Nationals YMCA Meet Update

Shastan Kuschke

Y Nationals the “main event/prelims” has a limit of 4 individual events throughout the 5 days, which limits participating swimmers. Time trial is a meet w/in this meet. Many swimmers compete in both prelims and time trials.  All of our BYST swimmers were participating in time trials every day as well as prelims and finals. No wonder they were exhausted.  

Haley 200 BK

Jasmyn 100 Fly/200 IM/200 Fly/100 Breast

Yulia 100 BK/50 Fr/200 IM/100 FR

Shosho 100 Fly/100Bk/50 FR/100 FR/100 Breast

Aziza 100 Breast

Gabbi 200 FR/100 BR

 

 

Mon:
     a brief warmup to get familiar with the pool and swimming complex.

Tues:
     coach/athlete check in with warm ups for 200 Med relay featuring Haley/Jasmyn/Aziza/Gabbi
     Girls' (PR) seeded 35th - with a finish of 33rd !! What a great way to start our week!!

Wed:
     100 Fly event for Aziza, Haley, and Gabbi
      Aziza qualified for finals - and finished 18th with a time of 55:54

Thurs:
     100 BK for Haley and Aziza
     200 FR relay featuring Haley/Gabbi/Yulia/Aziza
     Aziza finished 100 Bk (21st)  and the relay (13th) - both returned for finals.

Fri:
     50 Free -  this was an exciting event for us. We had Sho sho/Gabbi/Haley and Aziza in this event.
     Then 400 Med relay with Haley/Sho/Aziza/Gabbi
     Haley had to do a swim off for 16th place (a first for her).  What a great race…she won. 
     At finals that night, both Haley and Aziza placed 12th and 14th respectively.

Sat:
     A long week caused some tired racers! Regardless I found our girls to be resilient and very supportive of each other, lifting each other up with encouraging words.
     We finished the meet with 400 FR relay featuring Sho/Gabbi/Haley/Aziza racing as well as they could.