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UPCOMING MEETS


 You guys are probably have been as confused 🤷🏻‍♂️ as I have been for a snowy Monday judging from the emails I am reading, so let’s look at a plan.

First off the DMV meet is for a few of our 13 and over senior prep/ blue swimmers and you should have gotten emails.  There will be championship meets during March for all swimmers.  That being said if you already have qualifying times for those meets you should be looking at additional events that you have a chance of qualifying for.  You should plan on not swimming in the Mako meet at the end of the month unless there is a specific reason, and if so I will have to approve it first.

The rest of you should be planning to swim in the Mako meet at the end of the month.  The same guidelines apply when choosing which events to swim.  Look at the events that you have a chance to qualify in and be sure to allow enough recovery between swims.  If you have 3 events in one day you may have to make some choices like going for 2 instead of all three.

As some of you have learned along with myself 12 and unders are not allowed to swim more than one session in a day unless it is a championship meet and who said old dogs can’t learn new things.

We will treat these meets like a championship and will suit up, so let’s really keep our focus over the next few weeks.

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