Congratulations again to the team for placing SECOND at State, and to all the new Gator record holders:

Age Group
Event
Name
Time
Boys 9-10
100 Free
Ryan Skrzekut
1:15:35
Boys 9-10
50 Back
Ryan Skrzekut
40.60
Boys 11-12
50 Back
Zach Outcalt
35.91
Girls 11-12
100 Free
Samantha Skrzekut
1:09:34
Girls 11-12
200 Free
Samantha Skrzekut
2:29:36
Boys 13-14
400 Free
Ben Hofstra
5:07:71
Boys 13-14
100 Fly
Alex Granquist
1:10:30
Boys 13-14
200 Medley Relay
Andrew Penn
Quinn Meinert
Alex Granquist
Ben Hofstra
2:08:19
Girls 13-14
100 Free
Amanda Ballard
1:03:32
Girls 13-14
100 Back
Emma Neuroth
1:17:09
Boys 15-16
100 Breast
Tristan Gess
1:11:80
Girls 15-16
100 Free
Anna Granquist
1:05:08
Girls 15-16
100 Back
Kaylyn Schull
1:14:18
Girls 15-16
100 Breast
Sydni Sich
1:19:08
Girls 15-16
200 IM
Sydni Sich
2:42:04
Boys 17-18
200 IM
Ethan Schick
2:24:02
Girls 17-18
200 Free
Lilia Kerski
2:19:16
Girls 17-18
400 Free
Lilia Kerski
4:58:78
Boys 15-18
200 Free Relay
Ethan Schick
Dylan Jacob
Tristan Gess
Quinn Trussel
1:41:34
Boys 15-18
200 Medley Relay
Dylan Jacob
Kevin Kruse
Ethan Schick
Quinn Trussel
1:57:00
Girls 15-18
200 Free Relay
Tess Hofstra
Anna Granquist
Ianna Debrunner
Sydni Sich
1:58:42
Girls 15-18
200 Medley Relay
Kaylyn Schull
Sydni Sich
Lilia Kerski
Ianna Debrunner
2:12:63

A special shout-out to Lilia Kerski-her time in the 200 free beat a record that has stood for 28 years!
Congrats all!  

Movie Night

Movie Night at the pool
We would like to celebrate our successful summer swim season with a movie night.
What:  Movie Night showing Shark Tales
Who:  Gator swimmers only
When:  Tuesday, July 28th 8:30-10pm
Where:  Green Mountain Swim Club
Why:  celebrate summer swim team 

This movie night is open to only Gator swimmers.  Parents feel free to drop your kids off as we will have adult supervision for the duration of the movie.  Swimmers you can come in your pajamas if you would like.  We will be showing Shark Tales a Dreamworks movie.  The swim team board will provide water/lemonade, popcorn and some additional snacks.  Please feel free to bring something to snack on during the movie if you choose.  Also please bring a blanket or sleeping bag as we will be in the grass.

Looking forward to seeing you all tonight.
Please note this is no swimming allowed tonight. 

State and Team Movie Night

Hello Gators!!

Today marked the last day of racing for the summer, and I can’t even begin to express how proud I am of everyone who swam this weekend. Last year at State we got third place overall, which I believe was the best the team had ever done. After League this past weekend, I felt very confident in our swimmers going into State, but this weekend exceeded all of my expectations. This weekend our Gators came ready to race; we had lots of huge time drops and best times, several new Gator records, some outright unbelievable swims, but most impressively, the team came together to place SECOND out of 51 teams in the state. I am so, so excited and so, so proud of you all!
I also want to give a special thank you to Porter and Ethan. They both did an outstanding job this season, and I really couldn’t have done it without them. Porter was a great help during the early morning practice, and did an excellent job running the middle practice every day. He helped keep practices fun and kept everyone smiling. Once again, Ethan did an amazing job working with the 9 and unders during the last practice. He brought a great energy to the pool each morning and all of the swimmers loved him! I saw huge improvement in all of the swimmers that Porter and Ethan worked with, and I am both impressed by and proud of both of them.

My last announcement for the evening is about our celebratory MOVIE NIGHT! The movie night will be held at GMSC this Tuesday, July 28. We will plan on getting to the pool around 8 or 8:15pm, and the movie will start at 8:30. We will have snack food available, but please feel free to bring your own food as well. Pick up time for parents will be around 10pm once the movie is done. I’m really looking forward to another fun night with the team! See you all then!

Excellent job this summer! Jaimie

State Stuff

Hi Gators! I can’t believe the State meet is already here!! Here is the information about warm ups this weekend. The lower parking lot (closest to the pool) will be reserved for coaches and officials, so please plan accordingly so your swimmers are able to be behind the blocks ready for warm up on time. Thank you!

Saturday (12&Unders): Warm up will be from 6:40-7:00am. Please do your best to arrive by 6:30am. We will be doing our full warm up during this time and it is very important to be there so the kids are ready to do their best in their races. There will be starts/turns/sprints lanes from 8:40-8:55 right before the meet starts. These lanes will not suffice for a full warm up, but will be available for a little extra practice. 
Sunday (13&Up): After talking to the Upper Division swimmers, they have decided that they would rather warm up at GMSC and then head over to Splash. Upper Division warm ups will be at GMSC from 7:10-7:45am. We will then head over to Splash and practice starts and turns in the sprint lanes from 8:40-8:55. 
If you made a shirt this week at practice, make sure to wear it to the meet to show our Green Mountain spirit!
Good luck swimmers! I know you’ll all do great 🙂