Congratulations to all the swimmers who have acheived a National cut in one or more events. And special recognition to those swimmers joining the ranks of the Countryside Torpedoes National Team for the first time at the Southwest Cluster Long Course Championship.

National Team Qualifiers
Steven Baker Jim Barbiere Vanessa Becker
Tyler Benner Anna Bersani Carlo Biedenharn
Lynn Brotherton Brandon Burns Andrew Burt
Carolyn Carter Tony Dickman Tim Early
Sydnee Eberly* Hannah Houston* Matt Hughes
Katelyn Ishee Christian Josephsen Kayla Kircher
Jacob Kramb Robert Lawley Aaron Lawson
Adam Lewis* Rachael Lewis* Victoria Liang
Breann McDowell Ethan McNeil Paul Skousen
Alex Smit Bryan Strobehn* Sam VanDyke
Hannah Warfel Chris Warfel McKenna Warfel*
Matt Whitehurst Ian Wooley Steven Zimmerman
National Team Hopefuls
 
Tuesday (Full Results and Team Scores): (Events 1 through 12)

Almost every CY swimmer who dropped time also finished better than the psych sheet’s prediction. Notably both the men’s and women’s 200 Medley Relays are in the championship final and Steven Zimmerman joined Alex Smit and Jim Barbiere in the top 8 for the final in the 100 Backstroke. Carlo Biedenharn and Katelyn Ishee also improved their psych sheet position to come back in the consolation final in the 400 Freestyle and 50 Breaststroke, respectively.

At Finals, everyone either improved their place or at least improved on their time from the preliminaries. The CY Men are in 3rd, the Women in 14th, and Combined are in 5th place after the first day of competition.

Event 1 Women 100 LC Meter Backstroke
26 Anna Bersani 18 Countryside-OH 1:08.90 1:09.50 QUAL
Event 2 Men 100 LC Meter Backstroke
1 Jim Barbiere 18 Countryside-OH 59.29 57.86 QUAL
1 Jim Barbiere 18 Countryside-OH 57.86 57.63 QUAL
5 Alex Smit 17 Countryside-OH 1:01.40 1:00.74 QUAL
3 Alex Smit 17 Countryside-OH 1:00.74 59.05 QUAL
6 Steven Zimmerman 15 Countryside-OH 1:02.86 1:00.84 QUAL
7 Steven Zimmerman 15 Countryside-OH 1:00.84 1:00.52 QUAL
55 Jacob Kramb 17 Countryside-OH 1:06.76 1:05.06 QUAL
73 Ian Wooley 13 Countryside-OH 1:06.03 1:06.64 QUAL
Event 3 Women 400 LC Meter Freestyle
17 Breann McDowell 16 Countryside-OH 4:32.28 4:36.95 QUAL
Event 4 Men 400 LC Meter Freestyle
