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LJBT Wins 6th Senior County in a a row
Day one sees LJBT in front of VSA by over 100 points! The highlight of the day was the 1982 record broken by the LJBT 18-u girls 200 free relay of Williamson, Young, Bass and Selden with a 1:45:55. That broke the old record by over 2 seconds. The 14-u girls (Williamson, Lin, Young, Butler) 200 free relay also broke the Senior County record with a blazing 1:46:80.
Jamie Mans (8) and Nicolas Young (9) led the morning crew by winning 2 events each. Eric Besse (6) won the 25 yd free.
Leading the afternoon bunch was Cameron Bass (17) with 3 wins. Others winning events were: Emily Lin (14)- 50 free; Kreable Young (14)- 100 IM and Graham Carr (17)- 100 IM
Day two- Jaime Mans (8) wins 3 events in the morning session to get the day off to a great start. She won the 25 back, 25 fly, 50 free and set a new team record in the 50 back leading off a relay. Nicolas Young (9) won the 50 fly. The 10-u boys 200 medley (Pickett, Young, Clutts, Van Winkle) was victorious as well. Others with good morning swims were: Emily Besse, Alison Smith, Peyton Clutts and Holland Bayles.
The afternoon sessions saw LJBT swimmers win 9 individual races and 3 relays. Kreable Young (14) won the 100 free and 50 fly. Her 100 free time tied the sc record at 56.50! Emily Lin (14) won the 50 back: Cameron Bass (17) won the 100 free: fellow "old lady" Virginia Selden won the 50 fly and 50 back; old man Graham Carr (17) won the 100 free and 50 back; Finley Clutts (12) won the 50 fly!
Relay winners were: 11-12 boys 200 medley (J. Young, N. Young, Clutts, Hall); 13-14 girls 200 medley of (Lin, Young, Williamson, Butler) and the 15-under 200 medley of (E. Lin, Bass, Selden, Young) with a new sc record of 1:57:45
LJBT won the meet by over 250 points over a strong VSA squad! This is the 6th Senior County title in a row for our swimmers.
Swimmers winning high point trophies were: Eric Besse (6)- 1st; Jamie Mans (8)- 1st;Alison Smith (10)-5th; Nicolas Young (9)- 2nd, Peyton Clutts (9)- 4th; Olivia Butler (11)-6th; Shelby Hall (12)- 3rd; Finley Clutts (12)-5th; Kreable Young (14)- 1st; Claire Williamson (13)- 2nd; Emily Lin (14)- 2nd; Cameron Bass (17)- 1st; Virginia Selden (18)- 2nd; Rebecca Lin (15)- 4thAlison Weaver (15) -7th; Graham Carr (17)- 1st and Charlie Cheng (16)- 4th.

SE Champs- HBT 3rd in Medium Division
HBT finished 3rd in the medium size division at the SE Championships, only 7.5 points behind 2nd place Baylor. HBT overall was 11th in the team rankings out of 53 teams.
Claire Williamson (12), Leah Thornton (16) and Kyle Sigman (18) led the way for HBT with some strong individual efforts.All three swimmers scored in their 7 individual events. Claire was crowned SE Champion in the 100 fly and finished in the Top 6 of all her events. Kyle established 4 new team records ( 200 IM, 100, 200 back and 200 free). Leah set a team record in the 200 IM and 1650 free.
Others scoring for HBT were Kreable Young (14) - 4 events; Rainey White (15)- 3 events; Graham Carr (17)- 2 events; Cameron Bass (16)- 3 events; Virginia Selden (18) - 3 events; Jacob Terry (18)- 4 events and Nicolas Young- 2 events (2 team records in the 50, 100 breast)
The senior girls 400 free relay of (Selden, Thornton, White , Bass) also established a new team record.

