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It’s a wrap




 We had 44 Mako swimmers travel down to St. Petersburg Florida last week for 4 days of some super fast and exciting races wrapping up Saturday night with a pizza/pool party at our hotel before we headed back to Virginia.  We were very fortunate to get 4 days of sunny  😎 weather for our stay in St. Pete’s.  Throughout the 4 days of the meet the heat was as sizzling 🌅 as the races in the pool.

We started off the week with 3 great practices on Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning and Tuesday evening.  It was a great way to adjust to swimming outdoors, get stretched out and get used to the facility.  Our Tuesday morning practice was awesome as we had the whole pool to ourselves.

During the prelims session on all 4 days our Mako swimmers arrived at the pool with a lot of enthusiasm and got right to work with their warmups after which they went back to our team area to enjoy the sunrise each morning.  We had a lot of awesome swims during our prelim session. 

WEDNESDAY FINALS; Lyla Devlin 200 br, Sadie Buckley 50 back and 50 free, Jaxon Chan 100 br, Tyler Harris, 50 back, Anna and Laura Roth 200 br.
RELAYS at finals 200 medley-- 10 and under Serena, Tyler, Gina, Jaxon. 11 and 12 Dude, Laura, Anna Rizzardi, Andrew,  Maddie, Anna Roth, Darren, Alex.  13-14 Sadie, Lyla, Conor, Jacob.

THURSDAY FINALS: Sadie3 200 IM, Lyla 50 br, Tyler 50 fly and 200 free, 
RELAYS--400 medley--10 and under Hannah, Jaxon, Serena, Tyler.   11 and 12 Dude, Laura, Anna Rizzardi, Andrew.  Darren, Anna Roth, Claire Andresen, Sam.  13-14 Sadie, Lyla, Tony, Jacob.

FRIDAY FINALS: Sadie Buckley 200 back and a new meet record and 100 free.  Lyla Devlin 100 br.  Molly 50 br.  Evan 50 br.  Tyler 100 free and 100 back.  Anna and Laura Roth 100 br.
RELAYS--200 free--10 and under Hannah, Jaxon, Gina, Tyler.  11 and 12 Maddie,  Dude, Alex, Lucy.  Claire Anderson, Anna Rizzardi, Darren, Andrew.  13-14. Tony Sadie, Anna Helms, Conor.

SATURDAY FINALS:  Sadie 400 IM and 100 back.  Tyler 100 fly and 50 free.  
We choose to swim all our relays in the prelim session so our swimmers could get back for a pizza/ pool party.

TEAM SCORES: Mako finished in the top 10 out of 129 teams. Individual Sadie Buckley finished 4th and Tyler Harris finished 3rd in the scoring.

Great job by all our Mako swimmers!


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