With this past weekends Sport Fair Meet now ion our rear view mirror, the first part of our journey comes to a conclusion. This week we will and have been putting in some different sets which have included games and relays. It is important to understand that we do need to take this time to re-charge both physically and mentally as we enter into the second part of our journey which will take us through the championship meets in March and April.
This past weekend we arrived at the pool Thursday afternoon with a lot of energy. The meet started that evening with our distance swimmers who swam some outstanding swims all posting best times to set the tone for the rest of the team entering Fridays events. First off let us say that everyone did an outstanding job during warmups, arriving on time, getting our lanes, and going through your meet warmups with no help from your coaches. This went a long ways in preparing you all to swim as fast as you did. It kept you relaxed as you went through our plan without us getting on you and (which helps no one) allowing you to take OWNERSHIP of your swimming.
Although we had a few DQ’s we ended up protesting a couple, but non the whole I think we had one or two. A funny story is that I found out a swimmer was DQ from another team which affected one of our swimmers results during final. I asked that coach this week what happened and I was told it was a false start. Apparently he tried to protest it by stating another swimmer moved or as in football made an encroachment causing his swimmer to flinch. Not football! And there is no replay. That would be a disaster !
Your individual races were tremendous, and it was exciting to watch how far you have come since September. We had a lot of Mako swimmers, returning to finals for that all exciting 2nd race of the day. A big SHOUT OUT goes out to our 12 and under swimmers who had a very quick turn around before finals. They were a very tired group, but what we were so proud of was that not once did they complain and they were on their feet supporting all their teammates all through finals
Sunday we saw that you were tired but we had that little talk about finding that energy from wherever, not feeling sorry for yourself and to finish the meet with a lot of energy. The result was that all of you responded and found that energy and had some great races. Throughout the weekend it seemed like a JO or Nasa cut was made overtime we turned around. Our relays did an excellent job and I believe that all our lead off swimmers who were given the privilege of lead off for an official time responded to the challenge with one even getting a NASA cut.
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