Medina Swim Team: Makos News
Makos Go GOLD!
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The Medina Makos are a USA Club Swim Team that swims year round out of the MCRC.
Attached are pictures of the swimmers that competed at Cleveland State University March 9th-11th in Lake Erie Gold Champs and the top 10 finishers. Gold Champs are the highest championship competed within Lake Erie swimming. The Lake Erie Websitewww.lakererieswimming.com has complete results.
Women 10 &Under 500 Free
Maddy Draiss 7th place 6:25.90
Women 10 & Under 100 Butterfly
Maddy Draiss 7th place 1:17.91
Men 10 & Under 100 Backstroke
Mac Hancock 9th place 1:19.93
Men 10 & Under 50 Free
Mac Hancock 2nd place 29.15
Men 10 & Under 100 IM
Mac Hancock 7th place 1:19.40
Women 10 & Under 200 Free
Maddy Draiss 3rd place 2:25.15
Men 10 & Under 200 Free
Mac Hancock 4th place 2:25.90
Men 10 & Under 50 Back
Mac Hancock 6th place 35.57
Men 10 & Under 100 Free
Mac Hancock 6th place 1:06.91
Women 10 & Under 100 Breast
Maddy Draiss 7th place 1:27.34
Men 11- 12 500 Free
Anthony Petruzzi 3rd place 5:21.47
Men 11-12 100 Back
Anthony Petruzzi 9th place 1:09.42
Josh Burns 10th place 1:09.43
Men 11-12 200 Backstroke
Anthony Petruzzi 6th place 2:37.96
Men 11-12 100 IM
Anthony Petruzzi 8th place 1:08.33
Men 11-12 50 Butterfly
Josh Burns 5th place 29.65
Men 11-12 200 Free
Anthony Petruzzi 3rd place 2:04.90
Women 11-12 50 Backstroke
Emily Walburn 6th place 32.87
Men 11-12 50 Backstroke
Josh Burns 7th place 32.71
Men 11-12 100 Free
Josh Burns 6th place 59.57
Women 13-14 100 Breaststroke
Morgan Burnell 9th place 1:12.49
Men 15 & Over 1650 Free
Kyle Grigsby 2nd place 17:18.59
Men 15 & Over 500 Free
Kyle Grigsby 10th place 5:02. 49
Women 15 & Over 200 Butterfly
Samantha Petruzzi 8th place 2:14.65
Men 15 & Over 200 Free
Tim Varrelmann 6th place 1:47.85
Sunday, April 15
Swim Camps
There are many swim camps available, but we have just heard that Fast Lane will give team discounts!
Check out fastlaneswimming.net
Monday, April 9
Makos Go SILVER!!
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Men 10 & Under 100 Back
Mac Hancock 1:17.20 1st place
Women 10 & Under 50 Breast
Madeline Vogel 42.36 4th place
Men 10 & Under 50 Free
Brian Cuppett 31.85 3rd place
Men 10 & Under 200 Free
Mac Hancock 2:30.44 2nd place
David Kolasinski 2:34.37 4th place
Austin Olsavsky 2:39.04 7th place
Men 10 & Under 100 IM
Mac Hancock 1:22.37 8th place
Men 10 & Under 200 IM
Mac Hancock 2:51.16 1st place
David Kolasinski 3:02.28 8th place
Men 10 & Under 100 Free
David Kolasinski 1:10.76 5th place
Men 10 & Under 50 Back
Brian Cuppett 38.45 7th place
Women 10 & Under
Madeline Vogel 1:31.696th place
Men 10 & Under 100 Breast
Mac Hancock 1:33.99 4th place
Men 10 & Under 50 Fly
Brian Cuppett 38.10 3rd place
Mac Hancock 38.24 5th place
Women 11 & 12 50 Back
Amanda Danesteh 33.12 3rd place
Emily Walburn 33.61 5th place
Women 13-14 100 Back
Abby Draiss 1:07.59 4th place
Women 13-14 50 Free
Hannah Dusek 28.41 6th place
Men 13-14 50 Free
Ryan Neubauer 26.31 8th place
Men 13-14 100 Back
Joseph Huang 1:07.63 9th place
Women 13-14 100 Free
Abby Draiss 1:00.18 2nd place
Women 15 & Over 200 Breast
Rachael Roganish 3:02.76 8th place
Women 15 & Over 100 Back
Hannah Teske 1:10.33 9th place
Men 15 & Over 100 Breast
Matt Rump 1:10.41 9th place
Women 15 & Over 50 Free
Taylor Hrabak 28.95 8th place
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Thursday, September 1
Lake Erie Top 10
Congratulations to our
Lake Erie Top 10 MAKOS!!!
Lexi Agee (11-12)
5th 400 Free
Samantha Petruzzi (13-14)
10th 100 Free
9th 400 Free
8th 100 Fly
6th 200 Fly
Graham Burnell (17-18)
9th 200 IM
Tuesday, August 9
Makos at the Central Zones Championships!
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Samantha Petruzzi age 14 of the Medina Makos Swim Team competed in the Central Zones Championship meet in Indianapolis Indiana at the IUPUI Natatorium August 5th-7th. Teams from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Lake Erie, Michigan and Ohio competed in the event. Swimmers must have achieved AAA National times to qualify for the meet.
Samantha competed in the 50, 100, 200 and 400 Freestyle along with the 100 and 200 Butterfly. She also competed in two relays. Samantha’s best finish was 8th overall in the 200 Butterfly.
Samantha swims for the Medina Makos Swim Team which trains out of the MCRC. Samantha will be a sophomore at Medina High School this fall.
Sunday, October 2
Makos at IMX in Indy
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Tuesday, June 7
Swim Meet Volunteers are NEEDED!!!
We ask all our parents to volunteer during the swim meets that are hosted by the Makos.
The sign ups are available here:
Thursday, May 5
Makos join forces with Athletic Performance Training Center!!
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I am happy to announce that we will be joining forces with Brian Lebo. Brian is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. He currently works with several grade school, middle school, high school, and collegiate athletes and teams, as strength training and conditioning “coach” and consultant, as well as serving as strength training and conditioning coach/consultant to the North Royalton High School Basketball program.
Brian will be a consultant for us helping develop strength and conditioning programs for our yellow and senior groups.
Please visit his website at www.AthleticPerformanceTC.com
Brian Lebo, CSCS
Owner; Director, Strength Training and Conditioning
ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE TRAINING CENTER
AdvoCare Nutrition Coach
Thursday, May 5
Other News:
On Sunday May 1st Lake Erie Swimming once again awarded the Makos the 11 & over meet for 1/22/2012.
Coach Anthony has been named the Head Coach of the Lake Erie Zone team that will compete August 5th-7th at IUPUI Natatorium in Indiana.
Saturday, May 7
MMSC Sprint Spectacular
Thank you to all of our Makos and MHS swimmers who volunteered their time for the MMSC Sprint Spectacular on April 10th!
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