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THE LAST THREE WEEKS


Let’s all take a breath for a moment as we come out of the last 3 weeks of championship meets. You all, the Mako swimmers were awesome racing in whatever meet you found yourself.  

Everyone arrived on time each day and went through the warmups without missing a beat.   The energy that you brought to the pool was incredible and a treat to witness.  You all supported each other during all the races and picked each other up whenever it was needed.

I would love to recognize each of you on personal bests throughout the meet but honestly there were so many I would inevitably miss someone so I will leave it at that.

I would like to give a shout out to 4 swimmers from JO’s , one from each age group who really stood out.  Tyler Harris (9-10 boy) came back to finals on Sunday night after a really brief rest and won the 50 free from lane 2.  Maddie Carroll (9-10) gained a lot of experience after qualifying for finals in all her events.  I’m not sure Maddie knew that she could recover so quickly and swim so many races.  The joys of being young and not knowing any better.

Leo Garcia Rivera, Laura Roth and Jackie Cowell all qualified for finals in the 200 breast on Sunday night after great prelims swims. Olivia Roca qualified on Friday night after a good showing during prelims in the 200 IM.  I do like the fact we had swimmers final in the 100-200 and 400 IM as we do a lot of our training for that IM the decathlon of swimming.  We definitely have to shout out to Cally Codding for her 100 fly at finals on Sunday night.  I really know what to expect from Cally at night after dropping a lot of time in prelims.  Most the time Cally likes to walk right up to the edge of the cliff mentally with all the reasons she is not going to do well, almost to the point I have to become almost like a hostage negotiator trying to get her off the edge.  Whatever she heard must have worked as she had a great swim.

Dominating the 11 and 12 girls was Sadie Buckley who qualified for finals in all of her events.  After some good swims during prelims she returned each evening and showcased her talents with some incredible races.

Lyla Devlin (13-14) had a great  400 IM Friday morning and then may have gotten a little knot in her stomach as she learned she would do it again in the evening.  Tyler Philips had great races all weekend and returned Friday night to swim that 100 fly again along with Caitlin Goff who would swim qualify for finals each night.  Sara Small also had some good swims qualifying for finals on both Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday Ken White (200 breast) and Rece Page (100 back) both 14 year olds qualified for finals later that evening.  After a good showing in the morning Ken had a incredible 200 breaststroke later in the evening dropping another 2 seconds.

Now that we swam theses meets it might be a odd time to revisit some of our goals from the start of the season. Which ones have you grabbed?  Do they need to be tweaked?  Writing your goals down and keeping a journal is a way that you hold yourself accountable for your swimming.

I want to share a picture with you of what a swimmer from the Gold group handed to me right after JO’s . After a great meet you might say to yourself time for a break, but not this swimmer who immediately went to work on ways to ensure they would have a chance to be bette next time out.  I think this has a lot of insight about a swimmer who takes ownership of his swimming and holds themselves accountable.  You may think these are small but this is a young swimmer in the Gold group and these will evolve over time.







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