Districts- 8-unders win Combined title and Boys title
HBT's 8-unders won the combined scoring (girls and boys) title with a close victory over HSA.Congrats to the HBT 8-under boys for finishing 1st at Districts! Nicolas Young led the way as the 8-under boys High Point Winner! He had help from his fellow 8-under boys:Cole Holmes, Daniel Kekes-Szabo, William Broeren and Harlin Brown.
For the 8-under girls- Jamie Mans led the way with a 3rd place overall finish in points. Other 8-u girls scoring were Susan McElroy with help in relays from Holland Bayles and Nicole Smith.

Cauley Cunningham (12) got several new SE cuts. Finley Clutts made his first ever SE cut in the 50 fly!

Zone Team
Congrats to Angelica Chapman (12) and Rainey White (14) for being selected to the 2006 SES Zone Team. This is the second year in a row for both girls. Both are seeded very well and can make an impact for the SES team.
GOOD LUCK in Atlanta! We will be cheering for you! results
Wed: Angelica finished 3rd in the 200 free and 2nd in the 100 fly with a 1.06.59. Wow! Rainey finished 3rd in the 100 fly as well with a 1.04
Thurs- Angelica finished 3rd in finals of the 50 back with a Top 16 time of 32.3
Friday- Angelica finished in 11th in the 100 back, just missing on finals. Rainey got a PB in the 100 back
Sat- Angelica finished 1st in the 50 fly with a greattttt time of 29.92! She was 4th in the 200 IM with a 2.32.79. Angelica led off the 200 free relay with a 29.11 and Rainey led off a victorious 13-14 relay with a 50 free time of 27.20!

SES Champs LC 2006
What a SES Champsionship meet! Not the swimming, but the other stuff. Due to a power outage, the finals for Saturday and Sunday were canceled. The Saturday session was not completed until Sunday morning! Chaotic at best. And with the hot humid conditions, inside and out, swimming was not at it's best.
HBT manged to squeak out a Top 10 team finish, by getting 9th place out of 39 teams. The women of HBT finished 4th overall! Results can be found on the PACK meet page.(see above)
Congrats to Angelica Chapman (12) for winning the 11-12 girls high point award. She won 6-7 events, broke 4 team records and got two more Top 16 reportable times.
Others scoring for HBT in individual events were: Cameron Bass (16) - 400,800,1500 free; Olivia Butler (10) -50 fly; Graham Carr (16)- 1500 free; Nate Myers (18)- 800, 1500 free; Virginia Selden (17)- 100, 200 fly; Kyle Sigman (18)- 100, 200 fly, 200 IM, 200 back and 200 fly; Nathan Thomson (12)- 50 free, 500,100 fly; Leah Thornton (15)- 100, 200 back, 200, 400 IM, 100, 200 fly and 400 IM; Rainey White (14)- 50,100, 200 free, 100, 200 fly and 400 IM; Claire Williamson (12)- 50, 100 fly, 800 free; Kreable Young (13)- 1500 Free.
HBT Swimmers established 18 individual team records and 1 relay record. Record breakers were: Angelica Chapman (12)- 400 free, 50, 100 fly, 50 back; Katrina Chapman (8)- 100 fly, 400 free; Nate Myers (18)- 100,200 breast; Virginia Selden (17)- 200 fly; Kyle Sigman (18)- 200 IM; Nathan Thomson (12)- 50 free, 50, 100 fly; Leah Thornton (15)- 400 IM; Rainey White (14)- 100, 200 free; Nicholas Young (8)- 50, 100 breast. The senior girls 400 medley relay of (Chapman, Thornton,White, Selden) grabbed the lone relay record.

LJBT Takes one for the Thumb-2006
Congrats to our summer league swimmers for capturing a 5th straight JCSC title. All results are on the Senior County page.
Congrats to our HIgh Point Winners: Nicolas Young (8-u); Katrina Chapman (8-u); Nathan Thomson (11-12); Kreable Young (13-14); Tyler Campbell (15-18). Others scoring in the Top 8 are listed on the senior county page.