14 Carlo Biedenharn 16 Countryside-OH 4:24.84 4:16.91 QUAL
16 Carlo Biedenharn 16 Countryside-OH 4:16.91 4:16.82 QUAL
51 Matt Hughes 18 Countryside-OH 4:31.94 4:24.64 QUAL
62 Robert Lawley 15 Countryside-OH 4:24.40 4:26.40 QUAL
80 Matthew Whitehurst 15 Countryside-OH 4:32.12 4:34.49
Event 5 Women 50 LC Meter Breaststroke
11 Katelyn Ishee 18 Countryside-OH 36.03 35.14 QUAL
9 Katelyn Ishee 18 Countryside-OH 35.14 35.18 QUAL
79 Hannah Warfel 14 Countryside-OH 37.50 37.65 QUAL
106 Kayla Kircher 14 Countryside-OH 37.15 38.42
Event 6 Men 50 LC Meter Breaststroke
25 Ethan McNeil 17 Countryside-OH 33.84 32.86 QUAL
44 Christian Josephson 14 Countryside-OH 35.67 33.52 QUAL
58 Chris Warfel 18 Countryside-OH 32.90 34.07 QUAL
79 Brandon Burns 16 Countryside-OH 33.95 34.67 QUAL
Event 7 Women 200 LC Meter IM
69 Katelyn Ishee 18 Countryside-OH 2:12.69Y 2:36.80 QUAL
Event 8 Men 200 LC Meter IM
35 Steven Zimmerman 15 Countryside-OH 2:20.26 2:18.19 QUAL
64 Ethan McNeil 17 Countryside-OH 2:24.39 2:23.42 QUAL
82 Tim Early 15 Countryside-OH 2:25.22 2:25.10 QUAL
Event 9 Women 50 LC Meter Freestyle
38 Breann McDowell 16 Countryside-OH 28.12 28.72 QUAL
Event 10 Men 50 LC Meter Freestyle
83 Andrew Burt 18 Countryside-OH 26.49 26.34 QUAL
94 Matt Hughes 18 Countryside-OH 26.66 26.45 QUAL
120 Paul Skousen 16 Countryside-OH 26.75 26.74 QUAL
159 Stephen Baker 17 Countryside-OH 26.86 27.43
Event 11 Women 200 LC Meter Medley Relay
8 Countryside-OH 2:07.39 2:04.43 QUAL 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Katelyn Ishee 18 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 32.05 1:07.19 (35.14) 1:36.63 (29.44) 2:04.43 (27.80)
7 Countryside-OH 2:04.43 2:04.89 QUAL 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Katelyn Ishee 18 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 1:07.50 ( ) 2:04.89 (57.39)
Event 12 Men 200 LC Meter Medley Relay
4 Countryside-OH 1:53.42 1:50.29 QUAL 1) Steven Zimmerman 15 2) Ethan McNeil 17 3) Alex Smit 17 4) Jim Barbiere 18 29.02 1:01.17 (32.15) 1:26.22 (25.05) 1:50.29 (24.07)
3 Countryside-OH 1:50.29 1:49.19 QUAL 1) Steven Zimmerman 15 2) Ethan McNeil 17 3) Alex Smit 17 4) Jim Barbiere 18 28.52 1:00.53 (32.01) 1:25.37 (24.84) 1:49.19 (23.82)
Wednesday (Full Results and Team Scores): (Events 13-21, 44)

