Age Group One July Meet Summary

Congrats! There was so much success both within races and bouncing back from swims. As a team, just under 70% of swims were best times. This is an unreal stat everyone. This is beyond anything I have contributed here, this is you all wanting to have success at any cost. Still, it wasn’t a perfect meet, however, the confidence you all presented was a massive factor in bouncing back from one bad swim to the next potentially great swim. A specific detail I listened to between any good or bad race was our ability to analyze races, this requires a lot of performance maturity and awareness. We need to continue this, let it develop further, and find things to be more attentive to. We had a few swimmers go for time trials in their events, and they rose to that challenge with such confidence. I wanted to give a special shout-out to Elise, Gavin, Stella Daniels, and Ryan for believing they could even in the face of failure no more than an hour before. Fantastic job at Regionals!

 

Standout events for each swimmer that I wanted to share (alphabetically by last name): Blake’s 800 FR, Audrey’s 200 FR, Enung’s 100 BR, Stella D’s 50 BK, Ryan's 50/100 FR, Charli's 200 FR/100 BK, John’s 100/200 FR, Elise’s 100 Fly/200 FR, Ashton’s 100 FR, Zephyr’s 200 FR, Stella O’s 200 BK, Ellie’s 100 FL, Ari’s 200 BK, Rachel’s 200 FR, Nathan’s 50 BK, Sophia’s 200 FR, Riley’s 50 FL, Sydney’s 200 FR, Ander’s 50 FR, Gavin’s 50 BR

 

State:

 

Fantastic work, way to handle all the adversity thrown at you all. It was an amazing team atmosphere, with support through all the ups and downs of a state meet. I want to give an early shoutout to the relay-only individuals and the swimmers who stepped up to be on a relay, your passion and desire to help the team believe in their power, everyone was a part of our 3rd place team finish! Besides that, at altitude, there is less available oxygen, which means our bodies have to work even harder under extra stress to achieve the norm, much less go best times. We faced that challenge as best we could, with chins up and a fighter spirit, so it’s ok if we feel like it was a failure or a letdown. Something I was pushing a lot of us to do was say an “I’m proud…” statement after a bad race. While we are great at competing, we also need to learn how to be great at being kind to ourselves. This is rather blunt, we cannot change a bad swim, but a bad swim can change our entire meet. How you pick yourself back up (or ask for help picking yourself back up) will dictate how you see yourself at the next stressful moment. There is a definition of discipline, I hope you all have had a chance to hear, it goes like this: “Discipline is the strongest form of self-love. It’s ignoring something you want right now for something better later on. It reveals the commitment you have to your dreams, especially in the moment and on days you don’t want to. The future you, is dependent on the current you to keep the promises you made yesterday.”

 

Shoutout performances:

Enung first time under 30 in the 50 FR

Lillian first meet back from injury and made 4/5 finals, with astonishing resilience

Girls 200 fly, we put 4 in finals AND went best times, congrats Elise, Ryan, Sophia, Audrey

Mikaela bounced back from altitude sickness to go 4/4 on best times the last 2 days

Logan came back from an injury to go best times on over 70% of his swims

Elise going from an NT 200 fly to a 3:01.9 (which puts her in top 8 in the state)

Ashton hitting a PB in every individual event he swam, absolutely killer

Zephyr finding a way to believe through so much self-doubt

Ellie Pena a FIRST TIME STATE CHAMPION

Rachel placed 4th and 3rd in two of her individual events