July 27^th 2008

The Sharks had a fine Burlington County Championship meet at Woodstream, finishing in 7th place overall, just a few points out of 6th place.  We had several relays drop time and move up in the scoring; lots of swimmers achieved personal bests; and a few team records are in danger of falling.  Our Sharkman's debut was a big hit and he's rumored to be circling the waters at Pheasant Run for the Tri-County Meet next weekend.

The Sharks had one champion in Kelsey Fitzpatrick in the 15-18 Girls backstroke.  This extended to seven years a Burlington County Championship streak of a Fitzpatrick twin as backstroke champion (actually, if you include Carly, the Fitzpatrick streak is a few years longer).  It started in 2002 as 12-year old Kelsey shocked the Sunnybrook home crowd and beat their heavily favored swimmer.  Shawn kept the streak alive over the next five years.  During that span, Shawn set the meet record for the 13-14 girls, broke a couple of Sharks records along the way, and flashed the biggest smiles after each race.  Congrats, Kelsey and Shawn!

The Sharks also had four top-three finishes.  Matt Skotarczak was gaining on the A Division swimmers but ran out of pool in recording a 3rd place finish in the 8&U Free.  Later, Matt joined Nick Aubrey, Connor O'Leary, and Dylan Pulley to finish 3rd place in the 100 Free relay.  Shawn Fitzpatrick finished third in the 100 Free while Henry Blosfelds rediscovered his backstroke after a four year hiatus and finished in 3rd place in the 13-14 50 Back.  Well done, Sharks!

The Burlington County Times has some nice articles from their blogger at the meet:

Kelsey - TC Swimmer of the Meet

Megan and Emma - Parade

July 20^th 2008

Our Mini-Sharks gave us a fine showing at the Riverdel Mini Meet, finishing in 4th Place as a team and bringing home a big old trophy for our trophy case!  We had some 7 year old individual winners with Dylan Pulley winning the 25 Free and Connor O'Leary winning the 25 Fly.  The O'Leary pair of Connor and Mackenzie also got to bring home some trophies as they finished 2nd overall individually in their age groups.  Our six super seniors are leaving the team in good hands!  Results should be posted here in the next day or two. 

July 19^th 2008

The Sharks gave the division champion Wenonah team a great meet before falling 291 to 263.  The Sharks had rallied to tie the meet before the free relays but it was not to be.  Everyone swam well and every one of our relays posted a faster time this week.  Well done, Sharks!

Our six super seniors swam extremely well in their last home meet as Connor, Kelsey, Shawn, Seamus, Alex, and Shannon said goodbye to the pool in fine style and enjoyed sharing their cake with the entire team.  Good luck in college next month!. 

We had six seven double winners:

GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick (50 Back, 50 Gly), Shawn Fitzpatrick (100 IM, 100 Free)

BOYS 9-10 Mike Allibone (25 Back and 25 Breast), Matt Gebhardt (50 Free and 25 Fly); BOYS 11-12 Ryan Gebhardt (100 IM and 50 Breast); BOYS 13-14 Mike Blaser (100 Free & 50 Fly), and Henry Blosfelds (50 Back & 50 Breast).

We had five new qualifiers for the Tri-County Championship to finish up with twenty-one for 2008.  We also had one first-time qualifier with Nick Aubrey in the 8&U Boys 25 Back.  Totally excellent, Nick!  Our other qualifiers were Emma Blosfelds in the 9-10 Girls 25 Breast (by .03 sec), Dennis Rooney in the 9-10 Boys 25 Fly, Courtney Fitzpatrick, showing her cousins that they're not the only ones who can swim back, in the 11-12 Girls 50 Back, and Alex  Martino qualifying in his last meet in the 15-18 Boys 200 IM.  We also had several others qualify in new strokes.  Well done, Sharks!

July 12^th 2008

The Sharks were playing short-handed today but gave Old Orchard a really good meet before falling 301 to 252.

We had six double winners:

BOYS 8&U Connor O'Leary )25 Back & 25 Fly), Matt Skotarczak (25 Free & 25 Breast); BOYS 9-10 Mike Allibone (11/12 50 Breast and 25 Fly); BOYS 13-14 Mike Blaser (100 Free & 50 Back), Henry Blosfelds (100 IM & 50 Breast); and BOYS 15-18 Rich Ambrose (200 IM & 100 Back).

