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2008 GTAC Disability Open Championships
26-27 April 2008
Meet
Invitation
USP
Officials Course
US Paralympic Trials Meet
Kate Gibbs (SQST) competed
in 6 events in the an attempt to make the US Paralympics
Team going to Beijing, but came up just short. In
her division, she won Gold in the 400M Individual Medley
(6:29.57) and in the 200M Butterfly (3:05.58), won
Silver in the 100M Breaststroke (1:38.70), and won
Bronze in the 100M Backstroke (1:25.62), in the 100M
Butterfly (1:18.91), and in the 200M Individual Medley
(3:03.65). Unfortunately, the 400 IM and 200 Fly
are not Paralympics events.
Congratulations!
Kate Gibbs
(SQST) set a new National Disability Record in the 50Y
Breaststroke (SB8 classification) at Senior
Champs. Her time was 40.80, breaking the old
record by .38 seconds.
Kate will compete in the US Paralympic Trials in
Minneapolis, MN, April 3-5. She has qualifying
times in the 200M Individual Medley, 100M Butterfly,
100M Breaststroke, 100M Backstroke and 100M Freestyle.
She will also compete in the 200M Butterfly and 400M
Individual Medley, although these events are
not swum at the Paralympics.
Congratulations!!
2007 US
Paralympic Open Championships
Kate Gibbs
(SQST) competed in the US Paralympic Open Championships
at College Park, MD, 6-8 December. During the
meet, Kate won the 200M Butterfly, lowering her Pan
American record by 2 seconds in Prelims and another 6
seconds in Finals.
Congratulations!!
2007
Paralympic Pan-American
Swimming Championships
Kate Gibbs (SQST) participated in the
Paralympic Pan-American Swimming Championships in
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. She swam in 6 individual
events and on both the 4x100M Medley and 4X100M
Freestyle Relays. Both relays took Silver medals.
Kate took a Silver medal in the 100M Butterfly and
Bronze medals in the 100M Backstroke, 200M Individual
Medley, and 100M Breaststroke. She also swam the
100M Freestyle and 400M Freestyle and finished 4th in
both. She had best times in all of her individual
events.
Congratulations!
2007 World Deaf Swimming
Championships
DJ Everton-Lovell (TAC) taking off for a
backstroke event.
DJ represented the USA at
the World Deaf Swimming Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.
He competed in the 50M Freestyle (31st, 28.99), 200M Butterfly (DQ),
4X200M Freestyle Relay (8th, 9:28.04), 100M Backstroke (9th,
1:10.93), 4X100M Medley Relay (10th, 4:52.12), 200M Individual
Medley (15th, 2:40.94), 50M Backstroke (13th, 33.22), 100M
Freestyle (25th, 1:02.70), and 4X100M Freestyle Relay (10th,
4:10.39).
Congratulations!
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