{"id":182420,"date":"2014-10-20T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=182420"},"modified":"2014-10-20T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:00:32","slug":"tsunami-saipan-lauds-3-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tsunami-saipan-lauds-3-swimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami Saipan lauds 3 swimmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_182424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182424\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"182424\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tsunamipix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tsunamipix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Tsunami Saipan\u2019s Ashley Dangol, Daime Rivera, and Nanaka Watanabe pose for a photo before returning to the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool to start their training session. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-182424\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Tsunami Saipan\u2019s Ashley Dangol, Daime Rivera, and Nanaka Watanabe pose for a photo before returning to the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool to start their training session. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTsunami Saipan Swimming Center acknowledged its three swimmers who made record-breaking times in Northern Mariana Islands Swimming Federation\u2019s first meet for the 2014-2015 season held early this month at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so satisfied with Nanaka Watanabe\u2019s times in  the meet, especially in 400m freestyle, it was a great swim. If she has more chance to swim, she will break more CNMI records. I can see a strong potential on Nanaka. She won\u2019t be turning 9 years old until next year, but her swimming level already fits the 9 to 10 age group,\u201d Tsunami Saipan head coach Hiro Kimura said.<\/p>\n<p>Watanabe set three marks in the girls U18 age group in the NMISF\u2019s opening meet (timed tournament). She clocked in at 1:44.35 in the 100m breaststroke, 1:41.39 in the 100m backstroke, and 6:15.54 in the 400m freestyle. Her teammates Daime Rivera and Ashley Dangol also earned age groups marks with the former registering 43.76 seconds in the girls 17 to 18 50m backstroke. Dangol  got a record in the girls U8 50m backstroke event, too with her 45.39 seconds and posted her other age group mark in the 50m butterfly (41.69 seconds).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth record times are fast, but she might be able to swim faster. We are really looking forward to seeing her in the next race,\u201d said Kimura, who was not surprised of Dangol\u2019s records as the latter has set times faster than the CNMI age group marks during their practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p>As for Rivera, Kimura said he is proud to see her name in the CNMI records books despite starting late in the sport. Rivera began swimming when she was 12. Kimura added he will push Rivera to mark a BB time in the 50m breaststroke event in the next race.<\/p>\n<p>The Tsunami Saipan coach also said the rest of the club\u2019s B swimmers will aim for more BB times in the succeeding  meets, while BB swimmers will target A times. The club swimmers will also eye medals in next year\u2019s international meet and finals appearance and medals in the Tokyo Sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,  Kimura believes three more Tsunami Saipan swimmers will mark CNMI records this season. Eight-year-old Hans Xu leads the short list and is likely to earn records in the backstroke event. The two others are Anthony Camacho-Deleon Guerrero\u2014Tsunami Saipan\u2019s bet in freestyle races in the U8 age group\u2014and 11 to 12\u2019s Sophia Gauran, who is also a strong contender in freestyle swims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsunami Saipan Swimming Center acknowledged its three swimmers who made record-breaking times in Northern Mariana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":182424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,416,199,275],"class_list":["post-182420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-hiro-kimura","tag-sport-2-2","tag-tsunami-saipan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}