DC Water Wizards

The DC Water Wizards returned home from the 2023 National Senior Games in Pittsburgh with dozens of broken team records, awards, and personal season’s best times. Below are the highlights. Attached is a PDF summary of the full team’s results.

AWARDS SUMMARY – MEDALS/RIBBONS COUNT: 28 Medals & 30 Ribbons
(22 Medals/28 Ribbons for Individual Events and 6 Medals/2 Ribbons for Relays)
Gold Medals: 8
Silver Medals: 11
Bronze Medals: 9
Fourth Place Ribbons: 10
Fifth Place Ribbons: 7
Sixth Place Ribbons: 6
Seventh Place Ribbons: 5
Eighth Place Ribbons: 2

INDIVIDUAL SEASON PERSONAL BEST SWIMS: 63 out of 100 Total Swims

NATIONAL SENIOR GAMES TOP TEN QUALIFYING SWIMS: 5
Karyn Baiorunos – 400 Individual Medley
Kathy Labukas – 50 Backstroke, 100 Backstroke
Anne Forster – 400 Individual Medley
Luis Salazar – 400 Individual Medley

WATER WIZARDS TEAM RECORDS BROKEN: 32 Individual Events & 5 Relays

INDIVIDUAL EVENT TEAM RECORDS:
Ernestine Brown (Women 85-89): 200 Backstroke, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle
Arthur Linder Sr. (Men 75-79): 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke
Karyn Baiorunos (Women 75-79): 100 Backstroke, 100 Individual Medley, 400 Individual Medley
Kathy Labukas (Women 70-74): 50 Backstroke, 100 Backstroke, 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 100 Individual Medley
Marvin Blount (Men 70-74): 50 Butterfly
Bruce Bradford (Men 70-74): 50 Breaststroke, 100 Freestyle
Cynthia Nordone (Women 60-64): 50 Butterfly
Luis Salazar (Men 55-59): 50 Backstroke, 100 Backstroke, 200 Breaststroke
Anne Forster (Women 55-59): 100 Butterfly, 100 Breaststroke, 100 Individual Medley, 200 Individual Medley
Kim Dustin (Women 55-59): 100 Backstroke, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle
David Diaz (Men 50-54): 50 Butterfly, 100 Butterfly
Rob Sokol (Men 50-54): 200 Freestyle

RELAY EVENT TEAM RECORDS:
200 Mixed Medley Relay (Ages 75 Plus) E Brown, A Linder Sr. K Baiorunos, N Greene
200 Mixed Freestyle Relay (Ages 75 Plus) E Brown, N Greene, A Linder Sr., K Baiorunos
200 Mixed Medley Relay (Ages 70 Plus) K Labukas, K He, M Blount, B Bradford
200 Mixed Medley Relay (Ages 55 Plus) L Salazar, A Forster, M Tingstrom, K Dustin
200 Mixed Freestyle Relay (Ages 55 Plus) L Salazar, A Forster, K Dustin, M Tingstrom

The document DC_Water_Wizards_2023_National_Senior_Games_Results_Summary.pdf was attached to this post.