We had one new qualifier with Ryan Gebhardt qualifying in the 11-12 Boys 50 Fly. Well done, Ryan!

We have one more dual meet where we can say goodbye to our graduating seniors (there's a whole bunch of them) on a winning note so let's practice hard this week, lower our relay times and get a whole bunch of new qualifiers before we slice up the seniors (or at least their pictures on the cake)..  Go Sharks!

July 3^rd 2008

After singing his commencement speech at his high school graduation two weeks ago, Alex Martino grabbed the microphone at Tenby Chase last night and gave us a rousing rendition of our National Anthem. The Sharks went on to win some close medley relays and Kelly Mesisca and Audrey Reppert gave us their first double wins as Sharks (Go Kelly, Go Audrey) and the rest of the Sharks enjoyed the cool evening shade and won a hard fought 340-208 victory over Woodcrest. We had some 9-10 boys once again maturing before our eyes as 11-12s. We also had some young-uns who had been watching Michael Phelps and tested out their Olympian starts, getting ready for the Games of 2020.. Enjoy the Fourth! Go Sharks!

The Sharks had nine double winners:

GIRLS 8&U Kelly Mesisca (25 Free and 25 Back), Audrey Reppert (25 Breast and 25 Fly); GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick (50 Back and 50 Fly); and Shawn Fitzpatrick (100 IM and 100 Free).

BOYS 9-10 Mike Allibone (50 Free and 25 Breast), Matt Gebhardt (11-12 50 Back and 11-12 50 Fly); BOYS 11-12 Ryan Gebhardt (50 Free and 50 Breast); BOYS 13-14 Henry Blosfelds (50 Back and 50 Fly); and BOYS 15-18 Seamus Kennedy (100 Back & 50 Fly).

The Sharks also had three new qualifiers: Kelsey Goodwin in the 11-12 50 Breast, Brielle Rietzen in the 15-18 50 Back and Connor Edel in the 15-18 100 Breast. We probably have another dozen Sharks who are within a half second or so of qualifying so keep on practicing hard. Congratulations Kelsey, Brielle, and Connor!

June 28^th 2008

The Sharks had seven double winners:

GIRLS 11-12 Kelsey Goodwin (100 IM and 50 Breast), GIRLS 13-14 Caitlyn Grady (100 Free and 50 Fly), GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick (100 Free and 50 Fly) and Shawn Fitzpatrick (100 IM and 50 Back).
 
BOYS 9-10 Matt Gebhardt (50 Free & 25 Fly), BOYS 13-14 Henry Blosfelds (100 IM and 50 Breast), and BOYS 15-18 Seamus Kennedy (200 IM and 100 Back).

We had twelve qualifiers for the Tri-County Championship.  We had three first time qualifiers with Connor O'Leary in 8&U Boys 25 Back, Matt Skotarczak in the 8&U Boys 25 Fly, and Molly Skotarczak in the 11-12 Girls 50 Back.  Congratulations Connor, Matt, and Molly!  The rest of our qualifiers are Michael Allibone (9-10 Boys) in 25 Back and 25 Fly, Matt Gebhardt (9-10 Boys) in 50 Free and 25 Fly, Zachary Pulley (9-10 Boys) in 25 Breast, Mike Blaser (13-14 Boys) in 100 Free, Henry Blosfelds (13-14 Boys) in 100 IM and 50 Breast, Michael Brady (13-14 Boys) in 50 Fly, Kelsey Fitzpatrick (15-18 Girls) in 100 Free and 50 Fly, Shawn Fitzpatrick (15-18 Girls) in 50 Back, and Seamus Kennedy (15-18 Boys)in 200 IM and 100 Back.  All of our qualfiiers can be seen here.

August 5-6^th 2007

The Tri-County Championship is over and the Tenby Chase Sharks finished in their highest position since before anyone on the team was born. While we may not have surprised ourselves, Tri-County was impressed as our relay teams dropped time, our qualifiers swam their way into one of the finals, and several team records were broken. The bar was set higher this year as only the Top 12 places received points. Nevertheless, we moved up eight spots from last year to finish 14th overall, ahead of many upper division team, including one A Division team, and nearly tripling the score of our neighbor, Riverdel. Go Sharks!

