2026 UCSC Awards Night

On June 10, UCSC spent the night away from the pool celebrating another great season.

Below is a list of some of our award winners. 

Dino Spirit Awards
An athlete who consistently positively contributed to the atmosphere of their training group – attitude, enthusiasm, energy, humor, and leadership.

DEVELOPMENT SQUAD
Cooper Zhu, Tina Jin, Winnie Jin, Oliver Tsai, Trevor Chan, Bridget McIntyre, Lyndon Liu, Derin (Aderinsola) Ayandeyi, Hannah Webb, Aiden Wang, Grayson Diehl, Xueqing Zhao

TREX A            Zayd Mansour
TREX B            Lilly Kingston
TREX C            Ellia Kim
12D                  Grayson Diehl
12C                  Jiajun Li
12B                  Penelope Holloway
12A                  Kazeo Lee
PROVINCIAL LITE    Zaahir Bidmus
PROVINCIAL     Lorea Diaz De Espada
YOUTH NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Marc Monar
JUNIOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   Divay Malik
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   Julia Wagner
NATIONAL     Sophia Bullock & Sophia Meller
VARSITY        Hannah Johnsen

Most Improved Awards
Awarded to one male athlete and one female athlete per group.

TREX A Ellis Sadovnick & Arthur Wu
TREX B  Claire McClurg & Coen Truong
TREX C  Charlotte Lee & Ronin Proudfoot
12D  James Dukelow & Mabel Zhu
12C  Rishi Bhaumik & Taeya Noss
12B  Megan Vinuya
12A  Nicolas Girguis
PROVINCIAL LITE  Kaleigh Dallamore & Griffin Hartwell
PROVINCIAL   Gwenyth Power & Miles Blough
YOUTH NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Julianna Simonson & Ethan Kan
JUNIOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT  Gianna Liu & Dominic Seto
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Theodora Holloway & Justin Chen
NATIONAL  Greta Dove, Christine Zhou, Bensen Miles & Luca Zaher
VARSITY  Sarah Haugen & Aiden Gyorfi

Top Age Group Awards
Top Age Group awards winners achieved the highest single ranking on World Performance Point charts. The long course selection period is for performances from January 1 – August 21, 2024 and the selection period for short course is for performances from September 01 2024 to March 31 2025.

GIRLS LONG COURSE
10& Under Girls - Jessica Edivri
11-12 Girls - Gianna Liu
13-14 Girls - Callie Cardiff
15-17 Girls - Sienna Rodgers
Open Girls - Alexanne Lepage

BOYS LONG COURSE
11&Under Boys -  Kazeo Lee
12-13 Boys - Zachary Vinuya
14-15 Boys - Kinnon Sen
16-17 Boys - Laon Kim
Open Boys - Laon Kim

GIRLS SHORT COURSE
10& Under Girls - Jessica Edivri
11-12 Girls - Luna Wei
13-14 Girls - Callie Cardiff
15-17 Girls - Maxine Clark
Open Girls - Alexanne Lepage

BOYS SHORT COURSE
11&Under Boys - Nicholas Girguis
12-13 Boys - Zhan Zhang
14-15 Boys - Kinnon Sen
16-17 Boys - Laon Kim
Open Boys - Laon Kim

Ryan Schaff Award
The Ryan Schaff Award goes to the varsity swimmer elected by their peers and recognized for their work ethic, dedication, academic performance, and attitude.

This year’s winner - Kaitlyn Luu.

Club Records and Wild Rose Awards
Athletes who broke a club, Provincial, or National record within the last season were recognized. We had a total of 21 Club Records over the course of the season. Check out our current club records on the website. 

Volunteer Awards
Where would we be without our mighty team of parent volunteers. Celebrating two in particular for their outstanding commitment to UCSC this season - thank you to Todd Sutherland, Janine Cardiff, Hai Lam, and Chris Watson. 

We also awarded a Lifetime Volunteer Award to Kerstin Clark for her tireless work organizing our  volunteers and officials at UCSC hosted meets year after year. 

Graduating Swimmers
Celebrating our grade 12 Dinos heading off for new adventures in the fall. Congratulations and best of luck to UCSC's newest graduates!

Lauren Meller, Brooke Rousselle, Paula Clements, Kaleigh Dallamore, Lorea Diaz De Espada, Sophia Meller, Julia Norman, Daniel Hu, Thomas Hu, Jeffery Cheung, Laon Kim, & Tuja Dreyer

Silly Booth
Check your email for a link to Silly Booth photos!