New swimmer Sage Plelwinski, 7, competes in the backstroke at the Minden meet. Plelwinski earned 9 points at the meet. Photo courtesy Bishop Stingray Swim Team

Sports Staff
8-17-2010

Twenty-one members of the Bishop swim team traveled to the High Country League Championship Meet Aug. 6-8 in Minden, Nev., where they broke records and earned awards.  
This meet was attended by approximately 295 swimmers representing 13 teams from northern Nevada and north central California. 
The Stingrays hit their peak at the championship meet by achieving new personal best times in their events, setting 15 new team records and bringing home an individual first place high-point award. 
Claire Jellison had a stellar meet. At the end of the three-day competition she had posted seven new team records in the 11- to 12-year-old girls division, including the 100-yard freestyle, the 50, 100 and 200 backstroke, 50 and 100 butterfly and the 100  individual medley. She missed breaking an eighth record in the 50 freestyle by 1/100th of a second.  Jellison also brought home first place individual high-point in a field of 38 swimmers.

Claire Jellison (far right) out-paces the field during the swim meet in Tahoe last month. Jellison set three new team records. Photo courtesy Bishop Swim Team.

Sports Staff
8-5-2010

Six new team records were shattered and two swimmers took first place when the Bishop Swim Team hit the water July 23-25 at the “Come Up for Air” short course meet in Tahoe.
The Bishop Stingrays Swim Team had a successful meet in South Lake Tahoe, returning home with two first-place individual high point awards. These went to Brooke Winzenread for 6 and under and Anamaria Sanchez for 17 and over.  
High point awards represent individual accumulated finishing points earned during the meet.  For example, finishes are scored first through eighth place as 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and a cumulative tally is kept during the meet.
The new Stingray team records were set by Melodie Aust in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle the 200 backstroke for 13- to 14-year-old girls and by Claire Jellison for 11- to 12-year-old girls in the 50 and 100 backstroke and 200 individual medley (a combination of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle).
Coach Melanie Beard and Assistant Coach Phyllis Meneses were pleased to see the dedication swimmers put into practice paying off at this high-altitude meet.  In addition to high point awards, some swimmers deserve special recognition for dropping more than 10 seconds on their events: Melodie Aust dropped 12.5 seconds on her 400 individual medley and 11.3 seconds on her 500 freestyle;  Brooke Winzenread dropped 17.7 seconds on her 100 freestyle; Quinn Quesenberry lost 12.0 seconds on her 500 freestyle; Jordan Winzenread dropped 17 seconds on her 100 individual medley; Abby Ball dropped 22.3 seconds on her 50 backstroke; and Tanner Van Tassell lost 21.8 seconds on his 100 breaststroke.
The Tahoe swim competition was attended by more than 360 swimmers representing 26 teams.  
The next competition for the Stingrays will take place this weekend at the High Country League Championship Meet in Minden, Nev.  The Bishop Stingrays would like to thank the City of Bishop and all their sponsors for their continued support.

The OC Magic pose with the nets that were donated to them by John at Athlonic Sports. The team members are: (top row, l-r) Danielle Mooney, Kellie Tiner, Bree Beatty, Claire Roy, McKenna Kilgore, Danielle Steffo, (bottom row l-r) assistant coach John Moynihan, Madisyn Moynihan, head coach Steve Markle, Kristey Markle, Chrissy Cheung, Shannon Thornton, assistant coach Ken Kilgore, Jr. and Emily Romero. Photo courtesy Kim Tinerv

Sports Staff
7-31-2010

Two softball players with local ties helped their team the OC Magic tie for fifth place out of 36 teams at the Triple Crown World Series that took place July 19-24 in Park City, Utah.
Kellie Tiner, who pitched for the Lady Broncos this past spring, and McKenna Kilgore,  the daughter of former Bishop residents Machele and Ken Kilgore Jr., were a big part of the Magic’s success at the tournament.
McKenna played catcher and center field and Tiner pitched, played first base and right field. 
Tiner went 4-1 with 24 strikeouts.
Helping to share the pitching duties with Tiner were Shannon Thornton, who was 1-1, and Bree Beatty, who was 0-2.

The senior members of the Bishop Swim Team show off the plaques they earned for being high point winners. Photo courtesy Bishop Swim Team

Sports Staff
7-22-2010

Team records broke when the Bishop Stingray Swim Team held its home invitational meet June 25-27 against 10 other teams from California and Nevada.
The older Bishop Swim Team took second after edging out the Mammoth Swim Team.
In addition to placing second, four Stingrays broke records including  Melodie Aust, who broke the 13- to 14-year-old girls record for the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:36.45. Claire Jellison broke her previous record for 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:10.80; she also set a pace of 5:50.30 in the 400-yard individual medley for 11- to 12-year-old girls.
Also setting a new team record was Kylie Meneses, who broke the 200-yard butterfly record with a time of 2:47.13 and the 100-yard breaststroke with time of 1:14.00 for the 15- to 16-year-old division. Jessica Biehl set the new record in the  200-yard butterfly for the 17- to 18-year-olds with a time of 3:11.06.