Another great day of swimming for CY. Alex Smit started his day making the top seed for the finals in the 100 Butterfly with a new team record and then bettered that with his win at finals in 56.69. Later in the finals session Jim Barbiere swam his personal best to improve his team record in the 200 Freestyle and place 3rd. Katelyn Ishee and Breann McDowell scored in their finals of the 200 Breaststroke and 200 Freestyle, respectively. The CY Men are still in 3rd, the Women have moved up to 12th, and Combined are still in 5th place after the second day of competition.

Event 13 Women 100 LC Meter Butterfly
17 Lynn Brotherton 16 Countryside-OH 1:07.71 1:06.67 QUAL
39 Sam Vandyke 17 Countryside-OH 1:08.13 1:08.38 QUAL
Event 14 Men 100 LC Meter Butterfly
1 Alex Smit 17 Countryside-OH 58.14 57.32 QUAL
1 Alex Smit 17 Countryside-OH 57.32 56.69 QUAL (new CY record)
32 Aaron Lawson 16 Countryside-OH 1:01.82 1:00.61 QUAL
35 Christian Josephson 14 Countryside-OH 1:00.73 1:00.93 QUAL
72 Paul Skousen 16 Countryside-OH 1:03.64 1:03.16 QUAL
76 Tim Early 15 Countryside-OH 1:03.60 1:03.41 QUAL
86 Ian Wooley 13 Countryside-OH 1:03.77 1:05.07
Event 15 Women 200 LC Meter Breaststroke
4 Katelyn Ishee 18 Countryside-OH 2:41.11 2:40.92 QUAL
7 Katelyn Ishee 18 Countryside-OH 2:40.92 2:40.10 QUAL
47 Vanessa Becker 18 Countryside-OH 2:55.88 2:54.89 QUAL
77 Kayla Kircher 14 Countryside-OH 2:58.91 2:59.14 QUAL
Event 16 Men 200 LC Meter Breaststroke
24 Ethan McNeil 17 Countryside-OH 2:44.35 2:36.93 QUAL
82 Brandon Burns 16 Countryside-OH 2:45.93 2:51.57
Event 17 Women 200 LC Meter Freestyle
13 Breann McDowell 16 Countryside-OH 2:09.68 2:11.15 QUAL
12 Breann McDowell 16 Countryside-OH 2:11.15 2:10.01 QUAL
26 Anna Bersani 18 Countryside-OH 2:13.13 2:12.74 QUAL
Event 18 Men 200 LC Meter Freestyle
6 Jim Barbiere 18 Countryside-OH 1:56.23 1:56.80 QUAL
3 Jim Barbiere 18 Countryside-OH 1:56.80 1:55.51 QUAL (new CY record)
34 Matt Hughes 18 Countryside-OH 2:07.39 2:01.71 QUAL
43 Carlo Biedenharn 16 Countryside-OH 2:06.04 2:02.50 QUAL
61 Andrew Burt 18 Countryside-OH 2:05.73 2:03.24 QUAL
118 Jacob Kramb 17 Countryside-OH 2:07.45 2:09.70
Event 19 Women 400 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
11 Countryside-OH 4:08.72 4:06.66 QUAL 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Sam Vandyke 17 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 1:01.73 (1:01.73) 2:03.91 (1:02.18) 3:05.67 (1:01.76) 4:06.66 (1:00.99)
11 Countryside-OH 4:06.66 4:05.00 QUAL 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Sam Vandyke 17 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 29.31 1:01.86 (1:01.86) 1:16.71 (14.85) 2:33.01 (1:16.30) 3:05.01 (1:48.30) 3:33.55 (28.54) 4:05.00 (59.99)
Event 20 Men 400 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
7 Countryside-OH 3:45.53 3:39.99 QUAL 1) Alex Smit 17 2) Matt Hughes 18 3) Andrew Burt 18 4) Jim Barbiere 18 55.86 (55.86) 1:50.88 (55.02) 2:47.03 (56.15) 3:39.99 (52.96)
6 Countryside-OH 3:39.99 3:40.27 QUAL 1) Alex Smit 17 2) Matt Hughes 18 3) Andrew Burt 18 4) Jim Barbiere 18 26.69 56.02 (56.02) 1:22.33 (26.31) 1:51.55 (55.53) 2:18.02 (26.47) 2:47.37 (55.82) 3:12.17 (24.80) 3:40.27 (52.90)
Event 21 Women 800 LC Meter Freestyle
(no entries from Countryside)
Event 44 Men 1500 LC Meter Freestyle
17 Robert Lawley 15 Countryside-OH 17:27.11 17:05.94 QUAL
Thursday (Full Results and Team Scores): (Events 23-32)

More great swims for our Torpedoes! Jim Barbiere and Steven Zimmerman are the top two qualifiers for the final in the 200 Backstroke and Alex Smit is the top qualifier in the 50 Butterfly. Breann McDowell swims again tonight in the 100 Freestyle and Lynn Brotherton is back for the 50 Butterfly. Both the Men’s and Women’s 800 Freestyle Relays swim with Finals (the event is a timed-final).

The finals continued the momentum from the morning preliminaries and the team records started to fall. Steven swam faster than the team record in the 200 Backstroke in a strong second-place finish, but couldn’t claim the team record from Jim, the new national champion. Lynn Brotherton swam an awesome 50 Fly to break a long-standing team record and Alex Smit easily claimed the top spot on the awards podium when he improved on the team record that he broke in the prelims. That wasn’t enough for the team today–the 800 Freestyle Relay teams wanted more! First the girls exploded with some LTB swims and slashed more than 2 seconds off the record. The guys picked up where the girls left off and put some more LTB swims in the water to shave a bit off a record of their own and a 4th-place finish.

