Comets Place at the 2012 Northeast IMX Extreme Games

As noted in our LAST BLOG POST, the Comets had 7 swimmers competing in Washington DC at the 2012 Northeast IMX Extreme Games. This is a championship meet featuring some of the best IMX swimmers in the northeastern United States from Virginia all the way up to Maine.

Comets IMX team (from L): Coach Regelsberger, Sidney St. Rose-Finear, Arthur Fan,

Tyler Regelsberger, Gabby Studebaker, Zach Shine, Ashley Ali, 

Coach Musshafen and Brandon Crist

The meet was a great success and all of the swimmers achieved best times. Many got all best times or best times in the majority of swims. All of the swimmers improved their individual IMX scores. I'm told the swimmers all had a great time as well and it was a motivating experience to swim against some of the best swimmers in this part of the country in this format meet. All look forward on returning home and continuing to work hard at practice to continue the great improvements they have made.

Two of the Comets swimmers managed to score in the Top-16 bracket of their age division, which earns them a nice plague and allows their points to score for team scoring. Top-16 means that their cumulative IMX scored in the top 16 places for their age division. For example 11 y/o girls score against other 11 y/o girls and 11 y/o boys only score against other  11y/o boys.... etc. all the way through 14 y/o boys.

Sidney St. Rose-Finear's IMX score of 2980 was good enough to place 13th among the 11 year old girls at the meet. That score is also the 2nd highest in the Niagara LSC for the entire year and within the top-200 11 y/o girls in the entire country. She averages 596 across all of the 5 event in the series.

Arthur Fan's IMX score of 4031 was good enough for 2nd overall for the 13 y/o boys division. This score is the highest score in the LSC for his division and places him in the top 60 nationally among all 13 year old boys. Arthur's score is also 5th among ALL 6000+ swimmers (of any age) in all of Niagara LSC across the entire IMX series. Considering Arthur just turned 13 in October, he is sure to improve on these scores through the course of the season (IMX runs through the year from Sept-Aug). Arthur averages 671 points per event across the 6 events in the series.

From Left: Coach Musshafen, Arthur Fan, Sidney St. Rose-Finear

We are extraordinarily proud of Sidney, Arthur, Zach, Gabby, Ashley, Tyler and Brandon for their great work and we're excited to watch their progress going forward. The IMX Extreme Challenge is the ultimate test of versatility for swimming athletes and requires that swimmers dedicate themselves to ALL STROKES and disciplines in order to succeed. It's not just good enough to be "good" at one stroke/distance. You must work equally hard at them all to succeed.

We're very proud that among the 5 teams representing Niagara LSC, only the Golden Comets placed swimmers in the top-16 and registered a team score of 7011 (Sidney and Arthur's combined score). This is good for roughly 12th-13th (final scores pending) among the 60-70 teams represented.