The list of our finalists (Top 12) can be seen below. Our record books required some dusting and updating. The first record of the weekend occurred on Saturday with Mike Blaser breaking the 1996 record of Mike Haigh in the 11-12 Boys 50 Free with a time of 28.28. In the next heat, Henry Blosfelds broke Mike's record with a new time of 27.99. Henry and Michael came back the next day to finish 1-2 in Tri-County in the 50 Free, the first time in recorded history that two TC swimmers have ever shared the top of the medals platform Also on Sunday, the record book was dusted off as the oldest record left, a 2:26.20 from 1975 in the 11-12 Boys 200 Medley, was blown away by the team of Nick Martino, Tyler Buek, Henry Blosfelds, and Mike Blaser with a new record of 2:20.67. Tyler and Nick both swam personal bests and collectively dropped over 4 seconds and the boys won their heat by half of a pool length. Next up was the 15-18 Boys 100 Back record. Seamus Kennedy set the mark last year at Tri-County and lowered it with a new time of 1:01.34. Henry then lowered his 11-12 Boys 50 Breast record with a new time of 36.06. Finally, the 11-12 Boys lowered the 200 Free relay mark for the third straight week with a new time 2:04.67 and just missed a Tri-Co championship by a few tenths of a second. Well done, Sharks!

While the records are nice, what was even more impressive was how many Sharks moved up the rankings to score points. Emma Blosfelds lowered her 25 breast by more than a second to jump from a 14th seed to earn a 10th place win for the Sharks. Dennis Rooney was seeded 36th of 37 swimmers in the 25 Fly and moved up 26 spots to get invited back on Sunday. He then won the consolation heat so confidently that he had time during the race to check out the competition on both sides. He ended up 7th overall with the fourth fastest time of the 37 swimmers, Quinn Reynolds was seeded 11th and moved up to 4th place overall in the 25 Back with two great swims on Saturday and Sunday. Ryan Gebhardt was seeded 8th in both the 50 Free and 25 Breast and moved into the 6th spot in both races and then moved up one more spot in both finals to finish 5th overall in both Free and Breast. Shawn Fitzpatrick came back on Sunday and pulled away after the flip to win the consolation heat of the 50 Back and get lots of TV time. Kelsey Fitzpatrick swam in the final heat of the 50 Back and if her arm was a few inches longer, she might have won the race but nevertheless had a great race and finished second overall. All in all, it was an incredible and very exciting showing for the Sharks.

Congratulations again to all of Tenby Chase's 2007 Tri-County Qualifiers: Michael Allibone, Michael Blaser, Amanda Borgmann, Tyler Buek, Emma Blosfelds, Henry Blosfelds, Michael Brady, Kelsey Fitzpatrick, Shawn Fitzpatrick, Matt Gebhardt, Ryan Gebhardt, Sam Gray, Seamus Kennedy, Nick Martino, Allie Mee, Paige Mollineaux, Liam Pauli, Allie Reimel, Quinn Reynolds, Dennis Rooney, Taylor Urian, and Rob Wilson.

Tenby Chase Sharks' 2007 Tri-County winners:
1st Place - Henry Blosfelds 11-12 50 Free
2nd Place - Mike Blaser 11-12 50 Free
2nd Place - Henry Blosfelds 11-12 50 Breast
2nd Place - Kelsey Fitzpatrick 15-18 50 Back
2nd Place - Boys 11-12 200 Free Relay
- Nick, Tyler, Mike, Henry
3rd Place - Seamus Kennedy 15-18 100 Back
4th Place - Quinn Reynolds 9-10 25 Back
4th Place - Boys 11-12 200 Medley Relay
- Nick, Tyler, Henry, Mike
5th Place - Ryan Gebhardt 9-10 50 Free
5th Place - Ryan Gebhardt 9-10 25 Breast
6th Place - Kelsey Fitzpatrick 15-18 50 Fly
7th Place - Dennis Rooney 8&U 25 Fly
7th Place - Shawn Fitzpatrick 15-18 50 Back
8th Place - Girls 15-18 Medley Relay
- Shawn, Paige, Kelsey, Sam
10th Place - Emma Blosfelds 8&U 25 Breast
12th Place - Boys 9-10 Medley Relay
- Michael, Ryan, Matt, Tyler
12th Place - Girls 15-18 Free Relay
- Shawn, Paige, Sam, Kelsey

