A New Era Begins: TC Swimming

A new era in Turlock Christian sports began on Friday the 13th of March 2009, the sport of swimming. With just 7 participates the TC Eagles dove into their first swim meet, competing with Los Banos and Pitman High Schools, and demonstrated some outstanding efforts. As a new team the Eagles are not competing in a league but are being allowed to compete with some of the Central California Conference teams at their dual meets. The results of these dual meets will qualify some, if not all, of the Eagle swimmers for the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Swim Meet at the end of the season. At their first meet 6 of the 7 swimmers participated and did a great job. Anyone who thought they would bring up the rear and not be competitive with the other high schools was pleased and surprised. Rebekah Muller had the best varsity time of the meet in the 50 free at 25.58 beating a former teammate from the Hughson Seadogs and Molly Zuhlke would have placed 3rd in both the 50 and 100 free at the JV level. Rebekah and Colin Russell both swam section qualifying times in the 50 Free. To see Sac-Joaquin Section qualifying times just click this sentence. The times are on the second page of the document.

Every time someone swims and improves the previous time they set a school recorded in that event. The simplicity of being the first will make recorded keeping pretty simple this year.

School records and personal bests set on Friday included:

50 Free
Girls JV - Molly Zuhlke 33.02 (TC Record)
Boys JV - Daniel Braden 30.64 (TC Record)
Daniel on the blocks

Girls Varsity - Rebeca Muller 25.58 (TC Record / Section Qualifying)
Boys Varsity - Colin Russell 23.38 (TC Record / Section Qualifying)

100 Free
Girls JV - Molly Zuhlke 1:15.33 (TC Record)
Molly Z / 100 Free

Girls Varsity - Johanna Muller 1:04.50 (TC Record), Aubrey Larson 1:12.29 (Personal Record)

100 Back
Girls Varsity - Johanna Muller 1:12.93 (TC Record)
Johanna Backin It

200 Free Reley
Girls Varsity - Johanna, Aubrey, Molly, Rebekah / 1:59.05 (TC Record)

The meet was a great time and you would be surprised how many people you know, such as parents, swimmers, and friends, from the other swim programs. Come out and give it a try. Our next meet will be Friday, March 20th at 3 PM at Pitman High School in Turlock. A meet takes about 2 hours.

See Ya at the pool:-)

Here is a friend of the school, former student Ian Roos after winning the 100 Fly for Pitman High School.