January 2006 News

Past Meets

COLA Meet
Westside swimmers had a great showing at the COLA ABC meet at the Westwood Pool. Highlights include 12 year old Stephanie Smith making her first ever Junior Olympic cut. Stephanie posted a 36.23 in winning the 50 Breast and posting Westside Aquatics first ever spring Junior Olympic cut. Seventeen year old Ali Baraff posted 5 of 6 best times and Slava Agafonoff posted a personal best in the 100 Breast of 1:07.16.

College Update

2005-06 College Signings
Chelsea Davidoff (Vermont)
Paris Hays (Brown)
Katie Wong (UCLA)

Westside Aquatics is represented by 12 swimmers in colleges and universities.

Cara Davidoff (Tulane), Alexa Merz (Stanford), David Nonberg (Carleton College), Maika Lindsey (Kenyon College), Kendall Bohn and Kim Kraushaar (UCSD), Greg Walther (UCSC), Katie Smith (SDSU), Dan Fox (The College of New Jersey), Kylie Wong (Amherst) and Elizabeth Wong (Brown).

As some of you may have heard, Tulane University will be dropping their swim program after this season. Cara Davidoff is currently considering Northwestern, North Carolina and Miami.

Upcoming Meets

January 13-15 Q Meet
January 28-29 ZAP Meet
February 18-19 Senior Development

Meets in our section (Pacific) will close early because of the large amount of swimmers. You need to get your meet forms in early.
You can find all meet forms at www.socalswim.org