Lakeside Wins Boys, Co-ed Meets; Small Crow Canyon Crew Wins Girls Title At Winter Jrs West

2023 SPEEDO WINTER JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – WEST

• December 6-9, 2023
• FMC Natatorium, Westmont, Illinois
• Prelims: 9:00 am (CST)/ Finals: 5:00 pm (CST)
• Wednesday finals (relays only): 6:00 pm (CST)
• SCY (25 yards)
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It was a tale of two teams at the 2023 Speedo Winter Junior Championships – West meet.

On the boys’ side, a team of 22 boys from the Lakeside Aquatic Club amassed 523 points to win the title handily over Rose Bowl Aquatics, with a winning margin of 181 points.

That effort was led by Maximus Williamson, who won three individual events (200 IM, 200 free, 100 free) and twice broke the 17-18 National Age Group Record in the 200 free.

But his 94 points wasn’t even the most of the team – Cooper Lucas won three individual events of his own (500 free, 400 IM, 200 fly) and picked up 108 individual points. The win came in spite of a DQ in the closing 400 free relay, which touched first before being struck for an early exchange.

Lakeside boys’ roster: Branden Beladi, Gabriel Campos, Luke Garrett, Max Hatcher, Jack Hernandez, Adam Huynh, Aubrey Jaya, Dallas Jones, Cooper Lucas, Riccardo Osio, Matteo Palmisani, River Paulk, Collin Quickstad, Keaton Rice, Alex Schwartz, Maxwell Stanislaus, Cash Strickland, Charlie Wang, Maximus Williamson, Evan Witte, Sherwin Xu, Willian Zhang

The Crow Canyon Sharks, meanwhile, won by 39 points ahead of the Bellevue Club Swim Team, but used a compact and efficient roster of 10 swimmers to do it.

That effort was led by Bailey Hartman, who scored 100 individual points, including wins in the 500 free, and 200 fly.

Even with a disqualified “A” relay in the 400 medley, Crow Canyon scored huge relay points (as did the runners-up from the Bellevue Club in Washington).

Crow Canyon girls’ roster: Ellie Butler, Lilyana Caples, Liberty Clark, Hayley Gregory, Bailey Hartman, Pooja Hemige, Daniela Linares Danzos, Natalie Mak, Raya Mellott, Madison O’Connell, Sadie Suppiger

Those two teams finished 1-2 in the team standings as well, with Lakeside winning at 703 points, Crow Canyon 2nd at 462, Rose Bowl 3rd at 396, Aquajets Swim Team 4th at 362, and Mission Viejo Nadadores 5th at 342.

Lakeside’s winning roster: Branden Beladi, Gabriel Campos, Luke Garrett, Max Hatcher, Jack Hernandez, Adam Huynh, Aubrey Jaya, Dallas Jones, Cooper Lucas, Riccardo Osio, Matteo Palmisani, River Paulk, Collin Quickstad, Keaton Rice, Alex Schwartz, Maxwell Stanislaus, Cash Strickland, Charlie Wang, Maximus Williamson, Evan Witte, Sherwin Xu, Willian Zhang, Lily Andruss, Emma Bibza, Elise Clift, Avery Collins, Olivia Colombo, Ellen Garritson, Katie Gyuer, Avery Hafele, Tatum Janning, Katy Jost, Ella McWhorter, Seanna Muhitch, Natalie Schneider, Kennedi Southern

Boys and Girls Separate Standings

Combined Team Score Standings

Note: per USA Swimming rules, a team must score boys points and girls points to score in the combined score standings. 25 teams accomplished that this year at the West meet.