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2011 CBVA Women’s Open Volleyball

July 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
CBVA Women's Open Volleyball

By Barry Punzal, PresidioSports.com Kathrin Winkler and Tarin Keith, a pair of triple-A players, won their second California Beach Volleyball Association tournament title on Saturday, beating Heather Evans and Cindy Phillips 28-22 in the final of the Santa Barbara Open at East Beach. The tournament was part of the Semana Nautica summer sports festival. Winkler-Keith in May won the Hermosa Beach AAA and took a second in a AAA tourney in Manhattan Beach. They combined good defense with … [Read more...]

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2011 Festival Overview

July 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
Semana Nautica 2011

By Barry Punzal, PresidioSports.com Swimming, running, beach volleyball, softball and tennis — sports many Santa Barbarans love to do — will take center stage for the next two weekends as part of Semana Nautica, Santa Barbara’s summer sports festival. Started in 1933 when crew members of U.S. Navy battleships moored outside the harbor came ashore and competed against local residents in athletic contests along the beach, the event, dubbed “Fleet Week,” has transformed into a … [Read more...]

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2010 6-mile swim results

May 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Santa Barbara 6 mile Ocean Swim 2010 Results overall place name time 1   Stewart Reid—Santa Barbara 1:43.50 2   Chip McDaniel—Venice 1:50.08 3   Jim McConica—Ventura 1:54.05 4   Trevor Kosmo—Goleta 1:56.24 5   Chip Blankenhorn—Santa Barbara 1:57.33 6   Chris Dahowski—Santa Clarita 1:57.58 7   Ed Smith—Santa Barbara 1:59.26 8   John Chung—Ventura 2:00.59 9   Steve Lowe—Pasadena 2:01.18 10   Don Smith—Long Beach … [Read more...]

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2010 Presidio Sports Beach Soccer Summer Slam

July 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
2010 Presidio Sports Beach Soccer Summer Slam

There were discussions over food and drink at Union Ale on Saturday night about how to bring permanent soccer courts to the sand of West Beach. That's how much fun the first-ever Beach Soccer Summer Slam was. "Team Foxy," which was made up of a talented group of former high school and college players, was awarded its cash prize at the after-party for winning the Open Division with a hard-fought 7-3 victory over "Crab People" in the championship match. The squad featured local talent such … [Read more...]

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Reid rules Reef and Run mile swim again

July 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

When Stewart Reid enters the Reef and Run Series 1-mile ocean swim, the chances are good that he’s going to come out on top. Competing in the 11th event of the series on Tuesday at East Beach, Reid won for the fifth time and posted his fastest time of the season, 22 minutes, 46 seconds. He beat out Ed Smith (23.46), Greg Gaitan (23.51) and Chris Braden (24.12). Reid, who has won the 1.5-mile Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim in San Francisco Bay, also has a victory in the 1-kilometer swim event in … [Read more...]

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Eacret wins four events at chaotic Semana Nautica meet

July 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Darrell Eacret competes in the backstroke at Los Banos Pool for Santa Barbara Swim Club. (Photo by Presidio Sports).

The traffic is always heavy downtown during the Fourth of July, but traffic in the water at Los Baños Pool was downright ridiculous for the 42nd Annual Semana Nautica Swim Meet. “It’s crazy, because this pool’s not that big and we have probably about 1,000 swimmers all crammed in here for warmups. Warm-ups are crazy. I think I almost killed one or two little kids by accident,” joked recent Dos Pueblos graduate Darrell Eacret, who won four events. COMPLETE RESULTS Nearly forty … [Read more...]

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Warkentin works through winter-like 3-mile

July 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Olympian Mark Warkentin made it a clean sweep in the Semana Nautica 1-mile and 3-mile open-water swims this weekend, finishing off the 3-mile in 58 minutes and six seconds on Sunday morning. The water temperature dropped considerably from Saturday to Sunday, making for slower times. The reading on Saturday was 63 degrees but fell all the way to a winter-like 58 degrees on Sunday. "It's probably the coldest I've ever swam in for that long of a race," Warkentin said. COMPLETE 3-MILE … [Read more...]

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Braden goes to battle in Fourth of July 15k

July 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Goleta's Chris Braden edged Shaun Haley of Tucson, Ariz., by two seconds in the Semana Nautica Fourth of July 15-kilometer road race on Sunday, bringing the 19-year-old the victory with a time of 50 minutes and 36 seconds. "It was just me and him the last 10k or so, just going back and forth. It was a battle out there," Braden said, having bettered his time by six minutes from the year before. "I thought if I broke 51 that would be fantastic. I wasn't really sure if I could do that," … [Read more...]

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Warkentin works through winter-like 3-mile

July 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mark Warkentin was tops in the 2010 Semana Nautica 3-mile swim.

Olympian Mark Warkentin made it a clean sweep in the Semana Nautica 1-mile and 3-mile open-water swims this weekend, finishing off the 3-mile in 58 minutes and six seconds on Sunday morning. The water temperature dropped considerably from Saturday to Sunday, making for slower times. The reading on Saturday was 63 degrees but fell all the way to a winter-like 58 degrees on Sunday. "It's probably the coldest I've ever swam in for that long of a race," Warkentin said. COMPLETE 3-MILE … [Read more...]

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McKienzie-Toppel topple the field at East Beach

July 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dave McKienzie was full of confidence coming into Saturday's Santa Barbara Open beach volleyball tournament. McKienzie last week combined with former San Marcos High star Brook Billings and gave the world’s No. 1-ranked pro beach volleyball team a good battle at the AVP Tour Belmar Beach Open in New Jersey. Coming out of the qualifying rounds, McKienzie and Billings lost to Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser in the main draw. But they gained some respect from the best team in the … [Read more...]

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