Lucie Nordmann of the Magnolia Aquatic Club and Jack Dolan from the Rockwood Swim Club won the girls’ and boys’ high point awards, respectively, at this weekend’s Winter Junior Championships – West meet in Iowa City, Iowa.
Nordmann’s honor came from scoring a meet-high 87 individual points for the Magnolia Aquatic Club, winning one individual event and placing 2nd in three more. All of her individual results are below:
- 1st place – 200 back (1:52.18)
- 2nd – 100 fly (52.31)
- 2nd – 100 back (52.16)
- 2nd – 100 free (48.46)
- 3rd place – 50 free (22.40)
She also lead off the winning 800 free relay for the Magnolia Aquatic Club out of suburban Houston, who placed 2nd in the women’s meet overall as a team.
The winning team, the Fort Collins Area Swim Team, had a compact group of 6 scoring swimmers, but 3 members of that group finished in the top 6 of individual scoring, including #2 Coleen Gillilan, #3 (tied) Zoe Bartel, and #6 Kylee Alons.
On the boys’ side, Dolan of the Rockwood Swim Club picked up 66 individual points – just ahead of Kaloyan Bratanov of KATY Aquatics with 63. Gianluca Urlando, who is only 15-years old, scored the 3rd-most points at 61. The next-closest 15-year old among boys was Ethan Dang, with just over half-as-many (32).
Dolan’s individual results:
- 1st – 200 free (1:34.78)
- 1st – 100 back (47.10)
- 2nd – 50 free (19.62)
- 9th – 100 free (44.07)
- Scratched the final – 200 back (1:47.35, 10th qualifier)
High Point Award Winners, 2017 Winter Junior Championships – West
Girls Top 5
- Lucie Nordmann, Magnolia Aquatic Club – 87 points
- Coleen Gillilan, Fort Collins Area Swim Team – 81 points
- Vanessa Pearl, Metroplex Aquatics/Zoe Bartel, FCAST – 70 points
- Dakota Luther, Austin Swim Club – 66 points
Boys Top 5
- Jack Dolan, Rockwood Swim Club – 66 points
- Kaloyan Bratanov, KATY Aquatics – 63 points
- Gianluca Urlando, DART Swimming – 61 points
- Jack Levant, North Texas Nadadores – 57 points
- Daniel Roy, King Aquatic Club- 55 points