Speedo Sectionals
Swimming in no doubt the fastest sectional in the country, our HBT swimmers faired quite well against some of the fastest swimmers in the world. The meet included at least 12 Olympians and many NCAA finalists.
HBT swimmers broke 15 individual team records and 3 womens relay records. Rainey White (14), Leah Thornotn (15) and Kyle Sigman (18) all qualified at least once to come back at night to swim finals.
Rainey established team records in the 50 free,100 fly and 200 free. Her fly time was a US Open and summer Junior National cut. She is .81 away from a Senior National cut ! Both the 50 free and 100 fly were reportable Top 16 times.
Leah established new standards in the 100 back,100 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM. She was in the top 26 in both back events. Her 100 back was a summer Junior National cut!
Kyle set 5 new team records and had 6-7 PB's. He finaled in the 200 back by dropping 4 seconds from his previous best. Team records he set were in the 800 free, 100 fly, 100, 200 back and 400 IM.
Angelica Chapman (the youngest swimmer in the meet) at 12 set new team records in the 100 back and 100 fly. Her 100 fly was a reportable Top 16 time. Cameron Bass (16) set the last team record in the 800 free.
The women's relays - 400 , 800 free (Bass, Selden, White, Thornton) and the 400 medley (Chapman, Thornton, Selden, White) set new team records. The 800 free was only .27 off of the summer Junior National cut.

Top 16
The final rankings for the USAS Top16 for 2004-5 season are posted.
HBT faired very well with Sarah Denninghoff and Chloe Sutton posting numerous T16's while swimming for HBT.
Sarah was ranked in the following events: 100 free (9th), 200 free (4th), 1000 free (10th), 1650 free (16th), 50 back (3rd), 100 back (4th) and 200 back (8th).
Chloe was ranked: 100 free (11th), 200 free(1st), 500 free (1st), 1000 fre (1st), 1650 (1st), 200 back (6th), 200 IM (9th), 200 fly (7th) and 400 IM (8th).

LJBT Wins Senior County 2005
Congrats to the swimmers and parents for putting on a great Senior County event. The swimmers swam to a 4th straight team title with almost all swimmers scoring in either individual events or relays. All the results can be found on the senior county page.
Special congrats to our 1st place High Point Winners: Gabriel Muir (10); Angelica Chapman (11); Nathan Thomson (11); Julie Beattie (16) and Jacob Terry (16).
Also,Julie Beattie set 3 new league records. Her and teammate Jacob Terry both ended their summer league careers by "Quading" out!

Pics from SE Meet
Virginia must have had a thing for the camera guy! Some other pics were of fellow swimmers. See this link http://arenaphoto.com/event_photos.asp?e=12&gid=192&c=80&ppp=&p=1

SE CHAMPIONSHIPS
WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND OF SWIMMING!
6TH PLACE TEAM EFFORT; 4 SE INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS; 22 INDIVIDUAL TEAM RECORDS; 4 TEAM RELAY RECORDS; 3 ZONE TEAM MEMBERS; 1 TOP 16 TIME; 1 HIGH POINT WINNER
Great job by our swimmers from "little ole" Hoover. We placed 6th out of 41 teams entered in the meet. Of 20 HBT swimmers swimming in the meet, 17 scored in individual events. We were led by the HBT 13-14 girls who finished 2nd in their age group scoring. These girls were responsible for 9 of the new team records + 2 relays.
Leah Thornton was the High Point winner in the 13-14 age group. She had a Top 16 time in the 100 fly, finaled in all 7 events and became a member of the SE Zone Team. Teammate Rainey White won the 50 free (Team record) and by doing so landed a spot on the SE Zone Team as well. She finaled in all 7 of her events, too. Rainey had a Top 16 time in the 100 fly wiped out by a "bogus" disqaulification, too.
Siblings, Sarah (13) and Kurt (16) Denninghoff were responsible for 7 new team records between them. Sarah finaled in 6 out of 7 events and established 4 new team records. Brother Kurt scored in 3 events and set 3 new team records.
Angelica Chapman (11) scored in all 7 of her events and was one of only two 11 year olds to score in the 11-12 age group (next year should be great). Angelica also made the SE Zone Team as the only "11" year old!
Gabriel Muir (10) is the proud owner of 2 SE Titles. He won the 50 and 100 fly and established new team records in the 200 IM and 100 back while scoring in all 7 of his events.
Others scoring were: Julie Beattie (16); Cameron Bass (15); Graham Carr (15); Daniel Hughes (17); Nate Myers (17); Dru Selden (13); Virginia Selden (16); Kyle Sigman (17); Nathan Thomson (11); Amanda Williams (20) and Kreable Young (12).
Team Records set by: Julie Beattie (200 breast); Angelica Chapman (100 fly); Kurt Denninghoff (200, 400 free, 100 back); Sarah Denninghoff (100,200,400 free, 100 back); Gabriel Muir (200 IM, 100 back); Nate Myers ( 100,200 breast); Virginia Selden (100 fly); Kyle Sigman (200 back, 200 IM); Nathan Thomson (50 fly); Leah Thornton (200 back, 200, 400 IM, 100 fly) and Rainey White (50 free).

