"Bay City swimmers shine in 2 Houston area meets" By Bob Button

BCHS Swimming Coach

December 3-5 
   The Tomball Area Swim Club (TASC) hosted the Gulf 13 & Over Champs meet. ShAC-BC’s Oliver Spencer, Julia Cook, & Luke Cook represented Swim Houston Aquatics Center in the 12-team meet. 
   Scoring was through 16 places in each event. All distances in yards. 
   Top 3 Men Team Scores 
   Swim Houston Aquatics Center (ShAC)
– 470 
   Swim Ohana (SWIM) – 348 
   Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club (CFSC) – 181 
   Top 3 Women Team Scores 
   Swim Houston Aquatics Center (ShAC) – 477 

   The Woodlands Swim Team (TWST) – 279 
   Premier Aquatics (PACK) – 218 
   Notes 
   Including only our scoring swims for each athlete.  
   We had plenty of lifetime bests, even in the events our swimmers didn’t qualify to swim in finals. 
   Both Julia and Luke dropped seven seconds off their lifetime bests in the 400 IM, and Oliver broke a minute for the first time ever in the 100 back. 
   Julia Cook (13) 
   1000 Freestyle – 12:23.54 – 8th 
   400 Individual Medley – 5:39.62 – 11th 
   Luke Cook (15) 
   1000 Freestyle – 10:26.82 – 3rd 
   400 Individual Medley – 4:53.53 – 5th 
   Oliver Spencer (15
   50 Freestyle - :23.11 – 4th 
   100 Backstroke - :59.39 – 8th
                        December 10-12 
   The Lone Star Swim Team (LSST) hosted the Gulf 12 & Under Champs meet. ShAC-BC’s Keegan Spencer represented Swim Houston Aquatics Center in the ten-team meet. 
   Scoring was through eight places in each event. All distances in yards. 
   Top 3 Men Team Scores 
   Swim Houston Aquatics Center (ShAC) – 230.5 

   Fulshear Racing Swim Team (FRST) – 185.5 
   Lone Star Swim Team (LSST) – 123 
   Notes 
   We didn’t rest Keegan for this meet, but he still had several personal bests.  
   He had a great swim in the 500 free, knocking twenty seconds off his previous best. 
   Keegan Spencer (12) 
   500 Freestyle – 6:03.33 – 2nd 
   50 Freestyle - :27.98 – 3rd 
   200 Breaststroke – 3:09.15 – 3rd 
   200 Freestyle – 2:23.41 – 4th