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36 more PBTs posted in NMISF meet
A Saipan Swim Club member races in the 50m freestyle event during a local meet last month. SSC and Tsunami Saipan members gained personal best times in the Northern Mariana Islands Swimming Federation-sanctioned meet early this month at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)
The most PBTs were registered in the 50m freestyle event with 16 swimmers from Saipan Swim Club and Tsunami Saipan earning the feat. In the 100m freestyle, 14 got PBTs, five in 200m individual medley, and one in the 50m breaststroke.
In the U8 division, seven tallied PBTs in the 50m freestyle with SSC’s Jinie Thompson leading the list in the girls division with her 38.99 seconds. Other PBT getters in the girls U8 were Thompson’s teammates Nieves Villagomez (55.16 seconds) and Kaithly Chavez (58.53 seconds) and Tsunami Saipan’s Kana Suzuki (44.53 seconds). In the boys division, Han Xu’s new PBT is 37.48 seconds, while his fellow Tsunami Saipan swimmer Arman Rechucher also logged a PBT (44.92 seconds). SSC’s Mark Rainier Chavez was the third boys U8 swimmer to bag a PBT with his 56.90 seconds.
In the boys 9 to 10 age group, three swimmers, too achieved PBTs with Tsunami Saipan’s Juhn Tenorio and Kenta Tomie posting 35.66 and 48.33 seconds, respectively, and SSC’s Jonathan Sheu tallying 52.46 seconds.
In the boys 11 to 12 division, Nelson Batallones led the list of swimmers with PBTs with his 34.63 seconds and was joined by fellow Tsunami Saipan bet Jhota Yoshino (40.68 seconds) and Ja Min Elliot (44.23 seconds).
In the girls division, Tsunami Saipan’s Asaka Litulumar got a PBT (49.38 seconds) in the 9 to 10 age group and Kyona Rivera (34.85 seconds) and Kathrine Illahi (40.09 seconds) had the same achievement in the 11 to 12 and 13 to 14, respectively.
Rivera also notched a PBT in the 100m freestyle event with her 1:17.86, while Aika Watanabe was the other PBT getter in the 11 to 12 age group with her 1:22.12. Three other swimmers in the girls division earned PBTs—9 to 10 and Tsunami Saipan’s Nanaka Wanatabe (1:24.54) and Natsuki Nagata (1:44.53) and U8’s Kana Suzuki (1:48.05).
In the boys division, three swimmers each in the U8 and 9 to 10 divisions registered PBTs. Xu topped the U8 list with his 1:26.58 and was followed by Isaiah Aleksenko (1:30.04) and Rechucher (1:45.53), while Tenorio (1:19.73), Tomie (1:54.60), and Rentaro Suzuki (1:54.74) made up the 9 to 10 group.
In the older age group, 11 to 12’s Batallones (1:15.22) and Yoshino (1:30.79) of Tsunami Saipan and 13 to 14’s Christian Villacrusis (1:03.65) of SSC also earned PBT in the 100m freestyle.
In the 200m IM, SSC’s Victoria Chentsova posted 2:54.67 for a PBT, while Akira Kadokura (4:10.87), Lennosuke Suzuki (2:56.79), Kento Akimaru (2:39.89) and Villacrusis (2:48.44) had the same feat. In the 50m breaststroke, Tsunami Saipan’s Ayumi Obligacion was the lone swimmer to nail a PBT (1:00.37).
