Holy Cow!

So I know its been a long time (and I feel that whenever I update this, I say the exact same thing!), but I guess I'm just not so quick at getting to this. But anyway, as Laura Watson has pointed out, it's been way too long... and so much has happened... so here it goes.

After sending off the high school swimmers to their respective swim seasons, the age group swimmers have been swimming amazingly fast. We swam very well at the meet a few of us attended in Ft. Wayne, IN, and also at the Shaker Shark Invitational. The only thing I am going to specifically mention from either of those meets is the 11-12 200 Free Relay which set a new team record in a time trial at the end of the meet. The relay of Amber Kovach, Natalie Klug, Rachel Zarlinski, and Iman Eulinberg beat the USC team record by a second with a time of 1:45.42. Amber led off in a lifetime best of 24.46, which qualified her for Sectionals which is an amazing feat for a 12 year old. The other three girls all had lifetime best splits on the relay as well.

December 18-20, we were in Pittsburgh, PA for the Xmas Meet. All I can say is wow! This was an incredibly fast meet, most events needing a AAAA time to place in the top 3. I am very proud to say that our USC representatives added to the quality of the meet. Amber made finals (top 8) in all but one event she swam. She also set new team records in the 50, 100, and 200 freestyle; 50, 100, and 200 backstroke; and the 50 and 100 butterfly. She also won the 50 fly by over a second! She posted times in the 100 back and 100 fly that will allow her to swim these events at sectionals as bonus events. Needless to say, Amber swam very well! But she is not the only one... Jordan Delgross (or Delweirdo if you read her swim cap) made her AA time in the 200 free. She took her first 50 out very fast, maybe a little too fast, but she was able to hold on to drop 3 seconds and get the AA cut. Emma Meyer, who swims at Orange, also swam very fast. She made finals in the 100 Fly, 50 Fly, and 100 Free. She dropped from a 1:17 to a 1:13 in the 100 Fly on Sunday, and her comment to me after she swam the 1:13 in finals was "I wasn't ready." If that was swimming "not ready," maybe we all need to take a page from young Emma's book! Scottie Bowman, also an Orange swimmer, lowered his own team records in the 100 Back and the 50 Fly. He swam both of those in finals, as well as the 100 Fly. Iman Eulinberg, Grace Ferry, Michelle Leahy, and Kingsley Bowen all swam very well also. I was very pleased with how everyone swam. It was a long weekend, but definitely worth it! I was proud to be the coach on deck!

Well, that brings us to today. Maybe I won't wait so long to post next time...or maybe I will ;)

See you at the pool!

Coach Matt