From Lake Ridge Lancers head coach Kristen Misencik:
161 Lake Ridge Lancers swam tough against the much larger Barracudas and Stingrays teams and pulled off the White Division Championship win. The final score was Lancers (3,913); Ashland (3,841.5); Ridgewood (3,749.5). The Lancers achieved 51 percent best times, and had an all-time team-low thirteen individual disqualifications. Cameron Young broke his own team record for the Lancers in the 50 meter backstroke with a time of 29.61.
Both 11-12 boys relays, comprised of Josh DeLeoz, Tyler Misencik, Corey Shepard, and Tristan Zambrano, notched 1st and 2nd in the entire Prince William Swim League with a 100 Meter Free Relay time of 58.89 and a 100 Medley Relay time of 1:07.62. The 9-10 boys 100 Meter Free Relay (Drew Early, JoeJoe Mazzoccoli, Josh Ramirez, and Michael Schaefer) grabbed 2nd place in the league with a time of 1:07.19. The 8 & Under 100 Meter Mixed Medley Relay (Lori Anne Madison, Mitchell Nicolai, Peyton Ray, and Adam Shepard) secured 3rd place in the entire league with a time of 1:28.07.
Other 3rd place individual league winners were Joshua DeLeoz- boys 11/12 50 Meter Breast (39.42), Mitchell Nicolai- boys 8 & U 25 Meter Breast (24.84), Adam Shepard- boys 8 & U 25 Meter Back (21.35), and Corey Shepard- boys 11/12 50 Meter Free (30.52).
Lauren Donohoe (18) and Cameron Young (16) both earned PWA times and dropped time in all three of their individual events, in addition to placing top one or two in all five of their events. Josh DeLeoz (12), Lori Anne Madison (6), JoeJoe Mazzoccoli (10), Mitchell Nicolai (8) and Adam Shepard (8) all notched PWA times in their individual swims and placed in the top three in all five of their events.
Additionally, Melia Ross (9) placed in the top three in all five of her events.
Also notching PWA times in all three individual events were Kaleigh DePetro (14), Nathan Gibson (7), Noah Levine (13), Philip Mazzoccoli (13), Eric McDonald (17), Grace Nicolai (12), Sarah Rackham (12), Josh Ramirez (10), Abby Ross (14), Michael Schaefer (10), Corey Shepard (12), Elisabeth Vogel (14), Aaron Waldman (14), and Ryan Yirka (13).
The following swimmers achieved personal bests in all three of their individual events Eva Brady (10), David Brady (12), Aaron Brock (10), Karen Cortez (11), Amanda DeVarona (10), Tamara Eddy (11), James Gallagher (13), Lauren Harner (7), Nathan Harner (14), Kendall Hince (10), Noah Levine (13), Faith Longerbeam (9), Raina Meoli (17), Roland Messier (9), Kyle Misencik (13), Colleen Ranieri (14), Noah Reale (10), Kathryn Regan (11), Corey Shepard (12), Kelton Sullivan (13), Jordan Teaford (9), Michael Turner (13), and Ruthanne Wells (9).
Swim Mom
5:07 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
This has to be the most biased article I have read in a long time. It starts off okay..sharing the news of the Lancers win and highlighting the record breakers and high achievers. Then the article just degrades into a love fest for the rest of the team and gushes about personal bests for the Lancers and team members that had "A" times. While these are great accomplishments for the individual swimmers, they are not news worthy. How about sharing with the world the records broken by the Barracudas and Stingrays. For that matter, will there be follow up articles on all the other Divisional swim team competitions in Prince William County and how they did? Will we get to hear about the Dale City Frogs and how they won the Green Divisional Championships or the Sudley Seahorses and how they won the Blue division? Swimming is a great sport and there are real accomplishments that Prince William County swimmers achieve that your readers would like to read about, not just a love fest by one biased writer.
