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 We finished 14 and under Champs Sunday night with some awesome swims from our kids.  Saturday our Mako swimmers continued to swim very focus as many of our kids posted personal bests.  Returning Saturday evening for finals were  Shannon Stegmaier (200 fly), Sadie Buckley (13-14 200 IM,100 back), Lyla Devlin (13-14 200 IM and 200 breast), Tyler Harris (100 IM and 50 back), Anna Rizzardi (100 IM), Anna Roth (100 breast), Laura Roth (100 Breast), Claire Anderson (100 IM and 200 free), Jaxon Chan (100 breast), Anna Helms (50 free), Andrew Zimmerman (100 breast), and Maddie Carroll (200 free).

The Mako Swimmers showed up Saturday night very focused and ready to race.  They were incredible during their warmups and showed up to the blocks with one clear objective, which was to RACE.

On Sunday we all arrived on time even after losing an hour from the switch to Daylight Savings.  The Mako swimmers had an outstanding Prelims session when many best times.  We do have to give a shout out to Shannon Stegmaier who had a swim off for the 200 fly and after trailing for the first 150 she came roaring back in that last 50 to win and posting a new best time.

I also want to thank our 9&10 boys for their understanding and great sportsmanship to our guest relay swimmer.  You see we had three boys for our relay so we went to the coach who had 1 swimmer who warmed up with us and we explained the situation and asked if he would like to join us for a relay and without hesitation the answer was yes.  I will tell you that after he swam his 50 free (dropping 1.5 seconds) he stopped to thank us for letting him get that warmup swim in the relay.  That's what this is all about.

Returning to finals Sunday evening were; Tyler Harris (50 back and 50 free), Laura Roth and Anna Roth (200 breast), Claire Anderson (200 breast and 50 free), Anna Rizzardi (50 free), Maddie Carroll (50 free), Andrew Zimmerman (200 breast), Shannon Stegmaier(100 fly), Sadie Buckley (200 back and 100 free), Anna Helms (100 free), and Lyla Devlin ( 200 back)

CONGRATULATIONS to Sadie Buckley named outstanding Female 13 year old swimmer 2021-2022 season on Saturday evening.

GREAT JOB TO ALL OUR MAKO SWIMMERS for a successful weekend of racing!


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