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News Digest: June 2009

Saluki Swimmers Score in June Competitions                                              June, 2009

A total of nine Saluki Swim Club swimmers competed in two different competitions last weekend.  Eight swimmers traveled to Pensacola, FL to compete in the 2009 Tom Lalor Invitational and one swimmer competed in the Parkway Summer Sizzler in St. Louis, MO.  In all Saluki swimmers achieved 6 B times, 13 BB times, 6 A times, 9 AA times, 2 AAA times, 1 AAAA time while achieving lifetime best times in 40 % of their races.  Eight Saluki swimmers achieved 23 Ozark qualifying times and three of those swimmers also achieved 9 Sectional qualifying times.  

In the Lalor Invitational, the following swimmers finished in the top 8 overall for their respective age groups:  Elizabeth Bell (17 years old) finished 1^st in the 100 fly, 50 free and 200 IM, 2^nd in the 50 fly, 100 and 200 breast, 3^rd in the 50 breast, and 5^th in the 100 free;  Camille Davis (15 years old) finished 8^th in the 50 back; Thomas Gibson (20 years old) finished 1^st in the 100 breast, 2^nd in the 50 breast, and 4^th in the 200 breast;  Calvin Kolar (16 years old) finished 6^th in the 200 breast, 7^th in the 100 breast, and 8^th in the 50 breast; Austyn Sigler (15 years old) finished 5^th in the 50 breast and 7^th in the 100 breast.  In the Parkway Summer Sizzler, Tyler Underwood (11 years old) finished 16^th in the 100 breast and scored points in the meet.

The Saluki Swim Club swimmers will be in action again in two weeks.  Saluki swimmers will compete in the CSP Summer Invitational in St. Louis, MO.  Many Saluki swimmers will also compete in the Ozark Long Course Championships July 17-19 at the Shea Natatorium on the SIU Campus.

Saluki Swimmer Final in CSP Summer Invitational                                                              June, 2009

            Four Saluki Swim Club swimmers competed in the 2009 CSP Summer Invitational over the weekend.  This three day competition involved preliminary sessions in the morning and a finals session each evening where the top finishers (top 16 13-14 year olds and top 24 15 years and older swimmers) from the prelims compete again.  In all Saluki Swim Club swimmers achieved 2 B times, 4 BB times, 4 A times, 7 AA times, 14 Ozark qualifying times, and 2 Sectional qualifying times.

            Saluki Swim Club finalist included:  sixteen year old Calvin Kolar who finished 7^th in the 200 breast and 16^th in the 100 breast; twenty year old Thomas Gibson who finished 3^rd in the 100 breast and 4^th in the 200 breast; and thirteen year old Kelsie Walker finished 7^th in the 100 and 200 free, 8^th in the 100 and 200 fly, 13^th in the 50 free, 14^th in the 400 free, and 16^th in the 200 IM.  Also competing in the meet and achieving lifetime best times was sixteen year old Kyle Walker.