Congratulations to everyone who swam today in a resounding victory over the Wheat Ridge Pihranas! To be fair, they’re a much smaller club, but you guys kicked butt!
I was also thrilled to see all of the contributions our brand new swimmers were able to make and I’m very excited about the future potential for everyone!
A few moments that stuck out in my mind –
– Jessica Way losing goggles and a cap during a race – and never slowing down
– The return of the Moore girls – Olivia and Gabrielle swimming their first meets after a season (or multiple season) hiatus and not missing a beat
– Tristan Debrunner’s well earned 6-second drop in the 50 free after a very hard working winter (he made more clinics than I did…)
– A preview of whats to come of an elite upper division squad. Hey boys, how’s a state relay title sound?
– Cassidy Stein’s debut as a 50 swimmer, showing that the 8-to-9 jump isn’t unkind to everyone…
– Jessica Lucero having a bit of a breakthrough meet and showing a bit of competitive fire we haven’t seen before
– Dylan Jacob crushing the state time in the 100 free by 11 seconds in our first meet of the year. Wow.
– Baily Sherrard stepping up and swimming a distance freestyle program (including that nasty 200) and showing some real grit
– All of our new swimmers (including a huge group of ultra-tough 8-unders, some CARA transfers and a few league veterans) coming out and competing hard for the team!
We had a lot more special races but these ones were really great to me. I hope everyone had as much fun as the coaches today!
A side note – we had a few no call/no shows today. Remember that when you sign up for a meet, we put you on relays and expect you to show! It’s certainly understandable that things happen and sometimes a kid is forced to miss, but please e-mail me (I checked my e-mail as late as midnight last night) or call the club so we know what’s going on and we can make adjustments!
I’d also like to take a minute to re-emphasize the importance of being on time for warm-up! 12-unders must be READY to go at 6 because they only swim until 6:15. I still expect the upper division to be there at 6 because that group arguably needs more warm-up time (longer events!) and you can’t run off of 5 minutes of warm-up. Make sure you AND your kids are ready to go! Cards can wait until AFTER warm-up for home meets (get em done before warm-up on the road, 6:30-7:00 warm-ups then.)
I promise I’ll post results and perhaps best times as well as soon as I have them (and as soon as I figure out how to do it…)
Stay tuned…Have a great weekend! We’ll see everyone at morning practice Monday!
I was also thrilled to see all of the contributions our brand new swimmers were able to make and I’m very excited about the future potential for everyone!
A few moments that stuck out in my mind –
– Jessica Way losing goggles and a cap during a race – and never slowing down
– The return of the Moore girls – Olivia and Gabrielle swimming their first meets after a season (or multiple season) hiatus and not missing a beat
– Tristan Debrunner’s well earned 6-second drop in the 50 free after a very hard working winter (he made more clinics than I did…)
– A preview of whats to come of an elite upper division squad. Hey boys, how’s a state relay title sound?
– Cassidy Stein’s debut as a 50 swimmer, showing that the 8-to-9 jump isn’t unkind to everyone…
– Jessica Lucero having a bit of a breakthrough meet and showing a bit of competitive fire we haven’t seen before
– Dylan Jacob crushing the state time in the 100 free by 11 seconds in our first meet of the year. Wow.
– Baily Sherrard stepping up and swimming a distance freestyle program (including that nasty 200) and showing some real grit
– All of our new swimmers (including a huge group of ultra-tough 8-unders, some CARA transfers and a few league veterans) coming out and competing hard for the team!
We had a lot more special races but these ones were really great to me. I hope everyone had as much fun as the coaches today!
A side note – we had a few no call/no shows today. Remember that when you sign up for a meet, we put you on relays and expect you to show! It’s certainly understandable that things happen and sometimes a kid is forced to miss, but please e-mail me (I checked my e-mail as late as midnight last night) or call the club so we know what’s going on and we can make adjustments!
I’d also like to take a minute to re-emphasize the importance of being on time for warm-up! 12-unders must be READY to go at 6 because they only swim until 6:15. I still expect the upper division to be there at 6 because that group arguably needs more warm-up time (longer events!) and you can’t run off of 5 minutes of warm-up. Make sure you AND your kids are ready to go! Cards can wait until AFTER warm-up for home meets (get em done before warm-up on the road, 6:30-7:00 warm-ups then.)
I promise I’ll post results and perhaps best times as well as soon as I have them (and as soon as I figure out how to do it…)
Stay tuned…Have a great weekend! We’ll see everyone at morning practice Monday!
Green Mountain Swim Team 