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 Fish House on the beach later for a great team dinner, and than it was off to bed to prepare for the first day of swimming
Wednesday First Day: The first group arrived at 6:30 for warm ups with the second wave rolling in at about 7. Before going any further just want to point out that every athlete what ever the sport wants to be at their best in every event. In our sport we have a lot of factors that as a coach we have to look at as we watch our swimmers perform. The big two that I look at for a meet like this is one, when and how much time was dropped to get into the meet, two after our last meet (JO) we pulled back a little in our training and we are just getting back to it in the last couple of weeks.
That being said we started the meet with some backstroke events, and while our two youngest swimmers Katherine and Justin were a little off, they picked up some valuable experience. Our 200 backstrokers. Elena, Julia, Lexi, Marcelo all had some great swims and Fletcher was right at his best
time. Anthony also made it to finals in the 200 back with a great swim this morning.
Next up were our breaststroke, and we would start with a not so funny situation with Lauren. In the 50. In her defence it was like a zoo at her end. Last one off the block, recover, stop look in middle, recover nicely only to stop at wall for a chat with stroke and turn ( we won't say who that was), recover again All we can do is learn from it chuckle a little and move forward . Maggie, Faith had great swims making it back to finals in the evening. Peter finished up the event by dropping over 3 seconds in his 50 breast.
The 50 free was the next event on the agenda for the kids, and we started off with Ellie and Allison posting about their same time. Faith swam a best time. Peter, Anthony and Lexi posted good times and along with Faith would swim at finals that evening along with the 11-12 girls relay. In the other pool Julia Audrey, Maggie and Lauren swam best times with Gabby and Elena being off a couple of tenths.The boys Ian, Marcelo, and Kyle all had best times in the event and all in the low 23's. Both 13-14 relays made it to finals later in the evening.
This would wrap up the first session as we headed back for lunch and a good nap as we got ready for finals in the evening.
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