Meet of Champions 2004
HBT swam to a very strong 3rd place finish at the MOC meet. This with only 27 available healthy bodies! Our 11-12 and 13-14 girls led the way with some very impressive swimming. Sarah Denninghoff, Rainey White and Leah Thornton demolished the team record book with some outstanding efforts. Sarah swam 3 reportable Top 16 times-led with a magnificant 100 back of 59.95! She also was the high point runner-up winner! Her fellow age grouper Rainey White had 2 reportable Top 16 swims (50,100 fly) and was part of a Top 16 200 free relay that included Chloe Sutton and Dru Selden. Chloe Sutton turned in 3 Top 16 times as well (being sick, too).
Leah swam to the 13-14 girls high point award with personal bests in all 9 races and won 4 events. Her 200 breast time was only .15 seconds off the junior national cut. She set 11 new team records in individual events and was part of a couple of relay records.
Others having great meets were: Gabriel Muir- scored in all 9 events he swam; Cameron Bass won the 1650 and broke the team record in the 500 free; Kyle Sigman scored in 8 events with 6 pb's. Nate Myers broke his own team record in the 200 breast. Scoring in individual events were Julie Beattie, Catherine Butler,Andrew Cartner, Sam Cartner, Angelica Chapman, Claire Cunningham, Daniel Hughes, Kaleena Jackson, Jay McElroy, Dru Selden and Virginia Selden.
Special congrats to Claire Williamson and Margaret Cartner for going 9 for 9 with best times. Kaylene Beachum (9) got her first SE cut in the 50 fly!

High School Meet 2004
Great job by all the HBT High School swimmers this past weekend. Just about everybody had lifetime bests or season best swims. A special nod to Chloe Sutton as she broke one of the oldest State meet records in the 500 free. Chloe swam a 4:53 breaking the old record established in 1978 by 2 seconds. She also won the 200 free in near record time. WAY TO GO CHLOE!
Kyle Sigman (200 free), Virginia Selden (100 fly, 500 free) and Sarah Denninghoff (100 back) swam to Sectional times. Medaling was Daniel Hughes in the 500 free getting a best time by almost 6 seconds. Others scoring in individual events were: Julie Beattie, Cameron Bass, Rainey White, Catherine Reinagel, Catherine Butler, Chris Beachum, Kurt Denninghoff and Tyler Campbell. Claire Cunningham helped Spain Park score in two relays.
Final results Team scores

TOP 16
The final tabulations for the Top 16 list for the lc 2004 season have been made. Three HBT swimmers have made the list and one relay team.
Although not swimming for HBT at the time, current team member Chloe Sutton made the list in 7 events. She was ranked 1st in the 200, 400, 800 and 1500 free, 3rd- 100 free and 15th in the 200 back and 400 IM.
10 year olds Angelica Chapman and Nathan Thomson both made the list in two events. Angelica was 12th in the 50 fly and 16th in the 200 IM. Nathan was 10th in the 50 fly and 11th in the 50 free.
The 9-10 boys 200 medley relay of Andrew Cartner, Crawford Burton, Gabriel Muir and Nathan Thomson finished 12th!

