Blue Group January Meet Wrap-up

Blue

Many of us competed in back-to-back weekends. Great job handling the cold, long days, early mornings, and dry skin. Many of us continued to see improvement in the second weekend of racing this calendar year. That is the great focus you have maintained at practices!

Lots ended up getting sick before this meet, which is a bummer, but many still found a way to bring great focus, intent, and aggressiveness into swims. 

Bob Platt

Standout performance:

-       Blake 100 Fly - over a 2-second improvement

-       Audrey 500 & 1000 - two outstanding races, well split, competitive, and best times

-       Enung 50 free time drops 2 weekends in a row, took the learning from the previous weekend into the next

-       Eric split a great 500 Free

-       Ashton 200/400 IM

-       Luke 200 Free - as aggressive as it gets

-       Lillian Tan 400 IM & 500 Free - well executed swims, great focus

-       Truitt 500 & 1000 Free 

Dual Meeet Champs

Great competing at Dual meet champs! One of the best things I noticed was how accountability in practice led to more productive races, warm-up/downs, and conversations before and after races. Swimmers who were willing to race next to swimmers with faster times at practice were able to compete with swimmers on other teams with greater confidence. The swimmers who are exploring adjectives to describe what they are noticing in their stroke, swims, or efforts have a better time recalling what they executed, missed, attempted, or succeeded at in the swim. 

Long story short, practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanent. 

Stand-out performances:

-       Audrey 200 FL & BK Duals - FL = 7 sec drop / 1.05% improvement & 1% from the sectionals cut; BK = 5 sec drop / 1.04% improvement 

-       Enung 100FL Duals - dropped under :59 for the first time

-       Stella 100 back Finals - under 1:05 for the first time

-       Ryan 100 FR & 200 FL - both over a 1.02% improvement 

-       Eric 200BK Finals- 4 second improvement from Candy Cane, wya to bounce back from injury

-       John K’s first club competition in over a year - 100% best times & A-final scoring individuals + relays

-       Ashton 100 Back Duals to Finals - dropped from over 2 seconds, a 1.03% improvement

-       Ellie 5 best times - improvements needed for Sectional cut: 100FL, 200FR & 200BR: 1%

-       Zephyr 200FR - over 2 second improvement from Tualatin, 1% improvement to hit the sectionals cut

-       Leila 200 Breast in Duals - improving her best by just under 5 seconds, a 1.03% improvement

-       Lillian Tan 100% best times across prelims and finals - average improvement 1%

-       Ella W. 100% best times in Duals

-       Gavin is on his 4th meet in a row of best times in 100/200 FR