Event 23 Women 400 LC Meter IM
(no entries from Countryside)
Event 24 Men 400 LC Meter IM
54 Tim Early 15 Countryside-OH 5:06.93 5:11.70
Event 25 Women 100 LC Meter Freestyle
15 Breann McDowell 16 Countryside-OH 59.82 1:00.83
15 Breann McDowell 16 Countryside-OH 1:00.83 1:00.82
92 Sam Vandyke 17 Countryside-OH 1:03.19
Event 26 Men 100 LC Meter Freestyle
45 Matt Hughes 18 Countryside-OH 57.16 55.96
59 Carlo Biedenharn 16 Countryside-OH 57.79 56.33
74 Andrew Burt 18 Countryside-OH 57.32 56.77
103 Paul Skousen 16 Countryside-OH 57.61 57.61
Event 27 Women 200 LC Meter Backstroke
18 Anna Bersani 18 Countryside-OH 2:28.22 2:28.56
80 Carolyn Carter 15 Countryside-OH 2:37.49 2:35.91
Event 28 Men 200 LC Meter Backstroke
1 Jim Barbiere 18 Countryside-OH 2:12.78 2:07.63
1 Jim Barbiere 18 Countryside-OH 2:07.63 2:06.11 (new CY record)
2 Steven Zimmerman 15 Countryside-OH 2:12.69 2:09.68
2 Steven Zimmerman 15 Countryside-OH 2:09.68 2:07.24 (faster than old record)
74 Jacob Kramb 17 Countryside-OH 2:25.13 2:25.07
75 Tony Dickman 17 Countryside-OH 2:26.52 2:25.18
Event 29 Women 50 LC Meter Butterfly
12 Lynn Brotherton 16 Countryside-OH 30.80 29.98
14 Lynn Brotherton 16 Countryside-OH 29.98 29.79 (new CY record)
57 Sam Vandyke 17 Countryside-OH 31.49 31.35
137 Victoria Liang 15 Countryside-OH 32.01 32.63
153 Kayla Kircher 14 Countryside-OH 32.28 32.90
Event 30 Men 50 LC Meter Butterfly
1 Alex Smit 17 Countryside-OH 26.22 25.72
1 Alex Smit 17 Countryside-OH 25.72 25.56
34 Christian Josephson 14 Countryside-OH 27.70 27.80
45 Aaron Lawson 16 Countryside-OH 28.79 28.23
96 Andrew Burt 18 Countryside-OH 29.59 29.04
112 Ian Wooley 13 Countryside-OH 25.78Y 29.24
136 Paul Skousen 16 Countryside-OH 29.76 29.82
Event 31 Women 800 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
10 Countryside-OH 8:58.73 8:50.32 (new CY record) 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Sam Vandyke 17 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 1:03.64 2:13.32 (2:13.32) 3:17.92 (1:04.60) 4:27.85 (2:14.53) 5:32.07 (1:04.22) 6:41.60 (2:13.75) 7:44.45 (1:02.85) 8:50.32 (2:08.72)
Event 32 Men 800 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
4 Countryside-OH 8:15.31 8:00.41 (new CY record) 1) Carlo Biedenharn 16 2) Matt Hughes 18 3) Andrew Burt 18 4) Jim Barbiere 18 58.99 2:01.86 (2:01.86) 3:00.46 (58.60) 4:02.24 (2:00.38) 5:00.15 (57.91) 6:05.18 (2:02.94) 7:01.26 (56.08) 8:00.41 (1:55.23)
Friday (Full Results and Team Scores): (Events 33-43, 22)

The 200 Freestyle Relays improved times a bit in finals, but finished at the bottom of their heats. Aaron Lawson was at the top of the consolation final in the 200 Butterfly and swam a terrific race to finish with a time that would have been 5th place had he been able to swim in the top final. Jim and Alex racked up more points in the 50 Backstroke taking 1st and 5th places. Katelyn Ishee took 2 more seconds off her 100 Breaststroke time to move into 10th in the consolation final. Ethan McNeil wiped 4 seconds off his best time when he swam a 1:11.32 in the men’s 100 Breaststroke, but he dropped another second during his leg of an amazing 400 Medley Relay with Steven Zimmerman, Alex Smit, and Jim Barbiere. Amazing is really not sufficient to describe this relay. Steven’s time was his LTB by 0.18 from his finals performance on Tuesday. Alex’s split was better than his new CY team record (set Wednesday) and Jim’s anchor leg would be the team record as an individual time. When the finals videos are posted to Floswimming, everyone should watch this one. (Yes, that includes those of you who already saw it in person!)

