TRUDY SANDERS poses for a picture at the Secure Storage Spring Sprinter Meet at the Hood River Aquatic Center earlier this month. It was her first time competing for the Hood River Valley Swim Team Osprey.
Submitted photoThe Hood River Valley Swim Team hosted their home Secure Storage Spring Sprinter swim meet on Saturday May 7. Fifty-five Osprey swimmers competed with 200 swimmers from around the state at the meet.
Oregon City Swim Team won the meet with 1135 points and their girls 200-yard freestyle relay set an Oregon swimming record for their age group.
HRVST was second with 504 points, just ahead of the third-place Tornados from Vancouver. All-told, 10 teams competed at the Spring Sprinter. Secure Storage provided special heat winners with goggles, caps, granola bars, and bungee straps for goggles to help make the event extra fun for all participants.
First-time competitors for HRVST included: Isa Arndt, Magnolia Clermont, Lilah Day, Ronan Day, Jessica Galvez, Hazel Haspela, Izabel McCormack, Namfon Paphanchith, Nampheung Paphanchith, Remmie Russo, Trudy Sanders, and Lani Uffelman.
Highlights for the Osprey included swimmers who scored in the top 16 places: Allie Burke (age 15, 1650 freestyle, 3rd, 20:33.62), Claire Couvreux (age 6, 25 butterfly, 10th, 35.84), Jesse Elliott (age 12, 100 Individual Medley, 4th, 1:16.98), Dhani Freeland (age 17, 1650 free, 2nd, 19:22.00), Max Graves (age 7, 25 breaststroke, 1st), Michelle Graves (age 10, 500 free, 3rd, 7:42.50), Sophia Helleberg (age 7, 25 breaststroke, 4th, 27.27), Sophia Kaden (age 12, 50 backstroke, 7th, 38.36), Campbell Keller (age 12, 100 IM, 5th, 1:17.35), Samuel Knoll (age 7, 25 free, 13th, 21.83), Faith Ocheskey (age 14, 100 backstroke, 12th, 1:08.01), Leah Sandoval (age 8, 25 breaststroke, 16th, 31.40), Nora Sandoval (age 11, 1650 free, 6th, 25:27.05), Jade Smith (age 14, 500 free, 12th, 6:19.67), Thea Smith (age 11, 100 IM, 13th, 1:23.07), Maggie Tappert (age 8, 25 backstroke, 9th, 24.62), Sky Viavoda-Kerr (age 8, 25 backstroke, 12th, 25.40), and Annabel Webster (age 7, 25 butterfly, 12th, 36.91).
Other swimmers showing great improvement included: Elijah And Izaiah Adams, Maya Arndt, Adam Burke, Willow Cohen, Ivy Collins, Amy Elliott, Kylin Elliott, Lucas Elliott, Jessica Galvez, Colin Gerald, Miyuki Gerald, Mallory Keller, Alea McCarty, Abby McCormack, Rowan McKEnna, Seth Millan, Xavier Petersen, Maria Sandoval, James and Oliver Schofield, Catie Shuster, Anna Southall, Wyatt Stelma, Lillie Tomlinson, and Sarah Wang.
Next up for the HRVST Osprey is the Madras Spring Fling on May 21. There currently is room for new swimmers to swim with the Osprey this summer. Check out the team website at www.hrvst.org and click on the contact us button for more information.
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