BLAST NATION:
Congratulations to Kristen Jennings and Kara Kopcso for being voted the 12 and under girls and 13- 18 girls Louisiana Swimmers of the Year. Andrew Knudsen was runner up for 12 and under boys Swimmer of the Year in a very close vote with Luke Haley of Elmwood Sharks. Other winners were: Brian Carr, CCSC, 13 - 18 boys, Heather Winn, HSC, Senior girls and Adam Klein, CCSC and Auburn, Senior boys. The vote was taken by member teams at the Louisiana Swimming meeting held at Centennary College on September 26.
Other news: All USAS registration fees have been raised by $2.00 per person. All athletes fees are $57.00 for 2010.
Swim suits: basically, it's back to the old suits of 2007. No bodysuits.
September 10, 2009
This came today from USA Swimming:
Congratulations To Kara Kopcso!!!
Your athlete, Kara Kopcso, has been selected to attend the 2009 Speedo National Select Camp October 28-November 1, 2009. USA Swimming has selected 60 athletes based on their performances this past summer in either an individual event or on their IMX score.
Congratulations and thank you!
Peter C. Clark
Sport Development Consultant
USA Swimming
Kara, All of BLAST NATION is very proud of you!! Have a BLAST at the Camp!!!
BB
Colin Babcock finished the zone meet off for Blasters by dropping two seconds in his 200 IM and placing 8th, his second "finals" swim of the meet. Colin finished the meet with 100% best times in his six events for the meet. He was the only Louisiana Zone Team member to do that. While I have become accustomed to Colin doing that at state, it is a much more impressive feat at the Southern Zone meet that should be noted!
Kara Kopcso finished off her meet with a 6th place finish in the 200
IM and swam a time right around her best time. She started to feel
some of the fatigue of the week by the last event. I guess you've a
"arrived" when you can have a tired swim and still get 6th
as a 13 year old!
Also of particular note was Alex Cloutet's 9th place finish
in the 100 breast. She missed out on the finals by only a few
hundreths of a second. Impressive for another 13 year old.
Also, the final session of the meet saw Grace Tucker race in the 11-12 girls free relay and Kara posted the fastest free split of all La. swimmers in the 13-14 free relay.
Also representing Blast well at Zones was
Griffin Guzan, Madeleine Rawls, and Kristen Jennings, who only
recently made 13 in June and is still ranked in the top ten in the
country from her 200 back in her final meet as a 12 year old.