July 22^nd 2007

The Tenby Chase Sharks had a great showing at the Riverdel Mini Meet and we even won the 50/50 drawing.  Twenty-two 9&U swimmers participated and did wonderfully.  We also put together a relay team for the adult races.  Recognizing the lack of talent in the ranks of the TC fathers as well as the problem of finding four jammers that would fit, we opted for an all women's team of ANNETTE KAELIN, AMY O'DONNELL, COACH DANIELLE & COACH CARLY and did they ever rock, setting the Tenby Chase adult 4 x 25 free relay record.  Riverdel normally posts the results in a few days at their website.

July 21^st 2007

The Tenby Chase Sharks had a tough meet against Old Orchard and came up on the short end of a 287 to 266 score.  Nevertheless, we got to see Mrs. Fitz give an emotional farewell to Sam Karpinski and Rob Wilson, two swimmers who has been leading the Sharks in and out of the pool for many years.  Thank you, Sam and Rob.

The Sharks had many double winners and at least two new qualifiers with Tyler Buek qualifying in the 11-12 Boys 50 Breast and Rob Wilson waiting until the last Tri-County dual meet of his life to qualify for his first time ever.  He bested the qualifying time  in the 15-18 Boys 100 Free by almost a full second.  Well done, Tyler and Rob.  We'll post all of that in the next day or two. 

We had two new records set.  Kelsey Fitzpatrick seems to break a record every time that she swims fly and today was no exception as she lowered her 15-18 Girls 50 Fly record with a new time of 31.56.  We also had the oldest record at Tenby Chase broken.  The records on the website are current and accurate.  The ones posted at the club need to be refreshed and corrected in some cases.  The 11-12 Boys 200 Free relay record was set on July 29th in 1975 (Mr. Taylor was a 15-18 Shark at the time) with a time of 2:10.60 by the team of Dzakowic, B Socci, Dennen, and B Alfieri.  Thirty two years later, the relay team of Nick Martino, Tyler Buek, Mike Blaser, and Henry Blosfelds shattered the record by more than two seconds with a new time of 2:08.50.  Congratulations Kelsey and 11-12 boys!

July 14^th 2007

The Tenby Chase Sharks had their best meet of the year in beating Wenonah by a score of 336 to 217.  If Wenonah had won, they would have been division champs so this was a terrific effort by the team.  The coaches took advantage of our developing depth in certain age groups and juggled relays to earn us a few more wins and the 13-14 Girls had two amazing races where they came from behind in the last leg to touch out the Wenonah swimmer.  This team victory means the Sharks have earned their sixth straight winning season.  The BCT article is linked here.

The Sharks had twelve double winners:

GIRLS 9-10 Quinn Reynolds (25 Breast and 25 Back), GIRLS 11-12 Taylor Urian (100 IM and 50 Fly), GIRLS 13-14 Allie Riemel (100 Free and 50 Fly), GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick (100 IM and 50 Fly) and Shawn Fitzpatrick (100 Free and 50 Back).

BOYS 8&Under Dennis Rooney (25 Back and 25 Breast), BOYS 9-10 Ryan Gebhardt (50 Free and 25 Back), BOYS 11-12 Mike Blaser (50 Free and 50 Fly),  Henry Blosfelds (100 IM and 50 Back), BOYS 13-14 Rich Ambrose (100 Free and 50 Back), BOYS 15-18 Seamus Kennedy (200 IM and 100 Back), and Rob Wilson (100 Free and 50 Fly).

We had some Tri-County qualifying races and we'll post those in the next day or two.  All of our qualifiers can be seen here.

July 7^th 2007

The Tenby Chase Sharks had yet another exciting meet in defeating the Charleston Water Rats by a score of 305 to 249.  We had some records broken, new qualifiers, more relays dropping time, and we were also treated to former Eagle, Vince Papale, signing autographs for the kids.  If you haven't already, rent Invincible, which tells the story of Vince making the Eagles team.

The Sharks had seven double winners:

GIRLS 9-10 Quinn Reynolds (50 Free and 25 Breast), GIRLS 13-14 Allie Riemel (100 Free and 50 Fly), GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick (100 Free and 50 Fly) and Shawn Fitzpatrick (100 IM and 50 Back).

