TJCC Take on the Cactus Classic
Stingray Fans & Enthusiast(s) extraordinaire!….
A very talented and fun loving group of Stingrays attended the Memorial Day weekend Cactus Classic held in Phoenix at two pools (one in Tempe and one in Scottsdale-simultaneously!!). The results are listed in the hotlinks below- check ‘em out!! Swimming World was covering the event you can see all the results and recaps there and even some videos from the finals. The Stingrays place 13th of 54 Teams (from all over the world…)
Full Results
To summarize, TJCC Stingrays took a team of our top 15 swimmers to attend this prestigious qualifying standard meet. Leading the way was Zoe Holtzman, Abby Devore, Katie Dev ore, Nichole Parks, Reed Wallace, Natalia Bach-Mandel, Hannah Bach- Mandel, Layla Anderson, Brooks Fail, Martin Hocheder, Matt Kautz, Jordon Belton, Bonnie Diamond, Erika Hocheder and Dakota Kordseimon. Our devoted Coach Kiely Lavery guided our 12&Under swimmers to multiple best time achievements. Special congratulations to Martin Hocheder who achieved two new Far Western Zone qualification times which brought him back to finals in the evening as well! Way to go Martin!!…. Reed Wallace consistently dominated her competition as she finaled, scored and finished in the top three consistently of every event she swam. Brooks Fail started this high performance squad out with a great 400 M free race on Friday night which placed him 4th overall!!
Coaching our 13&Over squad as well as the evening Finals session was Coach Amy Behm. Our power packed group of Stingrays lit up the pool in Finals every evening! Special Congratulations to Jordon Belton who has officially qualified for his first Sectional Time Standard (by .01) in the 50 freestyle. Also, to Matt Kautz who “surprised even himself” and smoked his competition in the 100 breast receiving the only gold medal for the Stingrays team (you can see the race ). Reed Wallace, Erika Hocheder, Dakota Kordseimon, Martin Hocheder, Brooks Fail, Jordon Belton and Matt Kautz all finished in the top 9 within their events throughout the meet.
Fast swimming wasn’t the only thing these Stingrays enjoyed… it was also a time to nurture relationships with family and friends; grow as individual and enjoy being a part of a warm, welcoming and encouraging team of swimmers, parents and coaches. Stingrays are AWESOME- there is no doubt! Congratulation to each of you for your outstanding performances.
See you at the pool!! Coach Amy
| rank | Team | Points | rank | Team | score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Scottsdale Aquatic Club | 4025.5 | 2. | Sun Devil Aquatics | 2351 |
| 3. | Best Swim Club | 2350.5 | 4. | Westside Silver Fins | 1234 |
| 5. | Lake Oswego Swim Club | 1149.5 | 6. | Swim Neptune | 955.5 |
| 7. | Mount Hood Aquatics | 748 | 8. | Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics | 694 |
| 9. | West Texas Typhoon | 647 | 10. | Greater Omaha Aquatics, Inc. | 470 |
| 11. | Chandler YMCA Riptide | 444 | 12. | Flying Fish Arizona Swim Team | 413.5 |
| 13. | Tjcc Stingrays | 400 | 14. | Lobo Aquatic Club | 364 |
| 15. | Longhorn Aquatics | 309.5 | 16. | Fort Collins Area Swim Team | 304 |
| 17. | Fast Lane Aquatics | 287 | 18. | Moon Valley Aquatic Club | 273 |
| 19. | Bainbridge Island Swim Club | 269.5 | 20. | Havasu Stingrays Swim Team | 247 |
| 21. | Unattached Colorado | 224 | 22. | EL Paso Aqua Posse | 217 |
| 23. | Unattached Mesa | 194.5 | 24. | Valley Aquatics Swim Team | 185 |
| 25. | Team Guatemala | 139 | 26. | Metro Aquatics | 135.5 |
| 27. | Univ. of Denver Hilltoppers | 134 | 28. | Arizona Marlins Swim Club | 130 |
| 29. | Desert Sharks Swim Club | 123 | 30. | Desert Thunder Aquatics Club | 110 |
| 31. | Charger Aquatics | 94 | 32. | Unattached Westside Silver F | 87 |
| 33. | Foothills Swim Team | 77 | 34. | UnAtt - Scottsdale Aquatic Clu | 69 |
| 35. | Unattached Neptunes | 62 | 36. | Arizona Swimming Gauchos | 57 |
| 37. | Unattached Sun Devils | 55 | 37. | Unattached | 55 |
| 39. | Unat | 53 | 40. | Unattached El Paso | 48 |
| 41. | Unattached Mount Hood | 41 | 42. | Western Sprint Club-Australia | 32.5 |
| 43. | Club de Natation du Parc Olym. | 29 | 43. | Unattached New Mexico | 29 |
| 45. | Arizona Seals | 27 | 46. | Best Masters | 20 |
| 46. | Loveland Swim Club | 20 | 48. | Unattached-Snake River | 15 |
| 48. | Unatt Flagstaff Peaks Aquatic | 15 | 50. | Unattached Best | 14 |
| 50. | New Trier | 14 | 52. | Dallas Mustangs | 11 |
| 53. | Barracuda Aquatics Team | 2 | 54. | Sun Devil Masters | 1 |