What a great turn out and ending to our first meet of the season! We Won! I am continually impressed by our swimmers remembering to wait for their heat to finish racing before exiting the pool. Some even began giving first bumps to the other swimmers as they finished as well. Keep encouraging this level of sportsmanship in your swimmer(s). Many time drops from many swimmers. We will continue to work on breaststroke and butterfly at practices because these are the harder strokes legally. Starts and underwaters, turns for our 11 and olders, as well as finishes are also a priority when racing. 

Highlights 

Double Winners (Swimmers who won 2 out of their 3 races): Morgan Abernethy 

Triple Winners (Swimmers who won all 3 races): Carson Zeiger Everett Crosby Anthony Zeiger Delanee Williams 

Records Broken: (Officially at our first meet of the season) 7-8 Boys Backstroke (18.46) Carson Zeiger 7-8 Boys Butterfly (16.09) Carson Zeiger 11-12 Girls Free Relay (2:01.79) Laney Antolick, Mackenzie Bazin, Veda Capps, Jules Lowe 

Swimmer Shout Outs by Age Group

6 & Unders Mason Hom - time drops in all 3 events Emma Forgeng - time drops

7-8 Amos Jones and William Nuffer - making improvements Ayla Austin - just moved up to AquaBears from AquaCubs and competed in her first ever swim meet even while being scared 

9-10 Luke Hejl - willing to step up into a relay to fill in for someone who was out sick Angelica Vaitovich - swimming up in both 11-12 girls relays 

11-12 Connor Uniacke - swimming fly in the relay as a new 11-12 having to do a 50! Olivia Soderstrom - swimming fly in the relay and keeping up with all of the year round swimmers without being one herself 

13-14 Liam Soderstrom - swimming fly solo and dropping 1.5 seconds Felicity Bussell - time drops in every event and gives great effort at every practice 

15-18 Crawford Glover Allyson Deans