ManorGate Marlins Summer Season Recap

Hard to believe that summer swim team is over - but it was a great year
for the ManorGate Marlins! Our team of over 165 swimmers from ManorGate
and the surrounding communities did a fabulous job at the meets, ending
with a 2-3 season that saw two of the meets decided by just one or two
relays.

We are particularly proud of the 8&U Girls and the 11-12 Girls, who
earned the first place trophies in their age group for the Blue Division!

Our swimmers strive to better themselves and earned 798 personal bests
throughout the meets - wow! We reward the swimmers with a special
program called Green is Gold, where each 'green' personal best ribbon
earns them a 'gold' ticket in the end of the season lottery. It's a
great way for swimmers to strive for better times and earn a little
extra reward.

We have some swimmers we would like to recognize for their special achievements. Congratulations to the following Marlins who went to the All-Star meet in August. Those who finished in the top six are noted.

• Peter Ahn
• Olivia Collar
• Thalia Costanza
• Zoe Costanza
• Kylie Cuomo
• Lexi Cuomo (2nd overall in 50 Free, 3rd overall in 50 Back, and 2nd overall in 50 Fly)
• Morgan DiPippa
• Tony DiPippa
• Janice Guo
• Albert Kang
• Maxwell Leitch (4th overall in 50 Fly)
• Sahil Mehta
• Madison Nowakowski (3rd overall in 25 Fly)
• Hailey Purohit (4th overall in 25 Back)
• Daniel Shin
• Ian Stewart (6th overall in 50 Breast)
• Sarah Yoon

And congratulations to the following swimmers who broke team records this year - the oldest record on our board, from 1996, fell this year!

• Olivia Collar - Girls 11-12 50 Breast - 42.11 (broke record set 6/22/13)
• Thalia Costanza - Girls 11-12 50 Breast - 42.21 (broke record set in 2012)
• Lexi Cuomo - Girls 11-12 50 Free - 30.08 (broke records she set last year)
  Girls 11-12 50 Back - 35.14
  Girls 11-12 100 IM -1:19.71
• Maxwell Leitch - Boys 11-12 50 Fly - 34.33 (broke record set in 2006)
• Madison Nowakowski - Girls 8 & Under 25 Fly - 19.79 (broke record set in 1996!)
• Boys 11-12 200 Medley Relay - Steven Yoon, Ian Stewart, Maxwell Leitch, Paul Lee - 2:39.50 (broke record set in 2006)
• Girls 18 & Under 200 Free Relay - Sarah Yoon, Thalia Costanza, Lexi Cuomo, Kylie Cuomo -2:12.37 (broke record set last year)
• *Girls 11-12 200 Medley Relay (broke the record from last year, three different times with three different combinations of girls!)  - Thalia Costanza, Olivia Collar, Lexi Cuomo, Brianna Nelson, Elizabeth Brazier and Elina Nelson - 2:26.83

We would like to recognize our age group high points winners, as well.
These swimmers earned the most points in the dual meets during the season:

• Overall high points - girl - Lexi Cuomo
• Overall high points - boy - Maxwell Leitch

Age groups high points:

• 8&U girls - Madison Nowakowski
• 8&U boys - Albert Kang
• 9-10 girls - Sarah Yoon
• 9-10 boys - Ethan Jastrzembski
• 11-12 girls - Lexi Cuomo
• 11-12 boys - Maxwell Leitch
• 13-14 girls - Morgan DiPippa
• 13-14 boys - Daniel Shin
• 15-18 girls - Kylie Cuomo
• 15-18 boys - Mark Mahoney