A complete list can be seen at the following link- Top 16

HBT is JCSC SENIOR COUNTY CHAMPION
The HBT swim team once again dominated the competition at the Senior County meet. This was the 3rd year in a row that HBT has won the county meet. With only 49 swimmers on the summer league roster, 42 competed in the meet and most scored either in individual and/or relay events. HBT swimmers won 40 of the 82 events in the meet!
Out of 16 new Senior County records broken, 11 came from HBT swimmers/relays.
Of the 10 high point winners- 5 were from HBT: Angelica Chapman (10), Nathan Thomson (10), Sarah Denninghoff (12), Catherine Reinagel (14) and Julie Beattie (15). Many other HBT swimmers were in the Top 8 of their age group.
Establishing new team records were: Angelica Chapman (10)- 50 fly and 50 back; Sara Denninghoff (12)- 50 back; and Julie Beattie (15)- 100 IM and 50 fly.

HBT Finishes in 6th at SE Champs
All results, team scores and individual scores can be seen at this link- results
HBT had their highest finish ever at the SE Short Course Championships finishing 6th and only a few mistakes from 5th. The championship went down to the last event, with Excel eeking out a 6 point victory over Nashville!

The team was led by the 10-under girls, who won the their age group! Sara Denninghoff won two events, Dru Selden won one and both 10-under girls relays were victorious.
In addition, Top 16 times were turned in by Dru Selden (10)- 500 free and Cameron Bass (12)- 1000 free.
Many team records were broken at the meet. HBT swimmers broke 18 individual records and 6 relay records.
Record breakers were:Sarah Denninghoff (10)- 100, 200 free,100 back, 200 IM; Dru Selden (10)- 500 free, 100 IM; Leah Thornton (12)- 100 back, 100 breast; Demi Lamb- 500 free; Julie Beattie (13)- 100 breast; Virginia Selden- (14) - 500 free; Kyle Sigman (14)- 200 back; April Burgin (16)- 100, 200 breast, 1650 free; Samantha Sawzak (18)- 200 IM; Jana Jones (17)- 200 fly; Phillip Wood (16)- 100 free.
Relay records established by: 9-10 girls 200 free (Chapman, Denninghoff, Selden, Johnstone); 11-12 girls 200 free and medley (Lamb, Thornton, White, Bass); 13-14 girls 400 medley (Beattie, Reinagel, Little, Selden); 15-18 girls 400 medley (Sawzak, Burgin, Williams, Allen); 15-18 boys 800 free (Wood, Bottchen, Sigman, Myers)

HBT Finishes 1st at GPAC Meet- see action photos
Congratulations to all the HBT swimmers on their swimming performance at GPAC. It was a great team effort. This despite not being at full strength due to absence and illness of many swimmers! We had lots of swimmers finishing in the Top 8 and the relays did really great!
Leading the way was Gabriel Muir (8),Ryan White (8), Alison Weaver (10), Maggie Elder (9), Dru Selden (10), Sam Cartner (10), Leah Thornton (12), Cameron Bass (12), Claire Cunningham (11), Demi Lamb (12), Julie Beattie (13), Catherine Reinagel (13), Virginia Selden (13), Kyle Sigman (14), Jacob Terry (13), Daniel Hughes(14), Amanda Williams (17), April Burgin (15) and Samantha Sawzak (18).
Others with many best times were: Laura Loveless, Anna Bru, Catherine Butler, Tyler Campbell, Graham Carr, Ryan Harris and Kreable Young.
New Team Records: Leah Thornton (12)- 50 breast, 100 breast, 100 IM and 200 IM; Julie Beattie (13)- 200 brest; 11-12 girls 200 medley (Lamb, Thornton, Cunningham, Bass); 13-14 boys 200 medley (Terry, Dexter, Sigman, Hughes); Gabriel Muir (8)- 200 free, 200 IM, 500 free.
Results: women men teamscores

