Gators Wrap Up Championship Season With Strong Showing at State Championship Meets

Against the fastest swimmers, in one of the fastest swim states in the country, our Gators continued to display their prowess the past two weekends at Indiana Swimming’s Senior State and Age Group State Championship Meets. Qualifying for these meets is a huge accomplishment itself and represents the hard work and dedication of our swimmers and coaches throughout the season.

At the Senior State meet at Pike HS, Eleanor Guipe competed in 2 events over the weekend, finishing 37^th in the 100 Breast and 44^th in the 200 Breast.

At Age Group State, we sent 6 swimmers to the Nat downtown. Unfortunately, illness crept in and limited Emmanuel Jackson to only competing 2 of the 3 days, and certainly not at 100%. But nonetheless he and the rest of the Gators showed their dedication and pushed through with some awesome performances.

• Boys 13-14 200 Medley Relay team consisting of David Brenton, Nick McCoy, Emmanuel Jackson, and Griffin Kroll, finished 25^th, while breaking the team record held since 2002!
• Boys 13-14 400 Free Relay team consisting of Brenton, McCoy, Kroll, Jackson finished 27^th, also setting a new team record previously held by our own Coach Cowboy Luke Beasley!
• Aberdeen Couturier finishes 20^th in Girls 11-12 50 Breast with a lifetime best swim
• Emmanuel Jackson, after scratching Friday’s events, competed in Boys 13-14 and finished 14^th in 50 Free, 42^nd in 200 IM, 21^st in 100 Breast, and 43^rd in 200 Free
• Nick McCoy, also competing in Boys 13-14 age group, finished 21^st in 1650 Free, 34^th in 200 Breast, 34^th in 100 Breast, and 59^th in 200 IM, with 3 lifetime best swims and a new team record in the 200 Breast!
• Elyza Tschopp, competing in the Girls 11-12 age group, finished 29^th in 50 Back, 30^th in 200 Free, 34^th in 100 Back, 41^st in 100 Free, and 55^th in 50 Free with 2 lifetime best swims

Great job to those who competed at the State meets, and to all our Gator swimmers on a very successful season! And thanks to our amazing coaches, Abbi, Brooke, Diego, Lucas, and Luke for all their hard work all season long! It really has been a wonderful season with so many successes and so much improvement across the board.

A few reminders

• Short course season is now finished. We’ll take a nice break before long course season starts back up for the spring/summer
• We will have a Short course celebration/Long course kickoff party Friday April 21^st. Full details to come after spring break
• Long course season registration is now open. Please visit the Registration Page to register your swimmer for this spring/summer session.
• If you haven’t already, please fill out our parent questionnaire to let us know how we’re doing

Upcoming Meets and Events- See Calendar for full calendar and signups

• Short Course Season Party – Friday April 21, more details to come soon
• Returning swimmers return for Long Course Season – April 18
• Full Long Course Season begins – May 1
• PIKE Spring Invitational – PIKE HS – May 12-14

As always...

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