Rachel Leon
5:23 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
We accept swim results from all local teams, but Kristen Misencik is the most consistent about submitting her team's results. If you are a swim coach and would like to submit swim meet results in the future, just email me at the email address at the top of the site.
Julie M Jaeger
9:43 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
Maybe instead of shooting the messenger you should write your own article on the meet! Kristen is the Head Coach of the Lancers, so she was writing the meet report for the Lancers. She writes it for the team and then sends it to the patch; As Rachel said, if you are the coach and would like to write your own for your team go for it! I love reading about the accomplishments from every team! As a mom of a year round swimmer, we know many kids on other teams and love to see how those kids are doing. If you aren't the coach, then maybe you should get the coach to write something.....
Amy McMullen
10:23 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
The bigger story is the fact that, immediately after that win, the Lake Ridge Community Swim Club e-mailed the team to notify them that they would no longer be hosting the team after 2012. As a former Lancer swimmer for 12 years as well as a former coach, I am disgusted by this. I recently went to the LR v. Ridgewood meet, and it rekindled all of the wonderful memories I have of my youth in this community. For the club to take away that opportunity for today's youth is a travesty.
MVS
1:42 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Rather than being disgusted, try to find out why.
Amy McMullen
10:25 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
Correction: the big story is the accomplishments of the swimmers this past weekend. My earlier comment should have read "the biggest travesty is that..."
Swim Mom
6:56 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
You completely missed my point. I don't have a problem with you taking bits and pieces from the coaches input, but to make it a complete article is not good journalism or even an interesting read to anyone outside of the Lancers team. To make this a news worthy item it should have included inputs from the other coaches and it is the responsibility of the paper to get those inputs.
During football season I see lots of unbiased articles. I could even say the same for the baseball and basketball seasons. However, when it comes to swimming the paper is lazy. If you are telling me that the only input you'll ever put in your paper about the summer swim season is input you get from the coaches that isn't edited or put into an informative article about the entire meet then it is, and always will be, a biased article that is not news worthy. A news worthy article would cover all aspects of the swim meet from all sides.
KR
8:23 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
You assume a lot to state that it is "not even an interesting read to anyone outside of the Lancers team." Even though I have a child on the Old Bridge Breakers team, I am still a member of the Lake Ridge Community and recognize many of the names listed by their proud (and superb) head coach. Congratulations to them, their team mates, their fantastic coaches, and hard working parent volunteers on a job well done! I think it's great to see their names in print and hope that more coaches will follow Kristen's lead and submit their team results in the future!
P.S. I hope the Lancers find a home, it would be a crying shame to see them go!!
Julie M Jaeger
8:09 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
For some reason there are a few coaches that don't know how to get their team recognized. Either that or they just don't know that they have to do ir or have the time to do it. If you are a swim mom and not a coach, maybe you could get the meet info, extrapolate the data from it, make a nice write up and submit it like some of the other teams do. Unless the coach would like to do it.
MVS
1:53 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Thanks for the article Rachel, Kristen does a great job! The highlight of this meet was how close it was, and that the other two teams were leading at points. Just the way it ought to be.
By the way, another awesome article would be about how Braemar is nipping at the Sudley Seahorse's heels, and even was winning during their divisionals for some part of it. I would like to see a meet report (biased to whoever was submitting OK with me), just to get a feel for how it played out.
Kathi Levine
4:21 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Maybe if all the other swim teams posted their results Swim Mom could compile everything into a summary and post something she is interested in reading. Remember, you don't have to read what you're not interested in. I thank you, Coach Kristen for taking the time to do this for our team every week. Let's hope other teams follow suit because I, like Julie, would love to have updates from around the league. Thank you also, Rachel Leon, for publicizing our results. We need for our community to understand how important swim is for our kids.
Julie M Jaeger
11:16 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Exactly Kathi, Our kids have a deep passion about swim team and I hope that some day, the egos can be put aside and parents can come together to support all the kids.
P. Joshi
12:55 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I love the local news and information that is offered by "The Patch." Thanks for sharing Coach Kristen!