Friday, August 12, 2011

Florida Region Athletes at USAT Youth/Junior Elite Nationals

  The Florida region had a strong showing of young talent this past weekend at the  2011 USAT Youth and Junior Elite National Championship in addition to the USAT Youth National Championship.





The race winners Lukas Verzbicas and Kelly Whitley captured USA Triathlon Junior Elite National titles Saturday while Tamara Gorman successfully defended her Youth Elite title. Sawyer Willingham won the Youth Elite race for the men.
The 16- to 19-year-old junior elites covered a 750-meter swim, a 20-kilometer bike and a 5-kilometer run while the 13-15-year-old youth elites did a 375m swim, 10k bike and 2.5k run at the Chula Vista Harbor.
Congratulations to the following Florida region athletes on their participation and accomplishments this past weekend at Nationals.
Youth Elite Female
12th Ciara Hopkins
13th Summer Kanstoroom
19th Kaileah Blazek
31st Caroline Condon

Youth Elite Male
9th Caleb Hudak
15th Tristan Rhodes
44th Graham Pimental
51st Zack Quilty
63rd Kyle Deschenes
65th Marcel Jane

Junior Elite Female
14th Savannah Dearden
26th Sarah Sykes

Junior Elite Male
33rd Shane Deeley
43rd John Gerard Farese

On Sunday, a draft-legal team relay was held for athletes ages 13-19. All athletes — in teams of three with at least one female competitor — will complete a 250m swim, a 5k bike and a 1.2k run. Field size was 55 teams.
Congratulations to the Regional High Performances Teams of Triton Elite Multisport (TEM) and Tampa Bay Tri Sports (TBTS) who had five teams combined on the start line!
Team relay results were:
11th TEM Jr Elites             Dearden/Farese/Deeley
21st TBTS Gold                Kanstoroom/Hudak/Pimental
27th TEM Youth Elite       Hopkins/Gillem (VA)/Rhodes
33rd TEM                         Sykes/Gillem (VA)/ Rollo (CA)
43rd TBTS Silver               Condon/ Quilty/ Deschenes

In the nondrafting Youth National Championship, the FL Region would like to congratulate the following youth athletes on their performances: 

Lawson McLoud -   1st place 7 yr. old boys
Lauren Benedict -    3rd place - 9 yr. old girls

Taylor Benedict -     5th place - 9 yr. old girls
Coleman Inglima-  1st place - 9 yr. old boys
Kaitlin Glidersleeve- 4th place- 10 yr. girls 
Lachian Hovius-       6th place- 10 yr. old boys
Jared Kanstoroom - 14th place - 10 yr old boys
Reagan Quilty -       4th place - 11 yr old girls

Timothy Glidersleeve- 17th place - 12 yr. boys
If someone has been left out please email the RADC and I will update this list