Event 33 Women 200 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
14 Countryside-OH 1:54.98 1:53.94 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Sam Vandyke 17 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 28.44 57.61 (29.17) 1:26.22 (28.61) 1:53.94 (27.72)
16 Countryside-OH 1:53.94 1:53.67 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Sam Vandyke 17 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 28.35 57.49 (29.14) 1:25.93 (28.44) 1:53.67 (27.74)
Event 34 Men 200 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
8 Countryside-OH 1:42.79 1:39.75 1) Alex Smit 17 2) Matt Hughes 18 3) Andrew Burt 18 4) Jim Barbiere 18 25.01 50.27 (25.26) 1:15.74 (25.47) 1:39.75 (24.01)
8 Countryside-OH 1:39.75 1:39.72 1) Alex Smit 17 2) Matt Hughes 18 3) Andrew Burt 18 4) Jim Barbiere 18 25.12 50.42 (25.30) 1:15.79 (25.37) 1:39.72 (23.93)
Event 35 Women 200 LC Meter Butterfly
27 Sam Vandyke 17 Countryside-OH 2:29.73 2:30.00
-- Lynn Brotherton 16 Countryside-OH 2:37.29 DQ Declared false start
Event 36 Men 200 LC Meter Butterfly
9 Aaron Lawson 16 Countryside-OH 2:14.09 2:11.50
9 Aaron Lawson 16 Countryside-OH 2:11.50 2:09.68
53 Tim Early 15 Countryside-OH 2:20.97 2:20.74
Event 37 Women 50 LC Meter Backstroke
17 Anna Bersani 18 Countryside-OH 32.44 32.14
110 Carolyn Carter 15 Countryside-OH 34.36 34.41
Event 38 Men 50 LC Meter Backstroke
1 Barbiere, Jim 18 Countryside-OH 27.81 27.68
1 Jim Barbiere 18 Countryside-OH 27.68 27.45
4 Smit, Alex 17 Countryside-OH 29.29 28.09
5 Alex Smit 17 Countryside-OH 28.09 28.07
19 Steven Zimmerman 15 Countryside-OH 29.74 29.31
24 Jacob Kramb 17 Countryside-OH 30.04 29.64
58 Tyler Benner 15 Countryside-OH 31.26 30.80
71 Ian Wooley 13 Countryside-OH 30.81 31.07
84 Tony Dickman 17 Countryside-OH 31.68 31.34
Event 39 Women 100 LC Meter Breaststroke
13 Ishee, Katelyn 18 Countryside-OH 1:15.89 1:16.96
10 Katelyn Ishee 18 Countryside-OH 1:16.96 1:14.92
63 Vanessa Becker 18 Countryside-OH 1:22.33 1:20.96
75 Kayla Kircher 14 Countryside-OH 1:21.60 1:21.44
96 Hannah Warfel 14 Countryside-OH 1:22.64 1:22.82
Event 40 Men 100 LC Meter Breaststroke
28 Ethan McNeil 17 Countryside-OH 1:15.53 1:11.32
64 Christian Josephson 14 Countryside-OH 1:15.28 1:14.58
76 Brandon Burns 16 Countryside-OH 1:14.92 1:16.65
Event 41 Women 400 LC Meter Medley Relay
-- Countryside-OH 4:32.32 DQ 1) Anna Bersani 18 2) Katelyn Ishee 18 3) Lynn Brotherton 16 4) Breann McDowell 16 1:08.83 (1:08.83) 2:24.85 (1:16.02) 3:31.01 (1:06.16) DQ 4:31.15 (1:00.14)
Event 42 Men 400 LC Meter Medley Relay
7 Countryside-OH 4:09.36 4:05.40 QUAL 1) Steven Zimmerman 15 2) Ethan McNeil 17 3) Alex Smit 17 4) Jim Barbiere 18 1:02.05 (1:02.05) 2:13.64 (1:11.59) 3:11.86 (58.22) 4:05.40 (53.54)
3 Countryside-OH 4:05.40 3:59.59 (new CY record) 1) Steven Zimmerman 15 2) Ethan McNeil 17 3) Alex Smit 17 4) Jim Barbiere 18 1:00.34 2:10.37 (1:10.03) 3:07.02 (56.65) 3:59.59 (52.57)
Event 43 Women 1500 LC Meter Freestyle
(no entries from Countryside)
Event 22 Men 800 LC Meter Freestyle
19 Robert Lawley 15 Countryside-OH 9:10.40 8:53.35
26 Carlo Biedenharn 16 Countryside-OH 9:11.00 9:00.03