Last update was 07/02/09
IMPORTANT DATES: )
April 4-5- Don Gambril Invite (Univ of Alabama) Long Course full results HBT only results
April 24-26- Orange and Blue @ Auburn full results
May 15-17- Baylor Invite Chattanooga, Tn meet results
June 5-7- BWB open water and LC meet meet info full results
June 5-7- BSL Open full results
June 26-28- NAC Summer Sizzler - full results
July 10-12- CTA Last Chance Meet meet info DEADLINE to sign up is June 27!!
July 16-19- Senior Sectionals- Knoxville, TN meet info
July 23-26-SE Championships @ Nashville, Tn. meet info
July 28-Aug1- Central Zones @ Orlando, Fla- qualifiers only
Aug 10-14- National Juniors @ Federal Way, Wa.

* all meet results can be found on the results page

Summer League Meets
June 9- VSA 262- HBT 216 results team scores
June 16- HBT 350 - SCY 87results
June 23- JCC 253 - HBT 223 results
June 30- HBT 305 - ICC 136 results
July 7- Pine Tree CC @ PTCC (12-under only) * wu at 4:30 pm

Practice changes:
July 3- Fri - Senior and Gold @ HCC from 7-9 am
July 4- Sat- Senior and Gold @ HCC from 7-9 am

Sizzlin at the Sizzler
HBT swimmers had some sizzling swims in Nashville this past weekend. With almost 1,000 swimmers, the competition was very strong. Competitors came from Iowa, South Dakota, Ohio, Missouri and all over the Southeast.
Leah Thornton was smoking, scoring in 5 of her events and setting personal bests in the 200 fly and 200 back (team records as well).
Kreable Young (16) and Ali Smith (15) blazed to sectional cuts in the 800 free, both scoring in the event.
Jaimie Mans (10)- scored in 5 of her events and had 6 new best times.
Others scoring were: Cameron Bass (19)- 800 free; Angelica Chapman (15)- 200 fly and 200 back; Finley Clutts (14)- 200 fly, 1500 free; Shelby Hall (14)- 200, 400, 1500 free; Nicole Smith (9)- 100 back and Rainey White (17)- 50 free, 100 fly.
Michael Correro (15) swam to best times in all 6 of his events. Emily Lin (16)- was 5 of 6 PB's; Dru Selden was 4 of 6 PB's; Ali Smith (15) was 5 of 6; Ali Smith (12)- was 8-8 PB's.

New SE Championship cuts were made by; Micheal Correrro- 100 fly, 100 free; Emily Lin - 100, 200 back; Dru Selden- 100 breast, 400 free; Ali Smith (12)- 50 back, 100 free and Nicole Smith - 50 fly.

The senior girls 400 medley (Thornton, Young, Chapman, White) established a team record as well with a 6th place finish!

New SE cuts
The following swimmers garnered new SE cuts at either the BSL Summer Splash or the BWB Invite.
Claire Williamson (15) - 100 back
Kaitlin Mans (13)- 100, 200 breast
Hunter Whitehurst (11)- 200, 400 free

Video of Barons party
Here is a video of the Barons party done by Caitlin Bullard of the silver group
video link

Open Water Results- Rainey White wins 5K!
Fourteen HBT swimmers competed in their first open water competition last weekend in Pensacola. The surf was great and the swims were better.
Rainey White was the overall winner of the 5K with a superb time of 1:06 (One hour and six minutes)! Micheal Correro (15) finished 2nd in the men's race (3rd overall). Hunter Whitehurst was 1st in the 11-12 boys 1K swim!
Finishing in the Top 10 of their respective age groups were: Vanessa Hughes; Leah Thornton; Angelica Chapman; Natalie Swindle; Kreable Young; Ali Smith; Tyler Whitehurst; Peyton Clutts; John Alfano and Finley Clutts.
Sean McComb (13) and Dru Selden (17) also swam the 5K!!
Results are above!

Baylor and Auburn Results
Congrats to the following swimmers for achieving "New" SE Championship qualifying times at the above meets:
Caitlin Bullard (10)- 50, 100 free
Allison Smith (12)- 200 IM, 400 free, 100 fly
Shelby Hall (14)- 100 fly
Ali Smith (15)- 200 free, 200 back, 1500 free
Natalie Swindle (15)- 200 back, 400 IM
Claire Williamson (15)- 200 IM, 200 back, 200 breast
Kreable Young (16)- 200 back
Michael Correro (15)- 200 back, 200 fly, 400 IM

Gambril meet results
The first long course meet of the seson is now in the books. HBT swimmers swam very well after only 2 weeks of water time after spring break. Many swimmers betterd times from last summer already. A long list of swimmers made SE LC Championships times for the first time, including: Rebeca Andrarde (15), Razvan Griffin (10), Caitlin Bullard (10)-6 cuts; and Emma Rigsby (10). Others getting new age-group cuts were: Angelica Chapman (15); Finley Clutts (13); Peyton Clutts (11); Micheal Correro (15); Ali Smith (15); Natalie Swindle (15); Tyler Whitehurst (11); Claire Williamson (15) and Nicolas Young (11).
Two team record were broken: Rainey White (17) 50 fly in 29.75 and Kaitlin Mans (13)- 39.73!