BOYS 11-12 Henry Blosfelds (50 Free and 50 Fly), BOYS 13-14 Rich Ambrose (100 IM and 50 Back), and BOYS 15-18 Seamus Kennedy (200 IM and 100 Back).

We have at least three new Tri-County qualifiers, bumping the total up to twenty.  Paige Mollineaux qualified in the 15-18 Girls 50 Fly (Welcome back, Paige!).  We also have two first time qualifiers with Amanda Borgmann qualifying in the 8&U Girls 25 Breast and Sam Gray qualifying in the 8&U Boys 25 Breast.  Congratulations Paige, Amanda, and Sam!  All of our qualifiers can be seen here.

We also had two new team records set.  Kelsey Fitzpatrick lowered  her record of 31.71 in the 15-18 Girls 50 Butterfly with a new time of 31.62.  Henry Blosfelds broke Grant Zeigler's record of 32.85 from 2000 in the 11-12 Boys 50 Fly with a new time of 32.34.  Well done, Kelsey and Henry!  All of the records can be seen here.

June 30^th 2007

The Tenby Chase Sharks had another exciting meet from start to finish.  The meet was nip and tuck the whole way and our neighbors from Riverdel just squeaked by with a four point win.  The amount of time that the Sharks dropped in their relays was incredible.  Almost every group dropped 5 to 15 seconds since last week.  You can stand proud of your hard work and realize that the season is still young and that our goals are still there waiting to be achieved one stroke at a time.  Practice even harder this week, enjoy the Fourth of July and let's get ready for the Charleston Water Rats on Saturday at home.

The BCT has some pictures (of Megan Croly, Caitlyn Fitzpatrick, and Allie Reimel) from the meet here along with an article here.

The Sharks had nine double winners:

GIRLS 9-10 Quinn Reynolds (25 Breast and 25 Fly), GIRLS 11-12 Taylor Urian (100 IM and 50 Fly), GIRLS 13-14 Allie Riemel (100 Free and 50 Fly), and GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick (100 IM and 50 Fly).

BOYS 8&U Dennis Rooney (25 Breast and 25 Fly), BOYS 9-10 Ryan Gebhardt (50 Free and 25 Breast), BOYS 11-12 Michael Blaser (50 Free and 50 Fly), Henry Blosfelds (100 IM and 50 Breast), BOYS 15-18 Seamus (100 Free and 100 Back).

We more than doubled the number of Tri-County qualifiers, bumping the total up to seventeen.  For the first time since at least the early 90s, the Sharks have qualifiers in each and every age group in both boys and girls.  Congrats, Sharks!  The NINE new qualifiers are Allie Mee in the 8&U Girls Back and Breast, Liam Pauli in the 8&U Boys 25 Back (for both Liam and Allie, this is their first time ever qualifying. Well done!), Quinn Reynolds in the Girls 9-10 25 Breast, Mike Allibone in the 9-10 Boys 25 Back, Matt Gebhardt in the 9-10 Boys 25 Fly, Taylor Urian in the 11-12 Girls 50 Fly, Nick Martino in the 11-12 Boys 50 Back, Allie Reimel in the 13-14 Girls 50 Fly, and Mike Brady in the 13-14 Boys 50 Fly.  We also had several Sharks qualify in new strokes:  Dennis Rooney in the 8&U Boys 25 Fly, Ryan Gebhardt in the 9-10 Boys 50 Free, Mike Blaser in the 11-12 Boys 50 Free, Kelsey Fitzpatrick in the 15-18 Girls 100 IM, Shawn Fitzpatrick in the 15-18 Girls 50 Back, and Seamus Kennedy in the 15-18 Boys 100 Free.  All of our qualifiers can be seen here.

We had three new team records set.  Last year, Kelsey Fitzpatrick broke Kim Lewis' ten year old record in the 15-18 Girls 50 Butterfly so this year, she's chasing herself and she won today, breaking her record of 32.25 with a new time of 31.71.  Henry Blosfelds also had a record breaking day.  He topped Mike Haigh's 1996 record of 1:15.58 in the 11-12 Boys 100 IM with a new time of 1:13.79.  He followed that by breaking Grant Zeigler's record of 37.65 from 2000 in the 50 Breast with a new time of 36.62.  Well done, Kelsey and Henry!  All of the records can be seen here.

