“WIN”. What’s Important Now

The Final Act of the Meet  Some of the Mako faces 5:45 and here we go for day 4 and the last swims of the meet.  As I walked to the pool this morning it felt a little colder than when I left a few hours before.  Could that  be a sign of some sorts. We started the first session with a very good warm up withe the 13-14 year olds with Coach Peter in one pool and the 11-12 year olds in another pool with myself.  The session started with the 400 free relay and we had 5 entered.  The men and woman had an A relay each and the 13-14 year old men also had a B relay entered.  All 20 swimmers swam some strong 100's as we got ready for the individual events.  All 5 relays posted best times. We would start with the back stroke the older kids doing the 200 and the younger ones the 100.  We had 3 swims with Jackson posting a best time, and Julia dropping over 5 seconds. Next up was the 100 free were we had 7 swimmers entered, posting 5 best swims (Maggie, Lauren,, Gabby, Marcel

Some of our Mako swimmers from the 10 and under session on day number 3 The third day of the meet started off a lot better with our 11 and overs able to spread out and get a much better warm up before the start of the meet. This mornings session would begin with the 200 free relays for our 11-12 and 13-14 year old. Makos had an A and a B relay for both men and women in each age group.  With a great effort by all relay members, all 8 relays posted best times with many great individual splits, and at least one cut made for the showcase classic in Tampa by Gabby.  Our first individual swim to get us started would be the 200 fly with Alexa who posted a best time dropping over 14 seconds. The next group up were our 200 IM(13-14) and 100 IM (11-12). In all we had 13 splashes for this event and posted 10 best times, 1 the same and 2 almost the same, and these two were Maggie and Elena who were 2 of our 3 High School freshman still eligible to swim in this meet.  The only

  DAY 2 AND SOME OF OUR FINALISTS   Peter you ok there man Peter? Alexa checking the inside of her eyelids.  And Anthony always ready for the camera.          We arrived at the pool for a 7 am warm up, and although the coaches knew the warm up conditions would not be the greatest you all handled it with a positive attitude.   The coaches did bring it to the attention of both the officials and the meet manager.  They will be a little better Saturday but still not the greatest. After we worked our way through the warm up period the meet started with the relays.  We had 8 relays entered in this portion of the meet, and the result was 6 best times, 1 having the same and 1 a little off.  Several of the swimmers would post best times for their splits. Now it was time to get into the individual  events for the session and this morning Justin Brady would set the pace with a best time in the 200 back.  Next up were our 100 breast stroke swimmers and we would post 3

THURSDAY. MARCH 13. DAY NUMBER 1 We have now started this meet, but before that I would like to remind you that our championship season started last weekend with Junior/Senior champs at George Mason. We had three swimmers from our group swim in that meet ( Jamie Q, Gillian G., and Jet). Jet and Gillian would start our final push of this short course season posting personal best times in all of their swims. Way to start us off .Now we move to the University of Md. for the next stage. The night started out with Kyle C swimming the 1000 free and posting his best time dropping 16 seconds. Now as Heather and I rushed to the other pool it was Gabby's turn to take the pool for her 1650 free. Other than her pit stops on the walls (but that's  a story for another day) she had a great swim dropping over 25 seconds from her previous time. Nice way to start us off you all. Now it's off to bet with visions of great swims dancing in my head. Here we go!!! WAITING

JUNIOR OLYMPICS IS HERE INFORMATION FOR MEET: RELAY SWIMMERS:  If you are swimming only relays for the sessions you should plan on arriving about 75 minutes before the event starts.  The time line for the meet is on the Potomac valley web site.  For relays that are at the start of each session you should plan to be there for the normal warm up period. CAPS:   The only caps to be used are the JO caps given out.  Everyone should have 2 of these. CLOTHING:  PLEASE ONLY WEAR MAKO TEAM CLOTHING (LOOK LIKE A TEAM, LOOK LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, SWIM FAST) 11 AND OVER SESSIONS:  We will be using 2 pools so that means 2 meets.  Know what pool you are swimming in and pay attention, it is not the coaches job to get you to the blocks.  You all are the more experience swimmers and you should know what you are doing.  Finals will bring back the top 16 at night. 10 and unders :  We will only be swimming in one pool.  Finals will bring back the top 8 at night. "DARE T