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Top Newburgh Sharks Swimmers
The 1999 special awards were:
Award Boys Girls
Rookie Shark Award Travis Hatt Kylie Flaten
Rookie Swimmer Brian Gotberg Claire Ross
Most Improved in 99 Nick Folas Mallory Annarino
Most Improved from 98 to 99 Travis DeCapite Amy Bodnar
True Blue Shark Mike Ghannam Laura Hermann
Spirit Award Garrett Baringhaus Laura Hurn












Here is the end-of-season information on the top Shark swimmers by age group.

Fastest of '99
(as of Sunday August 1st)
8 & Under
Event Girls Boys
25 meter Freestyle Laura Timson :17.46 Michael Cruce :16.90
50 meter Freestyle Laura Timson :39.18 Kyle Herman :38.01
25 meter Backstroke Laura Timson :21.14 Kyle Herman :22.26
10 & Under
Event Girls Boys
25 meter Freestyle Mandi Timson :17.04 Evan Ralko :18.02
50 meter Freestyle Laura Hurn :39.20 Jimmy Crabill :40.89
25 meter Breaststroke Mandi Timson :22.34 Kyle Herman :23.72
25 meter Backstroke Laura Hurn :22.38 Travis Hatt :23.27
25 meter Butterfly Mandi Timson :19.42 Michael Cruce :21.25
11 & 12
Event Girls Boys
50 meter Freestyle Megan Gray :33.65 Patrick Draheim :33.88
50 meter Breaststroke Jolene Palmer :41.56 Patrick Draheim :45.09
50 meter Backstroke Sarah Timson :41.13 Chris Brown :41.72
50 meter Butterfly Megan Gray :42.59 Garrett Baringhaus :37.46
100 meter IM Jolene Palmer 1:23.49 Garrett Baringhaus 1:26.50
13 to 15
Event Girls Boys
50 meter Freestyle Andrea Hurn :29.33 Justin Ketterer :27.80
50 meter Breaststroke Andrea Hurn :36.83 Andrew Carlin :35.23
50 meter Backstroke Jenny Palmer :36.36 Andrew Carlin :35.75
50 meter Butterfly Jenny Crabill :34.75 Andrew Carlin :30.66
100 meter IM Andrea Hurn 1:11.01 Andrew Carlin 1:07.25
Open
Event Girls Boys
50 meter Freestyle Kelly Carlin 28.54 Kevin Crabill :28.28
50 meter Backstroke Kelly Carlin 33.44 Kevin Crabill 34.28
Cruising shark