June 23^rd 2007

The Tenby Chase Sharks started off the Tri-County Season with a tough win over Georgetown.  The Burlington County Times link is here.  The meet was very exciting with several photo finishes in the relays and with the Sharks prevailing by a score of 312 to 242.  It was also great to see the Big Sharks cheering so loudly for their Little Sharks.  Keep working hard, Sharks, and let's get ready for the B Meet at Riverton on Wednesday and Riverdel at home on Saturday.

Tenby Chase had ten double winners:

August 8^th 2006

July 22^nd 2006

The Sharks swam a great meet against our neighbors from Riverdel.  The Stingrays really pushed the Sharks in the pool and Tenby Chase responded by winning by a margin of more than 100 points to finish up the dual meet season in 2nd place with a record of 4-1 and bid farewell to Garrett and Grant on a high note.  Those new car magnets worked their magic as well as looking good on our cars.  We would like to congratulate all of the Sharks for such a great effort.  Our coaches, Danielle and Carly, have done such a wonderful job with the Sharks this summer and a big hug and thanks go out to both of them.  As our shirts say, "We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

The Burlington County Times has a great article on the Sharks and the meet with lots of pictures and quotes from Grant and Coach Danielle.  The article will be posted here.  The BCT posted pictures of Courtney, Kelsey, and Shelby here (click on Sunday).

Tenby Chase had six double winners:

GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick 100 IM & 50 FLY; GIRLS 13-14 Shelby Mollineaux 100 IM & 50 Back; GIRLS 9-10 Quinn Reynolds 50 Free & 25 Back 

BOYS 13-14 Rich Ambrose 100 Free & 50 Back, BOYS 11-12 Henry Blosfelds 50 Free and 13-14 50 Fly; BOYS 9-10 Bryant Murt 50 Free & 25 Back

We have a new record in the 15-18 Girls 200 Medley Relay with a time of 2:16.35.  The relay team of Shawn Fitzpatrick, Caitlyn Fitzpatrick, Paige Mollineaux, and Kelsey Fitzpatrick broke the old record set earlier this year by Shawn, Paige, Kelsey, and Samantha.  Well done, ladies!

We have SIX new qualifiers with Emma Blosfelds in the 8&U Girls 25 Breast; Dennis Rooney in the 8&U Boys 25 Breast (our seventh 8&U boy); Michael Brady in the 11-12 Boys 50 Fly (Michael's been swimming with the Sharks since he was six or seven and this is his first time qualifying which is a good example of what can be achieved with hard work and perseverance); Allie "Two Hands" Reimel in the 13-14 Girls 100 IM; John Marrazzo (taking a break from his acting gig) in the 13-14 Boys 50 Breast; and Brielle Rietzen in the 15-18 Girls 50 Back.  Congratulations and well done, Sharks!  We also have some swimmers qualifying in new strokes that we'll update soon.  All of our twenty-eight qualifiers can be seen here.   That is a high water mark for the Sharks in this millennium and another example of what practicing hard and listening to your coaches can accomplish.

The old meet recaps (including weeks 1 - 4) can be found by clicking on the "Meet Recaps" link in the upper left column.  We have recaps going back to 2003 when we first started the website.

July 15th 2006

The Sharks were on a feeding frenzy today against Georgetown as all of our swimmers did a great job and we won the meet by a score of 347-207.  We would like to congratulate all of our swimmers for some great swimming along with a big thanks to our coaches Danielle and Carly.  This was an awesome team effort with almost every one of our relay teams dropping lots of time.

Tenby Chase had eight double winners:

GIRLS 8&U Megan Croly (25 Back and 25 Fly), 11-12 GIRLS Allie Stathius (100 IM and 50 Breast) and Taylor Urian (50 Back and 50 Fly)

BOYS 8&U Boys Matt Gebhardt (25 Free and 25 Fly), BOYS 9-10 Matt Ade (50 Free and 25 Fly), BOYS 11-12 Henry Blosfelds (50 Free and 50 Fly), BOYS 13-14 Rich Ambrose (100 Free and 50 Back), and BOYS 15-18 Seamus (100 Back and 50 Fly).