SE All-Stars
Congrats to the following 14-under swimmers from HBT that made the 2008-9 scy SE All-Star team. This replaces the former Hall-of-Fame selection process. Details can be seen on the SE web site.
All-Stars were: Kaitlin Mans (12); Natalie Swindle (14); Claire Williamson (14); Nicolas Young (10) and Finley Clutts (13).
In additon we had several 15-overs make the Top 10 list. They were Kreable Young, Ali Smith, Angelica Chapman, Rainey White and Leah Thornton.

Slide show of meet this past weekend
Cool slide show by Amy Alfano. Click link below.
slide show

HBT Wins Medium Team Title at SE Champs
Thornton swims to a Senior National cut in the 100 back
HBT swimmers took it to the final event on Sunday evening to eke out the meduim team division title (between 15-29 swimmers in the meet) battling Auburn and Madison swim teams. Overall the team came in 9th out of 69 teams in the LSC. Over 1000 swimmers were in the meet.
It was a very productive meet, as 12 of the 17 HBT swimmers scored in individual events. We also came home with: 1 Senior cut, 6 Junior scy cuts, 3 new sectional cuts and 14 new team records.
Senior Leah Thornton led the charge with an astounding swim in the 100 back final Friday night. She stopped the clock at 55.18- a senior national cut, team record and a spot on the all-time Top 100 USA swimming list for 17-18 year olds (72 nd on the list). She also garnered 3 Junior sc cuts in the 100, 200 fly and 200 back. The 200's were team records. Leah also scored in the 100, 200 and 500 free events.
Rainey White (17) continued her comeback with a stellar showing. She garnered 3 junior sc cuts in the 50, 100 and 100 fly (all team records). She also scored in the 200 free with a new team record.
Nicolas Young (10) won 2 SE crowns in the 50 and 100 breast (both team records) while scoring in the 200 IM, 200 and 500 free.
Ali Smith (15), Finley Clutts (13) and Clarie Williamson (14) came home with new sectional cuts. The latter in the 200 free and the others in the 1000 free. In addition Claire finaled in the 100 free and fly, Finley scored in the 1650 free and Ali nabbed 16th in the 500 free.
Shelby Hall (14) had a superb meet with a dazzling team record 1650 free. He finished 3rd in that event. He also broke the team record in the 200 breast and 200 IM.
Not to be outdone was Kaitlin Mans (12) that had the surprise swims of the meet in the 50 and 100 breast. Kaitlin finaled in both events and scored in the 1000 free.
Others scoring for HBT were: Angelica Chapman (15)- 100, 200 fly and 100, 200 back; Kreable Young (16)- 1000,1650 free, 400 IM; Dru Selden (16)- 1000, 1650 free and Natalie Swindle (15) - 1650 free.
Others participating and having good personal meets were: Nicole Smith (9)- 4-5 PB's; Ali Smith (12)- 3-6 PB's; Peyton Clutts (11)- 4-5 PB's and Michel Correro (15)- 5-5 PB's.

Scholastic All-American
Applications are due by August 1, 2009. Read carefully, it has changed! application

Crocker Meet a Success!
The Ralph Crocker meet was quite a success with the team garnering a 4th place finish in a meet of 30 teams and over 1,000 swimmers.
13 new SE standards were met, 3 sectional cuts achieved and 2 team records established.
Nicolas Young (10), Ali Smith (15) and Rainey White (17) led the way. Nicolas was the High Point winner for 9-10 boys by winning 3 events and scoring in all eight of his events. Ali garnered all PB's, 5 new SE cuts and her first sectional cuts in the 200 fly and 400 IM! Rainey cracked the team record book by lowering the standards in the 50 fly and 100 free.
The surprise event of the meet was Natalie Swindle's 200 fly swim. She lowered her best time by 9 seconds and got the sectional standard very easily.
Others having good meets were: Richard Chen (11)- 4-4 PB's; Michael Correrro (15)- 7-10 PB's; Shelby Hall (14)- 3-4 Pb's; Bailey Ingle (9)- 6-8 PB's; Kaitlin Mans (12)- 8-8 PB's; Sean McComb (13)- 7-8 PB's; Emma Rigsby (10)- 6-8 PB's; Ali Smith (12)- 7-8 PB's; Alex Tyson (10)- 8-8 PB's and Tyler Whitehurst (11)- 6-8 PB's.
New SE cuts: Micheal Correro (15)- 400 IM; Jaimie Mans (10)- 500 free; Kaitlin Mans (12)- 100 IM, 100 free; Ali Smith (15)- 200 back, 100, 200 free, 100 fly, 400 IM; Ali Smith (12)- 100 IM; Nicole Smith (9)- 200 free; Natalie Swindle (15)- 400 IM and Dru Selden (16)- 1000 free.

