A T HL ET IC S
MAC Swims Big at Pendleton Meet W
ith less than a handful of long course meets this summer, the MAC
competitive swim team took its largest group ever to attend the Pendleton Invitational July 8-10. Twelve swimmers from Spain who are on an immersion trip joined the team. The Spanish swimmers, all boys, competed side by side with the group they trained with for almost three weeks. Fifty MAC swimmers helped earn the team a second-place finish in overall team points. Standout swims from Bailey Pearson, 14,
and Tristian Furnary, 13, helped an exception- ally competitive MAC team. Pearson finished first in the mile, 17:43.78, the 200-meter IM, 2:22.03, and the 400-meter freestyle, 4:32.59. Furnary took first in two events, the 100 and 200-meter backstroke, and runner-up in almost every other event he swam; although he was bettered by teammates Jackson Locke Harris, 14 and Garen Marter, 13, in
the 100-meter butterfly, in which the team finished 1, 2, 3. Marter also finished first in the 100 and 200 breaststroke. Age group swimmer Lindsey Hausafus,
10, swam outstanding in both the 50 and 100 breaststroke, with second-place finishes in both. Two 8-and-under swimmers showed the MAC is developing talented youngsters. Matthias Kreutzer, 7, and Beau Lonnquist, 8, swam outstanding in Pendleton. Kreutzer became the youngest swimmer in the past three years to qualify for competing at Oregon Swimming’s 10-and-under state meet, with a sub-minute time in the 50 butterfly.
Van Mathias Leads MAC at State Van Mathias, 10, swam his last 10-and-
under long course championship Meet July 16-17 and made it special. Mathias followed up his win in the 2010 long course 50-meter butterfly with another win and a finish .61 seconds off Lee Leatherman’s 1992 record-
Mia Anastas, Marissa Talcott, Hannah Cooney, and Katie Kim show off their heat winners in Pendleton.
setting 31.68. Finishing several body lengths in front of his competitors; Mathias’ 32.29 became the fastest time ever swam by a MAC athlete. He also dropped 11 seconds to a 1:19.54 second place finish in the 100 butterfly. Mathias placed at least the top six in every event and led MAC’s 10-and-under relays to fourth and fifth places in the 200 medley and 200 freestyle respectively. The MAC’s 10-and-under state team was
13th, five places better than last season. Every swimmer on the team experienced a top-10
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