Saturday and Day 4

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 1:50:00 for the first time. Faith after realizing that I really didn't care what she wanted and that she WAS going to swim the 200 free had a best time by over 7 seconds. Lauren and Gabby swam a great 200 free but came up a little short.

We would only have 2 relays (both 13-14) with Lauren Gabby Elena and Julia all swimming some good 100 free legs. After we found the boys (Ian Fletcher Marcelo Kyle ) we saw some great splits in their relay.


It would be a short turn around for finals (starting an hour early) on this last day, but it did not seem to affect us much as all 5 of our swimmers would post lifetime bests. It started with Lexi swimming to a second place in the 50 fly only getting out touched by .06. Immediately after that Anthony would step up and also swim to a second in the fly being out touched by .03, a pretty good start to the evening.


Not to be out done Maggie seeded 6th in the 100 breast also swam to a second place finish. Kyle would swim the 100 breast next and had a great race except for the little look. When asked about it he had a classic line "I wanted to see how far Michael Andrew was ahead of me." Our last swimmer for the meet was Katherine Helms in her 50 free and going under a 30 for the first time. A very good way to end the meet after some exciting races over 4 days.
Now it was time for Anthony to pull out his peeps to share with anyone who would have one. We now headed to the beach for a nigh to good pizza, ice cream, and most of all teammates, friendships and memories.


I will follow up when I return..

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