“WIN”. What’s Important Now

Saturday would give some of us a little more time to sleep as we sent Coach Peter. And the two 400 IM swimmers over early for warm ups, while the rest of us would arrive at 7:45 to start ours. Elena started the last day off by dropping over 11 seconds in her 400 IM, Fletcher had a great race only to come up a little short. Justin was our next swimmer dropping over 9 seconds in his 100 fly. The 50 fly saw some amazing swims with best times posted by Lexi, Anthony, Ian, Lauren, and Marcelo The 100 breast stroke saw great races by Faith, Anthony, and Kyle who all posted best times. Allison turned in a great 75 breast and fell a little short in that last 25 but we will keep working on that. Maggie was 2 seconds off her time but did enough to gain a spot in finals later in the day. Our little makos Justin and Katherine both posted best times in their 50 free. The last event of the day was the 200 free where Ellie, Lexi, Julia, Elena, all posted best times and Marcelo went under 1:50

FRIDAY and DAY 3 Today we all were up having breakfast early and than piled into the van and arrived for warm ups at 7:30. Today we found three lanes and had a pretty good warm up period. The younger kids would start their meet with the 100 IM and all three Mako swimmers Faith, Ellie , and Peter had best times. They would follow that with some incredible 100 backstroke swims with Lexi , Anthony , Peter , all posting best times. Lexi would be our only 100 fly in this group swimming a little off her time but setting her self up nicely for finals later in the evening. This group ended the day with the 100 free with Peter, Anthony, having two great swims. The 13-14 year olds began their day with the 100 back with Lauren, Maggie , Ian, all posting best times for the year. In the most exciting race between Mako swimmers Fletcher (2:22:46) would just out touch Kyle (2:22:49) in the 200 breast and making finals leaving Kyle 11th and on the outside looking in. The swimming gods must ha

WEDNESDAY FINALS and Day 2Thursday Wednesday night we had 3 relays along with 5 swimmers competing in the pool. Anthony was swimming the 200 back again and would swim another best time going 3 seconds faster from the morning.     Faith and Maggie would also swim the 50 breast stroke and both had great swims posting best times again.   Faith, Anthony ,Peter and Ian also had the 50 free at final. All three would post best times in the event. The 11 and 12 relay with Ellie, Lexi, Allison and Faith had a great swim. Both 13-14 relays did well with Ian, Fletcher, Marcelo , Kyle, Lauren Maggie, Elena and Julia . This would end the first day of racing for the Makos. Thursday Day 2 arrived early and we would drop off the 13-14 yearl olds early and go back for the 12 and unders. We had a real good warm up as we arrived a little later and allowed that first wave to clear the pool. The first event of the day was the 200 IM. and first up was Julia who set the tone

As most of you are enjoying your spring break, Mako swimming has 18 swimmers from our groups in Tampa Florida swimming in the NASA Showcase classic being held at the Long Center in Clearwater. We started our week off on Tuesday arriving at the pool at 9:00 am for a short practice. The ears were from the guard, just needed to set the record straight. Thanks girls!!! As we were getting ready for practice, I came to the conclusion that Allison Hickey's mom need some lessons on the proper way to apply lotion on a body. This is Allison on the far right below, notice the shoulder burn and this is all over her body. She tells me my mom sprayed number 50 all over. All I could say was yeah, all over every where except you. These are some shots as we ran through our meet warm ups. After practice we all piled in the van and headed back to the hotel, with some sad singing as I drove. We would meet down at Jimmy's F