Park City’s swim sensations face off against Santa Fe’s water warriors

Annual Santa Fe, New Mexico swim meet for the Park City Swimming Club. Photo: Jessica Siegrist

SANTA FE, New Mexico — The Park City Swimming club’s 37 teenage athletes flew to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for an annual invitational. Ole Olson took the top team placing.

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Photos: Jessica Siegrist

This is an annual trip the Club makes.

For Park City Swimming, some of the results were as follows:

Ole Olson had four gold medals, two silvers, and  one bronze. His score was 130, and he got 620.3 points overall.

• 1650 Y Free first place, 200 Y Back first place,  100 Y Back first place, 50 Y Free first place

Thomas Bea had one gold and three silvers with an overall score of 86, and received 579.6 points overall.

• 200 Y Back first place, 100 Y Back 2nd place, 200 Y IM second place, 200 Y IM 2nd place, 500 Y Free 2nd place

Third place for Park City High Point went to Mason Cadman with one gold, two silvers, and one bronze medal scoring an 83 and getting 537.6 points overall.

• 100 Y Back 1st place, 50 Y Free 3rd place, 1650 Y Free 2nd place, 200 Y Back 2nd place, 200 Y Free first place

Erik Solander was next with a score of 56 and 316.4 points overall.

Finally, among the best performers from Park City was Grant Williamson, who got a score of 13 overall at the meet and came home to Park City with 173.0 points.

Shane Kahn, who attends Judge Memorial High School while living and growing up in Park City is a highly ranked state swimmer and finished just off the podium in multiple events in New Mexico. He’s been in this swim club for eight years, which means eight years of waking up at 4:45 each morning of training at the Ecker Hill School pool. He placed just off the podium in several of his events in New Mexico.

“What I like about this sport and this club is the team camaraderie,” Kahn told TownLift.

He went on to explain how swimming is an individual sport; however, “the biggest, coolest part of traveling to a meet like Santa Fe and lodging with the team and having fun after the competition with your teammates means lots of close friendships get made.”

His mom, Jessica, told TownLift, “What I like about it all is that Shane is learning life skills. I echo his sentiment about making meaningful connections within the swimming community — you can’t just buy experiences like that.”

Park City Swimming also annually travels down to St. George to swim, and in March some of the club members will swim at sectionals in Indiana. 

Head Coach of the Park City Swimming Club Gadi Shama.

Park City results for the girls club team included: 

Kaicia Mackay Girls 13-14 400 yard IM 5:19.50 finishing in third place.

Emma Silska in 4th and Haven Weinberg  did well in the Girls 11-12 1650 yard freestyle.

Emily Ohara got sixth in Girls 13-14 1650 yard freestyle.

In the Girls 13-14 100 yard breaststroke, Kaisia Mackay was in second place with 1:13.66, and Emily Ohara placed seventh both in the A Final and in the B Final. Park City’s Audrey Williamson came in first place with an altitude adjusted time of 1:21.20.

In the Girls 13-14 100 yard breaststroke preliminaries, Kaisia Mackay got an altitude adjusted 1:15.68 getting third place, Emily Ohara took fifth, and Audrey Williamson placed tenth.  

For the 11-12 200 yard freestyle, Emma Silska in fifth and Haven Weinberg was eighth, both in the A Final. 

In Girls 11-12 200 yard freestyle, Emma Silska finished in fourth and Haven Weinberg in ninth.

For the Girls 13-14 200 yard freestyle prelims, Kaisia Mackay was in in fifth and Audrey Williamson finished 18th.