T-shirt order form
see link for order form; due January 27 link

Long Shot 2009
The HBT swimmers and parents started the New Year off in grand fashion. The meet went off smoothly and the kids swam great!
Overall, HBT was the team victor and had many HIgh Point Individual winners, including Jaimie Mans (10), Nicolas Young (10), Tailin Pan (12), Claire Williamson (14), Shelby Hall (14), Angelica Chapman (15) and Michael Correro (15). Also, we had a few runner -ups: Kaitlin Mans (12), Peyton Clutts (11), Finley Clutts (13) and Leah Thornton (18).

We had swimmers achieve 22 new Southeastern Championship standards, a host of others knocking on the door and Kreable Young getting a new Sectional cut in the 200 breast. The Auburn meet is setting up to be very important for many swimmers!!!!
Individuals that had outstanding meets include: Alex Agnew-15 (7-10 PB), John Alfano-11 (7-10 PB), Sydney Biswal-8 (9-10 PB), Caitlin Bullard-10 (9-10 PB), Richard Chen-111 (6-6 PB), Finley Clutts-13- (7-10PB), Peyton Clutts-11 (7-10), Michael Correro -15 (9-10), John Dempsey-6 (3-4), Taylor Girouard-6 (4-6), Shelby Hall -14 (9-10), Griffin Lape-8 (7-7), Jaimie Mans-10 (10-11), Kaitlin Mans-12 (12-12), Sean McComb-13 (9-9), Victoria Nicoll-8 (6-6), Ling-ling Pan-12 (10-11), Jessica Prestel -12 (8-8), Ali Smith-12 (11-12), Nicole Smith-9 (10-10), Alex Tyson-10 (8-8), Kylie VanLandingham-9 (7-8), Hunter Whitehurst-11 (9-12), Tyler Whitehurst-11 (9-12), Madyson White-8 (5-6), Aby Williamson-7 (8-10), Claire Williamson -14 (6-11), May Young-13 (10-11) and Nicolas Young-10 (9-11PB's).
Those achiveing new SE cuts are: Angelica Chapman (200 breast), Finley Clutts (200 IM), Peyton Clutts (100 fly, 100 back, 1000 free), Michael Correro (500, 1000 free), Shelby Hall (100 free, 100 fly), Emily Lin (100 free), Kaitlin Mans (200 Im, 200 free, 1000 free), Ling ling Pan (200 Im, 100 breast), Nicole Smith (50, 100 free, 50, 100 back), Natalie Swindle (200 IM), Claire Williamson (200 breast) and Nicolas Young (500 free).

High School Meet- Thornton wins 2 Titles
HBT swimmers swam very well at the recently concluded Alabama High School State Championships. Senior Leah Thornton concluded her high school career with two very convincing wins in the 100 fly and 100 back. The latter in a state record time of 57.09. Both her titles earned her automatic High School All-American status in each event (based on time).
Sophomore Kreable Young got on the medal stand with a 3rd place finish in the 200 free. She was a close 4th in the 500 free.
Others scorers from HBT were: Frosh Natalie Swindle with a pair of 9th place finishes in the 50 free and 100 fly; Claire Williamson 9th-100 free and 12th in the100 fly; Ali Smith with a 6th in the 500 free and 11th- 200 free. Dru Selden was 12th in the 500 free; Emily Lin- 13th- 100 free and 8th grader Shelby Hall with a superb 11th in the 500 free. Full results are above!

Miami-of-Ohio Bound
Senior Leah Thornton has vebally committed to swim for the Miami of Ohio Redhawks. She will sign her letter of intent on the first signing day- Nov 12. Congrats to Leah and her family.

