JO's. Day 3

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 reason I mention it is that they are just off a 3 week championship season and events that they have been swimming over and over again are very hard to drop much more although not impossible. Best times posted were Kyle, Ian, Andrew Hale, Fletcher, Jessica, Allison Hickey, Emily,Richard, Alex Aung, Anthony, and Peter Makin.

The next group of swimmers to take to the pool were our frogs or maybe better know as those swimmers with a good breast stroke. The 13 -14 had the 200 and the 100 would be on the menu for our 11-12 year old.  In all we had 10 swims in this event posting 6 beat times, and 3 times that were just about the same.  The reason I bring up swims that are with in .6 of their best times is that in most cases these swimmers had big time drops a couple of weeks ago just to get into this meet and so I view these as times that are pretty good also.

It was now onto the backstroke were once again the 13-14 year olds would tackle the longer (100) distance and the younger ones would be the sprinters (50).  We had 16 swimmers entered in the event and posted 12 best times, (Audrey, Katie, Julia, Ian, Ellie., Emily, Peter, Alexa, Kent, Richard, Alex, and Anthony), 1 time about the same, and 1 purple heart.  This was because instead of counting strokes and touching with the hand Katie K. decided it would be better to swim through wall, leave no doubt and touch with her head  It reminded me of Gus Frerotte the Redskin quarterback who head butted the wall after scoring a touchdown and had to leave the game.  After complaining of dizziness we pulled Katie from the relay and got dad on deck to take her and check it out.  After a quick visit to the hospital Katie checked out OK, but for Katie what does that mean?, leaves me to wonder.

The free  style events were the last individual events of the session and we had 10 swimmers enter, with the older swimmers doing the 50 and the younger ones swimming the 200.  In all we had 8 best times in this event and of course there was Gabby trying to get a jump and getting DQ for a false start. I want to believe she was just anxious for her 500 which was up next and were she would post a best time along with Marcelo who was getting closer to breaking that 5:00:00 mark.

To finish off the session we had 6  400 medley relays  and after a good effort in the pool after a long morning the boys 11-12 and 13-14 would be the only 2 posting best times, and then again several changes were made because of situations that arose during the meet.

With out any rest time the 10 and unders session started (they were arriving as the 500 was concluding), and we had to find that new energy level very quickly. After a good warm up we would start the session with our lone 100 Im swimmer Matthew who started us off with a great swim dropping over 3 seconds.  It was now time for the 100 breast stroke swimmers to head to the blocks,  In all we had 5 swimmers who all dropped over 3 seconds in the events (Natalie, Ava, Michael, Matthew, and Nicholas Thliveris who came back from Jordan to swim in the meet with us).

Next up were our group of back strokers and we had 9 swimmers in the 50 back stroke.  Posting best times were Justin S., Kevin, Katherine H., Sidoni, and Allyson L., who dropped over 4 seconds.  We also had 2 swimmers posting times that were pretty much equal to their entry times.  Unfortunately we had 2 Dqs, a missed wall and a weird false start that was called, two thinfs  already addressed with the swimmers.

The last event was the 200 free were we posted 2 best times( Justin and Kevin) out of 3 swims.

After a quick warm up from Coach Stephanie it was time for our relays to head over to the blocks.  We had both an A and B relay for boys and girls and all four relays posted best times.  It was now time to get ready for finals.

SATURDAY FINAL SWIMMERS

Alexa Coumo 200 fly dropping another 4 seconds, and when Coach Peter asked her why the second split was slow her response with a little smile was "You guys told me to go easy on the second 50 and save a little" and all Peter could come back with was I didn' mean that slow.  She would also swim the 50 back later in the evening coming close to her new record set in the morning.

Anthony Grimm swam the 100 IM in the same best time that he posted in the morning and would later swim the 50 back posting a new best time.

Peter Makin swam a best time in th e 100 IM and also had a best time in the 50 back after a great start.

Maggie-Deppe-Walker made the 200 breast and with the other swimmers cheering for her (she was right next to us in lane 1) she had that final push left  in the 75 to finish with a best time dropping over3 seconds.

Justin Singletary made finals for his first time in the 50 back, posting his same best time from the morning.

Marcelo Coray would end the evening swimming the 500 free and posting a best time breaking that 5 minute mark and coming in at 4:58:38

A nice finish to a long to a long day.  It was now time to get some rest, and re-charge for that last day of swims.

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