We have a new record in the 15-18 Girls 200 Free Relay.  The relay team of Shawn Fitzpatrick, Paige Mollineaux (with one good ankle), Sam Karpinski, and Kelsey Fitzpatrick broke the 9 year old record of Petscavage, B Kennedy, K Kennedy, Lewis by 3/100th of a second with a new time of 2:02.69.  Well done, ladies!

We have at least three new qualifiers with Ryan Gebhardt in the 9-10 Boys 25 Breast and we now have our fifth and sixth 8&U Boy qualifier with Tyler Aubrey and Tommy O'Donnell in the 25 Back in a race where all three Tenby Chase swimmers had qualifying times.  Congratulations and well done, gentlemen!  We also have some swimmers qualifying in new strokes with Brendon Jackson in the 8&U 25 Fly, Matthew Ade in the 9-10 25 Fly, Henry Blosfelds in the 11-12 50 Free and 50 Fly, Shelby Mollineaux in the 13-14 Girls 100 IM, and Seamus Kennedy in the 15-18 50 Fly.  All of the 22 Shark qualifiers can be seen here.

The old meet recaps (including weeks 1 - 3) can be found by clicking on the "Meet Recaps" link in the upper left column.  We have recaps going back to 2003 when we first started the website.

July 8th 2006

Meghan Mahan worked her "Kate Smith" magic with a beautiful National Anthem and the third meet of the year against Wenonah was an exciting one as we came from behind on two of the last four free relays and hung on for a close win.  The final score was 291 to 263.  We would like to congratulate all of our swimmers for some outstanding swimming as well as to the swimmers who swam up and to ALL of our relays.  An extra special thanks goes to our coaches Danielle and Carly.  The chlorinated water sure tastes great with the traditional coach dunking after a close win.

Tenby Chase had seven double winners:

GIRLS 13-14 Shelby Mollineaux (100 Free and 50 Back); and GIRLS 15-18 Shawn Fitzpatrick (100 IM and 100 Free).

BOYS 8&U Matt Gebhardt (25 Free and 25 Fly); BOYS 11-12 Michael Blaser (50 Free and 13-14 50 Fly), Henry Blosfelds (100 IM and 50 Breast); BOYS 13-14 Rich Ambrose (100 IM and 50 Back); and BOYS 15-18 Seamus Kennedy(200 IM and 100 Back).

We have four new qualifiers with Kira Blosfelds in the 13-14 Girls 50 Back, our fourth 8&U Boy with Brendon Jackson in the 25 Back as well as two 9-10 Boys in the 25 Back, Matthew Ade and Bryant Murt.  Congratulations and well done!  We also have some swimmers qualifying in new strokes with Michael Allibone in the 8&U 25 Fly, Kelsey Fitzpatrick finally getting a chance to swim the 15-18 50 Back, Matt Gebhardt coming from behind in the 8&U 25 Free, and Seamus Kennedy demonstrating his breast stroke technique in the 15-18 200 IM.  All of the 19 Shark qualifiers can be seen here.

The old meet recaps (including weeks 1 & 2) can be found by clicking on the "Meet Recaps" link in the upper left column.  We have recaps going back to 2003 when we first started the website.

July 1st 2006

The second meet of the year against Tavistock Hills did not go quite as well as the first meet. Tavistock Hills is a very strong team and is likely to go undefeated this year and move up a division. Tenby Chase had a lot of great swims but they had just a little more depth than us. The final score was 310 to 242.

Tenby Chase had seven double winners:
 
GIRLS 11-12 Taylor Urian (50 back and 50 fly); GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick (100 IM and 50 fly), and Shawn Fitzpatrick (100 free and 50 back).

BOYS 11-12 Mike Blaser (50 free and 50 fly) and Henry Blosfelds (50 breast and 13-14 100 IM); BOYS 15-18 Seamus Kennedy (100 free and 100 back) and Grant Ziegler (200 IM and 50 fly).

In the "Boys Rule" category, we have two new qualifiers in the 8&U Boys, both for the first time. Matthew Gebhardt qualified in the 25 Fly while Zachary Pulley qualified in the 25 Breast. Congratulations and well done, gentlemen! We also had five others qualifying in additional strokes (Kelsey Fitzpatrick in the 100 IM with an awesome finish that can be filed under "If I had a nickel for every time Kelsey touched someone out at the wall, ..."; Shawn Fitzpatrick in the 100 Free; Seamus Kennedy making it to the starting blocks on time and qualifying in the 100 Free; Grant Zeigler in the 200 IM and 50 Fly; and Michael Allibone in the 25 Free with another great Shark finish). All of the Shark qualifiers can be seen here.

