USA Swimming 2009 Speedo Champions Series
California-Nevada Winter Championship
Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool
Long Beach, CA
December 18-22, 2009
Short Course Yards

AquaSol had 3 swimmers attend this meet.  Coleman Goode, Hannah Sparkman and Kevin Mertz.

Kevin, Coleman, Hannah

The Speedo Sectional championship meet was held at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach Dec18-22. It played host to 1175 swimmers representing 400 teams from California and Nevada.

Kevin Mertz,14 and Hannah Sparkman,17, swam in their first sectional meet ever with some of the world's fastest swimmers including the olympic gold medalist, Kosuke Kitajima from Japan.

Mertz improved all of his times by huge margins maintaining his composure throughout what would be to most young swimmers intimidating surroundings. "Kevin's dedication and hard work paid off here, and I think that this is just the beginning for him", said Coach Skidmore.

Coleman Goode improved 4 times during the meet while Hannah Sparkman improved in 3 of her events.  Hannah went from 1:04.62 in the 100 Back all the way down to 1:01.81. Coleman had smaller drops but managed to improve 4 times despite his training interruptions due to the storm in December.

Coleman Goode (18)
4 best times
200 free 1:50.22 (prelims) 1:49.94 (time trial), 1000 free 10:32.58, 100 breast 1:02.62,  200 breast 2:15.76, 200 IM 2:02.53, 400 IM 4:22.67

Hannah Sparkman (17)
3 best times - 2 new time standards
50 free 25.31, 100 free 55.95, 100 back 1:03.19 (prelims) & 1:01.81 (time trial)

Kevin Mertz (14)
6 best times - 3 new time standards
100 free 51.60, 200 free 1:49.32, 500 free 4:48.19, 1000 free 9:52.57, 200 fly 2:00.94 (prelims) & 2:00.17 (time trials)

Kevin, Hannah, Coach Steve, Coleman

The next Sectional meet will be long course in July held in Santa Clarita,CA.

Kosuke Kitajima and Coleman Goode

Kitajima is an Olympic gold medalist in the men's 100m and 200m breaststroke at both the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympics. 

Meet Results