Long Shot Meet
Our third "Long Shot " meet is history. Although the meet was small, some strong swimming occurred.
12 year olds Demi Lamb and Leah Thornton led the way. Each girl achieved a Top 16 time (close in a couple of other events, too) and combined, broke 7 team records. Fellow 12 year old, Cameron Bass, also had a great meet, achieving Quad A times in the 1000 and 1650 free! (Cameron a distance swimmer?)
Others with great post Christmas training results were: Kyle Sigman (14), Jacob Terry (13), Virginia Selden (13), Dru Selden (10), Jessica Beattie (15) , Jill Allen (15) , Amanda Williams (17) and Virginia Faulkner (13).
Significant improvements were made by: Alison Creighton (8), Andrew Davis (8), Gabe Muir (7), Nathan Thomson (9), Kreable Young (10), Stephanie Ramirez (13), Anna Bru (13), Daniel Hughes (14) and Katie Wilson (16).
results: women men HBT only

HBT finishes 2nd at Meet of Champions
The Hoover Blue Thunder swim team finished 2nd this past weekend at the Meet of Champions. This is the highest finish ever for HBT! The team established new team records in 28 events and 4 Top 16 individual reportable times were made and one Top 16 reportable relay time!
The Thunder team was led by the 9-10 girls who captured the age group title. This was accented by Top 16 times from Rainey White (50 free) and the 200 medley relay of (Sarah Denninghoff, Brie Tandet, Rainey White and Dru Selden).
Also, Ian Dexter (12) came through with 3 Top 16 times (50,100 and 200 breast). Ian time trialed in the 200 breast and smashed the SES record by 5 second with a time of 2.26!!! He also broke 8 team records during the weekend and was high point runnerup. Way to go Ian!
Others performing very well were: Samantha Sawzak (18), who finished a very close 3rd in individual high point honors; Leah Thorton (11) made finals in all seven events, while breaking one team record; Sarah Denninghoff (10) with 7 finals and 3 team records; Rainey White (10)- finaled in all seven events, broke 4 team records; Daniel Hughes (14) with 6 personal bests; Erin Little (13) with 6 personal best times and two team records (200 IM , 1000 free); Phillip Wood (16)- 6 best times and Demi Lamb (12) with 5 best times and two team records (100 back, 500 free).
Others establishing new team records were Julie Beattie (13), Catherine Reinagel (13) , Brie Tandet (10) and Michael Bottchen (17). The 11-12 girls 200 medley relay team of Catherine Butler, Demi Lamb, Cameron Bass and Leah Thornton also set a new team record.
female results male results team scores
other moc scores

High School Results- results team scores
Great job by all the HBT high school swimmers! We had a State Champ, members of a State Champion Team and many finalists.
Samantha Sawzak won the 100 back and was 2nd in the 50 free.
April Burgin (2nd- 100 breast; 3rd- 500 free) , Jana Jones (7th-100 fly and 100 back), Virginia Faulkner (16th- 200 free) , Kammie Avant ( 16th- 500 free ) and Anna Bell Bru were all part of the winning Mountain Brook women's team.
Others scoring were:
Amanda Williams - 2nd- 200 IM ; 5th- 500 free
Fowler Cunningham- 5th- 100 free; 6th- 50 free
Catherine Reinagel- 10th- 100 fly; 13th- 100 back
Samantha Smith- 8th- 100 free and 100 back
Jessica Beattie- 7th- 100 free; 12th - 50 free
Julie Beattie- 8th- 100 breast; 11th- 200 IM
Jill Allen- 4th- 200 free; 10th- 500 free
Erin Little- 12 th- 200 IM; 14th- 500 free
Michael Bottchen- 6th- 200 free; 7th- 100 fly
Kyle Sigman- 13th- 100 fly
Phillip Wood- 4th- 50 and 100 free
Daniel Hughes- 14th- 500 free
Tyler Campbell- 16th- 100 back