Coach Brian Timmerman’s Palisades-Malibu YMCA swim team continues to get faster with each successive meet and that trend continued last weekend at the Junior Olympic Championships in Long Beach. In the 15-and-over category Jennifer Tartavull made new Y national times and set new Paly records in multiple events: the 100 freestyle (54.77 seconds), 500 freestyle (5:10), 1,000 freestyle (10:29) and 200 breaststroke (2:30). The 16-year-old finished eighth in the 1,000 freestyle and 16th in the 500 freestyle. Timmerman said Paly’s 15-and-over girls relay teams are the program’s fastest ever and they proved him right, setting five new team records. Consisting of Hayley Hacker, Allison Merz, Jennifer Tartavull, Kimberly Tartavull and Hayley Lemoine, Play qualified for nationals in the 200 medley, 400 medley, 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle relays. Lemoine, Merz and the Tartavull sisters finished 11th in the 200 freestyle relay. Ten-year-old Mardell Ramirez finished 13th in the 50 freestyle while Hacker lowered her own Paly record in the 200 backstroke.
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