In This Meet Recap:

• Swimmers of the Week
• 6/17 Meet Recap, Records, and Personal Time Drops
• Volunteer highlights + Meet admin needs
• Meet Ribbons
• Cary City Meet (we need swimmers!)
• Upcoming events: Butterfly Clinics and Movie Night (6/21), Papa Murphy's Fundraiser (6/22)

Happy Friday Killer Whales! 

Congratulations on another fantastic meet!  Dozens of personal best records were set along with team, pool, and double/triple winners! We're very proud of our team! Our final score was SVKW 382 and Walden Creek 132

This is a busy weekend of events.  We have WAVE butterfly clinics on Saturday morning, Move night (please RSVP) on Saturday night, and Papa Murphy's fundraiser on Sunday night. Check out our sign up page for all the times and details. 

Our next meet is an away meet against Lochmere Swim Club.  We'll send out the meet details when we receive them from the host team.  Please make sure all your planned drinks are non-alcoholic. 

See you on Deck!

SVKW Board

6/17 Meet Records: 

Congrats to our Swimmers of the Week: Pierson Austin and Lyla Denis.  You have earned a red swim cap!

Congrats to our Team Record Breaker

Connor Nguyen (14) broke the team record again for 13/14 boys 50yd Breaststroke with a time of 30.43. His previous time was 30.73 on 6/10/25.

Congrats to our Pool Record Breaker

Connor Nguyen (14) also broke the pool record for 13/14 boys 50yd Breaststroke with a time of 30.43. The previous record was 30.53, set by Perry Becker in 2016.

Congrats to our Double Winners (6/under)

Declan Sullivan (6) - 1st in 15yd Free & Back

Congrats to our Triple Winners (7/up)
9/10 Girls Izzy Orr (10) - 1st in 25yd free, back & breast
9/10 Boys Seth Keen (10) - 1st in 25yd free, back & fly
13/14 Boys Connor Nguyen (14) - 1st in 50 Free, Breast & Fly
15/18 Girls Izzie Kohler (15) - 1st in 50yd free, back & breast
15/18 Boys Rigs Helmedag (17) - 1st in 50yd free, breast & fly

Top Personal Best Records:
Congratulations to the swimmers below who dropped the most time from their personal bests. Swimmers highlighted in red, who had the biggest time-drop overall, will be awarded a free ice cream voucher from FRESH Local Ice Cream. Prizes will be placed in your family’s ribbon folder within the week.

6 / Under Swimmers

15 Yard Freestyle – Lucas Mahoney (-14.43) & Zoey Mertens (-16.85)
15 Yard Backstroke – Walter Hanlon (-16.36) & Zoey Mertens (-17.06)
15 Yard Breaststroke – Lucas Mahoney (-10.34) & Amelia Jordan (-11.00)

7-8 Swimmers

25 Yard Freestyle – Joshua Hendricks (-4.46) & Rea Mills (-17.88)
25 Yard Backstroke – Calvin Christian (-8.80) & Kendall Riley (-16.45)
25 Yard Breaststroke – Calvin Christian (-12.85) & Clementine Ulbright (-16.11)
25 Yard Butterfly – Amro Elhetami (-2.00) & Julie Freeman (-10.70)

9-10 Swimmers

25 Yard Freestyle – Knox Hanlon (-0.93) & Kelly Hendricks (-4.05)
25 Yard Backstroke – Ephraim Austin (-3.37) & Edie Ulbright (-11.28)
25 Yard Breaststroke – Chris Alexe (-5.73) & Lyla Denis (-5.55)
25 Yard Butterfly – Chris Alexe (-6.61) & Edie Ulbright (-8.46)

11-12 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle – Isaac Embry (-3.51) & Abigail Dickerson (-2.82)
50 Yard Backstroke – Nick Blackman (-7.02) & Naomi Ehresman (-11.21)
50 Yard Breaststroke – Jarrett McKone (-2.71) & Abigain Dickerson (-3.35)
50 Yard Butterfly – Isaac Embry (-14.24) & Darby Vaughan (-3.23)

13-14 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle – McCoy Kilby (-0.20) & Sarah Ausenbaugh (-2.85)
50 Yard Backstroke – Cal Helmedag (-2.63) & Sarah Ausenbaugh (-2.30)
50 Yard Breaststroke – Nasier Armstrong (-1.49) & Sarah Ausenbaugh (-5.04)
50 Yard Butterfly – Nasier Armstrong (-6.87) & NA

15-18 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle – Tripp Bowers (-0.39) & Alysia Joyce (-0.66)
50 Yard Backstroke – Malachi Vaughan (-1.88) & Bella Sharpe (-1.92)
50 Yard Breaststroke – James Chapman (-0.74) & Alysia Joyce (-1.80)
50 Yard Butterfly – Noah Keen (-2.43) & Libby Austin (-0.66)

Volunteer Shout Outs from our Coordinators: 

Parents, We had 100% of the parents checked-in and working their shift. This is also a team record! You all were amazing!
A couple other volunteer highlights: Thank you to our runner, Brad Springer, who made over 50 laps around the pool. The runner position is critical to get the paperwork from the Stroke and Turn Judges and Order of Finish back to the admin table and Brad was on point.

Cheryl Boss and Angie Mickler, our Meet admins - thank you for keeping everything running smoothly. We don't see all the things that happen behind the scenes to keep things running great. 

Meet admin role: 

If you are curious about how a meet runs and think you would like to explore the Meet Admin role for a future meet , reach out to Volunteer Coordinators as we could use some help to build out this team to cover meets.  

Picking up Award Ribbons after Meets

Check your family folders after a meet for your Personal Best (ages 12 and under) and Meet Placement (all ages) ribbons. You can ask for the file box from the concession attendant or lifeguard front desk anytime you’re at the pool. Ribbons are typically filed on Fridays. If you think you’re missing a ribbon, or have other questions, please contact our ribbon coordinator, Lily Wan [email protected]

Cary City Meet: 

• Registration is open for our annual CCM.  Make sure you read Kara Stokes' team email and check out the CCM designated page! We'd love to get more swimmers registered!

Papa Murphy's Fundraiser: June 22 and July 13

Make dinner easy and pick up a take and bake pizza from Papa Murphy's! They will donate 30% of sales during our SVKW Spirit Night fundraiser! Stop by their Apex store, Sunday 6/22, 11 am-8 pm and use code GIVE30 to earn money for our team (flier attached)