Nice Article on Cameron Bass
See link for article on Bama Frosh Cameron Bass - link

Fall Classic a Success
The first full-scale meet of the year by the HBT swimmers (and parents) was a huge succcess. It was great to see the progression of many of our "rookies" and even by the "veterans". It was the first big step to our end-of-season goals.
With so many PB's (personal best times) by everyone, it would take up too much space to write everybodies name. Special cudos go out to those making new SE Championship standards: Finley Clutts (13)- 400 IM, 200 free, 100,200 fly, 1650 free; Peyton Clutts (11)- 50 back, 50 fly; Shelby Hall (14)- 200 free, 200 breast, 200 IM, 100 breast; Jaime Mans (10)- 50, 200 free, 50, 100 breast, 50 fly, 100, 200 IM; Kaitlin Mans (12)- 50, 100 breast; Tailin Pan (12)- 50, 100 free, 50 breast; Natalie Swindle (14)- 100, 200 back, 1000 free; Kreable Young (16)- 100 breast, 200 IM; Michael Correro (15)- 1650 free and Ali Smith (15)- 500, 1650 free, 200 fly.
Congrats to HIgh Point Winners: Nicolas Young (10), Tailin Pan (12), Natalie Swindle (14), Finley Clutts (13),Kreable Young (16) and Michael Correro (16). Runner up honors went to: Jaimie Mans (10), Peyton Clutts (11), Shelby Hall (14) and Angelica Chapman (15).
Additionally, Claire Williamson and Natalie Swindle made their first sc senior sectional cuts in the 100 fly!

Parent article on suits
see link on article from ASCA- suits
USA Swimming Votes to Restrict Certain Swimsuits for 12&Under Swimmers!
At the 2008 United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Atlanta, USA Swimming's House of Delegates voted to restrict the use of certain "high tech" swimsuits for 12 & Under competition. The legislation will restrict swimmers ages 12 and younger from wearing suits of any material that extend past the kneecap, past the shoulder, or above the neck. The rule applies to swims contested in age group defined competition (i.e. 11-12 or 10&Under category). The legislation does not restrict the use of these suits for swims contested in an "Open" or "Senior" category allowing the few 12 year old swimmers who have advanced to the National level the opportunity to wear these suits in major national competitions such as the US Open or Junior Nationals. It is understood that this legislation will become effective on May 15, 2009

USA Swimming names 2007-8 Scholastic All-American Team
Leah Thornton was one of 600 females in the country to earn Scholastic All-American honors. This is the 2nd year for Leah to earn this honor.
See story at USA Swimming - http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=2&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&ItemId=2243&mid=1256

HBT 1st in Medium Team Division at SE LC Champs!
Congrats to the HBT swimmers that participated at the SE Championships this past weekend in Nashville. The team placed 1st in the meduim division (15-29 swimmers entered) and 9th overall. 41 teams and close to 900 swimmers attended the meet!
By far this was one of the best championships our swimmers have had based on improvement of times.
9 of the 20 HBT swimmers scored in individual events, with 3 more swimmers being part of scoring relays.
HBT swimmers won 5 indidual titles:Nicolas Young (10) 50, 100 breast; Angelica Chapman (14)100, 200 fly and Peyton Clutts (10)- 50 back. Our 9-10 boys 200 medley relay was crowned champions (T. Whitehurst, P. Clutts, N. Young, J. Alfano).
Angelica scored in 6 events total; Leah Thornton (17) scored in all 6 of her events. Others scoring were: Peyton Cluttts (10)- 50, 100 fly, 50 back, 50 free; Claire Williamson (14)- 200, 400 free, 100 fly; Cameron Bass (18)- 400, 1500 free, 200 IM, 200 breast; Natalie Swindle (14)- 100, 200 fly; Finley Clutts (13)- 200 fly and Kreable Young (15)- 400, 800, 1500 free. 200 breast.
Helping on the relays were Sasha Zoller (13) and Tyler and Hunter (10)Whitehurst.
Top 16 times were recorded by Nicolas Young 50, 100 breast and Angelica Chapman in the 100 fly.
Team records broken were by Kreable Young -200 breast; Angelica Chapman - 200 fly; Peyton Clutts- 50 back; and Shelby Hall (13)- 800 free.
Special congrats to the following for having mostly personal best times (PB's): John Alfano (10)- 4-6; Cameron Bass 7-7; Olivia Butler (12)-5-7; Finley Clutts (13)- 4-7; Peyton Clutts (10)- 6-7; Shelby Hall (13)- 5-7; Jaimie Mans (9)- 7-7; Kaitlin Mans (12)- 4-7; Ali Smith (11)- 4-6; Nicole Smith (9)- 3-4; Hunter Whitehurst (10)- 4-6; Tyler Whitehurst (10)- 5-7; Claire Williamson (14)-6-7; Kreable Young (15)- 5-7 and Sasha Zoller (13)- 6-7.
In addition, based on their performances, swimmers Leah Thornton and Angelica Chapman were named to the SE Zone team which competes in Atlanta next week. Way to go gals!!! Also, Coach Jenell will be part of the Zone coaching staff. Congrats to Jenell, too!
Full results are above or go to the NAC web site

Pictures of team suit
Here are pictures of the team suit for 2008-9 We will have available at the Fall Classic meet for swimmers to select style and correct size. Logos may be put on at the meet. pics

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