June 25th 2006

The first meet of the year against the Cherry Valley Tigers was a successful one with the Sharks looking strong in all age groups and winning the meet by a score of 374 to 177. It was a great job by Coach Danielle and Coach Carly in preparing everyone for this first meet.

Tenby Chase had 10 Double Winners:

GIRLS 15-18 Shawn Fitzpatrick 100 IM & 50 BACK, Kelsey Fitzpatrick 100 FREE & 50 FLY; 13-14 Shelby Mollineaux 100 FREE & 50 BACK; 9-10 Quinn Reynolds 25 BACK & 25 FLY

BOYS 11-12 Michael Blaser 50 FREE & 50 FLY, Henry Blosfelds 100 IM & 50 BREAST; 9-10 Matt Ade 50 FREE & 25 FLY, Bryant Murt 25 BACK & 25 BREAST; 8&U Michael Allibone 25 BREAST & 25 FLY, Matt Gebhardt 25 FREE & 25 BACK

We also had thirteen Sharks qualify for the Tri-County Championship Meet. We have two first-time qualifiers in Kelsey Goodwin in the 9-10 Girls 25 Breast and Michael Allibone in the 8&U Boys 25 Breast. Congratulations Kelsey and Michael! The rest of our qualifiers are Kelsey Fitzpatrick (15-18 Girls) 100 Free, 50 Fly, Shawn Fitzpatrick (15-18 Girls) 100 IM, 50 Back, Paige Mollineaux (15-18 Girls) 50 Breast, 50 Fly, Seamus Kennedy (15-18 Boys) 100 Back, Grant Zeigler (15-18 Boys) 100 Free, 100 Breast, Connor Edel (15-18 Boys) 100 Breast, Shelby Mollineaux (13-14 Girls) 100 Free, 50 Back, Celine Murt (13-14 Girls) 50 Breast, Michael Blaser (11-12 Boys) 50 Free, 50 Fly, Henry Blosfelds (11-12 Boys) 100 IM, 50 Breast, and Quinn Reynolds (9-10 Girls) 25 Back. All of our Tri-County qualifiers are all listed here.

We had two records on the Girls side fall in Saturday's meet. The 15-18 Girls Medley Relay Team of Shawn Fitzpatrick, Paige Mollineaux, Kelsey Fitzpatrick, and Samantha Karpinski broke the record from 1997 with a new record time of 2:16.72 while Kelsey set a new mark in the 50 meter Butterfly, besting Kim Lewis' mark from 1998 with a time of 32.25. Well done, ladies!

July 31st 2005

July 24th 2005

         *** The Tenby Chase Sharks had a great ending to the dual meet season in beating Gibbstown 368 to 174.  More importantly, we got to end Amanda's regular season with the Sharks on a high note.  We will miss you next year, Amanda, and all of us wish you the very best at the University of Pittsburgh.  Don't forget to scream E-A-G-L-E-S often and loud; it's a surefire way to meet new friends in Pittsburgh.  The Sharks ended up with a 3-2 record in our first year in the much tougher "E" Division.  Next year, we'll shoot for the division title.  Thanks to all of our parents and friends who helped with this and all of the dual meets.  Burlington County is six days away!  Woo-hoo!

          Tenby Chase had 10 Double Winners:

GIRLS 15-18 Kelsey Fitzpatrick 100 Free and 50 Fly, Shawn Fitzpatrick 100 IM and 50 Back; 13-14 Paige Moillineaux 100 Free and 50 Fly, Shelby Mollineaux 100 IM and 50 Back; and 8&U Quinn Reynolds 25 Free and Fly.

BOYS 15-18 Seamus Kennedy 100 Free and 50 Fly, 13-14 Kyle Hatcher 100 Free and 50 Fly, 11-12 Rich Ambrose 100 IM and 50 Back, 9-10 Henry Blosfelds 50 Free and 25 Fly, and 8&U Ryan Gebhardt 25 Back and Breast.