams throughout southern California. 

Our goal was to finish in the top eight as a TEAM and we seemed to be definite contenders up until a week before the meet.... 

Unfortunately the flu seemed to be our greatest foe this year, hitting the majority of the JO TEAM just a few days before the start of the meet.  (results)

Nevertheless, we had somr very exciting HIGHLIGHTS: 

Matt Varraveto was our high-point scorer, qualifying for the consolation finals in all six of his events!  Racing in the top-eight finals was Katie Altman & Daniel Chao; both in the 10 & un 100 Breastroke. 

Other swimmers who qualified for the evening consolation finals included:  Kris Abramyan, 10 (50 Back), Iva Icheva, 12 (50 Back &

50 Fly), Corey John, 12 (50 Back), Trenton Julian, 9 (100 Fly), Dennis Lee, 12 (100 Fly) & Matt Olson, 10 (100 Fly).

Long Beach Grand Prix - 11th Place Finish

January 19-20, Westwood (results) - In a meet that saw a new American record set the very first night of competition, Rose Bowl swimmers joined in with some great swims.  Thirty lifetime bests were posted throughout the weekend, with 100% best times turned in by Alex Campbell & Chris Myers.

Additionally, three Rose Bowl relay records were established: 

15-16 Girl's 400 Free Relay (Emily Adamczyk, Katalina Sher, Kenzie Heaton, Katherine Tse), Men's 400 Free Relay (James Gillette, Andrew Muller, Alex Campbell, Jason Lezak)  & Men's 400 Medley Relay (Kevin Tovar, Chris Luu, Andrew Muller, Jason Lezak)

ZAP "Red & White" Meet

January 26, Palos Verdes - (results)

Congratulations to Haley Shewfelt, 11, & Uma Gyene, 9, for their breakthrough swims!  Uma dropped seven seconds in the 100 Backstroke for her first Summer Jr. Olympic event.  Then Haley picked up her second June Invitational event in

just two weeks with an eight-second improvement in the 100 Butterfly. 

Posting 100% Bests: 

Grace Carey, Reece Damron-Elson, Hannah Edens, Isabelle Edens, Gabriel Fernandez, Meghan Fuelling, Susan Harrison, Sarah Hughes, Taylor Hughes, Kaylee Racs, Krysten Racs, Lucy Schouweiler, Haley Shewfelt & Kirsten Vose

"Blue" Meet Wrap-Up

January 18-21, Long Beach - Six Swimmers Pick Up More JO Events!

Nine year-olds Nick Bell, Trenton Julian & Shelby Hopkins each qualified in the 200 IM.  Also adding JO events were Katie Altman, 10 (100 Free & 50 Back), Fred Abramyan, 13 (400 IM), & Christina Brandt, 15 (200 Breaststroke).  Another highlight was the girl's 11-12 500 Freestyle where Haley Shewfelt & Hannah Edens picked up their first June

Invitational events.  Congratulations to Grace Carey, Taylor Hughes, Alexandra Pastron, Laura Reilly & Chandler Woo for posting 100% personal bests!  (results)

Rose Bowl Swims In The New Year With Busy Weekend Of Racing!

Southern California "Q" Meet 

January 11-13, Long Beach - (results)  Meet Highlights included: 

Alex Campbell - Qualifies for a new Grand Prix & Sectional event (100 Free)

Clark Fisher - Qualified for Spring JO's in the 500 Free

Taylor Hotvet - 100% bests & new Sectional cuts in the 100 & 1000 Freestyles

Gwen Mathias - Five-second drop in 200 Back & a new Spring JO time,

All-Star Festival  Saturday, Jan. 11, El Monte - (results) 

Eight Rose Bowl swimmers were chosen to participate in the Southern California Swimming Festival; an all-star type competition.  Congratulations to our... 10 & under boys Kris Abramyan, Daniel Chao & Matt Varraveto; 11-12 Girls Iva Icheva & Justine Cheng; 13-14 Boys Ray Chao, Ryan Cunningham & Matt Myers

January Intrasquad  Sunday, Jan. 13, Rose Bowl - (results) 

The meet came to a halt just before the third heat of event #17... Olympic Champion, American Record Holder & Rose Bowl swimmer Jason Lezak was to step up for the 50 yard Freestyle, an event in which he's a three-time U.S. National Champion.  All eyes were on lane four, waiting to see a performance from one of the best in the world!  At the sound of the start Jason powered off the blocks, completing the two-lap race in a seemingly effortless 20.20 seconds.

Eight swimmers already on the Spring JO team qualified for additional events on Sunday morning... 

Congratulations to:  Fred Abramyan, 13 (100 Fly), Katie Altmayer, 12 (200 Free), Joe Costa, 14 (50 Free), Kate Herrill, 10 (100 Breast), Shelby Hopkins, 9 (100 Back), Iva Icheva, 12 (500 Free), Gwen Mathias, 14 (100 Back), Stephanie Samudro, 11 (100 IM) & Tiffany Warmuth, 12 (100 Back & 200 Free).

100% personal best performances were turned in by:

Fred Abramyan, Tommy Altmayer, Alexa Bohorquez, Miranda Briseno, Christina Campbell, Daniel Castro, Collin Chersi, Joe Costa, Reece Damron-Elson, Hannah Edens, Isabella Faith, Gabriel Fernandez, Meghan Fuelling, Thomson Giles, Susan Harrison, Emily Hoffman, Shelby Hopkins, Sarah Hughes, Camille Katz, Kasey Lee,  Katrine Madsen, Sarah Olson, Stephanie Samudro, Isabelle Seeto, Cinnia Smith, Matthew Spearman, Luna Trejo, Matt Varraveto, Tiffany Warmuth, Lauren Warshaw, Olivia Woo, Evan Yerian

Jason Lezak Second at Nationals

Nov. 29-Dec. 1, Atlanta - Jason Lezak finished an exciting second in both the 50 & 100 yard Freestyle events! 

Congratulations to all three of our Rose Bowl swimmers, Emily Adamczyk, Jason & Andrew Muller, for competing amongst

the best in the country at the USA Senior National Swimming Championships.